2 September 2007 NYT Crossword Clues

NYT Crossword Answer: 2 September 2007

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Y
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V
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Hints & Clues

Across
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Heart of a bus. district : MAINST
7
High-end watches : OMEGAS
13
Mexican state east of Veracruz : TABASCO
20
Squeezed at the ends, as leaves : OBLATE
21
Crumb catchers, often : BEARDS
22
Some unwritten rules : ORALLAW
23
Quentin Tarantino paperback about a minister's stories? : PULPITFICTION
25
Exposé : TELLALL
26
Bottom-of-letter abbr. : ENCL
27
State where Geo. W. Bush was born : CONN
28
Became fully evident : SANKIN
29
Randy Shilts exposé of an outlaw musician? : ANDTHEBANDITPLAYEDON
35
Kind of boost : EGO
36
Deborah's "The King and I" co-star : YUL
37
"My dear fellow" : SIR
38
Get out : DELE
39
Prepare to frame again, maybe : REMAT
42
Attack : RUNAT
46
Champagne grape : PINOT
50
Car introduced in 1905 : REO
51
Warning signal, once : ALARUM
53
Triangular kerchief : FICHU
55
"Just because" : NOREASON
57
Susan Howatch novel about protesting clergy? : SITINSOFTHEFATHERS
60
Rescue squad V.I.P. : EMT
61
Years ___ : AGO
62
Be down : MOPE
63
Money maker : MINT
66
63-Across device : DIE
67
Mexican Indians : OTOMIS
71
Composer Prokofiev : SERGEI
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Hardly glowing reviews : EHS
76
Disney movie with a hacker hero : TRON
78
Paraffin-wrapped cheese : EDAM
80
Old presidential inits. : RMN
81
Bad news : WOE
82
Marlo Thomas storybook for liberated vampires? : FREETOBITEYOUANDME
89
Piddling : PICAYUNE
92
"In ___" (#1 Nirvana album) : UTERO
93
Is out : SLEEPS
94
Blowup: Abbr. : ENL
95
Rye malady : ERGOT
97
One way to think : ALOUD
99
Saucy dance : SALSA
100
Love child? : EROS
102
"Frasier" role : ROZ
104
Social type : TEA
106
"And ___!" : HOW
107
Grimm Brothers story about a sorry leader, with "The"? : PITIEDPIPEROFHAMELIN
116
Medal-worthy : HEROIC
117
"I don't think so" : NOPE
118
He was chased by the Cowardly Lion : TOTO
119
Copycat : EPIGONE
121
Shakespearean play about a monarch who writes bad checks? : KITINGHENRYIV
126
Owner of a stud farm : BREEDER
127
This second : ATONCE
128
Second ___ : BANANA
129
Goes downhill : WORSENS
130
Crowds, it is said : THREES
131
One way to live transsexually : ASAMAN
Down
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Big job for a barber : MOP
2
___ Ghraib, Iraqi prison : ABU
3
"___ bite" : ILL
4
Red-___ sapsucker : NAPED
5
Be frugal : STINT
6
Peevish : TETCHY
7
Japanese band : OBI
8
Believer's goal : MECCA
9
Stationery name : EATON
10
Rat race : GRIND
11
Hunk : ADONIS
12
W-2 info: Abbr. : SSN
13
Wreck : TOTAL
14
Bowl : ARENA
15
Obstinate : BALKY
16
In something together : ALLIED
17
Doesn't just bad-mouth : SLANDERS
18
Oriole Ripken : CAL
19
Symbol of Minerva : OWL
24
Bloom of Paris : FLEUR
28
One on the fast track? : SPRINTER
29
Little League issue : AGELIMIT
30
"Don't sweat it" : NOMATTER
31
Putting all the poker chips in the pot, maybe : BLUFF
32
Line just above the total : TIP
33
Table spread : OLEO
34
City light : NEON
35
Did away with : ERASED
40
Former White House press secretary Fleischer : ARI
41
Deli order : TUNAONRYE
43
Petty peeve : NIT
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Essen exclamation : ACH
45
Joyce Carol Oates novel : THEM
47
Japanese theater : NOH
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Buried treasure : ORE
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United places : TERMINALS
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Certain NCO : MSGT
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Alien craft : UFOS
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"Take me ___ am" : ASI
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Win in a children's game : OOO
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Siamang, for one : APE
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City served by Indira Gandhi International Airport : NEWDELHI
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Hunter of literature : THOMPSON
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Transiently brilliant : METEORIC
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Union words : IDO
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"Elephant Boy" boy : SABU
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Miracle-___ : GRO
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Birds as big as people : EMUS
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Go one way, then the other : SEESAW
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One-kind connector : OFA
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Canon alternative : MITA
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Where 84-Down is: Abbr. : EUR
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Where London is: Abbr. : ENG
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No. on a business card : TEL
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Leandro's love : ERO
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"___ has no age": Picasso : YOUTH
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Grant grp. : NEA
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Least complaint : PEEP
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Cross letters : INRI
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One whose work may suit you : CLOTHIER
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Best : TOP
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Necrophobiac's fear : DEATH
101
Some war plans : SIEGES
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Climax : ZENITH
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Study in multiplication and division? : AMOEBA
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Undermine : ERODE
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"Funny Face" director Stanley : DONEN
110
Places to drop a line : PIERS
111
Chopper part : ROTOR
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Speak out : OPINE
113
Cross swords (with) : FENCE
114
Old lab burners : ETNAS
115
"___ Doone" : LORNA
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"Charlotte's Web" initials : EBW
120
Backing : PRO
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Kit ___ Club : KAT
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Kenmore alternatives : GES
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Candied vegetable : YAM
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___ quandary : INA
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Camper, e.g. : VAN