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Theme: Water, Water Everywhere

New York Times, Sunday, January 5, 1997

Author:
W. R. Williams
Editor:
Will Shortz
77-Across : Scotland yards?
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384/30/19943/5/1998
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Wayne Robert Williams

This puzzle:

Rows: 21, Columns: 21 Words: 134, Blocks: 65 Missing: {KQZ} This is puzzle # 33 for Mr. Williams. Sunday freshness: 94%
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© 1997, The New York Times1/5/97 ( No. 17,225 )
Across
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Blah : HOHUM
6
Airplane engines : FANJETS
13
Remind again and again of an error : RUBITIN
20
Stopped lying : AROSE
21
Get hot under the collar : STEAMUP
22
Very hot under the collar : INARAGE
23
Buck Rogers's female companion : WILMA
24
It opens with a 75-bar bassoon solo : THERITEOFSPRING
26
Poor surfer : HODAD
27
Ref. set : OED
28
Zodiac symbol : SCALES
29
Like Abner : LIL
30
"1,001 Arabian Nights" hero : ALI
31
Quills : SPINES
34
Roman way : ITER
35
Fr. religieuse : STE
36
Charged : WENTAT
39
Parade decorations : STREAMERS
41
Monumental : EPIC
42
Esophagus : GULLET
44
Completes a graveside ceremony : INTERS
45
Country singer Black : CLINT
46
Droopy-eared one : SPANIEL
48
Follow, as advice : ACTON
49
Social activities : DOINGS
50
Noted Dixieland clarinetist : PETEFOUNTAIN
52
Unequaled : ALONE
54
The sun, the moon and the stars : ORBS
55
Implant : SOW
56
Notorious London prison : NEWGATE
58
Like some stocks, for short : OTC
61
Initials on a rocket : USA
62
Rum cocktail : MAITAI
65
Circles and such : SHAPES
66
Fiesta, e.g. : CAR
67
Mystery writer Josephine : TEY
68
Italian province or its capital : LIVORNO
70
Disney deer : ENA
71
Caesar's well : BENE
72
Sitcom originally titled "These Friends of Mine" : ELLEN
73
Bouquets : FLORALSPRAYS
77
Scotland yards? : METRES
80
Corps unit : CADRE
81
Basins : MARINAS
82
Neural transmitters : AXONS
83
"Happy Days" role : CHACHI
85
Papal capes : FANONS
86
Engine stats : RPMS
87
It gives players a cushion : POOLTABLE
89
Bird calls : TWEETS
92
Meteorological datum : LOW
93
Tennis player Ramirez : RAUL
94
___ del Fuego : TIERRA
96
Bailey's bailiwick : LAW
97
"Walking on Thin Ice" singer : ONO
98
Those playing the role of Boris Godunov : BASSOS
100
Athos, to Porthos : AMI
101
Writer Rogers St. Johns : ADELA
103
Like a samaritan's help : WELLINTENTIONED
107
Tangle : RAVEL
108
Implement : ENFORCE
109
Staffing : MANNING
110
Goddess of peace : IRENE
111
Crook : STEALER
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Understanding : ENTENTE
113
Cause for an insurance claim : DENTS
Down
1
Derisive laugh : HAWHAW
2
Jim Palmer, notably : ORIOLE
3
Preventing an attack, in a way : HOLDINGATBAY
4
Cadets' inits. : USMA
5
Drink for Beowulf : MEAD
6
Camera setting : FSTOP
7
Not the prayerful sort : ATHEIST
8
"You ___ worry..." : NEEDNT
9
Clash : JAR
10
Major record co. : EMI
11
Sounds of reproof : TUTS
12
Display item : SPECIMEN
13
Ransackers : RIFLERS
14
Indy 500 family : UNSERS
15
Some Protestants: Abbr. : BAPS
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Sale item abbr. : IRR
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Pilot's nightmare : TAILSPIN
18
Firing up : IGNITING
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Overlooks : NEGLECTS
25
Gene Autry pic : OATER
31
His feast day is April 11 : STLEO
32
The unmarried woman in "An Unmarried Woman" : ERICA
33
Submitted : SENTIN
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Ditties : TUNES
38
Arabic letter : ALIF
40
Makes amends : ATONES
41
Writer Wiesel : ELIE
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Hard to describe : ELUSIVE
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Holiday decorations : CONES
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State oratorically : SPOUT
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Intrinsically : PERSE
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Fighting : ATWAR
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Show senility : DOTE
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Idle : NOTON
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Capital of Guam : AGANA
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One of the Canaries : LAPALMA
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The place : WHERE
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1960 Sinatra movie : OCEANSELEVEN
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Roberts of "Charlie's Angels" : TANYA
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Salad green : CRESS
62
Fr. girls : MLLES
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Bothers : AILS
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Actually : INFACT
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Behind the times : OLDHAT
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It gets into a pickle : BRINE
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Seabirds : ERNS
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Small African antelope : ORIBI
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Noted workshop chief : SANTA
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Ship, in poetry : PROW
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English writers Derek and Christopher : MARLOWES
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Advocate : EXPONENT
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"The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test" author : TOMWOLFE
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1974 Chicago hit : CALLONME
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Furniture protector : COASTER
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Roulette player's opponent : HOUSE
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Unrest : FERMENT
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Steed's movement : PRANCE
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Position oneself to hear better : LEANIN
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Pageant element : TALENT
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Low tracts : SWALES
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Chip feature : RIDGE
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Engage in logrolling : BIRL
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Cartoonist Drake : STAN
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Dry : ARID
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Defy : DARE
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Mauna ___ : LOA
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Bank figure: Abbr. : INT
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"___ moment" : ONE

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6 unique to this puzzle, 4 debuted here and reused later, 3 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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