22 May 2021 NYT Crossword Clues

NYT Crossword Answer: 22 May 2021

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Hints & Clues

Across
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Regarding : ASFOR
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Take back, in a way : REPO
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Start of an aside : ALSO
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Omega competitor : SEIKO
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Something hitting a nerve? : AXON
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Papyrus, e.g. : REED
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"Take me with you!" : ILLGO
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Begin flirting with someone, so to speak : MAKEAMOVE
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Assign : ALLOT
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Hoth, in "Star Wars" : ICEPLANET
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___ rule : MOB
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They don't hold water : STRAINERS
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Feudal figure : LIEGE
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Panegyric, e.g. : PRAISE
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Sci-fi enemy collective, perhaps : EVILEMPIRE
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Ones born beginning in the early 2010s : GENERATIONALPHA
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They might cut to the chase : HEISTFILMS
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Electrically balanced, in chemistry : APOLAR
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Leaders at the Kaaba : IMAMS
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"Things are going great for me!" : IMONAROLL
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Muscle worked in rowing exercises, for short : LAT
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Portmanteau coinage for the uneducated and uncultured : BOOBOISIE
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Touches, e.g. : IPODS
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Special pawn move in chess : ENPASSANT
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Many a Madrileño : SENOR
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Enemy of Wonder Woman : ARES
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Best Picture-nominated 2011 film based on a children's book : HUGO
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Certain Caribbean, informally : TRINI
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Self-___ : MADE
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What might help you get out of a rough spot? : IRON
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Is just awful : SUCKS
Down
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Home to 41-Down : ASIA
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Convince : SELL
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"I wanna know all the details" : FILLMEIN
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Start of a modern inquiry : OKGOOGLE
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Drink similar to sarsaparilla : ROOTBEER
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Co-star of 1984's "Ghostbusters" : RAMIS
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Right on : EXACT
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Aces with aces? : POKERPROS
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Like some households : ONEPARENT
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Designer with an eponymous hotel in the Burj Khalifa : ARMANI
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Currency units in West Africa : LEONES
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Grievous : SEVERE
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"Golden Boy" playwright : ODETS
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Actress Shawkat of "Arrested Development" : ALIA
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Assignment for an anchor : LEG
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"___ noticed ..." : IVE
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Great Hindu sage : MAHARISHI
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Late-Triassic flier : PTEROSAUR
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It can be found right on a clock : III
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"100 Years ... 100 Stars" and others, in brief : AFILISTS
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The world's largest desert capital, after Cairo, Egypt : LIMAPERU
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Like a relationship with an ex, maybe : PLATONIC
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Utterance while chewing on a pencil : HMM
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One often sent packing? : ASS
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Deity that becomes a given name when its fifth letter is moved to the front : AMONRA
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Beat : POOPED
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Looking to steal, say : ONBASE
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So-called "Land of a Million Elephants" : LAOS
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Building support : IBEAM
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Words not everyone understands : LINGO
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Intimate : LETON
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Hit on the head, in slang : DONK
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Indian honorifics : SRIS