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New York Times: Tuesday, June 12, 2018
Below is the full solution for the Tuesday, June 12, 2018 New York Times crossword puzzle.
Editor:
Will Shortz
Author:
Samuel A. Donaldson,
Tracy Gray
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Crab's means of defense
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Crab's means of defense
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Tuna ___
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One wallowing in a zoo pond
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One wallowing in a zoo pond
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"That smarts!"
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"That smarts!"
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Mideast V.I.P.
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Mideast V.I.P.
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Not in a bottle or can
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Not in a bottle or can
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Zippo
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Zippo
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Soup that might have a tofu cube in it
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Soup that might have a tofu cube in it
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Gives the go-ahead
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Gives the go-ahead
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Cat burglar's shoe purchase?
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Cat burglar's shoe purchase?
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"___ Baby" ("Hair" number)
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"___ Baby" ("Hair" number)
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Zero score, in soccer
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Zero score, in soccer
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Bon ___ (witty remark)
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Bon ___ (witty remark)
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Synchronized swimmer's shoe purchase?
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Synchronized swimmer's shoe purchase?
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Tops
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Tops
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Gathering of quilters
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Gathering of quilters
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Bear that's up at night?
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Bear that's up at night?
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Raced (through)
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Raced (through)
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Used to own
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Used to own
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Fishing site
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Fishing site
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Old Icelandic saga
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Old Icelandic saga
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Newsman Donaldson
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Newsman Donaldson
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Members of all-century teams, e.g.
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Members of all-century teams, e.g.
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Event coordinator's shoe purchase?
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Event coordinator's shoe purchase?
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Apt metaphor for many a dorm room
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Apt metaphor for many a dorm room
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Klutz
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Klutz
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Greetings for the visiting team
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Greetings for the visiting team
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48
Why the buyers of 20-, 28- and 42-Across are in the shoe store?
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Why the buyers of 20-, 28- and 42-Across are in the shoe store?
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"Leave!"
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"Leave!"
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Camaro ___-Z
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Camaro ___-Z
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Word that can follow time, danger or neutral
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Word that can follow time, danger or neutral
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Loudly crying face, for one
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Loudly crying face, for one
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Lion's pride?
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Lion's pride?
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Divisible by two
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Divisible by two
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Goad
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Goad
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Buds on spuds
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Buds on spuds
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Document recorded at a government office
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Drawbacks
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Drawbacks
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Polynesian shindig
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Polynesian shindig
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Flexible, electrically
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Flexible, electrically
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"How delightful!"
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"How delightful!"
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Some nonfiction best sellers
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Some nonfiction best sellers
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Slim Shady is his alter ego
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Slim Shady is his alter ego
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Imitate Daffy Duck
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Imitate Daffy Duck
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Clobbered
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Clobbered
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Big to-do
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Big to-do
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Calligraphers' choices
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Calligraphers' choices
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Grp. that might help organize an open house
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Grp. that might help organize an open house
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Subject of hiring negotiations
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Subject of hiring negotiations
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Coin-___
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Coin-___
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"Yeah, right!"
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"Yeah, right!"
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Stuart Little and Chuck E. Cheese, for two
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Stuart Little and Chuck E. Cheese, for two
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___ Makeba, singer known as "Mama Africa"
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___ Makeba, singer known as "Mama Africa"
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Initial stages
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Initial stages
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Old Russian autocrats
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Old Russian autocrats
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Slangy question suggesting "I don't know this person"
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Slangy question suggesting "I don't know this person"
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Hang out, as laundry
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Hang out, as laundry
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"44"
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"44"
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Enlarged, as an order of fries
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Enlarged, as an order of fries
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Numbered things in a how-to manual
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Numbered things in a how-to manual
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12-minute period expanded to 30 minutes for the Super Bowl
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12-minute period expanded to 30 minutes for the Super Bowl
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Beauty spots
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Beauty spots
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Pressing concerns for astronauts?
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Pressing concerns for astronauts?
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Castle
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Castle
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Terse concession speech
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Terse concession speech
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Magnate ___ Pickens
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Magnate ___ Pickens
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Who left his home in Tucson, Arizona, in a Beatles tune
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Who left his home in Tucson, Arizona, in a Beatles tune
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Melee
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Melee
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Pirate's hideout
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Pirate's hideout
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Pants part that might be patched
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Pants part that might be patched
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Email button that's all too easy to hit by mistake
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Email button that's all too easy to hit by mistake
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"I'll be darned!"
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"I'll be darned!"
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"Holy cow!," in a text
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"Holy cow!," in a text
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Holiday quaff
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Holiday quaff
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