23 December 2001 NYT Crossword Clues

NYT Crossword Answer: 23 December 2001

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Hints & Clues

Across
1
1984 Paul McCartney hit : SOBAD
6
Subject of a clipping? : TOENAIL
13
ABC's : BASICS
19
Nocturnal insect : EARWIG
21
TV exec Roone : ARLEDGE
22
Soluble mineral salt : ALKALI
23
Start of a verse : WHENSANTASPOLARCLIMES
26
Tanning agent : SUNSHINE
27
G.I. mailing address : APO
28
Like many scolders' arms : AKIMBO
29
When Christmas comes in Polynésie : ETE
30
Largest city in Md. : BALTO
32
Letter add-ons: Abbr. : PSS
33
They need to be chewed : SOLIDS
37
Sizable skirts : MAXIS
38
Tailor's concern : FIT
39
Picket line ignorer : SCAB
43
Russia's ___ Mountains : URAL
44
Rani's wear : SARI
45
Zeno's home : ELEA
46
"Eugene Onegin" mezzo : OLGA
47
Verse, part 2 : MAKESANTASOBFORBIMINI
53
Diminutive suffix : ULE
54
Duke Ellington's "___ It Bad and That Ain't Good" : IGOT
55
Groucho's "Duck Soup" role : RUFUS
56
Not just "no!" : NEVER
57
A pop : PER
58
Scratch : MAR
59
Big name in book publishing : FARRAR
61
Canny : SHREWD
62
"Bon ___!" : APPETIT
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They cut quite a swath : SCYTHES
66
Make a chess move : CASTLE
69
Pharmaceutical ointment : OLEATE
71
Epitome of lightness : AIR
72
Connect to secretly : TAP
75
Hold forth : ORATE
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Make ___ for : APLAY
77
Abruzzi bell town : ATRI
78
Infamous Amin : IDI
79
Verse, part 3 : HEWARMSHIMSELFATTIMES
84
___ spumante : ASTI
85
"Two owls and ___ ...": Lear : AHEN
86
Place for a patch : TEAR
87
1989 Literature Nobelist : CELA
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Zenith, metaphorically : NOON
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"Krazy ___" : KAT
90
Carrier : TOTER
92
Karen ___ (Isak Dinesen) : BLIXEN
94
Skin defect : WEN
95
Some bays : MARES
96
Motor suffix : OLA
97
Chart : MAPOUT
100
Black bird : ANI
101
Ogled : STAREDAT
106
End of the verse : BYJUMPINGDOWNACHIMINI
110
Turkish hospice : IMARET
111
Get a sense of : FEELOUT
112
Margaret Mead interviewee : SAMOAN
113
Christopher Plummer's Tony-winning title role of 1973 : CYRANO
114
Fuses : CEMENTS
115
Toothsome : TASTY
Down
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Plies a needle : SEWS
2
Site of "interstates" H1, H2 and H3 : OAHU
3
Gas-operated machine gun : BREN
4
Beards : AWNS
5
Gossiped : DISHED
6
Poet laureate of 1700 : TATE
7
___ pro nobis : ORA
8
Cousins of monorails : ELS
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Gurkha, e.g. : NEPALI
10
Takes in : ADOPTS
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Hardly a summer house : IGLOO
12
Pasture : LEA
13
Discredit sneakily : BACKSTAB
14
Words before "calm" and "bright" : ALLIS
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Not fully digest : SKIM
16
Foot : IAMB
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1917 role for 30-Down, informally : CLEO
18
Affectionate family name : SIS
20
Steps : GAITS
24
Natchez-to-Memphis dir. : NNE
25
Certain swords : RAPIERS
30
See 17-Down : BARA
31
X, Y or Z : AXIS
33
Recap : SUMUP
34
Papal vestment : ORALE
35
Staples Center player : LAKER
36
___ du Diable : ILE
37
Houston, for one : MATT
38
Like a breadmaker's hands, maybe : FLOURY
39
"Three's Company" actress : SOMERS
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Novelist Barker : CLIVE
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10/10/73 resignee : AGNEW
42
Puppeteer Bil : BAIRD
44
Make a little "night music" : SNORE
45
Wipe out : EFFACE
48
Like olden times, supposedly : SIMPLER
49
Yawning : AGAPE
50
Hall-of-Famer Bobby : ORR
51
Explode : BURST
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Get without effort : INHERIT
59
Substitute : FILLIN
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1980's TV group : ATEAM
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Polo, e.g. : SHIRT
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Reach : ATTAIN
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Biblical place of punishment : TOPHET
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Native of the Steppes : TATAR
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George M. ___ : COHAN
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Joe Cocker's "You ___ Beautiful" : ARESO
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Took care of : SAWTO
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Cries on ships : AYS
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Company that cares for the face and hands : TIMEX
73
An Astaire : ADELE
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Galileo, for one : PISAN
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Onetime West African kingdom : ASHANTI
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In the distance : AFAR
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Win back the favor of : MAKEUPTO
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Kitchen suffix : ETTE
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Noted Virginia family : LEES
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French roll call response : ICI
90
Many a tractor-trailer : TANDEM
91
Bobolink's kin : ORIOLE
92
Ennui, with "the" : BLAHS
93
Cow-catcher : LARIAT
94
Restroom door sign : WOMEN
95
Patrick who won a 1966 Tony for "Marat/Sade" : MAGEE
96
Like some stocks: Abbr. : OTC
97
"Oh, dear!" : MYMY
98
Cracked a bit : AJAR
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Aqua ___ : PURA
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H.S. hurdles : SATS
102
Austen novel : EMMA
103
Spanish Almighty : DIOS
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Biol. subject : ANAT
105
Wee : TINY
106
Razor brand : BIC
107
Giants' grp. : NFC
108
Swept : WON
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Crackpot : NUT