17 August 2016 NYT Crossword Clues

NYT Crossword Answer: 17 August 2016

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D
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U
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C
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T
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S
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H
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R
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I
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M
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P
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M
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A
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J
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A
N
N
O
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P
E
O
R
I
A
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O
W
E
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V
I
B
E
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E
D
S
E
L
S
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V
O
W
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E
X
C
H
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A
N
G
E
S
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T
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A
I
L
S
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O
L
D
E
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A
R
N
E
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A
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M
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P
L
E
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S
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E
M
I
A
R
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I
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D
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L
O
U
D
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T
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R
O
M
P
E
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O
N
E
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O
R
B
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D
O
I
L
I
E
S
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L
U
G
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N
A
P
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A
R
N
O
L
D
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M
E
S
A
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G
L
A
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D
R
A
G
S
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R
I
S
E
S
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S
I
K
H
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L
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A
B
S
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A
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E
T
N
A
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B
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L
E
M
I
S
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H
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E
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S
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S
C
I
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R
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E
L
I
V
E
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T
A
U
T
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O
H
M
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T
O
U
C
A
N
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E
Z
R
A
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F
O
E
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S
N
E
E
R
S
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P
E
O
N

Hints & Clues

Across
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Airway or pipe : DUCT
5
Gulf Coast catch : SHRIMP
11
___ gen. : MAJ
14
Part of A.D. : ANNO
15
Where Caterpillar is headquartered : PEORIA
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Carry a balance : OWE
17
Intangible feeling, informally : VIBE
18
Cars introduced with much fanfare on "E Day" : EDSELS
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"I do," e.g. : VOW
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M # # # # : EXCHANGES
22
It has a 50% chance : TAILS
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Shoppe descriptor : OLDE
25
Composer Thomas : ARNE
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Generous : AMPLE
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Like much of Montana : SEMIARID
33
Forte, on a score : LOUD
34
___-l'oeil (illusion) : TROMPE
36
Opening number : ONE
37
Sphere : ORB
38
Dining table decorations : DOILIES
39
Big oaf : LUG
40
Fail as a night guard, say : NAP
41
Traitor in the Revolutionary War : ARNOLD
42
Spanish for "table" : MESA
43
Party clothes : GLADRAGS
45
Gains, as in the stock market : RISES
46
Punjabi for "disciple" : SIKH
47
"Chocolate" dogs : LABS
49
Hartford-based insurance giant : AETNA
51
W # # # # : BLEMISHES
56
Part of STEM: Abbr. : SCI
57
Experience anew : RELIVE
59
Lacking slack : TAUT
60
Resistance unit : OHM
61
Bird on a Froot Loops box : TOUCAN
62
___ Taft Benson (1980s-'90s Mormon leader) : EZRA
63
Adversary : FOE
64
Dismissive looks : SNEERS
65
Common laborer : PEON
Down
1
"Affirmative, ___, I read you" (line in "2001: A Space Odyssey") : DAVE
2
Pioneering computer operating system : UNIX
3
Stock watcher's network : CNBC
4
Starting progress, metaphorically : TOEHOLD
5
Not be a tightwad : SPEND
6
Guard one's bets : HEDGE
7
Wine variety : ROSE
8
States of pique : IRES
9
Thousand G's : MIL
10
T # # # # : PASTRIES
11
P # # # # : MOVIEROLES
12
Runaway G.I. : AWOL
13
Seder celebrants : JEWS
21
What's brewing, maybe : ALE
23
Santa ___ winds : ANA
25
All fired up : AMPED
26
"I knew it all ___" : ALONG
27
Upstanding : MORAL
28
D # # # # : PUBPASTIME
29
Recital pieces : SOLOS
30
Pianist Gilels : EMIL
31
Occupied, as a lav : INUSE
32
"At the Milliner's" painter : DEGAS
34
Holy text : TORAH
35
Part of the Olympics logo : RING
38
What sorcerers practice ... or a hint to interpreting five clues in this puzzle : DARKARTS
42
Blunder : MISSTEP
44
Cacophony : DIN
45
One of 2,297 for Hank Aaron, in brief : RBI
47
Actor Burton : LEVAR
48
Church chorus? : AMENS
49
Since : ASOF
50
Something you might hear in an empty building : ECHO
51
Off-color, paradoxically : BLUE
52
Big nits : LICE
53
Hangover feeling : HAZE
54
Lead-in to zone : EURO
55
Musial in Cooperstown : STAN
58
Years and years : EON