22 May 2012 NYT Crossword Clues

NYT Crossword Answer: 22 May 2012

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D
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D
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T
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M
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O
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S
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S
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O
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P
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A
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T
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I
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N
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A
15
E
E
R
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A
R
O
O
M
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A
T
O
N
A
L
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M
E
A
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N
G
I
R
L
S
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T
A
T
A
M
I
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A
D
J
O
I
N
E
D
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P
E
R
E
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N
E
A
T
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G
R
A
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V
E
N
I
M
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A
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G
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E
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D
E
N
I
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M
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T
O
R
T
S
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L
O
W
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N
O
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T
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A
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I
S
L
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T
I
E
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E
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N
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I
G
M
A
V
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A
R
I
A
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T
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I
O
N
S
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R
E
D
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B
A
L
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A
W
O
L
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O
W
L
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G
L
U
E
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D
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G
L
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O
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C
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K
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S
T
E
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A
M
E
N
G
I
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N
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E
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I
R
A
E
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K
I
L
T
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L
O
V
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E
N
E
S
T
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M
63
A
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R
I
N
A
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G
A
M
E
N
I
G
H
T
66
O
N
E
T
O
N
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S
T
A
N
D
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O
I
L
69
C
O
W
A
R
D
70
T
E
S
T
S
71
N
N
E

Hints & Clues

Across
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Insecticide whose spelled-out name has 31 letters : DDT
4
Rapid, in music : MOSSO
9
Film about a statue? : PATINA
15
Always, in verse : EER
16
Woolf's "___ of One's Own" : AROOM
17
Hard-to-hum, say : ATONAL
18
2004 movie with a screenplay by Tina Fey : MEANGIRLS
20
Japanese mat : TATAMI
21
Was next to : ADJOINED
22
___ Noël (French Santa Claus) : PERE
23
Straight, at a bar : NEAT
24
Carved figure used for rituals : GRAVENIMAGE
29
Lees material : DENIM
31
Legal wrongs : TORTS
32
How a limbo dancer dances : LOW
33
"___ chance!" : NOTA
36
N.Y.C.'s Roosevelt ___ : ISL
37
Railroad beam : TIE
38
Work by Sir Edward Elgar hinted at by this puzzle's shaded squares : ENIGMAVARIATIONS
44
Like most of China's flag : RED
45
Fig. on an A.T.M. receipt : BAL
46
Improperly off base, in brief : AWOL
47
"Wise" bird : OWL
48
Like the cutouts in some children's artwork : GLUED
50
Austrian-made pistol : GLOCK
54
Industrial Revolution-era power source : STEAMENGINE
58
"Dies ___" : IRAE
59
Bit of Highlands costume : KILT
60
Illicit rendezvous locale : LOVENEST
62
Yacht site : MARINA
65
Family play time : GAMENIGHT
66
2,000 pounds : ONETON
67
It's taken by witnesses : STAND
68
Try to stop from squeaking, say : OIL
69
Chicken : COWARD
70
Trials : TESTS
71
SSW's opposite : NNE
Down
1
Supply's partner, in economics : DEMAND
2
Pundit Myers : DEEDEE
3
Roman emperor born in Spain : TRAJAN
4
Nativity scene figures : MAGI
5
Part of an airtight seal : ORING
6
More achy : SORER
7
Stravinsky's "L'Histoire du ___" : SOLDAT
8
Meditation chants : OMS
9
Intellectual property subject : PATENTLAW
10
2600 and 5200 consoles : ATARIS
11
Figure on a pole : TOTEM
12
___ while : INA
13
'60s war zone : NAM
14
Clay, after a transformation? : ALI
19
Mentioning : NOTING
22
Xerxes' empire : PERSIA
25
___ dire (jury selection process) : VOIR
26
Choir voice : ALTO
27
Enter : GOIN
28
Milk providers : EWES
30
May honoree : MOM
34
Plateau : TABLELAND
35
"___, and quit my sight!": Macbeth : AVAUNT
38
Love god : EROS
39
Wetlands creature : NEWT
40
Empty, as talk : IDLE
41
"Break ___!" : ALEG
42
Dress (up) : TOG
43
Urbana-Champaign athletes : ILLINI
48
Key of Mozart's Symphony No. 25 or 40 : GMINOR
49
Grow, as a pupil : DILATE
51
Terminus of a famous trail : OREGON
52
Collect one's winnings : CASHIN
53
One whistling in the kitchen? : KETTLE
55
Japanese dog : AKITA
56
Enrique's "Enough!" : NOMAS
57
News conference, e.g. : EVENT
61
Terminates : ENDS
62
Comfy bit of footwear : MOC
63
Enero-to-diciembre period : ANO
64
Button with two triangles: Abbr. : REW
65
Astronomical observation std. : GST