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New York Times, Wednesday, October 9, 2002

Author:
Peter Gordon
Editor:
Will Shortz
9-Across : Good place to be in a race
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Peter Gordon

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 42 Spans: 1 This is puzzle # 92 for Mr. Gordon. Wednesday freshness: 50%
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© 2002, The New York Times10/9/2 ( No. 19,328 )
Across
1
Complaint : BEEF
5
Singer Tori : AMOS
9
Good place to be in a race : AHEAD
14
Turturro of "The Sopranos" : AIDA
15
As it happens : LIVE
16
Spanish for "fox" : ZORRO
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Particular : ITEM
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They can take a yoke : OXEN
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Small amount : TRACE
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Perfect score in a certain game : THREEHUNDRED
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Anago, at a Japanese restaurant : EEL
24
Pool exercise : LAPS
25
Sweet treats : ICES
27
Great fear : DREAD
29
IBM products : PCS
30
Vim : PEP
33
Esau and Jacob's mother : REBEKAH
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Coop up : CAGE
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What the perfect game consists of : 12STRIKESINAROW
42
Literary collections : ANAS
43
Rugby shirts : JERSEYS
44
Rx writers : MDS
45
Lean-___ (sheds) : TOS
46
Bullies' targets : NERDS
50
All-Pro linebacker Junior of the Chargers : SEAU
52
Wings : ALAE
55
Classified ad abbr. : EEO
56
How the perfect game is shown on the scoresheet : XXXXXXXXXXXX
59
Part of a newspaper article : QUOTE
62
Nobelist Wiesel : ELIE
63
What "++" means in Qe2++ : MATE
64
Diamond flaw? : ERROR
65
Diamond of note : NEIL
66
Tiger or Indian, briefly : ALER
67
Dashboard display : DIALS
68
Tag sale tag : ASIS
69
Certain cameras: Abbr. : SLRS
Down
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Like fishhooks : BAITED
2
Choice word : EITHER
3
Channel swimmer Gertrude : EDERLE
4
Renown : FAME
5
Ho hi : ALOHA
6
Snafu : MIXUP
7
Bake-off needs : OVENS
8
Cell phone button : SEND
9
Quetzalcoatl worshipers : AZTECS
10
Throng : HORDE
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Big time : ERA
12
Part of a sector : ARC
13
Female rabbit : DOE
21
Church leader : ELDER
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Potsie's pal on "Happy Days" : RICHIE
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Practice one's one-two : SPAR
28
Fine things? : ARTS
29
Hail Mary, e.g. : PASS
31
Self-image : EGO
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Sunday seat : PEW
34
Exquisitely wrought trinkets : BIJOUX
35
Squeezes (out) : EKES
36
Prefix with plunk or plop : KER
37
Four six-packs : CASE
38
When "S.N.L." wraps in N.Y.C. : 1AM
39
February ___ (Groundhog Day) : 2ND
40
Back talk : SASS
41
Old telecommunications name : NYNEX
45
Levy imposers : TAXERS
47
Classic drugstore name : REXALL
48
Saxophonist Gordon : DEXTER
49
Bobby-___ (40's teenagers) : SOXERS
51
Praise : EXTOL
52
Cars' bars : AXLES
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XXI tripled : LXIII
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Skating maneuvers : AXELS
57
Warrior princess of TV : XENA
58
Present day? : XMAS
59
Proof letters : QED
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Swiss canton : URI
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___ pro nobis : ORA

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