9 December 2001 NYT Crossword Clues

NYT Crossword Answer: 9 December 2001

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K
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Hints & Clues

Across
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Overwhelm : SWAMP
6
Quickly, after "in" : AFLASH
12
Gas leak site in 1984 world news : BHOPAL
18
Realm of Cyrus the Great : PERSIA
19
Isotope of hydrogen : TRITIUM
21
Piper of "Twin Peaks" : LAURIE
22
Certain discriminator : AGEIST
23
2000 in-flight movie? : MEETTHEPARROTS
25
World septet : WONDERS
27
O'Hare posting: Abbr. : ETA
28
Tears with force : RENDS
29
2000 in-flight movie? : HERONBROCKOVICH
33
Dot follower : COM
36
Spring : SPA
38
Blackthorn : SLOE
39
"It Must Be ___" : HIM
40
Delhi stuffed pastry : SAMOSA
42
On one's guard : WARY
44
___ speak : SOTO
46
Tic-___-toe : TAC
48
It may be French : TOAST
49
Pres. Garfield's middle name : ABRAM
51
1998 in-flight movie? : THRUSHHOUR
56
One year into Claudius's reign : XLII
57
White House family of 1849 : TAYLORS
59
43-Down student : ELI
60
With a bow, to Stern : ARCO
61
Dennis the Menace types : IMPS
62
Poetic pond : MERE
63
Berlin output : SONGS
65
Some pikes : WALLEYES
67
H. Rider Haggard title : SHE
69
1998 in-flight movie? : PHEASANTVILLE
72
Clinton ___ Rodham : NEE
73
Miscellany : CATCHALL
75
Sleep ender, maybe : SIREN
76
Wit Bombeck : ERMA
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Seine tributary : OISE
79
St. Petersburg's river : NEVA
81
It's a pleasure : FUN
82
Wakens : AROUSES
85
City WSW of Algiers : ORAN
86
1966 in-flight movie? : GEORGYGULL
89
12-Across's locale : INDIA
90
___-Whirl : TILTA
92
Transient's qtrs. : SRO
93
Exec : SUIT
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Kind of warfare : GANG
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Sniggler's activity : EELING
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Honour given to J. K. Rowling: Abbr. : OBE
100
Riffle : LEAF
102
Don't waste : USE
103
Prohibitionist : DRY
104
1997 in-flight movie? : GOODWILLBUNTING
110
Tropical fruit : GUAVA
111
French pronoun : TOI
112
Big East powerhouse : STJOHNS
115
2000 in-flight movie? : SMALLTIMEROOKS
121
Moved gracefully : LILTED
122
Fibulae neighbors : TIBIAE
123
Popular 7-11 drink : SLURPEE
124
Consumers : EATERS
125
Gloomy, in Gloucester : SOMBRE
126
Peak in NE Greece : MTOSSA
127
He took the words out of Bergen's mouth : SNERD
Down
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Flower that's most often white : SEGO
2
1989 in-flight movie? : WRENHARRYMETSALLY
3
Parenthetical bit : ASIDE
4
Nickel-nursers : MISERS
5
Covers one's beat : PATROLS
6
Bread source, in brief? : ATM
7
Less inhibited : FREER
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Be dishonest with : LIETO
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Tack on : ATTACH
10
Canine command : SIT
11
Bewildered response : HUH
12
Chenin ___ (French wines) : BLANCS
13
Construction worker : HARDHAT
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It makes "mine" a double : OURS
15
Quid-quo link : PRO
16
Islet : AIT
17
Berlioz's "___ Nuits" : LES
18
Kit mitt : PAW
20
First name in game show production : MERV
24
Mile High Center architect : PEI
26
Uppity types : SNOOTS
30
First letter in Bathsheba : BETH
31
Kin's partner : KITH
32
Where Union Pacific is headquartered : OMAHA
33
1980 in-flight movie? : COALMYNASDAUGHTER
34
New Hampshire lake, river or town : OSSIPEE
35
Fauvist painter Henri : MATISSE
36
Babe Ruth's "sultanate" : SWAT
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Sunscreen label abbr. : PABA
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Nerve : MOXIE
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See 59-Across : YALE
45
Cookies 1 3/4" in diameter : OREOS
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N.F.L.'s ___ Brown : CORWIN
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Be transformed : MORPH
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Forelimb parts : ULNAS
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Mean : SIGNIFY
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Sch. with a branch in Irvine : UCAL
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Furniture feature, maybe : ROLLER
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Put back on the wall : REHANG
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Discharges : SALVOS
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Olympic gymnast Kerri : STRUG
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Object of an old French cheer : LEROI
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Hightailed it : SCOOTED
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More scary : HAIRIER
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Robt. ___ : ELEE
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Ruler of Taurus and Libra, in astrology : VENUS
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Prefix with grade : CENTI
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Kind of bean : MUNG
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Turn indicator : ARROW
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They upset xenophobes : ALIENS
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German cardinal : EINS
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Learned : SAGE
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Mongolian expanse : GOBI
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Humdinger : LULU
91
Sharp-cornered : ANGULAR
94
Rats : TATTLES
97
Col. Sanders feature : GOATEE
99
Target of los banderilleros : ELTORO
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Pacific islander : FIJIAN
105
Prefix with duct : OVI
106
Blocks : DAMS
107
Tops of ankhs : LOOPS
108
Items in a rack : BIKES
109
Nick of "The Prince of Tides" : NOLTE
110
Overly smooth : GLIB
113
Bully's prey, traditionally : NERD
114
Old protest grp. : SDS
115
Ave. crossers : STS
116
Italian possessive : MIO
117
1972 treaty subj. : ABM
118
Street shader : ELM
119
Furrow : RUT
120
One of a world septet : SEA