18 December 2000 NYT Crossword Clues

NYT Crossword Answer: 18 December 2000

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P
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U
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C
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K
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E
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L
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M
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O
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H
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L
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C
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H
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K
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M
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P
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O

Hints & Clues

Across
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Hockey disk : PUCK
5
Stately trees : ELMS
9
Cousin of the raccoon : COATI
14
Symbol on the Hollywood Walk of Fame : STAR
15
Cat's hello : MEOW
16
Milk dispenser : UDDER
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Indian dress : SARI
18
Island east of Java : BALI
19
Paris divider : SEINE
20
1948 Olivia de Havilland drama : THESNAKEPIT
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Ages and ages : EON
24
Computer in "2001" : HAL
25
Start of a correction : ERASURE
27
Actor's stand-in : STUNTMAN
32
40 days and 40 nights boat : ARK
33
Kind of cavity : NASAL
34
Desperate, as an effort : LASTDITCH
39
Up there in years : OLD
40
Vengeful feeling : SPITE
41
Electronics giant : RCA
42
Dark spot in outer space : BLACKHOLE
45
Borrow, slangily : MOOCH
47
Dessert from an oven : PIE
48
Island in the West Indies : STMARTIN
50
Crooner Frank : SINATRA
54
Whimsical : ODD
55
Suffix with sulf- : IDE
56
Possible title for this puzzle : CANYOUDIGIT
62
Circumference : GIRTH
64
Seizes : GETS
65
___ a one : NARY
66
Astronomical flareups : NOVAE
67
Fill completely : SATE
68
At the summit of : ATOP
69
Uncompromising : STERN
70
Stepped (on) : TROD
71
Jay of "The Tonight Show" : LENO
Down
1
"Hey ... over here!" : PSST
2
Great Salt Lake locale : UTAH
3
Give a darn : CARE
4
Hare ___ (religious sect) : KRISHNA
5
Preserve for burial : EMBALM
6
Pipe problem : LEAK
7
Double agent : MOLE
8
Put through a machine, as a credit card : SWIPE
9
Puddinglike dessert : CUSTARD
10
"___ to Billie Joe" : ODE
11
French farewell : ADIEU
12
Male caroler, maybe : TENOR
13
Actress Pappas : IRENE
21
Part of N.R.A.: Abbr. : NATL
22
Furious : IRATE
26
Hit the slopes : SKI
27
Haughty one : SNOB
28
Like a six-footer : TALL
29
Initials in food certification : USDA
30
Brand for Rover : ALPO
31
Polish sites : NAILS
35
Proofreading mark : STET
36
What horses with sulkies do : TROT
37
Old-fashioned 301 : CCCI
38
See 58-Down : HAHN
40
He-Man's twin sister, in TV cartoons : SHERA
43
Tax pro, for short : CPA
44
Where meals are made : KITCHEN
45
Sober-motorists org. : MADD
46
First, second, or third, e.g. : ORDINAL
49
Hunted rodents : MOUSED
50
Yield and No Parking : SIGNS
51
Pinhead : IDIOT
52
Chutzpah : NERVE
53
Anxious feeling : ANGST
57
Two semesters : YEAR
58
With 38-Down, Nobel-winning German chemist : OTTO
59
Fence opening : GATE
60
Part of steel : IRON
61
Printing goof : TYPO
63
Driveway stuff : TAR