14 May 2000 NYT Crossword Clues

NYT Crossword Answer: 14 May 2000

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Hints & Clues

Across
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Wanderer's words : BUTIDIGRESS
6
What a writer might do : LOOKFORANANGLE
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Outcropping : CRAG
15
Create a solution? : STIR
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Like part of the Arabian peninsula : OMANI
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Author Calvino : ITALO
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Somewhat, in music : POCO
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Eyelet : HOLE
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Mockery, of a sort : APING
24
Geological ridge : ESKER
25
Insurable item : AUTO
26
Writer ___ Stanley Gardner : ERLE
27
Bit of a draft : SIP
28
Old-style revolutionary : RED
30
Yarn spinner : LIAR
32
Tweeted : SUNG
34
Amuse with words : PUN
35
Caroler's syllable : TRA
36
That objeto : ESO
37
Feminine suffix : ENNE
38
Like hair on the top of a bald person's head : SPARSEST
40
Writes (for) : SENDSAWAY
43
Recess at St. Peter's : APSE
46
On drugs : USING
47
Oust : UNSEAT
49
Old station wagon, in slang : WOODY
50
___ War : BOER
53
Ice picker-upper : TONG
55
Waikiki wear : MUUMUU
57
Not adhering to the subject : OFFONATANGENT
61
Buds : PALS
63
Ecstasy : RAPTURE
67
Vietcong insurgent grp. : NLF
68
Give the slip : EVADE
70
Protect from floods : EMBANK
73
Farm team : SPAN
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Fed. budget group : GAO
75
Some Amtrak cars : DINERS
77
Heavy overcoat : ULSTER
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Telltale sound after "I haven't had a drop to drink" : HIC
80
Not this or that, in Spain : OTRA
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Gazing hostilely : AGLARE
84
Orchard pest : APHID
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"This ___ test" : ISA
86
Contracted cost : SETRATE
88
Teammates : OXEN
92
Bear hug : CLENCH
95
Black : INKY
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"What ___?" : ELSE
98
Animal with a black-tipped tail : STOAT
101
Parts of a personality profile : TRAITS
103
Say "nothin'," say : ELIDE
107
Convenience outlet, often : CORNERSTORE
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Moons, e.g. : ORBS
110
High hat : STOVEPIPE
114
Tricky football plays : REVERSES
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Homme d'___ : ETAT
118
Overseas price add-on : VAT
119
Dallas cager, briefly : MAV
120
It's dotted : ANI
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Training places?: Abbr. : STAS
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"Later!" : TATA
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Brian of Roxy Music : ENO
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"Later!" : BYE
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Parapet : WALL
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Exiled Roman poet : OVID
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Bashes : GALAS
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Kind of boss : UNION
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Country singer McCann : LILA
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It has many slots : RENO
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Clear the boards : ERASE
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White oak : ROBLE
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Firewood carrier : SLED
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Upper hand : EDGE
Down
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Crows : BOASTS
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Strike caller : UMPIRE
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James Clavell best seller : TAIPAN
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Public house : INN
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Prepare to sleep : LIEDOWN
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Tie deciders: Abbr. : OTS
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Deadeye Annie : OAKLEY
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1980 Economics Nobelist Lawrence : KLEIN
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Calculating sort : CPA
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"The Sleeping Gypsy" painter : ROUSSEAU
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Start to malfunction : ACTUP
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Get soused : GOONABENDER
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"___ Believes in Me" : SHE
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Ruin : TORPEDO
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Maltreated : ILLUSED
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Critical rocket maneuver : REENTRY
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Actor Morales : ESAI
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Sales force : REPS
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Matured : GREWUP
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Aardvark features : SNOUTS
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Spanish silver dollar : DURO
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Part of a sales force: Abbr. : AGT
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Religious sch. : SEM
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Acapulco article : UNA
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Pull off a complete reversal : TURNTHETABLES
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Parts of samba bands : BONGOS
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Recently : OFLATE
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Industry : EFFORT
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Kind of glasses : OPERA
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Arrive, in a sense : MAKEIT
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Beatty of "Deliverance" : NED
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Pilot : AVIATE
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Three-time Cotton Bowl winners: Abbr. : SMU
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Like a tough battle : UPHILL
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Fosters : RAISES
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Crate : ENCASE
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Start of many Italian surnames : DEL
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Hold to a zero score : BLANK
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Symbol of Egyptian royalty : ASP
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Angel's favorite letters : SRO
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Vit. info : RDA
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Cabalistic : ARCANE
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Play direction : EXITSTAGERIGHT
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Sizes up? : ALTERS
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Type sizes : ENS
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[Make way!] : BEEP
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It usually comes in stripes : CROSSING
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Laugh syllable : HAR
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To now : YET
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They're hard to make out : SCRAWLS
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Occasional paint surface : TOENAIL
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Newsmaking brother of 1903 : ORVILLE
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Scoffing retort : IBET
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6-0, in tennis : LOVESET
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Bizet opera title character : IVAN
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Warning to motorists : DETOURAHEAD
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Certain camp : STALAG
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Drink : IMBIBE
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Scandal subject : PAYOLA
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Squared : EVENED
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Having hangovers? : EAVED
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Electronic game pioneer : ATARI
126
Little fella : LAD
128
John ___ : DOE
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Pollutant : ASH
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Play form using wooden masks : NOH