20 May 2018 NYT Crossword Clues

NYT Crossword Answer: 20 May 2018

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L
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Z
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W
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N
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M
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K
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B
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W
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B
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B
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Hints & Clues

Across
1
Picnic annoyance : BUGBITE
8
Cold quarters : IGLOO
13
Racetrack informant : TIPSTER
20
Like okapis and giraffes : AFRICAN
21
Sit pensively : BROOD
22
Cry from a survivor : IMALIVE
23
Conversation over a few whiskeys? : BOOZESCHMOOZE
25
Wear : APPAREL
26
Pose : ASK
27
Mario Vargas Llosa's country : PERU
28
Strummed instrument, for short : UKE
29
Where butter and cheese are produced : CREAMERY
30
___ buddies : BOSOM
31
Moreover : TOO
32
Org. for drivers : AAA
33
Return to base : TAGUP
36
2015 Verizon purchase : AOL
38
Filth covering pecans and such? : NUTSSCHMUTZ
45
Borodin opera prince : IGOR
46
Fasten, in a way, with "in" : SCREW
48
Asian holiday : TET
49
Tush : HEINIE
50
Venison spread? : DEERSCHMEAR
53
Relics, to Brits : ARTEFACTS
55
"You betcha!" : YESSIREE
56
Very beginning? : VEE
58
Give a leg up ... or a hand : AID
59
Lose one's coat : MOLT
60
Casting need : ROD
61
Notwithstanding : DESPITE
63
Brings on : HIRES
64
Sprayed in the face : MACED
67
Hardly a dolt? : NOSCHMO
68
Powerful scents : MUSKS
69
Made-up : BOGUS
70
Virus fighters : TECHIES
71
Director Wenders : WIM
72
Unnamed character in Camus's "The Stranger" : ARAB
73
Ground cover? : DEW
74
Connections : INS
75
Buds come in them : SIXPACKS
80
Office's counterpart : RESIDENCE
83
Avoid a jerk? : DUCKSCHMUCK
85
Mozart's Don Alfonso and Leporello : BASSOS
86
Shout with an accent : OLE
88
Gathered intelligence (on) : SPIED
89
It has lots on the internet : EBAY
90
Break up with an "unbreakable" Ellie Kemper character? : QUITSCHMIDT
93
"Black-ish" network : ABC
94
Part of a kit : SNARE
95
It may be found next to a spade : HOE
96
Sashimi option : AHI
98
Ready for battle : ARMED
100
DNA building block : BASEPAIR
105
Restroom sign : MEN
106
"What's Going On" singer, 1971 : GAYE
107
Tampa Bay N.F.L.'er : BUC
110
Beats in the race : OUTRUNS
111
Puts a stop to sentimentality? : HALTSSCHMALTZ
114
Term for a word that isn't the dictionary, but maybe should be : SNIGLET
115
Subject of una serenata : AMORE
116
Subject of the 2006 documentary "When the Levees Broke" : KATRINA
117
Promenades : STROLLS
118
Rehab program : DETOX
119
Plug : STOPPER
Down
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Cake with rum : BABA
2
Hovering craft : UFOS
3
Understand : GROK
4
Industry, for short : BIZ
5
Treat on a stick : ICEPOP
6
Stuns, in a way : TASES
7
Intruded (on) : ENCROACHED
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Watson's company : IBM
9
Cavity filler : GROUT
10
Be a witness : LOOKON
11
Exude : OOZEOUT
12
Loving verse? : ODE
13
Some pageant wear : TIARAS
14
Brought charges against : IMPEACHED
15
Daddy : PAPA
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Criticize severely : SLAM
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Part of a makeshift swing : TIRE
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___ after : EVER
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Depend : RELY
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"Just pretend I'm right" : HUMORME
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Singer of high notes : CASTRATO
30
Scottish accents : BURRS
33
Dusted off, say : TIDY
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James who won a posthumous Pulitzer : AGEE
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Says, informally : GOES
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"When the Levees Broke" director : LEE
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High ___ : TEA
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Publisher in a robe, familiarly : HEF
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Algonquian Indians : MIAMIS
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Open, as a bottle : UNCORK
43
Prince and others : TITLES
44
Some drink garnishes : ZESTS
46
Fish whose name sounds like the past tense of 46-Across? : SCROD
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Greets silently : WAVESHI
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Begets : SIRES
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Take back : RESCIND
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3-3, e.g. : TIE
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Site of one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World : EPHESUS
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Professional fixer, for short : DOC
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Uses Gchat, e.g. : IMS
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Scornful sound : HUMPH
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H. G. Wells villain : MOREAU
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Four-time Australian Open winner : AGASSI
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Picasso, e.g. : CUBIST
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Recent arrival : NEWCOMER
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Personalized music gift : MIXCD
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Backyard shindig, informally : BARBQ
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Perfect score, or half of a score : TEN
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Smart remarks : WISECRACKS
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Zooey of Fox's "New Girl" : DESCHANEL
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Long, narrow pieces of luggage : SKIBAGS
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Modify : AMEND
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Where Hemingway wrote "The Old Man and the Sea" : CUBA
78
Old Chrysler : KCAR
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___ terrier : SKYE
81
Parties : DOS
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Pastor role in "There Will Be Blood" : ELI
84
Keeper of the books, for short : CPA
87
Japanese appetizer : EDAMAME
91
Lifts : HOISTS
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Everything : THELOT
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Appear that way : SEEMTO
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101 course : INTRO
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"... I'll eat ___!" : MYHAT
100
Order (around) : BOSS
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May or Bee : AUNT
102
Prevent from clumping, say : STIR
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In conclusion : ERGO
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Sway : PULL
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Random data point : BLIP
108
___ Reader : UTNE
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Powerful politico : CZAR
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With 112-Down, coupled : HAD
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See 111-Down : SEX
113
"Collage With Squares Arranged According to the Laws of Chance" artist : ARP