26 February 2012 NYT Crossword Clues

NYT Crossword Answer: 26 February 2012

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Hints & Clues

Across
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Bulb holders : LAMPS
6
Part of the name of many a Spanish restaurant : LACASA
12
Confabs : GABFESTS
20
Stern taking a bow (in two senses) : ISAAC
21
Demands (from) : EXACTS
22
Eternally : EVERMORE
23
Aide for a V.I.P. customer : PERSONALSHOPPER
25
Multiple Grammy winner who was a contestant on "Dancing With the Stars" : TONIBRAXTON
26
Paper nautilus, e.g. : OCTOPOD
27
Words mouthed to a TV camera : HIMOM
29
Like the pen or pencil you might reach for : NEAREST
30
P.T.A. interest : EDUC
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One of two options at a fast food restaurant : EATIN
34
Sample : TRY
35
Prozac, for one : ANTIDEPRESSANT
40
W.C. : LAV
42
"Oh baby!" : YOWZA
46
Eve's opposite : MORN
47
Work assignment : STINT
48
Gore in fiction : VIDAL
50
Dirty : SOIL
51
Kind of switch : ONOFF
53
Special ___ : OPS
54
It may be popped for fun : WHEELIE
56
Metro area : URB
57
X X X lover? : KEGLER
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Freudian concept : PLEASUREPRINCIPLE
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Lie about : LAZE
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The "L" of S.L.R. : LENS
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Trample : TREADON
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Inverness native : SCOT
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Funeral stands : BIERS
69
Run out : LAPSE
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"Tell ___ lies" : MENO
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Jimmie Rodgers or Tex Owens, musically : YODELER
75
Bun contents : HAIR
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Make ___ dash : AMAD
78
Mountains, rivers, plains, etc. : PHYSICALGEOGRAPHY
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More sinister : DARKER
85
Blackjack decision : HIT
86
"The Magnificent Seven" co-star : MCQUEEN
87
Suffix with human : OID
89
Actor Hill of "Moneyball" : JONAH
90
Mind : OBEY
92
Spanish winds : AIRES
93
Distilled vis-à-vis tap : PURER
95
Gospel singer Winans : CECE
96
Like the "ng" sound : NASAL
98
"___ who?!" : SEZ
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Fancy salad ingredient : ARTICHOKEHEART
101
Org. making grants to museums : NEA
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Big faucet maker : DELTA
105
University in North Carolina : ELON
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Rear : BACKEND
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Genealogical study : ROOTS
112
Articles aren't found in it : ADSPACE
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London transportation : UNDERGROUND
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Marlon Brando film : ONTHEWATERFRONT
121
Set free : RELEASED
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"Cheers" bartender Sam : MALONE
123
Movie droid : ARTOO
124
Fastener patented in 1939 : TWISTTIE
125
Pivoted : SLEWED
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___-Japanese : RUSSO
Down
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Alternative to dieting, informally : LIPO
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"Just ___!" : ASEC
3
Bartering locale : MART
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___ Robles, Calif. : PASO
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Checked (out) : SCOPED
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Antecede : LEADUPTO
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___ Rose : AXL
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Bills, e.g. : CASH
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Most 17-Down : ACHIEST
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Plant pores : STOMAS
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"You missed ___" : ASPOT
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Grok : GET
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Sir Anthony Eden, 1st Earl of ___ : AVON
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Pulitzer winner for "John Brown's Body" : BENET
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Brother's place : FRIARY
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Early life forms? : EMBRYOS
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See 9-Down : SORE
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Refrain syllables : TRAS
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Send some pixxx? : SEXT
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Network connections : NODES
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Environs : MILIEU
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Incapacitate : CRIPPLE
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Subject of the documentary "An Unreasonable Man" : NADER
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Helter-skelter : AMOK
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Bar ___ : NONE
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Cavemen : TROGLODYTES
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Blows up : INFLATES
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Eve who wrote "The Vagina Monologues" : ENSLER
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Has parked : VALETS
43
South Dakota memorial site : WOUNDEDKNEE
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Modern December birthstone : ZIRCON
45
White elephant, e.g. : ALBINO
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TiVo precursor : VHS
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"Eavesdrop" from across the room, say : LIPREAD
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It's felt on the head : FEZ
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"Time ___ ..." : WAS
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Poetic preposition : ERE
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Only Hitchcock film to win Best Picture : REBECCA
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Minnesota twins? : ENS
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Song that starts "A winter's day in a deep and dark December" : IAMAROCK
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Draw (off): Var. : SYPHON
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Premium Cuban cigar brand : COHIBA
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Nationals whose flag declares "God is great" : IRAQIS
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What echoes do : LAG
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Clear the atmosphere of : AIROUT
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Sod house locale : PRAIRIE
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Min. or max. : LIM
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Sweets : HON
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Capt.'s superior : MAJ
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Drew in : LURED
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Old-timer : GEEZER
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Some M.I.T. grads : EES
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Per : EACH
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Korea's Syngman ___ : RHEE
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Like some housecats : DECLAWED
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"Gone With the Wind" bad guys : YANKEES
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Yammer : PRATTLE
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First TV show to debut at #1 in the Nielsen ratings : RHODA
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Eye up and down : LEERAT
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Discordant : ATONAL
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General Motors subsidiary : ONSTAR
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Feeling pervading Brat Pack movies : ANGST
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Towers : LOOMS
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Reynolds of "Boogie Nights" : BURT
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From the top : ANEW
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Mid fifth-century year : CDLI
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Hofbräuhaus crowd? : DREI
111
Place after place : SHOW
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Home of the Norte Chico civilization : PERU
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Part of 101-Across : ARTS
115
Corp. money types : CFOS
116
Switch attachment? : EROO
118
Metered praise : ODE
120
Charlotte-to-Raleigh dir. : ENE