12 August 2007 NYT Crossword Clues

NYT Crossword Answer: 12 August 2007

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Q
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Hints & Clues

Across
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Illustrious : SHINING
8
She wrote "Under the Sign of Saturn" : SONTAG
14
Body of precepts : ETHIC
19
Dow product : CHEMICAL
20
Country whose leader has competed in five Winter Olympics : MONACO
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Part of U.R.I. : RHODE
22
Tarot reading, crystals, spiritualism, etc. : NEWAGEMOVEMENTS
24
Arrive : GETIN
25
Jack who played a sawmill worker in "Twin Peaks" : NANCE
26
Mourn audibly : WEEP
27
"___ yellow ribbon ..." : TIEA
29
U.S.N. noncoms : CPOS
30
Wheel on a spur : ROWEL
33
Traditional English festival : HARVESTHOME
36
Caladryl: itch :: Bengay : ___ : ACHE
40
Partner of music : WORDS
42
Charlotte who played Mrs. Garrett on TV : RAE
43
Gaits out of the gate : TROTS
44
Little John's weapon in Robin Hood legend : QUARTERSTAFF
47
You are: Sp. : ERES
48
Does some file transfers : UPLOADS
49
Break-even enterprise : WASH
51
Basic way up a slope : ROPETOW
55
Comparable to a fiddle : ASFIT
56
Bootlicker : TOADY
59
You might play something by it : EAR
61
A current flows into it : ANODE
62
___-deucy (game with dice) : ACEY
64
Brooke Shields movie, with "The" : BLUELAGOON
67
Bit of a snicker : TEE
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Alma mater for Carol Burnett and Jim Morrison: Abbr. : UCLA
70
Keyboard instruments : MOOGS
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Some contraband : IVORY
73
Fish that migrates from seawater to freshwater and back : SHAD
74
Playmate of Piglet : ROO
75
Its roar is worse than its bite : PAPERTIGER
77
It may be waved at the Olympics : EPEE
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Learning level : GRADE
81
Language suffix : ESE
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Overdone : BANAL
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One of the Spice Girls and namesakes : EMMAS
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Northernmost borough of London : ENFIELD
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Well-planned : NEAT
91
Elongated marine fish : EELPOUT
93
Biathlon needs : SKIS
94
Dinner bun : CRESCENTROLL
97
Exempli gratia, e.g. : LATIN
99
Abbr. on Rockies skeds : MST
101
"Pride and Prejudice" beau : DARCY
102
Root canal, in dentist-speak : ENDO
103
Hair removal site : WAXINGSALON
106
Composer Franz : LEHAR
108
Seed cover : ARIL
109
Mrs. Chaplin : OONA
110
Egg : OVUM
112
"South Pacific" role : EMILE
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Nabisco's ___ wafers : NILLA
119
1987 Kubrick film : FULLMETALJACKET
123
Longtime Chicago mayor : DALEY
124
Capital of France's Aube department : TROYES
125
"Ta-ta" : TOODLEOO
126
Show awe, in a way : STARE
127
Fix firmly : CEMENT
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Like a paradise : ELYSIAN
Down
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Attorney William after whom a stadium is named : SHEA
2
Given the ax? : HEWN
3
Apple on a teacher's desk? : IMAC
4
Neighbor of Chad : NIGER
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Sculpting medium : ICE
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Sen. John Kerry served there : NAM
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Sullen looks : GLOWERS
8
Bob Hoskins's role in "Hook" : SMEE
9
Zip : OOMPH
10
Salem-to-Portland dir. : NNE
11
Spiritual path in Hinduism : TANTRA
12
Off the injured list : ACTIVE
13
Start of a referral : GOSEE
14
Work unit : ERG
15
Chaim Potok novel : THECHOSEN
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Family-style Asian dish : HOTPOT
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See red, talk a blue streak, etc. : IDIOMS
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Perfume, in a way : CENSE
19
Where Bernard Shaw was an anchor for 21 yrs. : CNN
23
African grassland : VELDT
28
Space City baseballer : ASTRO
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Had a bill, still : OWED
32
Most base : WORST
34
Pound sounds : ARFS
35
Boring tool : TREPAN
36
Greenish-blue : AQUA
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Tarot suit : CUPS
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Proverbial portion : HALFALOAF
39
Beethoven's Third : EROICA
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Carpentry byproduct : SAWDUST
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London gallery : TATE
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Alice of "Hollywood Cavalcade" : FAYE
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What "[sic]" may signify : ERROR
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Paradise : HEAVEN
52
Ralph Kramden catchphrase on old TV ... and a hint to this puzzle's theme : TOTHEMOON
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Ancient theaters : ODEA
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Dandelion or goldenrod, e.g. : WEED
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They're blown in the winds : OBOES
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Nelson ___, author of "The Man With the Golden Arm" : ALGREN
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Old Greek market : AGORA
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Singer Sumac : YMA
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Tied surgically : LIGATED
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Santana's "___ Como Va" : OYE
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Press : URGE
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Base of some ethanol : CORN
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Opinion pieces : OPEDS
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Always: It. : SEMPRE
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Quickly check (on) : PEEKIN
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Certain girder : IBAR
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Trapper's prize : PELT
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Hiram Walker, for one : DISTILLER
83
Parasite : LEECH
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"Should ___ acquaintance be forgot ..." : AULD
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French town on the Vire : STLO
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Jive, e.g. : LINGO
90
Outer: Prefix : ECTO
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Singer with the double-platinum album "The Memory of Trees" : ENYA
95
French greeting : SALUT
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Burn at the end? : CREMATE
97
Dogie catcher : LARIAT
98
Underarm : AXILLA
99
Garden fertilizer : MANURE
100
Zigzag, in a way : SLALOM
103
Airport screening equipment : WANDS
104
Centaur's head? : SOFTC
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The "Claudius" in Tiberius Claudius Nero : NOMEN
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Page-turners are good ones : READS
111
Life ___ : VEST
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Mid 12th-century date : MCLI
114
Swedish retail giant : IKEA
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Province NW of Madrid : LEON
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W.W. II arena : ETO
118
"___, captain!" : AYE
120
Alkali in cleansers : LYE
121
Response to a funny text : LOL
122
Procter & Gamble detergent : JOY