15 December 2009 NYT Crossword Clues

NYT Crossword Answer: 15 December 2009

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Hints & Clues

Across
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Lamebrain : SIMP
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Kind of TV now converted from digital : ANALOG
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Wood-shaping tool : ADZ
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Gas brand in Canada : ESSO
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Where to dock a Sea Ray : MARINA
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Monk's title : FRA
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Zealous sort whose schedule may include 27-, 50- and 64-Across : EAGERBEAVER
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Cyclotron bit : ION
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Weapon using high-arcing ammo : MORTAR
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Morale booster : LIFT
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Early second-century year : CII
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Desktop picture : ICON
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Japanese dramatic form : NOH
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Suffix with chlor- or sulf- : IDE
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See 17-Across : PLACESTOGO
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Head honcho : BOSS
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Spitfire-flying grp. : RAF
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Rapper Kanye : WEST
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Tax investigator, for short : TMAN
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Port of old Rome : OSTIA
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A/C fig. : BTU
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Spin doctor's concern : IMAGE
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Golf innovator Callaway and bridge maven Culbertson : ELYS
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She-bears, south of the border : OSAS
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Barker : DOG
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Like bad losers : SORE
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See 17-Across : THINGSTODO
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Printers' measures : ENS
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London facility : LOO
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Greek counterpart of Mars : ARES
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Blond shade : ASH
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River of Florence : ARNO
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Material thing : ENTITY
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"Mamma ___!" : MIA
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See 17-Across : PEOPLETOSEE
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Off-road transport, for short : ATV
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One unlikely to compromise : PURIST
68
Fuel from bogs : PEAT
69
Word in alumnae bios : NEE
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Big name in small swimsuits : SPEEDO
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Many-axled vehicle : SEMI
Down
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Appear to be : SEEM
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Golf's ___ Aoki : ISAO
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Roman Cath. title : MSGR
4
Word with justice or license : POETIC
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Cynical Bierce : AMBROSE
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Scot's denial : NAE
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___ Sea (Amu Darya's outlet) : ARAL
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Kind of will : LIVING
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What a flamingo might stand on : ONEFOOT
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Country's Brooks : GARTH
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Devotee : AFICIONADO
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Sci-fi automatons : DROIDS
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Class clowns, e.g. : ZANIES
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Monticello or Saratoga : RACEWAY
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Crash-probing agcy. : NTSB
27
Old hand : PRO
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Refrain syllables : LAS
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Item in a man's medicine chest : AFTERSHAVE
30
10th-century Holy Roman emperor : OTTOI
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Emeril catchword : BAM
35
Loaded onto the wrong truck, say : MISSENT
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Spot in the Seine : ILE
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McCain's alma mater: Abbr. : USNA
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55-Across, e.g. : GOD
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I, to Claudius : EGO
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Save for a rainy day : STOREUP
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Go along with : AGREETO
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One on deck : SEAMAN
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Like some job training : ONSITE
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Novelist ___ de Balzac : HONORE
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Movie camera lens settings : TSTOPS
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Northern Scandinavians : LAPPS
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Mayberry boy : OPIE
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"Gotcha" : ISEE
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Orioles or Cardinals : TEAM
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Bigfoot's Asian cousin : YETI
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Tripper's turn-on : LSD