7 October 2018 NYT Crossword Clues

NYT Crossword Answer: 7 October 2018

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Hints & Clues

Across
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Experts : GURUS
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Accord : TREATY
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The Harry Potter novels, e.g. : SEPTET
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External parasites : EPIZOA
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Minuscule, cutesily : EENSIE
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Not yet packed, say : UNREADY
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Another nickname for Old Abe ... or a description of the circled letter? : RAILSPLITTER
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Got fit : TONEDUP
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Funny Brooks : MEL
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Eight: Prefix : OCTA
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Astronaut's place ... : OUTERSPACE
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Aves. : STS
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Let out, as a sigh : HEAVED
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Venus, but not Serena : PLANET
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Truckful : TON
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A lid usually covers it at night : IRIS
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Naval rank: Abbr. : ENS
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Counterpart of Venus : MARS
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Screen or partition ... : ROOMDIVIDER
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Kitchen sink attachment : DISPOSAL
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Much-disputed part of an airplane : ARMREST
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Where decongestant spray goes ... : NASALCAVITY
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Animal with a snout : TAPIR
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Candidate's goal : SEAT
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"___ time" : ITS
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Discontent : UNEASE
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Alternatively : ELSE
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Kind : SORT
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Cellular messenger : RNA
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CBS drama beginning in 2018 : FBI
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Negative connector : NOR
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Cyberexpert's worry ... : SECURITYBREACH
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___ Poke (caramel candy) : SLO
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___-rock : ALT
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Each "O" of BOGO : ONE
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"___ and the Real Girl" (2007 comedy) : LARS
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"What have I done!" : OHNO
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Part of an auto garage's business : TOWAGE
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Hawaiian mash-up? : POI
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Product much advertised during football games : BEER
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Clutch : BROOD
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Office device ... : PAPERCUTTER
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"That's my intention" : IPLANTO
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At the end of the day : AFTERALL
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Heist figure ... : SAFECRACKER
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General ___ chicken : TSOS
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Bear: Sp. : OSO
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Soon : ANON
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Memphis-to-Nashville dir. : ENE
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Coinage during the 2008 presidential election : NOBAMA
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"Spider-Man" baddie : DOCOCK
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___ drive : USB
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Bit of good fortune ... : LUCKYBREAK
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Something you might get your mitts on : OVEN
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By birth : NEE
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Away from work for a while : ONLEAVE
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Store banner ... : GRANDOPENING
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Early ___ : ADOPTER
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Scowling : AGLARE
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Worry in East Africa : TSETSE
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Something to chew on : DOGTOY
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Some see-through curtains : SHEERS
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"Ni-i-i-ice!" : SWEET
Down
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Common phobia source : GERMS
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Overturn : UPSET
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Omani money : RIALS
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Powerful arm : UZI
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What a "singleton" is, in baseball lingo : SOLOHOMER
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City from which the U.S. moved its embassy in 2018 : TELAVIV
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Big retailer of camping gear : REI
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Middle-earth denizen : ENT
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About : ASTO
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Keep busy : TIEUP
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Dr. Seuss title animal : YERTLE
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Be a lousy bedmate, say : SNORE
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Physicist Mach : ERNST
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Little protestation : PEEP
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"Ain't I somethin'?!" : TADA
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Cabinet dept. : EDUC
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Kind : TYPE
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Is on the up and up? : ASCENDS
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Part of a place setting : UTENSIL
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Mom-and-pop org. : PTA
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Followers of talks : QANDAS
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"___ tu" (Verdi aria) : ERI
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Chose not to : DIDNT
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Whigs' opponents : TORIES
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"Water, water, everywhere," per Coleridge : SEA
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"You're in my spot!" : MOVE
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Like an increasing amount of immigration to the U.S. nowadays : ASIAN
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Rizzo in "Midnight Cowboy" : RATSO
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More cunning : SLYER
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The "r" of r = d/t : RATE
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Kind of hygiene : ORAL
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Experts in the field? : UMPS
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Publisher's announcement : ITSOUT
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Wet : RAINY
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Visits a school, maybe : SCUBAS
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Feeling with a deadline approaching : PANIC
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Like carbon 12, but not carbon 14 : STABLE
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Trip up : ERR
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Intrinsically : ATROOT
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Eyeball layer : SCLERA
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Calif.'s 101, e.g. : RTE
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Containing iron : FERRIC
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Gung-ho : EAGER
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Quick signatures, quickly : INITS
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Grammy winner Corinne Bailey ___ : RAE
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Poet who originated the phrase "harmony in discord" : HORACE
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Apostle of Ireland, for short : STPAT
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Lounges : LOAFS
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Have because of : OWETO
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Respond to a bumper sticker, maybe : HONK
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Bill : NOTE
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Lilac or lavender : ODOR
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Section at a zoo : APES
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Distant source of radio waves : PULSAR
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"X" isn't really one : BRAND
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Void : BLANKNESS
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Wallop : CLOBBER
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Org. founded under Nixon : EPA
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General rule : PRECEPT
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"Aw, nuts!" : FOO
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Converts to binary, e.g. : ENCODES
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Literally, "great O's" : OMEGAS
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"Pretty slick!" : NEATO
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Expression of dismay : OYVEY
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"Gah!" : AARGH
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Egg: Prefix : OVO
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Join : UNITE
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Have a feeling : SENSE
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Bring into the world : BEGET
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Truckful : LOAD
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Computer command : UNDO
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Problem for a plumber : CLOG
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Remained fresh : KEPT
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___ chips (trendy snack food) : KALE
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Scot's refusal : NAE
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Scottie's warning : GRR
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___ Amsterdam (name on colonial maps) : NEW