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Sunday, 20th December 1987

There are 83 across clues and 87 down clues for the New York Times crossword on Sunday, 20th December 1987. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Edible pod
AAcross 5:	Astronomer Brahe	TYCHO
AAcross 10:	Like Joe Greene
AAcross 14:	Accumulate rapidly
AAcross 19:	Dupe
AAcross 20:	Kind of duck or grass	BAHAMA
AAcross 22:	Corkwood
AAcross 23:	Capital of ancient Ethiopia	MEROE
AAcross 24:	Richard Roberts's father
AAcross 25:	Keglers make them
AAcross 26:	Throw forth
AAcross 27:	Japanese P.M.: 1978-80	OHIRA
AAcross 28:	Gallimaufries
AAcross 30:	Monkeyshine
AAcross 31:	Inc. relative
AAcross 32:	Demeaned
AAcross 33:	Watchful ones
AAcross 35:	Hawkins and Thompson	SADIES
AAcross 38:	Closet articles
AAcross 39:	City NW of Arnhem	EDE
AAcross 40:	___ Salaam, capital of Tanzania
AAcross 41:	Nicolás, e.g.
AAcross 42:	Drag
AAcross 44:	Like the tropics
AAcross 45:	Himalayan hulk
AAcross 52:	Backslides
AAcross 55:	Korean seaport
AAcross 57:	Boat in "Jaws"
AAcross 58:	Toy that made a comeback?
AAcross 59:	Moonfish
AAcross 60:	Attain
AAcross 61:	Pules
AAcross 63:	Heads-up
AAcross 64:	Field game
AAcross 65:	Sawfly's saw
AAcross 66:	Double-edged dagger
AAcross 67:	Penitent
AAcross 68:	Selective
AAcross 70:	She sang "Poetry Man"	PHOEBESNOW
AAcross 73:	Chilled dessert
AAcross 74:	Psyched-up
AAcross 75:	Oola's Alley
AAcross 76:	Unsheathed
AAcross 78:	Do a tinker's job
AAcross 81:	Mary Mapes Dodge poem
AAcross 85:	Petalous ornaments
AAcross 89:	Make feasible
AAcross 90:	Towering
AAcross 91:	Isotopes
AAcross 93:	Wagnerian solo, to Wagner	ARIE
AAcross 94:	Wends
AAcross 95:	"Jude the Obscure" novelist
AAcross 97:	Take flight to unite
AAcross 98:	Aphrodite's mother	DIONE
AAcross 99:	Pres. Carter's birthday	OCTI
AAcross 100:	Devitalizes
AAcross 101:	Jacopo Peri work
AAcross 102:	Defeat decisively	SNOWUNDER
AAcross 103:	Yuletide gift from Berlin	WHITECHRISTMAS
AAcross 107:	Some museum unveilings
AAcross 109:	Billionth: Comb. form	NANO
AAcross 110:	Orinoco tributary	ARO
AAcross 111:	Chewing leaf
AAcross 112:	Watering place
AAcross 115:	Whittier poem
AAcross 119:	Crusader Carry
AAcross 122:	___ grises (confidential agents)
AAcross 124:	___ Christi
AAcross 125:	Pound sound
AAcross 126:	Matriculate
AAcross 128:	Mends argyles
AAcross 129:	___ poley: Var.	ROLEY
AAcross 130:	Principled
AAcross 132:	Request to a mystery guest
AAcross 134:	Silent actor
AAcross 135:	Peerless
AAcross 136:	Fumble for
AAcross 137:	Allergic symptom
AAcross 138:	"My People" author	EBAN
AAcross 139:	Stoops
AAcross 140:	Numerous
AAcross 141:	Start
AAcross 142:	Headway
DDown 1:	Bird of Baffin Bay
DDown 2:	Inverted a stitch
DDown 3:	May or Malbin	ELAINE
DDown 4:	Apportion
DDown 5:	Recipe abbr.	TBS
DDown 6:	Chatterboxes
DDown 7:	"Strangers and Brothers" novelist
DDown 8:	Plague
DDown 9:	Foreboding
DDown 10:	Gibson is one
DDown 11:	Avoid adroitly
DDown 12:	Cerastes
DDown 13:	Actor Pendleton
DDown 14:	Vehicle with runners
DDown 15:	"Borstal Boy" author	BEHAN
DDown 16:	Crop up
DDown 17:	"Two Women" star
DDown 18:	Shepherds
DDown 21:	Queries
DDown 22:	Hag
DDown 29:	Moves like a rattler
DDown 32:	Spurious wing
DDown 34:	Dumfries denials	NAES
DDown 36:	" . . . unto us ___ is given"	ASON
DDown 37:	What Scrooge learned to do
DDown 43:	"Sesame Street" teachings
DDown 43:	"Sesame Street" teachings
DDown 44:	Nonburrowing hare
DDown 45:	Tin Pan Alley org.	ASCAP
DDown 46:	Ebenezer's exclamation
DDown 47:	Racket
DDown 48:	Australian Alps range	SNOWYMOUNTAINS
DDown 49:	Soughs
DDown 50:	Lew in "Holiday"
DDown 51:	Our, to Père Noël	NOTRE
DDown 52:	Dramatist de Vega
DDown 53:	Rev.	APOC
DDown 54:	Lose strength
DDown 56:	Pol. union of 1958	UAR
DDown 60:	The real Lone Ranger
DDown 61:	___ de Chine
DDown 62:	Kid
DDown 63:	Vt. ski resort
DDown 65:	Gawk
DDown 66:	Off the wall
DDown 67:	Pile up
DDown 69:	Does some wallboard work
DDown 71:	Gray with age
DDown 72:	Fragrant windflowers	SNOWDROPANEMONES
DDown 77:	Lateran's locale
DDown 78:	Seminate anew
DDown 79:	Methuselah's father	ENOCH
DDown 80:	___-colored (variegated)
DDown 82:	An Iranian language
DDown 83:	Cover
DDown 84:	Garage goings-on
DDown 86:	Moved on foot
DDown 87:	"___ Nacht in Venedig": Strauss
DDown 88:	Soothsayer
DDown 92:	Rocky pinnacle
DDown 95:	Nobelist chemist: 1944
DDown 96:	Raggedy Ann wears one
DDown 97:	M.P.G.-rating org.
DDown 97:	M.P.G.-rating org.
DDown 98:	Fenced, but not for fun
DDown 100:	Gobs
DDown 101:	Melville's second book	OMOO
DDown 102:	British statesman: 1864-1937	SNOWDEN
DDown 104:	Bored ones	ENNUYES
DDown 105:	Despot's province
DDown 106:	Paltry matter
DDown 108:	Employ
DDown 111:	Effie Klinker's creator
DDown 112:	Author
DDown 113:	Author
DDown 114:	Concurrence
DDown 115:	Specially equipped railroad car	SNOWCRAB
DDown 116:	English mathematician: 1815-64
DDown 117:	Acrylic fiber
DDown 118:	Topple
DDown 120:	A brother of Miriam
DDown 121:	Suffix for peaceful
DDown 123:	Christened
DDown 127:	Child, in Cádiz	NINO
DDown 130:	Leo the Lion's co.	MGM
DDown 131:	"___ pro nobis"
DDown 133:	Trawl

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