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Round Robin

New York Times, Sunday, October 29, 1995

Author:
Maura B. Jacobson
Editor:
Will Shortz
118-Across : Govt. disaster-aid inits.
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Maura B. Jacobson

This puzzle:

Rows: 21, Columns: 21 Words: 140, Blocks: 80 Missing: {QX} This is puzzle # 64 for Ms. Jacobson. Sunday freshness: 19%
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© 1995, The New York Times10/29/95 ( No. 16,791 )
Across
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Puncturing tools : AWLS
5
On the way out : PASSE
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Blood component : PLASMA
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Harper Valley grp. : PTA
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Flyswatter, of a sort : TAIL
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Kind of cat : ALLEY
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Womanizer : LECHER
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Wine choice : RED
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Joey Buttafuoco's favorite song : ONCEINLOVEWITHAMY
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Flight board abbr. : ETA
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Poms' acquaintances : PEKES
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Be beholden to : OWE
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Gone from the plate : EATEN
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Ghanian language : TSHI
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Multipurpose food item : TOFU
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Tatum O'Neal's favorite film : RYANSDAUGHTER
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Bedfellow : INTIMATE
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Inquired, in Dogpatch : AST
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It gives one a leg up : STAIR
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Fictional miser : MARNER
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Cast assignment : ROLE
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Items pitched on late-night TV : SLICERS
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Dr. Kevorkian's favorite rock group : THEGRATEFULDEAD
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Word of woe : SOB
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Pin ___ : OAK
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The least bit : WHIT
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Flat plinth : ORLO
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Complain : WHINE
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Fannie of finance : MAE
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Firestone product : RADIAL
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Trained : AIMED
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Di's and Fergie's favorite play, with "The" : MERRYWIVESOFWINDSOR
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One of the Wyeths : JAMIE
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Happifies : ELATES
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Bit of pizzazz? : ZEE
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Echo, for one : OREAD
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Movie base for Broadway's "Carnival!" : LILI
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All over : ANEW
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Agra word : TAJ
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Him that's a Hur? : BEN
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Julia Child's favorite comedy : LOVEATFIRSTBITE
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Lord's land : DEMESNE
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Hair-grooming aids : GELS
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Misha's milieu : BALLET
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Debussy opus : LAMER
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Future fish : ROE
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Sequesters : ISOLATES
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Darryl Strawberry's favorite movie : BATMANRETURNS
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Olive's family : OYLS
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Diva's big moment : ARIA
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Italian actress Stoller : ILONA
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Cleo's undoing : ASP
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"Animal House" nickname : OTTER
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"Winterset" hero : MIO
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Bill Gates's favorite restaurant : WINDOWSONTHEWORLD
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Embargo : BAN
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Jessica in a murder series : ANGELA
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Trouble spot : STAIN
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Govt. disaster-aid inits. : FEMA
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Part of T.G.I.F. : ITS
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"This Sporting Life" writer : STOREY
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No longer hungry : SATED
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Order to an imp, with "up" : FESS
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Upon : ATOP
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Fade : WANE
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Trounce : LICK
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Nearly snowing : SLEETING
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Wok : PAN
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No holds barred : ALLOUT
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Poky : SLOW
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Cut off : SEVER
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Sight site : EYE
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Flexible : PLIANT
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Latvians : LETTS
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Needed liniment : ACHED
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Writer Alexander : SHANA
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One on the rolls: Abbr. : MEM
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Ending with diet or diction : ARY
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As fast as possible : PRESTISSIMO
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Animal restraint : TETHER
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Robin of balladry : ADAIR
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Related compound : ISOMER
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Ermine, e.g. : WEASEL
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"___ she blows!" : THAR
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Kind of look : FARAWAY
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Sup'ung Dam site : YALU
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Western coll. : USC
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Telecommunications giant : GTE
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"___ be Queen o' the May" : IMTO
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Okinawa's capital : NAHA
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Himalayan hike : TREK
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"I hope to see London once ___ die": Shak. : EREI
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Time and again : OFT
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Line of type : SERIF
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80's-90's NBC drama : LALAW
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More than an admirer : IDOLIZER
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Pinero's "Trelawny of ___" : THEWELLS
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Noodleheads : DODOS
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Dilly : ONER
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Converted sofa : BED
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Get in a little way : WADE
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"To Each ___ Own" : HIS
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The Posts' TV companion : MRED
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Double a knot : RETIE
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Peer Gynt's mother : ASE
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Mate for 60-Down : MARE
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Text corrections : EMENDATIONS
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River inlet : RIA
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Ancient Troy : ILION
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Water regulator : VALVE
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Paper distributor : NEWSBOY
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Man from Uz : JOB
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Union abbr. : AFL
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Unless, in court : NISI
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End of a certain game : TILT
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Suit to ___ : ATEE
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"West Side Story" gang : JETS
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Old Greek malls : AGORAS
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High schooler : TEEN
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Candle source : TALLOW
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Leave the pad : BLASTOFF
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Lady Hamilton : EMMA
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"Cry ___ River" : MEA
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Directional suffix : ERN
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Will Rogers prop : LARIAT
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Fashion show locale : RUNWAY
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1982 Oscar portrayal : SOPHIE
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Great Prince of the Forest : BAMBI
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1964 #1 hit : RINGO
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Church dignitary : ELDER
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"A Confederacy of Dunces" author : TOOLE
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Nick name : SANTA
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Datum : STAT
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Cobbler's need : TREE
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City of ___ (New Haven, Conn.) : ELMS
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F.D.A. figures : RDAS
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Had been : WAS
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Bankbook abbr. : INT
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C.I.A.'s forerunner : OSS
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Sign off : END

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5 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 4 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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