16 August 1998 NYT Crossword Clues

NYT Crossword Answer: 16 August 1998

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Hints & Clues

Across
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Cough medicine ingredient : IPECAC
7
Time changes? : EDITS
12
Finishes : DOESIN
18
Rachmaninoff song, with "The" : LILACS
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Earth threatener : METEOR
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Attitudinize : POSTURE
22
Duck and dodge : SKIRTTHEISSUE
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Not according to Hoyle : ILLEGAL
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He played Bob in "La Bamba" : ESAI
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Patois : ARGOT
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Mexican restaurant entree : POLLO
29
Part of NATO: Abbr. : ATL
30
Coagulation protein : FIBRIN
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Forgets one's lines, e.g. : CHOKES
34
Hunted : PREY
35
Marathoner's complaint : ACHE
38
Book end? : LET
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Danielle Steel's "Message From ___" : NAM
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Note in the B major scale : ASHARP
42
E'en if : THO
43
Warhol subject : TOMATOSOUP
46
Diner offering : OMELET
49
Receivers of children's "telephones" : TINCANS
51
Last word of the year, often : ONE
52
Beamed : LITUP
54
Wahoos of the A.C.C. : UVA
55
Logging-on requirement : USERID
56
Baseball V.I.P.'s : GMS
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Mexican beans? : PESOS
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"Abdul Abulbul ___" (1927 tune) : AMIR
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Cry of pain : YIPE
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Hard up : NEEDY
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Fryolator fill : DEEPFAT
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Place for padding or paddling : KNEE
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Like clothes at the laundromat : SPINDRIED
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Exert pressure (on) : LEAN
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Béjart of ballet : MAURICE
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Some are cheap : SEATS
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First name in 60's rock : JIMI
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Co-___ (appropriates) : OPTS
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"Demian" author : HESSE
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Fulfilled : MET
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1924 gold medal swimmer : EDERLE
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Cager Longley : LUC
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Without : MINUS
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"Meet the Press" host Russert : TIM
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Like punkies, vis-à-vis fleas : TEENIER
85
Kind of cuisine : ETHNIC
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Excalibur, e.g. : BROADSWORD
90
Minnesota twins? : ENS
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Actresses Eleniak and Alexander : ERIKAS
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Maritime inits. : USS
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Dutch piano center : EDE
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Bone: Prefix : OSTE
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Part of WATS : AREA
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Charging need : CREDIT
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Soprano Swarthout : GLADYS
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Celtic Neptune : LER
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Night: Prefix : NOCTI
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Bounce : EJECT
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Kind of radio : AMFM
109
Unoccupied : LEISURE
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Animal of American folklore : BABETHEBLUEOX
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Went wide of : AVOIDED
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Drain blocker : SLUDGE
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Very detailed : MINUTE
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Lipton competitor : NESTEA
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"See ya" : ADIOS
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Spliced, so to speak : WEDDED
Down
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They, in Calais : ILS
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Scafell ___ (highest point in England) : PIKE
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"The Whiffenpoof Song" singers : ELIS
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Wine order : CARAFE
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When Macbeth slays Duncan : ACTII
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Chicago hrs. : CST
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Professor ___ : EMERITA
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Vouchsafe : DEIGN
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"Make ___!" (captain's order) : ITSO
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Legal precedent : TESTCASE
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Trifle : SOU
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Controversial premiere of 1879, with "A" : DOLLSHOUSE
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1952 Winter Olympics site : OSLO
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When Nancy is hot : ETE
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Tchaikovsky dancers : SUGARPLUMFAIRIES
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Hot : IRATE
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Nice girl? : NELLY
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Defaulter's worry : REPO
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A lot : PILES
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Women's groups : HAREMS
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Giraffes' cousins : OKAPIS
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One with light locks : BLONDE
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WellCare, for one : HMO
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Start to mature : PRE
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One of the Near Islands : ATTU
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XXX, in a way : CHIS
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General Mills cereal : HONEYNUTCHEERIOS
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Twaddle : NONSENSE
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Gig gear : AMP
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Asian capital of 2.6 million : TAIPEI
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Best Supporting Actress of 1992 : TOMEI
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Diminutive suffix : ULE
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Lake of Geneva resort : EVIAN
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Cutting : TART
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Old yellers : CRIERS
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Lincoln in-law : TODD
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Econ. concern : GNP
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Some royal tombs : PYRAMIDS
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"2001" extras : APEMEN
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W.W. II gen. : DDE
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Skipped : ELIDED
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Shot : KAPUT
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Gone out with : SEEN
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Agenda listing : ITEMS
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Exaggerator's suffix : EST
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Lawn wrecker : MOLE
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"Crystal Silence" jazzman : CHICKCOREA
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Booed : JEERED
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Venn diagram representation : SUBSET
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Georgia was one: Abbr. : SSR
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Time to give up : LENT
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Highlands tongue : ERSE
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Year in Sylvester II's papacy : MII
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Gustatory sensor : TASTEBUD
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So far : TODATE
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"We Do Our Part" org. : NRA
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Non's opposite : OUI
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Goes back on one's word : WELCHES
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Curvilinear : ARCED
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Royal fern : OSMUND
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Poe's middle name : ALLAN
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"Somewhere in Time" star : REEVE
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Rights : DIBS
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Beginning, in slang : GETGO
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Clinton was one : YALIE
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Uncovered : NUDE
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Luke Skywalker, e.g. : JEDI
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Family troubles : FEUD
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Flyspeck : MOTE
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Canine command : SIT
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___ mort (melancholy) : ALA
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325i or Z3 : BMW
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Crossed (out) : XED