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Wednesday, 20th August 1997

There are 41 across clues and 38 down clues for the New York Times crossword on Wednesday, 20th August 1997. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Dummy
AAcross 5:	More than unpopular
AAcross 10:	Sooty shaft
AAcross 14:	Kind of sch.	ELEM
AAcross 15:	Dennis the Menace's mother	ALICE
AAcross 16:	"___ That a Shame" (1955 hit)	AINT
AAcross 17:	Lamb's alias
AAcross 18:	Superior being
AAcross 20:	Compassion
AAcross 22:	Twofold
AAcross 23:	Ballantine brew
AAcross 24:	Annoying critic
AAcross 26:	Aswan Dam lake
AAcross 28:	Pizza
AAcross 30:	Foe of the Iroquois
AAcross 31:	Quick swim
AAcross 32:	The East
AAcross 34:	As well as
AAcross 35:	Kind of situation
AAcross 39:	Absolute flop
AAcross 39:	Absolute flop
AAcross 41:	Deplete, perhaps
AAcross 43:	"___ your life!"	NOTON
AAcross 44:	Poetic preposition
AAcross 45:	Had no doubts
AAcross 46:	___ gestae
AAcross 48:	"Internal Affairs" star, 1990
AAcross 50:	"Der Ring ___ Nibelungen"
AAcross 51:	Yule garland
AAcross 54:	Talk turkey?
AAcross 56:	Mahler's homeland: Abbr.	AUS
AAcross 57:	Vow
AAcross 59:	"A Midsummer Night's Dream" king	OBERON
AAcross 62:	Word to a cold sufferer
AAcross 65:	Permitted
AAcross 66:	"Paradise Lost" setting
AAcross 67:	Clear
AAcross 68:	Michener tale, e.g.
AAcross 69:	MGM Grand site
AAcross 70:	Africa's largest nation
AAcross 71:	Proof word	ERAT
DDown 1:	Pager cue
DDown 2:	Stew crock
DDown 3:	Prevailing mood
DDown 4:	College World Series site
DDown 5:	Traditional wife
DDown 6:	R.&B. singer ___ Sure
DDown 7:	Like Grateful Dead attire	TIEDYED
DDown 8:	Beige
DDown 9:	Insist on
DDown 10:	Groupie
DDown 11:	Loeb and Bonet of showbiz	LISAS
DDown 12:	Cry of defeat
DDown 13:	Early anesthetic
DDown 19:	Julia Louis-Dreyfus TV role	ELAINE
DDown 21:	Flowery tribute
DDown 25:	Fluff
DDown 27:	Hybrid eating utensil
DDown 28:	Hock
DDown 29:	Golfer Aoki	ISAO
DDown 33:	Now, in Nogales	AHORA
DDown 36:	"Splendid!"	WUNDERBAR
DDown 37:	"Ah!"	ISEE
DDown 38:	Part of CNN
DDown 40:	Gravel order, perhaps	ONETON
DDown 41:	Nabisco sweet
DDown 42:	Prohibited
DDown 44:	Brainiac
DDown 47:	Secret Service eyewear
DDown 49:	Recede
DDown 51:	Vegas transaction
DDown 52:	___ Rivoli (arcaded Paris street)	RUEDE
DDown 53:	Ruhr city
DDown 55:	Pay for monthly
DDown 58:	Like some traffic
DDown 60:	Marathoner Markova	OLGA
DDown 61:	Tidy
DDown 63:	Lively card game	UNO
DDown 64:	"This ___ test..."	ISA

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