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New York Times: Wednesday, August 17, 2016
Below is the full solution for the Wednesday, August 17, 2016 New York Times crossword puzzle.
Editor:
Will Shortz
Author:
Mark McClain
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Airway or pipe
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Airway or pipe
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Gulf Coast catch
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Gulf Coast catch
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___ gen.
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___ gen.
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Part of A.D.
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Part of A.D.
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Where Caterpillar is headquartered
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Where Caterpillar is headquartered
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Carry a balance
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Carry a balance
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Intangible feeling, informally
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Intangible feeling, informally
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Cars introduced with much fanfare on "E Day"
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Cars introduced with much fanfare on "E Day"
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"I do," e.g.
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"I do," e.g.
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M # # # #
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M # # # #
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It has a 50% chance
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It has a 50% chance
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Shoppe descriptor
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Shoppe descriptor
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Composer Thomas
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Composer Thomas
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Generous
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Generous
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Like much of Montana
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Like much of Montana
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Forte, on a score
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Forte, on a score
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___-l'oeil (illusion)
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___-l'oeil (illusion)
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Opening number
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Opening number
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Sphere
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Sphere
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Dining table decorations
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Dining table decorations
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Big oaf
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Big oaf
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Fail as a night guard, say
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Fail as a night guard, say
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Traitor in the Revolutionary War
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Traitor in the Revolutionary War
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Spanish for "table"
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Spanish for "table"
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Party clothes
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Party clothes
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Gains, as in the stock market
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Gains, as in the stock market
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Punjabi for "disciple"
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Punjabi for "disciple"
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"Chocolate" dogs
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"Chocolate" dogs
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Hartford-based insurance giant
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Hartford-based insurance giant
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W # # # #
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Part of STEM: Abbr.
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Part of STEM: Abbr.
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Experience anew
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Experience anew
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Lacking slack
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Lacking slack
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Resistance unit
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Resistance unit
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Bird on a Froot Loops box
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Bird on a Froot Loops box
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___ Taft Benson (1980s-'90s Mormon leader)
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___ Taft Benson (1980s-'90s Mormon leader)
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Adversary
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Adversary
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Dismissive looks
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Dismissive looks
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Common laborer
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Common laborer
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"Affirmative, ___, I read you" (line in "2001: A Space Odyssey")
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"Affirmative, ___, I read you" (line in "2001: A Space Odyssey")
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Pioneering computer operating system
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Stock watcher's network
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Stock watcher's network
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Starting progress, metaphorically
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Starting progress, metaphorically
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Not be a tightwad
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Not be a tightwad
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Guard one's bets
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Guard one's bets
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Wine variety
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Wine variety
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States of pique
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States of pique
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Thousand G's
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Thousand G's
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T # # # #
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T # # # #
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P # # # #
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Runaway G.I.
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Seder celebrants
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What's brewing, maybe
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Santa ___ winds
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Santa ___ winds
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All fired up
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All fired up
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"I knew it all ___"
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"I knew it all ___"
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Upstanding
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Upstanding
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D # # # #
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Recital pieces
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Recital pieces
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Pianist Gilels
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Pianist Gilels
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Occupied, as a lav
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Occupied, as a lav
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"At the Milliner's" painter
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"At the Milliner's" painter
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Holy text
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Holy text
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Part of the Olympics logo
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Part of the Olympics logo
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What sorcerers practice ... or a hint to interpreting five clues in this puzzle
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What sorcerers practice ... or a hint to interpreting five clues in this puzzle
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Blunder
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Blunder
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Cacophony
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Cacophony
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One of 2,297 for Hank Aaron, in brief
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One of 2,297 for Hank Aaron, in brief
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Actor Burton
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Actor Burton
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Church chorus?
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Church chorus?
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Since
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Since
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Something you might hear in an empty building
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Something you might hear in an empty building
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Off-color, paradoxically
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Big nits
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Big nits
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Hangover feeling
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Hangover feeling
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Lead-in to zone
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Lead-in to zone
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Musial in Cooperstown
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Musial in Cooperstown
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Years and years
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