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New York Times: Wednesday, December 24, 1997
Below is the full solution for the Wednesday, December 24, 1997 New York Times crossword puzzle.
Editor:
Will Shortz
Author:
Nancy S. Ross
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They're found on gift tags
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Telephone device
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Telephone device
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Killer whale
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Killer whale
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Unanimously
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Unanimously
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Mine, to Manet
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Mine, to Manet
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What some vacationers do
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What some vacationers do
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Seasonal accomplishment #1
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Seasonal accomplishment #1
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Duration
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Duration
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Med students' studies
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Med students' studies
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Sports event
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Sports event
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"Inside Politics" broadcaster
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"Inside Politics" broadcaster
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Seasonal accomplishment #2
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Seasonal accomplishment #2
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Book before Joel: Abbr.
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Book before Joel: Abbr.
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One of the Churchills
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One of the Churchills
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Medicinal plant
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Medicinal plant
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Musical composition suffix
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Gibbs of country music
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Gibbs of country music
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Geom. shape
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Geom. shape
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Loamy soil deposit
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Loamy soil deposit
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Long times
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Long times
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Small: Suffix
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Small: Suffix
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Seasonal accomplishment #3
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Seasonal accomplishment #3
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Harvardite's rival
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Harvardite's rival
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"That's a ___!"
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"That's a ___!"
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Dives
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Dives
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Blazing
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Blazing
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Advice to the accomplisher
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Advice to the accomplisher
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Seed covering
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Seed covering
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View from Taormina
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View from Taormina
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Wife of two Forsytes, in "The Forsyte Saga"
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Wife of two Forsytes, in "The Forsyte Saga"
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Yarn
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Yarn
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NCO
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NCO
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Bus. subordinates
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Salt
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Salt
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1975 Wimbledon winner
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Literary time of day
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Elgar's "___ Variations"
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Elgar's "___ Variations"
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Sonnet endings
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Sonnet endings
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Gridlock
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Gridlock
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"It's ___ world": Dickens
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"It's ___ world": Dickens
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"___ fan tutte"
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"___ fan tutte"
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Cousin of camp
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Cousin of camp
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Showy-flowered shrub
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Showy-flowered shrub
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Shad delicacies
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Shad delicacies
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Help for Nancy Drew
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Help for Nancy Drew
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Locale of the world's longest road tunnel
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Locale of the world's longest road tunnel
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Locale in a Dr. Seuss title
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Locale in a Dr. Seuss title
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Descartes and Magritte
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Descartes and Magritte
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Pawed
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Pawed
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Have puppies
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Have puppies
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Kind of blade
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Kind of blade
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Lauder of cosmetics
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Lauder of cosmetics
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Nostrils
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Nostrils
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Cast
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Cast
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Get the better of
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Get the better of
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Sibling of a mère or père
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Sibling of a mère or père
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Ranked
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Ranked
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Make a crowd
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Make a crowd
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Encroachment
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Encroachment
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Center of a 1965 voter registration drive
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Center of a 1965 voter registration drive
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Iced drink
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Iced drink
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Clan members
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Clan members
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Gondoliers
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Gondoliers
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Academic rite of passage: Abbr.
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Bit of Euromoney
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Bit of Euromoney
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Monopoly purchase: Abbr.
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Monopoly purchase: Abbr.
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Times Square sign
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Times Square sign
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Caroled
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Caroled
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Pub quaffs
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Pub quaffs
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Fly off the handle
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Fly off the handle
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Donald and Ivana, e.g.
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Donald and Ivana, e.g.
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Cole who sang "The Christmas Song"
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Cole who sang "The Christmas Song"
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