28 December 2017 NYT Crossword Clues

NYT Crossword Answer: 28 December 2017

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B
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E
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A
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M
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E
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S
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P
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A
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M
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D
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R
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Y
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L
T
C
O
L
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T
A
G
U
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P
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R
O
E
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O
N
E
P
M
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A
C
A
D
E
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M
I
C
S
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W
A
D
P
O
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S
T
E
R
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T
O
N
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E
S
A
U
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S
N
A
K
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E
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S
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S
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W
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I
T
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D
E
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B
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U
T
A
B
A
L
L
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T
E
N
S
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E
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I
M
A
M
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T
W
A
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E
T
D
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V
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A
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N
T
A
G
E
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H
O
C
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A
N
I
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E
L
I
E
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S
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H
O
O
K
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D
A
S
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I
N
F
E
R
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N
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O
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A
N
D
S
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S
P
A
R
T
A
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E
O
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N
S
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R
A
U
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U
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P
T
H
E
A
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N
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T
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E
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T
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U
R
N
A
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B
O
U
T
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A
C
O
R
N
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A
N
A
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L
E
M
M
E
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R
O
V
E
D
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B
O
Y
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G
O
A
D
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S
W
A
Y
S

Hints & Clues

Across
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1970s New York City mayor : BEAME
6
Meat that comes in a can : SPAM
10
Leave hanging, maybe : DRY
13
Maj.'s superior : LTCOL
14
Touch base : TAGUP
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Future fish : ROE
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1300 hours : ONEPM
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Professors and such : ACADEMICS
20
Where you might see a criminal : WANTEDPOSTER
22
Truckload : TON
23
Biblical twin : ESAU
24
Indiana Jones phobia : SNAKES
27
"M*A*S*H" actress : SWIT
30
Coming-out party : DEBUTANTEBALL
33
High-strung : TENSE
35
Prayer leader : IMAM
36
Bygone carrier : TWA
37
J.F.K. posting, for short : ETD
38
Kind of point : VANTAGE
41
Ad follower : HOC
42
Something a Mississippi cheerleader repeatedly calls for : ANI
43
Peace Nobelist Wiesel : ELIE
44
All ___ up : SHOOK
46
Account of a hellish trip? : DANTESINFERNO
50
Some Boolean operators : ANDS
51
Ancient land known in antiquity as Lacedaemon : SPARTA
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Volcanoes develop over them : EONS
54
Writer Santha Rama ___ : RAU
55
Increase what is at stake ... or a hint to answering 20-, 30- and 46-Across : UPTHEANTE
60
Fair play, to some : TURNABOUT
63
Item in a winter cache : ACORN
64
Gasteyer formerly of "Saturday Night Live" : ANA
65
"I wanna!" : LEMME
66
Traveled like Johnny Appleseed : ROVED
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"Whew!" : BOY
68
Egg on : GOAD
69
Influences : SWAYS
Down
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Squander : BLOW
2
Mount SW of Messina : ETNA
3
Sailed through : ACED
4
Rug rats : MOPPETS
5
Ticklish dolls : ELMOS
6
David, for one : STATUE
7
Go back and forth : PACE
8
Food thickener : AGAR
9
Coffee, in slang : MUD
10
Affair for bingers : DRINKATHON
11
"Arabian Nights" creature : ROC
12
"Amen!" : YES
15
Honey and Sugar : PETNAMES
19
Ancient kingdom east of the Dead Sea : MOAB
21
End of many a Trump tweet : SAD
24
Alone, in a way : STAG
25
Jake's "Blues Brothers" brother : ELWOOD
26
Pants : SLACKS
27
Places : STEADS
28
Moist towelette : WETNAP
29
Unorganized : INDISARRAY
31
Dangerous dog : BITER
32
Thurman of the "Kill Bill" films : UMA
34
Ultimate : EVENTUAL
39
Soviet nuclear-powered submarine : ALFA
40
Never, abroad : NIE
45
Flips one's lid : HASACOW
47
It's on the Gulf of Oman : IRAN
48
Took home : NETTED
49
"That's amazing!" : OOH
53
Moves toward : NEARS
55
Man, in Milan : UOMO
56
Fast feline : PUMA
57
Blast from the past, astronomically speaking? : NOVA
58
Rare trick taker : TREY
59
Bounds : ENDS
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Can opener : TAB
61
Popular card game : UNO
62
Beseech : BEG