21 December 1997 NYT Crossword Clues

NYT Crossword Answer: 21 December 1997

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Hints & Clues

Across
1
1962 Tommy Roe hit : SHEILA
7
"I'd rather not hear about it!" : SPAREME
14
Go with the flow : ADAPT
19
"Casablanca" producer : WALLIS
20
Meteorological effects : AURORAS
21
"Beggars can't be choosers" et al. : ADAGES
22
Start of a verse : IMEETSANTAMOREANDMORE
25
Ring thing : GEMSTONE
26
Toothpaste-approving grp. : ADA
27
"I Know" singer Farris : DIONNE
28
Christian ___ : ERA
29
"Olympia" painter : MANET
31
Every, in prescriptions : OMN
32
Tot's transport : GOCART
36
They may have soft shells : TACOS
37
Filippo Lippi's title : FRA
38
Finger, so to speak : NAME
42
Muezzin's call to prayer : AZAN
43
Unnerve : FAZE
44
Plum pudding ingredient : SUET
45
From Umbria: Abbr. : ITAL
46
Verse, part 2 : MANYSTORESENTHRONEHIM
52
Dolly, for one : EWE
53
Lust after : WANT
54
Sailplanes : SOARS
55
Stag : ALONE
56
O.K. : ASSENT
58
Attribute : IMPUTE
60
Mug : KISSER
61
Designer in J.F.K.'s White House : CASSINI
63
Take under one's wing : NURTURE
65
Thin : WATERY
68
Nice touch : CARESS
70
"Caught" star Maria Conchita ___ : ALONSO
73
___-garde : AVANT
74
Netanyahu's predecessor : PERES
75
Starbuck's captain : AHAB
76
Its capital is Altdorf : URI
78
Verse, part 3 : SOMEONEMUSTBEJOKINGOR
83
Galley feature : TIER
84
"How now! ___?": Hamlet : ARAT
85
Caesar's wings : ALAE
86
Malodorous : RANK
87
Christian Science founder : EDDY
88
RR stop : STN
89
Jelly Roll Morton biographer Alan : LOMAX
91
Locale of Ptolemy's lighthouse : PHAROS
93
Good name for a chef? : STU
94
Hardly a sissy : HEMAN
95
West of Hollywood : MAE
96
Patch up : REPAIR
99
Princess Yasmin ___ Khan : AGA
100
Obvious clue : SIGNPOST
105
End of the verse : THEYVEBEGUNTOCLONEHIM
109
Person in a booth : SELLER
110
___ Trail (Everglades highway) : TAMIAMI
111
Testify under oath : DEPONE
112
Nervous, with "up" : KEYED
113
Clytemnestra's killer : ORESTES
114
Sprung up : ARISEN
Down
1
Draft : SWIG
2
Harness part : HAME
3
K-6: Abbr. : ELEM
4
St. Pierre and Miquelon : ILES
5
Refuse : LITTER
6
Classify : ASSORT
7
All there : SANE
8
Plunk : PUT
9
One of Knute's successors : ARA
10
Cheese made of 52-Across's milk : ROMANO
11
Cuts into : ERODES
12
French Revolution leader : MARAT
13
Toledo-to-Akron dir. : ESE
14
Extra : ADDON
15
Not-so-mild oath : DAMN
16
Stravinsky ballet : AGON
17
A Dumas : PERE
18
Lao-___ : TSE
21
Lively, to Liszt : ANIMATO
23
Dona ___ (Las Cruces' county) : ANA
24
The Magi, notably : ADORERS
29
Hampton Court feature : MAZE
30
They're nonreturnable : ACES
32
Kind of warden : GAME
33
Boston Symphony conductor : OZAWA
34
Christmas tree hangings : CANES
35
Even one : ANY
36
Napoleon relative : TART
37
W.W. II tyrant : FUHRER
38
Certain rating : NIELSEN
39
Friend of Aramis : ATHOS
40
See 72-Down : MAINE
41
Bugs bugs him : ELMER
43
Desktop publisher's supply : FONTS
44
Social climber's concern : STATUS
47
Affirm under oath : SWEARTO
48
Ragwort variety : TANSY
49
Strange "gift" : ESP
50
They may be modified : NOUNS
51
Richard Leakey's birthplace : NAIROBI
57
Set back? : SCENERY
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Making no progress : INARUT
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Sticks in the mud : MIRES
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Stalin's persecuted peasant : KULAK
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Bygone delivery person : ICEMAN
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Source of the Truckee River : TAHOE
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It may be toxic : WASTE
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Work around : AVOID
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Broken : TAMED
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Shakespearean verb ending : EST
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Babydoll : SUGAR
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With 40-Down, Down East university town : ORONO
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Discompose : PERTURB
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Bon Ami alternative : AJAX
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Rubs the wrong way : IRKS
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More odious : NASTIER
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Crimson Tide, for short : BAMA
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Panache : ELAN
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Blue Eagle inits. : NRA
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Mesquite or mimosa, e.g. : LEGUME
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Muscateers? : OMANIS
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Shanxi shrine : PAGODA
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Marilu of "Taxi" : HENNER
93
Socked away : SAVED
94
Helga's husband : HAGAR
95
Thou squared : MIL
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First South Korean president : RHEE
97
Hard to hold : EELY
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Mayberry's Goober : PYLE
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Biol., geol., etc. : SCIS
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Name of two ancient Egyptian kings : PEPI
102
Cries of surprise : OHOS
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Kind of wave : SINE
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The Untouchables, e.g. : TMEN
105
"Naughty!" : TSK
106
W.W. II arena : ETO
107
Make an antimacassar : TAT
108
Cockney residence : OME