31 December 2015 NYT Crossword Clues

NYT Crossword Answer: 31 December 2015

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

Hints & Clues

Across
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Onetime gig for Wiig, in brief : SNL
4
Keep the sauce from congealing, say : STIR
8
___ Simpson : GRAMPA
14
Low note? : MOO
15
Stash : HIDE
16
Banks : RELIES
17
Spider-Man's surrogate father : UNCLEBEN
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Commercial leader? : ADEXEC
20
Enjoy the swimsuit edition of The New England Journal of Medicine? : GOOGLEDOCS
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Giant Manning : ELI
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Club alternative : BLT
24
Organization in "The Da Vinci Code" : OPUSDEI
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Actress Gerwig of "Mistress America" : GRETA
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"Yeah, that's the spot" : AAH
32
Put down roots? : SOD
33
Oral vote : NAY
34
Brief entries in an auto film festival? : CARGOSHORTS
39
Like Scotch whisky : AGED
41
Rib : TEASE
42
Flag : TIRE
43
Sickly-looking overlord? : WAGONMASTER
46
Bhikkhuni : Buddhism :: ___ : Catholicism : NUN
47
Tall one : LIE
48
Rotational speed meas. : RPS
49
Grilled : ASKED
51
Neither improve nor decline : PLATEAU
54
Bank figure, for short : PIN
55
Half of us? : ESS
56
People obsessed with being online? : EGOMANIACS
62
Round a corner in 65-Across ... or what you must do to answer the clues for 20-, 34-, 43- and 56-Across : PASSGO
65
Game patented December 31, 1935 : MONOPOLY
66
Psychologist Pinker who wrote "How the Mind Works" : STEVEN
67
Words of rebuke : ETTU
68
Understanding : KEN
69
What you may have with mom, dad or an overbearing boss : ISSUES
70
Swiftly built home? : NEST
71
Cable channel that airs "Portlandia" : IFC
Down
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Like an "I told you so" look : SMUG
2
Proscription : NONO
3
Spanish nuts : LOCO
4
Wallop : SHELLAC
5
Terminus of the Qingzang railway : TIBET
6
Known to authorities : IDED
7
City near Sparks : RENO
8
Clutch : GRASP
9
With 10-Down, Irish draught : RED
10
See 9-Down : ALE
11
Cosmopolitan, e.g. : MIXEDDRINK
12
Key's longtime partner in sketch comedy : PEELE
13
Computer acronym since the 1960s : ASCII
18
Modern civil rights initialism : LGBT
21
They share the air : COHOSTS
25
Escort, slangily : USH
26
Some air pollution : SOOT
27
Plague, with "at" : GNAW
28
1971 documentary about Ravi Shankar : RAGA
29
Bridge sitter? : EYEGLASSES
30
Relative of a throw : AREARUG
31
Audibly floored : AGASP
35
Convenience partly obviated by banking apps : ATM
36
"Got me now?" : SEE
37
Align : TRUE
38
Texting button : SEND
40
Darer's cry : DOIT
44
Born on the bayou? : NEE
45
Cause for a rescheduling : RAINOUT
50
Insignificant person : SNIP
51
"The choice of a new generation" sloganeer, once : PEPSI
52
Challenges for future counsel, in brief : LSATS
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Bajillions of years : AEONS
54
Fly holder : PANTS
57
Harbinger : OMEN
58
Speck : MOTE
59
Isao in the Golf Hall of Fame : AOKI
60
Head of staff? : CLEF
61
Align : SYNC
63
"Law & Order" spinoff, familiarly : SVU
64
"Huh, never would've figured" : GEE