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NYT Crossword Answers for October 12, 2017

Thursday, October 12, 2017 · 78 clues

This page lists the NYT Crossword from Thursday, October 12, 2017: 78 clues, each with its answer behind a reveal button. For the newest puzzle, go to today's NYT Crossword answers.

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Across clues

  1. 1

    Mined

    4 letters Hints for Mined Clue page for Mined

  2. 5

    Cents

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  3. 9

    Male

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  4. 13

    Sum

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  5. 14

    Ceded

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  6. 15

    Peeks

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  7. 16

    Mustard

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  8. 18

    Whit

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  9. 19

    We

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  10. 20

    Writes

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  11. 22

    Meet

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  12. 23

    Bass

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  13. 24

    Handsome

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  14. 27

    Tale

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  15. 29

    Knows

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  16. 32

    Missal

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  17. 34

    Lickers

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  18. 36

    Sites

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  19. 38

    Clothes

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  20. 39

    Rolls

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  21. 40

    Bate

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  22. 41

    Throe

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  23. 42

    Lodes

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  24. 43

    Wring

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  25. 44

    Flour

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  26. 46

    Hoes

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  27. 48

    Blew

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  28. 49

    Hews

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  29. 51

    Sine

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  30. 53

    Re

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  31. 56

    Flea

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  32. 59

    Rhodes

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  33. 60

    Slight

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  34. 63

    Inn

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  35. 64

    Dun

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  36. 65

    Steak

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  37. 66

    Chute

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  38. 67

    Instants

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  39. 68

    Bye

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Down clues

  1. 1

    Heisman winner Newton

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  2. 2

    On

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  3. 3

    Broccoli ___

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  4. 4

    English poet Sitwell

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  5. 5

    Introspective query

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  6. 6

    Not pay attention during a lecture, say

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  7. 7

    She's sheared

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  8. 8

    ___ the Giant, first inductee in the W.W.E. Hall of Fame

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  9. 9

    It starts "On my honor, I will do my best ..."

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  10. 10

    Watson or Thompson of 2017's "Beauty and the Beast"

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  11. 11

    Diamond with 21 platinum albums

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  12. 12

    Army awards just below Medals of Honor: Abbr.

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  13. 15

    One for whom work is play?

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  14. 17

    Ones spinning webs?

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  15. 21

    Comment during bidding

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  16. 23

    Troubles with timber

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  17. 24

    Bills that one doesn't mind piling up

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  18. 25

    Believed with no questions asked

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  19. 26

    Megaphone noise

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  20. 28

    ___ Sea, body greatly diminished by Russian irrigation projects

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  21. 30

    Some works at MoMA and the Art Institute of Chicago

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  22. 31

    Big name in household appliances

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  23. 33

    160 acres per farmer, in the Homestead Act of 1862

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  24. 35

    Classical rebuke

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  25. 37

    Fast-forwarded, with "up"

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  26. 39

    Max ___, popular video game series of the 2000s

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  27. 43

    Vice president after Biden

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  28. 45

    Declaration on a Chinese menu

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  29. 47

    Grayish to yellowish brown

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  30. 50

    One who may order an operation, informally

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  31. 52

    Designer Donna

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  32. 53

    Pleased

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  33. 54

    Priest from on high?

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  34. 55

    "Are you ___ out?"

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  35. 56

    Kramer and Kramer, in "Kramer vs. Kramer"

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  36. 57

    Material for a mountain cabin

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  37. 58

    ___ James, 2008 Beyoncé role

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  38. 61

    One of the Gabors of old Hollywood

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  39. 62

    Suffix with saw

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