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New York Times, Monday, October 29, 2001

Author:
Richard Hughes
Editor:
Will Shortz
15-Across : Mark Twain forte
TotalDebutLatest
3511/8/19944/2/2007
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ScrabDebutFresh
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Richard Hughes

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 42 Missing: {GJK} Puzzle has duplicate clues. This is puzzle # 29 for Mr. Hughes. Monday freshness: 9%
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© 2001, The New York Times10/29/1 ( No. 18,983 )
Across
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Tennis's Arthur : ASHE
5
Burn : SCALD
10
"Ka-boom!" : WHAM
14
Red light : STOP
15
Mark Twain forte : HUMOR
16
Arizona Indian : HOPI
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Middling : SOSO
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15-Across with a twist : IRONY
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Court cry : OYEZ
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"Les Trois Mousquetaires" author : ALEXANDREDUMAS
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Actress Streep : MERYL
24
Dem.'s foe : REP
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Information : DATA
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Corporal, e.g. : NONCOM
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Start of a quote from 20-Across : ALLFORONE
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Prefix with surgery : NEURO
40
Den : LAIR
41
Rome's ___ Fountain : TREVI
43
Brother of Cain : ABEL
44
Montezuma, for one : AZTEC
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More of the quote : ONEFORALL
48
Burn : SEETHE
50
Old autocrat : TSAR
51
"Sweet as apple cider" girl : IDA
53
Op-ed piece : ESSAY
58
End of the quote : THATISOURMOTTO
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Lakers' O'Neal, informally : SHAQ
65
The March King : SOUSA
66
Nourishment : FOOD
67
Lima's land : PERU
68
Start : ONSET
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Girl of Green Gables : ANNE
70
"Star Wars" sage : YODA
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Exigencies : NEEDS
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Movie unit : REEL
Down
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Area of India : ASSAM
2
Filched : STOLE
3
One washing down a sidewalk, e.g. : HOSER
4
Glue : EPOXY
5
Leg part : SHIN
6
Congeal : CURD
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God of love : AMOR
8
Introvert : LONER
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"Marriage A-la-Mode" playwright, 1672 : DRYDEN
10
To ___ it may concern : WHOM
11
Georgetown athlete : HOYA
12
Simians : APES
13
Broadway's "Les ___" : MIZ
21
Actor Ray : ALDO
22
Over : UPON
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Sotheby's stock : ART
27
Bull in an arena : TORO
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Concerning : ANENT
30
Close : NEAR
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Where many Miamians were born : CUBA
32
Baseball's Hershiser : OREL
33
Gangster's gal : MOLL
34
It's said with a sigh : ALAS
35
Lounge : LAZE
36
Low-calorie : LITE
37
Worry : FRET
38
Day followers, in want ads : EVES
42
Dee/Darin film "___ Man Answers" : IFA
45
Voucher : CHIT
47
Utah city : OREM
49
Inventor of the stock ticker : EDISON
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United : ASONE
54
Up till now : SOFAR
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Chief Justice, 1941-46 : STONE
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Expiate : ATONE
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Alpine call : YODEL
58
Huxtable boy : THEO
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Brain-busting : HARD
60
Greenish blue : AQUA
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River past Buckingham : OUSE
62
Took advantage of : USED
63
"Darn!" : RATS
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Snoop (on) : SPY

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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