15 May 2016 NYT Crossword Clues

NYT Crossword Answer: 15 May 2016

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D
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Hints & Clues

Across
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Tired runner? : CAR
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Hard to find : SCARCE
10
Production Code org. : MPAA
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Prayer ___ : SHAWL
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Singer with a palindromic name : ONO
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Taphouse : TAVERN
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Magazine with a palindromic name : ELLE
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Out of bounds : TABOO
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Repeatedly cried "Land ho!" with no land in sight, maybe? : AGGRAVATEDASALT
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Inflames : RILES
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Rains pellets : SLEETS
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Fighting off drowsiness? : RESISTINGAREST
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Like tweets : TERSE
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One of the "cities of the plain" : SODOM
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Internal pump : HEART
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Belarussian capital : MINSK
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Lose it : SNAP
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"Peanuts" girl : EUDORA
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2016 campaigner : CRUZ
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Jack ___ (member of the Royal Navy) : TAR
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"Conger eel? Au contraire!" : THATSAMORAY
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Stuck to the corkboard? : UNDERATACK
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"Not with a bang but a whimper" poet : ELIOT
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Tag line? : NAME
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Inedible : BAD
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La Scala premiere of 1887 : OTELLO
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Show signs of age : WEAR
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Associates : MATES
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Erwin of 1950s TV : STU
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Bring along : PACK
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Pound : BEATON
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Whirlybird whose paint job is flaking off? : APATCHYHELICOPTER
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Christian in Hollywood : SLATER
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Supply : GIVE
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"___ All Too Much" (Beatles song) : ITS
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Cuba ___ : LIBRE
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Dethrone : OUST
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Track down : LOCATE
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"Something just occurred to me ..." : SAY
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Correct copy : EDIT
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Down-filled garment : PARKA
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Adversary who shows up at romantic dinners? : ARIVALDATE
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"Finally, I can buy that house!" : ALOANATLAST
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Cut (off) : LOP
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Scoffing reply : IBET
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Company that sold Spirographs : KENNER
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"Santa Baby" singer : KITT
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"___ Body?" (first Peter Wimsey novel) : WHOSE
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Its symbol is a star and crescent : ISLAM
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Quarters : AREAS
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Hand makeup : CARDS
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What Carrie needed after the prom? : CHANGEOFADRESS
112
1980s-'90s Olympian Jackie Joyner-___ : KERSEE
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Maker of Caplio cameras : RICOH
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"Major shopping centers aren't among the prizes!" : YOUCANTWINAMALL
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Wild and woolly? : OVINE
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Ligurian Sea feeder : ARNO
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Stun with sound : DEAFEN
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GameCube successor : WII
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Signed over : CEDED
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Lacking excess : LEAN
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Divines : SENSES
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Lose rigidity : SAG
Down
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Land line? : COAST
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Trig term : ANGLE
3
Substitute anchor during Walter Cronkite's tenure at CBS : ROGERMUDD
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___ Island (home of Wagner College) : STATEN
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Cleveland team, informally : CAVS
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"Ex Machina" robot : AVA
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Evocative of yesteryear : RETRO
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Belief systems : CREEDS
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Finishes with : ENDSON
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Predicament : MESS
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Poet who wrote "I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am" : PLATH
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Kate's partner of old TV : ALLIE
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Hartford-based Fortune 100 company : AETNA
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Layer : STRATUM
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Head locks : HAIR
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Good at one's job : ABLE
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Reasons to despair : WOES
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In need of a steer : LOST
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Shrink or enlarge : RESIZE
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Target : AIMAT
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Highly regarded : GREAT
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Glide effortlessly : SKATE
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Act : STATUTE
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"That was sure close!" : PHEW
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Contributes to a GoFundMe campaign : DONATES
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Stumper? : ORATOR
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Food sometimes sold with a flavor packet : RAMEN
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Those in favor : AYES
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Predator-to-be : CUB
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Codon carrier : RNA
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"Lord of the Flies" protagonist : RALPH
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Hoppy drink : ALE
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Actress Carrere : TIA
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Kevin who played Hercules on TV : SORBO
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Exchange cyclically : ROTATE
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Body, metaphorically : CLAY
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Author of the 1984 memoir "Mayor" : KOCH
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Owner of Fisher-Price : MATTEL
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Lacking creature comforts : SPARTAN
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Party purchase : KEG
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It often contains "lies" : EPITAPH
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Ireland : Erin :: Britain : ___ : ALBION
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Dalmatian, e.g. : CROAT
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Kedrova of "Torn Curtain" : LILA
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___ Novello Award (songwriter's honor) : IVOR
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Rhodes of Rhodes scholar fame : CECIL
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Move through a crowd, maybe : SIDLE
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Ceiling stain's cause : LEAK
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Browser bar text : URL
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Jamaican genre : SKA
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Undertaking : TASK
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Affirms : AVOWS
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Tools used for cutting curves : SABERSAWS
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Put away : ATE
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Even so : YET
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Break down : PARSE
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Take heat from? : DISARM
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Spoke horsely? : NEIGHED
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Something fit for a queen : TIARA
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Fashion editor's predictions : TRENDS
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Experiment subject : TESTEE
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Continental divides? : OCEANS
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Unswerving : LOYAL
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Ere : AFORE
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Start of several Hawaiian place names : MAUNA
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City near Lake Nasser : ASWAN
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Screenwriter Ephron : DELIA
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Baseball commissioner after Giamatti and Vincent : SELIG
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Shoe with holes : CROC
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Colonial home, you might say : HIVE
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Stomach stuff : ACID
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Lowest possible turnout : NONE
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Rodent control brand : DCON
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Housemaid's ___ (bursitis) : KNEE
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Hypotheticals : IFS