20 February 2024 NYT Crossword Clues

NYT Crossword Answer: 20 February 2024

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U
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P
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H
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Hints & Clues

Across
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Mail inits. since 1971 : USPS
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___-Carlton (hotel chain) : RITZ
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Lettuce or cabbage : MOOLA
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Small recess : NOOK
15
Drill (into) : BORE
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Hero of Narnia in C. S. Lewis novels : ASLAN
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Evidence of a day at the beach : BIKINITAN
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In a deadpan manner : DRILY
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Spleen : IRE
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Middle of a classic boast from Caesar : ISAW
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Spanish girlfriend : AMIGA
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"Phooey!" : NERTS
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Chocolate confection with a molten core : LAVACAKE
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Partner of "ceases" : DESISTS
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"Science is like ___: Sometimes something useful comes out, but that is not the reason we are doing it": Richard Feynman : SEX
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Cleric's title, for short : REV
33
Tiki bar drink : MAITAI
35
Part of a decent-sized plot : ACRE
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Effect of secondhand pot smoke : CONTACTHIGH
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Uber-fan : STAN
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Ted ___, author of the best-selling short-story collection "Exhalation" : CHIANG
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Make a mistake : ERR
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"Well, lah-di-___" : DAH
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Made an irreverently sarcastic comment : SNARKED
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Flight of fancy : WILDIDEA
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Crooner Mel who was called "The Velvet Fog" : TORME
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Common sight along the Norwegian coast : FJORD
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Male admirer : BEAU
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Signature Obama achievement, in brief : ACA
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Held on (to) : CLUNG
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Description of 17-, 25-, 36- and 49-Across, in different senses? : HALFBAKED
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Where it's at : VENUE
62
Afghan's place : ASIA
63
Bottom of a boat : KEEL
64
Army squad leaders: Abbr. : SSGTS
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Rudely "welcome" the away team : JEER
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"Toy Story" boy : ANDY
Down
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Remove the fastenings from : UNBIND
2
Evening party : SOIREE
3
Tools for fireplaces : POKERS
4
Winter item on a car's roof rack : SKI
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Hank Aaron holds the M.L.B. record for these, for short (2,297) : RBIS
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Smidgen : IOTA
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Fishing net : TRAWL
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Mindfulness-based practice : ZEN
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Cop-turned-vigilante in a postapocalyptic film : MADMAX
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Courtier who oversees Hamlet's duel with Laertes : OSRIC
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Member of a powerful ruling elite : OLIGARCH
12
B-baller in California : LALAKER
13
"___ takers?" : ANY
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Altima maker : NISSAN
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"___ Maria" : AVE
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Shakespeare's "___ of Athens" : TIMON
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"Given the way things appear …" : ASITIS
27
12/24 or 12/31 : EVE
29
Small songbird : TIT
30
Upper part of a Vandyke beard, informally : STACHE
34
German "Geez!" : ACH
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Belligerent, in British slang : AGGRO
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Swiss founder of analytical psychology : CARLJUNG
37
Largest Chinese ethnic group : HAN
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Like "three men" of nursery rhyme : INATUB
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Patch things up, say? : SEW
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Unimportant things : TRIFLES
43
Funereal compositions : DIRGES
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Chip in : ADD
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N.H.L. team with a mythological eponym : KRAKEN
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Presided over a roast, say : EMCEED
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Lethal : DEADLY
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Dunkable edible : DONUT
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Degrade : ABASE
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Nobelist Wiesel : ELIE
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Miles away : AFAR
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Big name in pharmacies : CVS
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One of Islam's Five Pillars : HAJ
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Inits. before a nickname : AKA