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New York Times: Thursday, December 31, 2015
Below is the full solution for the Thursday, December 31, 2015 New York Times crossword puzzle.
Editor:
Will Shortz
Author:
Ben Tausig
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Onetime gig for Wiig, in brief
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Onetime gig for Wiig, in brief
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Keep the sauce from congealing, say
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Keep the sauce from congealing, say
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___ Simpson
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___ Simpson
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Low note?
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Low note?
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Stash
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Stash
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Banks
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Banks
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Spider-Man's surrogate father
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Spider-Man's surrogate father
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Commercial leader?
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Commercial leader?
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Enjoy the swimsuit edition of The New England Journal of Medicine?
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Enjoy the swimsuit edition of The New England Journal of Medicine?
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Giant Manning
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Giant Manning
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Club alternative
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Club alternative
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Organization in "The Da Vinci Code"
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Organization in "The Da Vinci Code"
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Actress Gerwig of "Mistress America"
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Actress Gerwig of "Mistress America"
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"Yeah, that's the spot"
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"Yeah, that's the spot"
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Put down roots?
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Put down roots?
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Oral vote
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Oral vote
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Brief entries in an auto film festival?
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Brief entries in an auto film festival?
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Like Scotch whisky
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Like Scotch whisky
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Rib
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Rib
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Flag
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Flag
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Sickly-looking overlord?
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Sickly-looking overlord?
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Bhikkhuni
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Bhikkhuni
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Tall one
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Tall one
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Rotational speed meas.
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Rotational speed meas.
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Grilled
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Grilled
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Neither improve nor decline
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Neither improve nor decline
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Bank figure, for short
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Bank figure, for short
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Half of us?
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Half of us?
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People obsessed with being online?
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People obsessed with being online?
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Round a corner in 65-Across ... or what you must do to answer the clues for 20-, 34-, 43- and 56-Across
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Round a corner in 65-Across ... or what you must do to answer the clues for 20-, 34-, 43- and 56-Across
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Game patented December 31, 1935
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Game patented December 31, 1935
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Psychologist Pinker who wrote "How the Mind Works"
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Psychologist Pinker who wrote "How the Mind Works"
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Words of rebuke
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Words of rebuke
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Understanding
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Understanding
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What you may have with mom, dad or an overbearing boss
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What you may have with mom, dad or an overbearing boss
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Swiftly built home?
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Swiftly built home?
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Cable channel that airs "Portlandia"
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Cable channel that airs "Portlandia"
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Like an "I told you so" look
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Like an "I told you so" look
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Proscription
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Proscription
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Spanish nuts
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Spanish nuts
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Wallop
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Wallop
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Terminus of the Qingzang railway
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Terminus of the Qingzang railway
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Known to authorities
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Known to authorities
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City near Sparks
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City near Sparks
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Clutch
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Clutch
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With 10-Down, Irish draught
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With 10-Down, Irish draught
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See 9-Down
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See 9-Down
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Cosmopolitan, e.g.
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Cosmopolitan, e.g.
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Key's longtime partner in sketch comedy
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Key's longtime partner in sketch comedy
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Computer acronym since the 1960s
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Computer acronym since the 1960s
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Modern civil rights initialism
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Modern civil rights initialism
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They share the air
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They share the air
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Escort, slangily
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Escort, slangily
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Some air pollution
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Some air pollution
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Plague, with "at"
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Plague, with "at"
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1971 documentary about Ravi Shankar
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1971 documentary about Ravi Shankar
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Bridge sitter?
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Bridge sitter?
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Relative of a throw
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Relative of a throw
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Audibly floored
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Audibly floored
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Convenience partly obviated by banking apps
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Convenience partly obviated by banking apps
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"Got me now?"
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"Got me now?"
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Align
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Align
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Texting button
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Texting button
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Darer's cry
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Darer's cry
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Born on the bayou?
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Born on the bayou?
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Cause for a rescheduling
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Cause for a rescheduling
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Insignificant person
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Insignificant person
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"The choice of a new generation" sloganeer, once
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"The choice of a new generation" sloganeer, once
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Challenges for future counsel, in brief
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Challenges for future counsel, in brief
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Bajillions of years
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Bajillions of years
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Fly holder
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Fly holder
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Harbinger
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Harbinger
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Speck
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Speck
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Isao in the Golf Hall of Fame
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Isao in the Golf Hall of Fame
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Head of staff?
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Head of staff?
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Align
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Align
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"Law & Order" spinoff, familiarly
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"Law & Order" spinoff, familiarly
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"Huh, never would've figured"
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"Huh, never would've figured"
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