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New York Times, Sunday, October 9, 1994

Author:
Bryant White
Editor:
Will Shortz
30-Across : Finback whale
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Bryant White

This puzzle:

Rows: 23, Columns: 23 Words: 162, Blocks: 88 Missing: none – this is a pangram. This is puzzle # 20 for Mr. White. Sunday freshness: 93%
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© 1994, The New York Times10/9/94 ( No. 16,406 )
Across
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World-weary : JADED
6
Licensing ___ : FEES
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Eng. network : BBC
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Biblical incense spice : STACTE
19
Faulty : AMISS
20
Christmas present peekers do it : REWRAP
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Tune : AIR
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Wages : SALARY
24
Side door, perhaps? : CORPORALENTRANCE
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The Iliad, e.g. : EPOPEE
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Microscopic life : ALGA
29
Weapon in action-thrillers : UZI
30
Finback whale : RORQUAL
32
Room extensions : ETTES
33
___-do-well : NEER
34
Suspect in a whodunit game? : GENERALMUSTARD
38
Kind of farm : ANT
39
Igor and Dr. Watson: Abbr. : ASSTS
41
Spaghetti-western attire : SERAPE
42
Lyric poem : EPODE
43
Dynasty after the T'ang : LIAO
44
Outlet for N.Y. horseplayers : OTB
46
Robe adornment : OBI
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Revolution site of 1979 : IRAN
48
Getting ___ years : ONIN
49
French seasoning : SEL
52
Mil. offshoot : ROTC
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Common Market inits. : EEC
57
A.M.A. members : MDS
58
Morning awakener, for some : BUGLE
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___ particle : PSI
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"Get ___ of this!" : ALOAD
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"Elephant Boy" boy : SABU
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Ringbearer in "The Lord of the Rings" : FRODO
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Mineral suffix : ITE
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Stinking : PUTRID
69
Joys : RAPTURES
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Zoological duct : VAS
75
Sentence subject : NOUN
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Flogging, e.g.? : SERGEANTPUNISHMENT
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Conscious of : ONTO
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Numskulls : BEETLEHEADS
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Jocular Johnson : ARTE
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Union action? : FIELDMARSHALSTRIKE
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Judah's second son : ONAN
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Cooler : FAN
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Trattoria fare : RIGATONI
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Name tag : SENIOR
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Strip for Spot : ORT
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Ice cream thickeners : AGARS
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Coin in 47 Across : RIAL
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Honkers : GEESE
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Pierce Arrow rival : REO
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Shrewd : CANNY
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___ amore (with love) : CON
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"Under a Glass Bell" author : NIN
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Eastern "holies" : SRIS
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50 Down, once: Abbr. : SSR
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Westernmost of the Aleutians : ATTU
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Give-and-take : SWAP
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South Africa's ___ Paul Kruger : OOM
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Fresh : NEW
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Seance sounds : RAPS
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Like some coats and paper : LINED
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Loosen rigging : UNLASH
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Thomas Moore's "The Harp That Once Through ___ Halls!" : TARAS
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"___ you sure?" : ARE
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Baseball star? : COLONELLEAGUER
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Topic: Sp. : TEMA
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Sugar source : MAPLE
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Bests : DEFEATS
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One who's taken vows : NUN
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Medicinal amts. : TSPS
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Disburse : EXPEND
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Spencer Tracy movie? : MAJORSCOURAGEOUS
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Faces the wind while stationary, at sea : LIESTO
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Portugese writer Jose Maria ___ de Queiroz : ECA
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Agamemnon's mother : AEROPE
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Bogart's "High Sierra" role : EARLE
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Tailor, in old Rome : SARTOR
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Napoleonic marshal : NEY
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Nurses : SIPS
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Quiet : MUTED
Down
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Long-toed aquatic bird : JACANA
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Soap substitutes, in the Southwest : AMOLES
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Sad songs : DIRGES
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Grass used for making paper : ESPARTO
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Brit. medal : DSO
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Cunning, in a way : FELINE
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Yeanling's mother : EWE
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Fish-eating bird : ERN
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Despotic jurisdictions : SATRAPIES
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Where to get French bread? : BANQUE
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Premolar : BICUSPID
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Authors : CREATORS
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Naut. heading : SSE
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On delayed-broadcast : TAPED
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Heaps : ALOT
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State officers? : CAPTAINGOVERNORS
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Shipbuilder's pin : TREENAIL
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Ophthalmologist's implement : EYESTONE
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Flattens : RAZES
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Humble toiler : PROLE
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Dancers cut it : RUG
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Word with strong or straight : ARM
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Terhune's "___ Dog" : LADA
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Mancinelli opera "___ e Leandro" : ERO
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Playwright David : RABE
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Stimpy's chum : REN
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Buckle holder : STRAP
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Forte : LOUD
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Large pill : BOLUS
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"Maude" or "Frasier" e.g. : SPINOFF
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Where the kroon is spent : ESTONIA
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Beatles character? : LIEUTENANTPEPPER
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Shoppers' receptacles : TOTEBAGS
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Actress Barbara : CARRERA
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Red chalcedony : CARNELIAN
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Children's entertainers : MUPPETS
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Nonsense : BOSH
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Summary : DIGEST
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Turkish ___ : BATHS
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More kittenlike : FRISKIER
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In medias ___ : RES
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Make roses safe to handle : DETHORN
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Berber language : TUAREG
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Water spirits : UNDINES
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Scorpius's red giant : ANTARES
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Powerful speaker : STENTOR
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Cambodia's Lon ___ : NOL
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Ancient Mideast nomads : ALANI
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Warhol subject : MAO
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Strong cart : DRAY
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Cosmonaut's home : MIR
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Red dye : EOSIN
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Fix a fracture : RESET
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Oxlike antelopes : GNUS
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Mothers with pride? : LIONESSES
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Candy cubes : CARAMELS
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Tranquility : ATARAXIA
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Some boaters : CANOEMEN
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Sandwich style : OPENFACE
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Vincent Lopez's theme song : NOLA
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Traffic warning : SLO
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Like jokers : WILD
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Kind of wheels : MAG
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"Embarkation of Cythera" artist : WATTEAU
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Record holder? : DEEJAY
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Extremist : ULTRA
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Aurora's doings : SUNUPS
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Soixante minutes : HEURE
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Lido, e.g. : RESORT
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Hypodermic needle holder : AMPULE
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Was smart : SASSED
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Poetic patchwork : CENTO
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Film "7 Faces of Dr. ___" : LAO
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Gene material : RNA
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For fear that : LEST
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Palme ___ (award at Cannes) : DOR
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___ de coeur : CRI
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Caveman in Moo : OOP
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The Blue Carbuncle, to Holmes : GEM

Answer summary:
13 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 10 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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