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New York Times, Thursday, January 9, 1997

Author:
C. Millhauser
Editor:
Will Shortz
17-Across : Class-action suit?
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Cathy Allis

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 36 Missing: {FJQWXZ} Spans: 3 This is puzzle # 29 for Ms. Allis. Thursday freshness: 0%
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© 1997, The New York Times1/9/97 ( No. 17,229 )
Across
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Catch : NAIL
5
Long Island airfield : ISLIP
10
Bureau projection : KNOB
14
Nightmarish boss : OGRE
15
Rhone feeder : SAONE
16
Actress Skye : IONE
17
Class-action suit? : TEACHINGCOSTUME
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Act gung-ho : ENTHUSE
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Dahl and Francis : ARLENES
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They may have brand identification : STEER
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Globe part : ASIA
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Kind of call : TOLL
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Magnetism : ALLURE
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"Roots," e.g. : SAGA
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Emulate Odysseus : ROAM
38
Exxon Valdez, for one : OILER
39
Playsuit? : CLUBSORDIAMONDS
42
Company that produced the game Pong : ATARI
43
Sans purpose : IDLY
44
Caricaturist Thomas : NAST
45
Send back : REMAND
47
Think of it! : IDEA
49
Owl's hangout : BARN
51
Overcharges : CLIPS
56
Follow suit : IMITATE
60
Knight's superior : BARONET
62
Trump suit? : DONSDIVORCECASE
64
Actress Baclanova of old films : OLGA
65
Soft palate : VELUM
66
Opponent : ANTI
67
Norman of sitcom fame : LEAR
68
Lift up : ELATE
69
Singer Russell of 70's music : LEON
Down
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Alumni ___ : NOTES
2
Instrument : AGENT
3
Fit to be tied : IRATE
4
Madre's milk : LECHE
5
Wife of Osiris : ISIS
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Fit to be tried : SANE
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Record : LOG
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Pizarro's conquest : INCAS
9
Bradley University site : PEORIA
10
Relative of a falcon : KITE
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You name it : NOUN
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"The joke's ___!" : ONME
13
Some parties : BEES
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Smart : HURT
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Lillehammer event : SLALOM
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Disney hit of '92 : ALADDIN
25
Treasure of the Sierra Madre : ORO
26
Loughlin of "Full House" : LORI
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Club member since 1917 : LION
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It's near the crazy bone : ULNA
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Bench's benchmates : REDS
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Formerly, once : ERST
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Traumatize : SCAR
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Adenauer moniker Der ___ : ALTE
34
"Where America's Day Begins" : GUAM
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"East of Eden" woman : ABRA
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Salsa specification : MILD
40
Storied sailor : SINBAD
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Alway : AYE
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It's a case : DATIVE
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Israeli port : ACRE
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Party : REVEL
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Neighborhood : LOCAL
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Fatuous : INANE
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Basil-based sauce : PESTO
55
Stout vessel : STEIN
56
Elvis, for one : IDOL
57
Source of a leak : MOLE
58
Actress Swenson : INGA
59
Rimsky-Korsakov's Saltan, e.g. : TSAR
60
Like some champagne : BRUT
61
Zenith : ACME
63
Commercial suffix with Motor : OLA

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