17 December 2000 NYT Crossword Clues

NYT Crossword Answer: 17 December 2000

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Hints & Clues

Across
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Mountain cats : PUMAS
6
Haitian dictator's nickname : PAPADOC
13
Site of thousands of flowers : FLOAT
18
Peace in the Mideast? : SHALOM
20
United way? : AIRLANE
21
Little gander : GLANCE
22
Start of a verse about holiday fruitcake : SOMEPEOPLELIKETOICEIT
25
1931 sudser about a washed-up prizefighter : THECHAMP
26
Seurat's "___ Baignade" : UNE
27
Like some pitches : OUTSIDE
28
See 95-Down : INS
29
Do : PARTY
31
Literary monogram : RLS
32
Small piano : SPINET
36
"A good servant but a bad master": Bacon : MONEY
37
38-Across's milieu : SEA
38
Junk, e.g. : SHIP
42
Brown bagger : WINO
43
Unhappy expression : POUT
44
Henley crew : OARS
45
Movie theater : CINE
46
More about that fruitcake : ANDSOMEPREFERTOHEATIT
52
Luau fare : POI
53
Cartoon frames : CELS
54
Pakistan's chief river : INDUS
55
Uninspiring talk : DRONE
56
Eminence : STATURE
58
Tee-hee : TITTER
60
Chic : SWANKY
61
Parallel : ALIGNED
63
Wasn't paid up at the bar : RANATAB
65
Sanction : PERMIT
68
Cloisonné coating : ENAMEL
70
English class activity : PARSING
74
Mosque priests : IMAMS
75
Newsreel pioneer Charles : PATHE
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Embellish : GILD
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Coroner's abbr. : DOA
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Yet more about that fruitcake : NOMATTERHOWYOUSLICEIT
83
Its playing fields are famous : ETON
84
They're black for witches : ARTS
85
Oriental au pair : AMAH
86
___ doble (two-step dance) : PASO
87
Last word of "For He's a Jolly Good Fellow" : DENY
88
Ref's decision : TKO
89
Theatrical backdrop : SCRIM
91
Paint basecoat : SEALER
93
Map abbr. : MTS
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Inclination : SLANT
95
Barrett of Pink Floyd : SYD
96
Adult's cry in a children's game : ISEEYOU
100
Kind of observatory: Abbr. : NAV
101
Parts of Middle Earth : KINGDOMS
106
Final words about that fruitcake : FEWPEOPLEYEARNTOEATIT
110
Mideast millionaires : AMEERS
111
Late : OVERDUE
112
Kind of inspiration : DIVINE
113
Pair on a bike : TIRES
114
Bloodshed : CARNAGE
115
Makes out : NECKS
Down
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"Hey, you" : PSST
2
Slip acknowledgment : UHOH
3
"If He Walked Into My Life" musical : MAME
4
Novelist Waugh : ALEC
5
She had a choice in literature : SOPHIE
6
"Hair" producer, 1967 : PAPP
7
Be in bed, maybe : AIL
8
Grand ___ ("Evangeline" setting) : PRE
9
Attraction : ALLURE
10
Like lacework : DAINTY
11
Pleasing to the ear : ONKEY
12
So-so mark : CEE
13
Emulates the birds and the bees : FLITS
14
Mille ___ (Minnesota county) : LACS
15
"You're the ___ Care For" (1931 hit) : ONEI
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Parietal cell secretion : ACID
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Block of Brie? : TETE
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Not accidental : MEANT
21
Paprika-seasoned stew : GOULASH
23
Meditation class chorus : OMS
24
Bull session participants? : TOREROS
29
Really come down : POUR
30
Pay one's share, with "up" : ANTE
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Gives and takes : SWAPS
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Vinifera variety : PINOT
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It has 25 states : INDIA
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1 and 66: Abbr. : NOS
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Barbers' challenges : MOPS
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General Motors division : SATURN
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Ancient symbols of resurrection : SCARABS
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Hand a line to, say : HITON
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How to sign a contract : ININK
41
"Our Gang" dog : PETEY
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"Moby-Dick" captain : PELEG
44
Baptism of fire : ORDEAL
47
Eye doctor : OCULIST
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Have coming : MERIT
49
Toned : FIT
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___-temps (meanwhile, in Metz) : ENTRE
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King nicknamed "Longshanks" : EDWARDI
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Name in old politics : TAMMANY
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Extra innings : TENTHS
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Craters of the Moon locale : IDAHO
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Big problem for a pilot : STALL
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By : NEARTO
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Quite silly : APISH
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Carried a torch (for) : PINED
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Play to the rafters : EMOTE
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Pitcher Martinez : RAMON
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Copy cats? : MEW
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Epitomic : IDEAL
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Headache intensifier : NOISE
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Football's ___ Bowl : GATOR
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Brightens : PERKSUP
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Its capital is Hagatña : GUAM
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Results of getting needled? : TATTOOS
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Looming choice : YARN
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Bypass : OMIT
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One whose days are numbered? : CPA
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Beowulf, notably : SLAYER
90
Stalactite site : CAVERN
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Church council : SYNOD
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Add just before the deadline : EDGEIN
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"Wayne's World" co-star : MYERS
94
1983 Indy 500 winner : SNEVA
95
With 28-Across, some protests : SIT
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"___ first ..." : IFAT
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Annual opener : SEMI
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Pitcher : EWER
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Foil relative : EPEE
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Joint with a cap : KNEE
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Singer Matthews : DAVE
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Of the ear : OTIC
104
Non-P.C. wrap : MINK
105
Some Fr. martyrs : STES
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___ cit. : LOC
108
Nabokov novel : ADA
109
It may be cut : RUG