23 September 2003 NYT Crossword Clues

NYT Crossword Answer: 23 September 2003

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

Hints & Clues

Across
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Sacrifices may be made with these : BUNTS
6
Social stratum : CASTE
11
Supremely softly, in music : PPP
14
Run-of-the-mill : USUAL
15
Gunning for : AFTER
16
Hindu honorific : SRI
17
Celebrated legal event of 1925 : MONKEYTRIAL
19
Hither's partner : YON
20
Tempting garden : EDEN
21
Boot camp barbering job : CREWCUT
23
Gusto : ZEST
26
"___ Cadillac" (1988 hit) : PINK
28
"I see," facetiously : AHSO
29
Lucy's landlady : ETHEL
31
Spots on dresses : POLKADOTS
34
Makes up (for) : ATONES
36
Rouen's river : SEINE
37
Perry Mason's field : LAW
38
Initially : ATFIRST
40
Sugar Ray stats : KOS
43
Close, of yore : ANEAR
44
"That's that" : SOBEIT
46
Baggie binders : TWISTTIES
50
Mrs. Doubtfire, for one : NANNY
51
Final Four game : SEMI
52
Onion's kin : LEEK
54
Coupler : YOKE
55
Patio grill : HIBACHI
58
Certain plastic : VISA
60
Choler : IRE
61
It delivered in the Old West : PONYEXPRESS
66
Nutritional abbr. : RDA
67
"Ragged Dick" author : ALGER
68
Uncanny : EERIE
69
Young 'un : TOT
70
Methods: Abbr. : SYSTS
71
Hint to the start of 17-, 31-, 46- and 61-Across : DANCE
Down
1
No-goodnik : BUM
2
G.I. morale booster : USO
3
Mother Teresa, for one : NUN
4
"It's break time!" : TAKETEN
5
Coaster : SLED
6
Feline fancy : CATNIP
7
Congo's continent: Abbr. : AFR
8
Perfectionist : STICKLER
9
Spree : TEAR
10
___ Stanley Gardner : ERLE
11
Hitchcock classic : PSYCHO
12
French novelist Marcel : PROUST
13
Painted ponies : PINTOS
18
"You betcha!" : YEP
22
Walk in water : WADE
23
Gusto : ZEAL
24
Blues singer James : ETTA
25
Air : SHOW
27
"Over my dead body!" : NOSIREE
30
Tilted, once : LEANT
32
Part of S.W.A.K. : KISS
33
Playwright Chekhov : ANTON
35
Galley notation : STET
39
Personal faults : FAILINGS
40
Gambling game : KENO
41
Sow's squeal : OINK
42
Eyelid infection : STYE
43
Laos's locale : ASIA
45
San Francisco, Oakland, etc. : BAYAREA
46
Casual top : TSHIRT
47
Oddball : WEIRDO
48
Pooped person's plaint : IMBEAT
49
Cuts off : SEVERS
53
General Mills cereal : KIX
56
Number crunchers, for short : CPAS
57
"O ___ Night" : HOLY
59
Hightailed it : SPED
62
"Are we there ___?" : YET
63
Suffix with west : ERN
64
[as printed] : SIC
65
Get the picture : SEE