26 October 2021 NYT Crossword Clues

NYT Crossword Answer: 26 October 2021

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Hints & Clues

Across
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Off-the-cuff remarks : ADLIBS
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London TV inits. : BBC
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Dark wines : REDS
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Place for daisies : MEADOW
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Fair-hiring letters : EEO
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Treat with a 71%-to-29% cookie-to-cream ratio : OREO
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Microscopic life form : AMOEBA
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Looks for web content about oneself : EGOSURFS
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Basic, practical details : NUTSANDBOLTS
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"___ Poetica" : ARS
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Connery who played 007 seven times : SEAN
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Catbird seat? : PERCH
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Crystal ball gazers, e.g. : SEERS
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Nobelist Wiesel : ELIE
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"Well, what a surprise!" : OHO
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What expensive things cost : ANARMANDALEG
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Brings home with a hit, as a base runner : BATSIN
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Treble symbols : GCLEFS
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Magnet for criticism : LIGHTNINGROD
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"What ___, chopped liver?" : AMI
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Vicinity : AREA
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Sniffed (around) : NOSED
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Prove appropriate for : BEFIT
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Has a part to play : ACTS
57
Mahmoud Abbas's grp. : PLO
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Doctor whose shopping list might include 20-, 34- and 42-Across? : FRANKENSTEIN
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Prowling kitty : ALLEYCAT
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Virtual payment with a bank routing number : ECHECK
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"Star Wars" princess : LEIA
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"East" on a grandfather clock : III
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Band's hired hand : ROADIE
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Brewski : BEER
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Beats by ___ (headphones brand) : DRE
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Full of S curves : TWISTY
Down
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Alternatives to Maytags : AMANAS
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Modest and shy : DEMURE
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Chinese philosopher who wrote the "Tao Te Ching" : LAOTSE
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Fateful day for Caesar : IDES
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Word before tea or Fett : BOBA
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What some ugly ducklings turn into : SWANS
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Flowering plant also known as horsemint : BEEBALM
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Colorful garden perennial : BEGONIA
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"Suh-weet!" : COOL
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Awaken : ROUSE
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Goof : ERR
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___ Jam Recordings : DEF
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Castaway's "Help!" : SOS
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Canful at a gas station : STP
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Venison : DEER
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Something played that's not a game : ROLE
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___ Boyardee : CHEF
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Harleys, in slang : HOGS
29
Poison ivy eruption : RASH
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Fit of irritation : SNIT
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Head of a train: Abbr. : ENGR
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Tennis's Kournikova : ANNA
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Big name in pesticides : DCON
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___ Ray, 1950s-'70s leading man : ALDO
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Spill the beans : BLAB
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"Je t'___" (French words of endearment) : AIME
40
End-of-the-week shout : TGIF
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Carrier based in Tehran : IRANAIR
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Item left at home on casual Fridays : NECKTIE
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Place for a guard : GATE
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Goes 60 in a 30- m.p.h. zone, say : SPEEDS
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Draw out : ELICIT
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Shrek's companion in "Shrek" : DONKEY
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Worrier's opening words : IFEAR
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Urging for a reluctant person : TRY
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Hägar the Horrible's dog : SNERT
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Battery liquid : ACID
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Trash-hauling ship : SCOW
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Kind of cuisine offering tom yung goong and tom kha kai : THAI
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Edmonton's prov. : ALB
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Spike or Gypsy Rose : LEE
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"Tuesday is the hardest crossword of the week," e.g. : LIE