17 January 2012 NYT Crossword Clues

NYT Crossword Answer: 17 January 2012

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M
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I
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F
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F
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B
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A
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T
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H
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E
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A
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P
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E
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S
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O
D
O
R
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A
F
O
O
T
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D
R
A
W
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T
A
L
E
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N
O
N
O
S
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V
O
T
E
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T
H
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C
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K
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R
E
S
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B
I
P
E
D
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S
O
C
K
E
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Y
E
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E
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Y
E
S
O
R
E
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L
Y
E
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A
G
A
T
E
S
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M
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E
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R
E
S
T
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N
O
W
A
D
A
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Y
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S
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A
B
A
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W
O
W
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L
E
T
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O
B
T
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R
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U
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D
E
S
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F
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L
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O
S
S
Y
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S
A
B
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N
E
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R
A
N
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V
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I
N
C
E
N
T
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V
A
N
G
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O
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G
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H
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O
N
A
I
R
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S
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S
E
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K
O
R
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A
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W
A
K
E
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M
O
U
T
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H
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I
D
E
S
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E
W
E
S
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E
L
I
T
E
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N
E
S
T
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L
E
S
T
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T
O
T
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M
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G
R
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Y

Hints & Clues

Across
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Tick off : MIFF
5
Wash : BATHE
10
Mimics : APES
14
Skunk's defense : ODOR
15
Under way : AFOOT
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Attract, as an audience : DRAW
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Dickens wrote one about two cities : TALE
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They're frowned upon : NONOS
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What an office seeker seeks : VOTE
20
Blockheaded : THICK
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In medias ___ : RES
23
Human or kangaroo : BIPED
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Red salmon : SOCKEYE
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Not a pretty sight : EYESORE
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Cleaning substance : LYE
29
Banded marbles : AGATES
30
Most negligible : MEREST
33
Currently : NOWADAYS
36
Sports org. in a 1976 merger : ABA
37
Blow away : WOW
38
Leased : LET
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Sticks out : OBTRUDES
43
Showily stylish : FLOSSY
46
River on the Texas/Louisiana border : SABINE
47
Hightailed it : RAN
48
With 50-Across, Dutch painter represented by this puzzle's circled letters : VINCENT
50
See 48-Across : VANGOGH
54
Warning at a station : ONAIR
55
Cairo-to-Addis Ababa dir. : SSE
57
It used to be called the Hermit Kingdom : KOREA
58
Evidence of a ship's passing : WAKE
59
Be sassy, with "off" : MOUTH
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Fateful day in March : IDES
62
Ovine mothers : EWES
63
Cream of the crop : ELITE
64
Wasp's home : NEST
65
"___ we forget" : LEST
66
Indian emblem : TOTEM
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"Pardon me, would you have any ___ Poupon?" : GREY
Down
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Applesauce maker : MOTTS
2
The 43rd state : IDAHO
3
Kind of acid in breakfast cereal : FOLIC
4
Something redheads tend to do : FRECKLE
5
Outlaw : BAN
6
In front of, old-style : AFORE
7
Kind of deafness : TONE
8
Slammer : HOOSEGOW
9
Flying saucer fliers, for short : ETS
10
Counseled : ADVISED
11
Season-ending events on "The Bachelor" : PROPOSALS
12
"Peter Peter Pumpkin ___" : EATER
13
Writer Stieg Larsson, e.g. : SWEDE
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People are always searching for them : KEYS
23
Alpha-gamma connector : BETA
25
Still : YET
27
Go slightly off course : YAW
29
Win by ___ : ANOSE
30
Chinese chairman : MAO
31
Opposite of rise : EBB
32
Rodent-eating reptiles : RATSNAKES
34
"You're calling because ...?" : YES
35
Messy dorm room, say : STY
37
Broke off from a group : WENTSOLO
40
Most risqué : RACIEST
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"Deutschland ___ Alles" : UBER
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What a lot of partiers make : DIN
43
___ Angelico : FRA
44
Long and lean : LANK
45
Not stopping : ONGOING
48
"I'd like to buy a ___, Pat" : VOWEL
49
Deeply impressed : INAWE
50
Sting Ray, e.g., informally : VETTE
51
"Large pepperoni with extra cheese," e.g. : ORDER
52
V-formation fliers : GEESE
53
Overly quick : HASTY
56
Diamonds, e.g. : SUIT
59
Shook hands with, say : MET
60
What a seamstress may take up : HEM