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New York Times, Monday, October 20, 1997

Author:
Peter Gordon
Editor:
Will Shortz
20-Across : 1996 Michael Crichton novel
TotalDebutLatest
1299/5/19899/25/2024
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941.595201125%
Peter Gordon

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 36 Missing: none – this is a pangram. Spans: 1 This is puzzle # 23 for Mr. Gordon. Monday freshness: 16%
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I
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C
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E
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S
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S
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M
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L
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L
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P
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S
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T
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O
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X
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V
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R
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T
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C
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D
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H
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H
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R
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W
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E
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T
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P
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L
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A
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Z
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E
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D
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J
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H
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R
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D
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O
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L
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I
Q
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S
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K
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B
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L
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R
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T
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V
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S
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© 1997, The New York Times10/20/97 ( No. 17,513 )
Across
1
Frosts, as a cake : ICES
5
Give off an odor : SMELL
10
"Iliad" or "Aeneid," e.g. : EPIC
14
Trig ratio : SINE
15
No-no : TABOO
16
Warrior princess of TV : XENA
17
Declare with confidence : AVER
18
TV-top antenna : RABBITEARS
20
1996 Michael Crichton novel : AIRFRAME
22
Confidential matter : SECRET
23
Skeleton's place? : CLOSET
24
Broad valleys : DALES
26
"So there!" : HAH
28
Sprinted : RAN
29
Dripping : WET
32
Town square : PLAZA
36
Genesis garden : EDEN
38
Jazzy talk : JIVE
39
Nutty thought : HAREBRAINEDIDEA
42
Tennis great Lendl : IVAN
43
Humor columnist Bombeck : ERMA
44
Harbingers : OMENS
45
Physicist's workplace : LAB
46
Mensa members have high ones : IQS
47
___-fi (book genre) : SCI
49
Rockne of Notre Dame : KNUTE
51
Once a year : ANNUAL
56
Set of advantages : UPSIDE
59
Generosity : LARGESSE
61
Beginners' skiing area : BUNNYSLOPE
63
Price : RATE
64
Actor Estrada : ERIK
65
Uses a Smith-Corona : TYPES
66
Competed : VIED
67
There are 435 in Cong. : REPS
68
Sesames, e.g. : SEEDS
69
Makes mistakes : ERRS
Down
1
Stern that works with a bow : ISAAC
2
Kind of engineer or service : CIVIL
3
Month after diciembre : ENERO
4
Feudal workers : SERFS
5
Layers : STRATA
6
Sir's counterpart : MAAM
7
Receded : EBBED
8
Arcing shot : LOB
9
Perry White was her boss : LOISLANE
10
Company V.I.P.'s : EXECS
11
Prickly ___ : PEAR
12
Legal memo starter : INRE
13
It's made of plaster of paris : CAST
19
Selective Service registrant, agewise : TEEN
21
Post-op period : REHAB
25
Sports venues : ARENAS
27
Cosmopolitan publisher : HEARST
29
Broad : WIDE
30
Like left-hand page numbers : EVEN
31
Lipton products : TEAS
32
Comedian Hartman : PHIL
33
Volcano output : LAVA
34
United ___ Emirates : ARAB
35
Kind of Buddhist : ZEN
37
Not too intelligent : DIM
38
"Huckleberry Finn" character : JIM
40
Bands take them : REQUESTS
41
Performing : DOING
46
Annual Memorial Day event : INDY
48
Gentle stroke : CARESS
49
Difficulties to be worked out : KINKS
50
Run off to the chapel : ELOPE
52
Chutzpah : NERVE
53
Pan Am rival, formerly : USAIR
54
Daisylike bloom : ASTER
55
Yorkshire city : LEEDS
56
"Deutschland ___ Alles" : UBER
57
Undiluted : PURE
58
Scissors cut : SNIP
60
Mimicked : APED
62
Soapmaker's solution : LYE

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