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TurnARounds

New York Times, Sunday, October 21, 2001

Author:
Robert H. Wolfe
Editor:
Will Shortz
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Robert H. Wolfe

This puzzle:

Rows: 21, Columns: 21 Words: 140, Blocks: 73 Missing: {JQZ} This is puzzle # 50 for Mr. Wolfe. Sunday freshness: 56%
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© 2001, The New York Times10/21/1 ( No. 18,975 )
Across
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Pop music's Salt-N-___ : PEPA
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One experienced with running : POL
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It parallels a radius : ULNA
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Shield : DEFEND
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Writer LeShan and others : EDAS
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Like bronze or tin : RUSTPROOF
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Certain ticket request : ONEWAY
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Daredevil's desire : RISK
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Requesting shipments in wooden containers? : ORDERINGALACRATE
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Rips out basting : UNSEWS
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Meets : RISESTO
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Hidden : INNER
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Venerable scholar of old England : BEDE
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Artist Gustave : DORE
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Kind of room : MENS
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Germinate : BUD
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Chain hotel in Madrid? : SPANISHRAMADA
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Capital of Switzerland? : ESS
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Scrap : ORT
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1970's Tony Musante series : TOMA
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Old Germans : TEUTONS
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Certain sweater, informally : CREW
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"Disgusting!" : UGH
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Chopin piece : ETUDE
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Dame ___ : EDNA
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Classic 1953 27-Down : SHANE
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Monastic sites? : THEFRAPAVILIONS
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Biggest employer in Marysville, Ohio : HONDA
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Keg stopper : BUNG
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Addition column : TENS
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Be careful : LOOKOUT
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Captain in "Billy Budd" : VERE
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Good lookers : EYERS
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Bittern, e.g. : HERON
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1960's espionage show : ISPY
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Dissect, British-style : ANALYSE
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Fifth canonical hour : NONE
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Word before "sweet land of liberty" : THEE
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Marker : STELE
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Supporter of sewer dwellers? : PATRONOFTHERATS
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Philly player : SIXER
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Knee-slapper : HOOT
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Inveigled : LURED
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Bill blocker : NAY
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U.S.M.A. part: Abbr. : ACAD
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Contract parts : CLAUSES
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Utah's ___ Canyon : SEGO
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Babel : DIN
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Space craft : LEM
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Actor Pitt selling cosmetics? : THEBRADOFAVON
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One hopes for this in an I.C.U. : TLC
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Cut short, maybe : CROP
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Popular musical based on a Paul Gallico story : LILI
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Spillane's "___ Jury" : ITHE
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Easy gait : AMBLE
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Mysteries : ENIGMAS
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Looks down on : SCORNS
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Butting heads, charging other sheep, etc.? : STRONGRAMTACTICS
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Taunted : RODE
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Chairman's need : AGENDA
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Part of a demonstration : PROTESTER
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Actresses Murray and Clark : MAES
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Just out : NEWEST
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Cong. period : SESS
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Sturdy pad : SOS
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Basic French verb : ETRE
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Home of the writer Mario Vargas Llosa : PERU
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Castle Rock site : EDINBURGH
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Was OK'd by Playtex? : PASSEDTHEBRAEXAM
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Solicited : ASKED
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Masters : PROS
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Tommy Dorsey's "___ Love" : OUR
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It can have you seeing things : LSD
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"A God in Ruins" novelist : URIS
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Unattended : LONE
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Thick drinks : NOGS
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"... to buy ___ pig" : AFAT
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1988 Dennis Quaid film : DOA
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Live oak : ENCINA
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Flowerless plants : FERNS
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McGregor of "The Phantom Menace" : EWAN
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"Big ___" (comic strip) : NATE
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Salon worker : DYER
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___ Clark who sang "Poor, Poor Pitiful Me" : TERRI
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Druid, e.g. : PRIEST
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"Death of a Salesman" salesman : LOMAN
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See 53-Across : WESTERN
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Block : DAMUP
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Out at the prom, maybe : ONADATE
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Publishers' hirees, for short : EDS
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Spell : BOUT
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Soups : POTAGES
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Scoundrels : HEELS
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1970's A's All-Star Joe : RUDI
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___ time : ATNO
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Complain : MOAN
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Specialty in history as well as medicine? : ERANOSEANDTHROAT
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Parody : SENDUP
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Like gym clothes : SWEATY
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More stifling : CHOKIER
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Anytime : EVER
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Premium channel: Abbr. : SHO
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Filled up : FUELLED
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Office-holders : INS
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Traffic caution : SLO
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Busy : ONTHEGO
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Subordinate : VASSAL
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Inveigle : ENTICE
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"Uh-huh" : YEP
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Baby cake : HON
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Form of acetylacetone : ENOL
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Nyet, e.g. : REFUSAL
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"___ out!" : YER
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Prominent : NOTED
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Pleasure-seeking : HEDONIC
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Fictional hunter : AHAB
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Period of duty : TOUR
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Santa ___ : ROSA
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Fountain name : TREVI
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Worst lagger in a race : TAILENDER
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Together, after "in" : SYNC
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Comic Margaret : CHO
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Pariah : LEPER
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Relief : SOLACE
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Futurists' focus : TRENDS
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Some boxes are made with them : FISTS
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Copy : CLONE
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"Careless Hands" singer, 1949 : TORME
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Simile center : ASAN
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Number of points?: Abbr. : MTGE
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Concoct : BREW
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Down times : NAPS
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Nagy of Hungary : IMRE
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Mustang racers, once? : GTOS
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"Welcome" sights : MATS
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Bygone pol. units : SSRS
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Zaire's Mobutu ___ Seko : SESE
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Hood's arm : GAT
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"___ time" : ITS
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AT&T has one : CEO

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