New York Times Answers - Wednesday, 23rd December 2009

There are 30 across clues and 48 down clues for the New York Times crossword on Wednesday, 23rd December 2009. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	"I dare you"	JUSTTRYME
AAcross 10:	The Hawks of the Atlantic 10 conference, informally	STJOE
AAcross 15:	This very moment	ASWESPEAK
AAcross 16:	Conscious
AAcross 17:	1970 Santana hit	BLACKMAGICWOMAN
AAcross 19:	Orch. section	STR
AAcross 20:	It might pass une loi	SENAT
AAcross 21:	Reuters competitor	UPI
AAcross 22:	Tiny recipe amount	ADASH
AAcross 26:	Idol worshiper?
AAcross 28:	Kind of pit, briefly	BARBQ
AAcross 31:	Burgundy or Chablis
AAcross 32:	Evidence in the Watergate scandal	WHITEHOUSETAPES
AAcross 39:	"Without ___, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable": Shaw
AAcross 40:	Instantly fry
AAcross 41:	In vitro cells
AAcross 42:	Macho types	REDBLOODEDMALES
AAcross 49:	Lone Star State cowboy
AAcross 49:	Lone Star State cowboy
AAcross 50:	Trekkies' genre	SCIFI
AAcross 51:	Impulsively	ONAWHIM
AAcross 55:	Medical insurance portion of Medicare	PARTB
AAcross 58:	Extinct cousin of the kiwi
AAcross 59:	Break point score, perhaps	ADOUT
AAcross 62:	Artist Lichtenstein	ROY
AAcross 64:	Varying wildly	ALLOVERTHEPLACE
AAcross 69:	Misanthrope
AAcross 70:	Part of a postal address for Disneyland	ANAHEIMCA
AAcross 71:	+ end
AAcross 72:	Answer to an old riddle alluded to by the starts of 17-, 32-, 42- and 64-Across
DDown 1:	Pointed criticisms
DDown 2:	Org. that used to bring people to court?	USLTA
DDown 3:	Stretch of grass
DDown 4:	Sam Spade type
DDown 5:	"Uh-uh, bad!"
DDown 6:	Tach reading
DDown 7:	Votes for
DDown 8:	Gandalf, for one
DDown 9:	Barely making (out)
DDown 10:	Took care of business	SAWTOIT
DDown 11:	See 32-Down
DDown 12:	Become blocked	JAMUP
DDown 13:	Animal with striped legs
DDown 14:	Start of a counting rhyme	EENIE
DDown 18:	Have turkey-serving duty, say
DDown 23:	U.S. dance grp.	ABT
DDown 24:	It facilitates replying to a MS.
DDown 25:	Buckingham Palace letters	HRH
DDown 27:	Article in El Mundo	UNA
DDown 29:	Schmo
DDown 30:	Campus areas
DDown 32:	Card game for 11-Down
DDown 33:	Onetime realm of central Eur.	HRE
DDown 34:	"___ be an honor"	ITD
DDown 35:	A writer may work on it
DDown 36:	Washington pro
DDown 37:	Christmas ___
DDown 38:	Carrier to Copenhagen
DDown 43:	"Oh yeah ...," in a text message	BTW
DDown 44:	France's second-busiest port
DDown 45:	Nitrous ___
DDown 46:	Brief swim
DDown 47:	Design deg.
DDown 48:	Lungful
DDown 51:	1935 Triple Crown horse
DDown 52:	Christopher who directed "The Dark Knight"	NOLAN
DDown 53:	Finnish architect Alvar ___
DDown 54:	Erin of "Happy Days"	MORAN
DDown 56:	Charlie Chaplin persona
DDown 57:	Ball-rolling game
DDown 60:	___ Reader	UTNE
DDown 61:	Midwinter phenomenon, sometimes
DDown 63:	Strangely, it's shorter than a day on Venus
DDown 65:	Orthographer's ref.
DDown 65:	Orthographer's ref.
DDown 66:	Frequent Canadian interjections
DDown 67:	Vim
DDown 68:	___ Fáil, Irish coronation stone	LIA