12 June 2018 NYT Crossword Clues

NYT Crossword Answer: 12 June 2018

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C
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Hints & Clues

Across
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Crab's means of defense : CLAW
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Tuna ___ : MELT
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One wallowing in a zoo pond : HIPPO
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"That smarts!" : OUCH
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Mideast V.I.P. : EMIR
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Not in a bottle or can : ONTAP
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Zippo : NADA
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Soup that might have a tofu cube in it : MISO
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Gives the go-ahead : OKAYS
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Cat burglar's shoe purchase? : SUCTIONPUMPS
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"___ Baby" ("Hair" number) : ABIE
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Zero score, in soccer : NIL
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Bon ___ (witty remark) : MOT
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Synchronized swimmer's shoe purchase? : WATERMOCCASINS
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Tops : SHIRTS
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Gathering of quilters : BEE
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Bear that's up at night? : URSA
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Raced (through) : TORE
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Used to own : HAD
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Fishing site : PIER
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Old Icelandic saga : EDDA
39
Newsman Donaldson : SAM
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Members of all-century teams, e.g. : GREATS
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Event coordinator's shoe purchase? : PARTYPLATFORMS
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Apt metaphor for many a dorm room : STY
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Klutz : OAF
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Greetings for the visiting team : BOOS
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Why the buyers of 20-, 28- and 42-Across are in the shoe store? : JUSTFORKICKS
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"Leave!" : GONOW
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Camaro ___-Z : IROC
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Word that can follow time, danger or neutral : ZONE
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Loudly crying face, for one : EMOJI
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Lion's pride? : MANE
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Divisible by two : EVEN
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Goad : EGGON
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Buds on spuds : EYES
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Document recorded at a government office : DEED
Down
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Drawbacks : CONS
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Polynesian shindig : LUAU
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Flexible, electrically : ACDC
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"How delightful!" : WHATATREAT
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Some nonfiction best sellers : MEMOIRS
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Slim Shady is his alter ego : EMINEM
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Imitate Daffy Duck : LISP
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Clobbered : TROUNCED
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Big to-do : HOOPLA
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Calligraphers' choices : INKS
11
Grp. that might help organize an open house : PTA
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Subject of hiring negotiations : PAY
13
Coin-___ : OPS
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"Yeah, right!" : IBET
22
Stuart Little and Chuck E. Cheese, for two : MICE
25
___ Makeba, singer known as "Mama Africa" : MIRIAM
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Initial stages : ONSETS
27
Old Russian autocrats : TSARS
28
Slangy question suggesting "I don't know this person" : WHODAT
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Hang out, as laundry : AIRDRY
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"44" : OBAMA
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Enlarged, as an order of fries : SUPERSIZED
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Numbered things in a how-to manual : STEPS
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12-minute period expanded to 30 minutes for the Super Bowl : HALFTIME
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Beauty spots : SPAS
40
Pressing concerns for astronauts? : GFORCES
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Castle : ROOK
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Terse concession speech : YOUWIN
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Magnate ___ Pickens : TBOONE
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Who left his home in Tucson, Arizona, in a Beatles tune : JOJO
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Melee : FRAY
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Pirate's hideout : COVE
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Pants part that might be patched : KNEE
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Email button that's all too easy to hit by mistake : SEND
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"I'll be darned!" : GEE
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"Holy cow!," in a text : OMG
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Holiday quaff : NOG