The Crossword Answers NYT - March 15, 2021

across

• Poet's "before" Crossword Clue

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  ERE

• Indoor animal Crossword Clue

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  PET

• "The Fox and the Grapes" storyteller Crossword Clue

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  AESOP

• Pool stick Crossword Clue

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  CUE

• ___ for tat Crossword Clue

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  TIT

• Butchers' offerings Crossword Clue

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  MEATS

• Plant bristle Crossword Clue

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  AWN

• Olla podrida, for one Crossword Clue

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  STEW

• Valuable item Crossword Clue

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  ASSET

• Vehicles on snow-covered hills Crossword Clue

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  SLEDS

• Trick-taking card game Crossword Clue

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  WHIST

• Messenger ___ Crossword Clue

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  RNA

• Hombre Crossword Clue

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  MAN

• ___ carte (ordered separately) Crossword Clue

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  ALA

• Kind of pickle Crossword Clue

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  DILL

• Conclude Crossword Clue

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  END

• Greek god of love Crossword Clue

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  EROS

• Shows mercy to Crossword Clue

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  SPARES

• Sheep's cry Crossword Clue

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  BAA

• Noah's construction Crossword Clue

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  ARK

• One of the Allman Brothers Crossword Clue

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  DUANE

• Pleased Crossword Clue

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  GLAD

• Actor Kevin whose last name shares four letters with his first Crossword Clue

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  KLINE

• Light bulb unit Crossword Clue

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  WATT

• Opening remarks Crossword Clue

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  INTRO

• Large bird of prey with a brownish-yellow neck Crossword Clue

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  GOLDENEAGLE

• Suffix with cynic or skeptic Crossword Clue

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  ISM

• Make excited, as a crowd Crossword Clue

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  FIREUP

• Blue race in "Avatar" Crossword Clue

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  NAVI

• Boringly proper Crossword Clue

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  STAID

• Away from the wind, nautically Crossword Clue

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  ALEE

• Watering place for a camel Crossword Clue

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  OASIS

• Smooshed into compact layers Crossword Clue

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  PANCAKED

• Eric Clapton hit that's over seven minutes long Crossword Clue

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  LAYLA

• Like tops and tales Crossword Clue

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  SPUN

• Speak extemporaneously Crossword Clue

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  ADLIB

• It's just a number, they say Crossword Clue

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  AGE

• Single, double and triple, on the diamond Crossword Clue

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  BASEHITS

• Envision Crossword Clue

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  SEE

• New York's Memorial ___ Kettering Cancer Center Crossword Clue

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  SLOAN

• Where you can find a 17-Across perched on an 11-Down devouring a 25-Down Crossword Clue

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  MEXICANFLAG