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New York Times, Tuesday, October 1, 1996

Author:
R. J. Hartman
Editor:
Will Shortz
40-Across : Man-eating giant
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Randall J. Hartman

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 40 Missing: {FJQWXZ} This is puzzle # 11 for Mr. Hartman. Tuesday freshness: 3%
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© 1996, The New York Times10/1/96 ( No. 17,129 )
Across
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Jacuzzis : SPAS
5
Box office hit : SMASH
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Man in a garden : ADAM
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Boston's Faneuil ___ : HALL
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Busch Gardens site : TAMPA
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Singer Horne : LENA
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One of the Guthries : ARLO
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Swiss mountains, to the French : ALPES
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City blight : SMOG
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What the photographer-turned-policeman said : STOPORILLSHOOT
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Indian carving : TOTEM
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Model Macpherson : ELLE
25
Compadre of Fidel : CHE
27
Years at the Sorbonne : ANS
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Cool ___ cucumber : ASA
31
Main course : ENTREE
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Kind of shelter : ANIMAL
36
P.B.A. Hall-of-Famer Anthony : EARL
37
What the sculptor-turned-policeman said : THISISABUST
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Man-eating giant : OGRE
42
Bloodhounds' trails : SPOORS
43
Kind of scream : PRIMAL
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Weep : SOB
47
Berne's river : AAR
50
Notebook divider : TAB
51
Santa ___, Calif. : ROSA
54
Way to the altar : AISLE
56
What the manicurist-turned-policeman said : PUTYOURHANDSUP
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"___ Karenina" : ANNA
61
Tricks : MAGIC
62
Tibetan priest : LAMA
63
Compote fruit : PEAR
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Awaken, as feelings : EVOKE
65
Drei minus zwei : EINS
66
Actress Raines : ELLA
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Prevent : DETER
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Skirt feature : SLIT
Down
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California peak : SHASTA
2
"9 to 5" actress : PARTON
3
Metes out : ALLOTS
4
Schussing site : SLOPE
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Twinkler : STAR
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Its capital is Bamako : MALI
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Plentiful : AMPLE
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Be in a bee : SPELL
9
Harass : HASSLE
10
Too : ALSO
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Bill Clinton, e.g. : DEMOCRAT
12
Second helping : ANOTHER
13
Oui or Us, e.g. : MAG
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Muscat resident : OMANI
22
Biddy : HEN
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Conger : EEL
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Start of a cheer : SIS
30
"Lucky Jim" author : AMIS
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Miss Trueheart : TESS
33
"Excuse me" : AHEM
34
Nile viper : ASP
35
Neighbor of Cambodia : LAOS
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Court of justice : TRIBUNAL
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Halloween cry : BOO
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Population classification : URBAN
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Choose : OPT
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Small anchor : GRAPNEL
44
Suffix with honor : ARY
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Came into view : LOOMED
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Lace into : ASSAIL
48
Diploma holders : ALUMNI
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Banquet : REPAST
52
Debonair : SUAVE
53
Underworld talk : ARGOT
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Waits at the stoplight : IDLES
57
Scarlett's home : TARA
58
Quarterback's command : HIKE
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Pete Sampras, in a way : ACER
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Huxley's "___ and Essence" : APE

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