23 October 2016 NYT Crossword Clues

NYT Crossword Answer: 23 October 2016

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D
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P
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G
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M
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M
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Hints & Clues

Across
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Take on : ADOPT
6
Some subjects in Scheherazade's stories : ARABS
11
Humbled : ABASED
17
Playful leap : CAPER
18
Mother-of-pearl source : ABALONE
20
Words preceding "We stand on guard for thee" : OCANADA
21
"Skyfall" singer : ADELE
22
Over the 27-Across : NOSPRINGCHICKEN
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In low spirits : BROKENUP
26
Guarantee that one will : VOWTO
27
Rise : HILL
28
Sighed line : ALAS
29
Rev : GUN
30
Obsessed with fantasy role-playing games, say : GEEKY
32
"What have we here?!" : OHO
34
Under the 29-Across : FACINGADEADLINE
38
Certain swinger, informally : ORANG
42
Spanish bear : OSO
43
Castor ___ ("Popeye" guy) : OYL
44
Balance sheet abbr. : YTD
45
Friday, on old TV: Abbr. : SGT
47
Olympics venue between London and Tokyo : RIO
48
Many a Jazz fan : UTAHN
50
Preserver of bugs : RESIN
52
Caffè ___ : ITALIANO
54
"Thinking ..." : LETMESEE
57
Over the 62-Across : BEYONDBELIEF
59
Prestigious mil. award : DSM
60
International observance in 20-Down, informally : UNDAY
62
Dreidel, e.g. : TOP
63
Cataract : FALLS
64
Parisian sibling : FRERE
65
Exerted : PLIED
67
Put on the back burner : TABLE
70
Verizon subsidiary : AOL
72
Old line in Russia : TSARS
73
___ Victory (tourist attraction in Portsmouth, England) : HMS
76
Under the 67-Across : ONTHEDOWNLOW
79
Single-masted pleasure craft : CATBOATS
82
Keeps up : SUSTAINS
83
Neck and neck : CLOSE
85
Luminous : AGLOW
86
Abbr. in many Québec city names : STE
87
Potus #34 : DDE
88
Conditionals : IFS
89
Melodramatic response : SOB
91
Reagan has one named for him : ERA
92
Competitor of Sapporo and Kirin : ASAHI
94
Over the 104-Across : INSEVENTHHEAVEN
100
Commercial prefix with Pen : EPI
102
With 109-Down, cochlea's place : INNER
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[snort] : HAH
104
Sky light : MOON
105
Sculpture medium for Calder : WIRE
108
Print tint : SEPIA
110
University of Washington logo : CAPITALW
112
Under the 105-Across : ATTHELASTMINUTE
116
John Paul's successor : ELENA
118
Increasing in pitch : STEEPER
119
"Me Talk Pretty One Day" humorist : SEDARIS
120
One who can pick his work? : MINER
121
Impersonate : POSEAS
122
Places for studs : LOBES
123
___ dish : PETRI
Down
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Signature Obama legislation, for short : ACA
2
Gosh-darn : DADBLASTED
3
Floor-length formalwear : OPERACOATS
4
House member from the Bay Area beginning in 1987 : PELOSI
5
Quite the hike : TREK
6
Be plentiful : ABOUND
7
Louis Armstrong vocal feature : RASP
8
High point of a European vacation? : ALP
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N.Y.C. div. : BOR
10
Cry annoyingly : SNIVEL
11
Cause for a blessing : ACHOO
12
Political columnist Matt : BAI
13
Debate moderator's day job, typically : ANCHOR
14
H. H. Munro's pen name : SAKI
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Leon ___, Henry James biographer : EDEL
16
Twain's "celebrated jumping frog" : DANL
18
Crabgrass, e.g. : ANNUAL
19
Mushroom variety : ENOKI
20
Start of the fourth qtr. : OCT
23
Early British actress Nell : GWYN
25
Like quiche : EGGY
28
In conflict : AFOUL
30
Title fictional character who "sprang from his Platonic conception of himself" : GATSBY
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Clothier Bauer : EDDIE
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Fired bullets, informally : HOTLEAD
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___ too happy : NONE
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Blinker : EYE
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Abbr. on a company's sign : ESTD
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Thin as ___ : ARAIL
40
Front and back, at a golf course : NINES
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Silly billy : GOOF
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Bull session : GABFEST
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"Thinking ..." : HMM
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Gerrymanders, say : REDRAWS
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Big Apple paper, for short : NYT
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Situated : INPLACE
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Badly : ILL
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Informal acknowledgment of responsibility : SUREDID
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Portland-to-Spokane dir. : ENE
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"That was dumb of me" : OOPS
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"___ Flux" (Charlize Theron film) : AEON
64
Debugger : FLEADIP
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Man's name that's the reverse of 117-Down : IRA
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Woodworking fasteners : TNUTS
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Clueless : ATSEA
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Food preservative abbr. : BHT
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Letters ending a business name : LLC
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Buy-one-get-one-free deal : TWOFER
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Selfish sort : HOG
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Villainous : MALEVOLENT
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Target customer of Yelp : STOREOWNER
76
Mount of Greek myth : OSSA
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R.E.M.'s "The ___ Love" : ONEI
78
Kind of branch : OLIVE
80
Sweets : BABE
81
Lynn in the Pro Football Hall of Fame : SWANN
84
Application datum: Abbr. : SSN
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Fashions : SHAPES
90
"Um ... fancy meeting you here" : OHHI
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[Look what I got away with!] : HEEHEE
95
Small swigs : NIPS
96
Huffs : SNITS
97
Coat for a dentist : ENAMEL
98
What "i.e." means : THATIS
99
Charlotte ___, V.I. : AMALIE
101
British ___ : ISLES
105
Female W.W. II enlistee : WASP
106
Stick ___ : ITTO
107
Some P.O. plans : RTES
109
See 102-Across : EAR
110
Antidote : CURE
111
Bank clock info : TEMP
113
Clean energy grp. : EPA
114
Ringing words? : IDO
115
Catch : NAB
117
Man's name that's the reverse of 66-Down : ARI