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New York Times, Saturday, October 21, 1995

Author:
Daniel R. Stark
Editor:
Will Shortz
52-Across : Sound of a toast
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Daniel R. Stark

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 70, Blocks: 26 Missing: {JQXZ} This is puzzle # 11 for Mr. Stark. Saturday freshness: 65%
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© 1995, The New York Times10/21/95 ( No. 16,783 )
Across
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Monster slain by Bellerophon : CHIMERA
8
Couldn't get a grip : DANGLED
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Like some guests : HONORED
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Flow : EMANATE
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Relieve : ASSUAGE
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One in a dangerous school : PIRANHA
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Mini-peninsulas : SPITS
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Mekong Buddhist : LAO
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Forest nymph : DRYAD
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Fairy mound of Irish folklore : SIDH
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Not au courant : PASSE
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Rural route : LANE
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Sparklers : ICE
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Deli machines : SLICERS
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Clark of "Hee Haw" : ROY
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Lover's offering : SERENADE
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Bull's eye : MIDDLE
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More than a nuisance : BETENOIRE
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Attack : COMBAT
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Periodic oscillation : SINEWAVE
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Not seal'd : OPE
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Unclean : DEFILED
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Article for the Brothers Grimm : EIN
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5000 or Vigor, e.g. : AUDI
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Where some sleighs land : ROOFS
51
Play, in a sense : ROOM
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Sound of a toast : CLINK
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Prefix with planar or polar : UNI
55
White-leafed flower : CALLA
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More exciting : HEADIER
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Isaac Bashevis Singer novel : ENEMIES
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Importune : ENTREAT
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Rodeo gear : LARIATS
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Kind of fighter : STEALTH
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Courtside chant : DEFENSE
Down
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Frame : CHASSIS
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Pilgrim's shelter : HOSPICE
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One with privileged knowledge : INSIDER
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Spout (off) : MOUTH
5
Precambrian and others : ERAS
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Ordinary size: Abbr. : REG
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"Guys and Dolls" doll : ADELAIDE
8
Oust : DEPOSE
9
Bon or mon follower : AMI
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Plant used in ancient ointments : NARD
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Contort : GNARL
12
Whistle cord : LANYARD
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Rubbing alcohol : ETHANOL
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Dick ___, "H.M.S. Pinafore" seaman : DEADEYE
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Event in Luke, with "the" : ASCENSION
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Diner offering : PLATTER
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Heraldic furs : ERMINES
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Three-time Masters winner : SNEAD
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Begot : SIRED
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Flood's counterpart : EBB
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Drops in the morning : DEW
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Well site : OILFIELD
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Trains : COACHES
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Lavish : OPULENT
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Make peace : MEDIATE
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Kind of harp : AEOLIAN
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"By ashen roots the ___ blow": Tennyson : VIOLETS
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All together : ENMASSE
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Annual holiday, with "the" : FOURTH
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Vedic god of rain and thunder : INDRA
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Lustrous fiber : RAMIE
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Port on the Baltic : KIEL
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Publisher Bennett : CERF
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Down : EAT
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Refusal, in Renfrew : NAE

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