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New York Times, Wednesday, November 10, 1999

Author:
Joan Yanofsky
Editor:
Will Shortz
43-Across : Venus's partner, in Shakespeare
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Joan Yanofsky

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 36 Missing: {JQX} This is puzzle # 2 for Ms. Yanofsky. Wednesday freshness: 32%
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© 1999, The New York Times11/10/99 ( No. 18,264 )
Across
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Full metal jacket? : ARMOR
6
Main point : GIST
10
Insect in a colony : WASP
14
Maternity ___ : LEAVE
15
Gentleman of the court : ASHE
16
Declare : AVER
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Reduces, with "down" : PARES
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Trading place : MART
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Took transportation : RODE
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How the sausage was desired? : INTHEWURSTWAY
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Polling amt. : PCT
25
Was idle : SAT
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Clothing chain, with "the" : GAP
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Squeeze (out) : EKE
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Inter ___ : ALIA
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Go over a second time : REDO
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It may give a reflection on a highway : RADAR
34
Kind of vertebra : LUMBAR
36
Quite a bit : OFTEN
38
European money to pay for sausages? : BELGIANFRANKS
42
Follow : ENSUE
43
Venus's partner, in Shakespeare : ADONIS
45
Big Iraqi port : BASRA
48
Give a hand : DEAL
50
Quick cry : YELP
51
Reveal, in poetry : OPE
52
Sushi fish : TAI
54
"Waking ___ Devine" (1998 film) : NED
56
Tarzan portrayer : ELY
57
Competition to determine the best sausage? : WIENERTAKEALL
61
Mother of Apollo : LETO
62
Sweetie pie : DOLL
63
Where Ali KO'd Foreman, 1974 : ZAIRE
66
"Art is a delayed ___": Santayana : ECHO
67
Eastern Woodlands tribe : ERIE
68
Comical Kovacs : ERNIE
69
Smell strongly : REEK
70
Da's opposite : NYET
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"Cosmos" host : SAGAN
Down
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Peak for Heidi : ALP
2
Stephen of "The Crying Game" : REA
3
Like certain Canadian provinces : MARITIME
4
Place to wear a mitt : OVEN
5
Pauses : RESTS
6
Reproductive cell : GAMETE
7
Part of Caesar's boast : ISAW
8
Dismiss disdainfully : SHRUGOFF
9
Aquarium fish : TETRA
10
Job for a dermatologist : WART
11
Stated openly : AVOWED
12
Singer Neil : SEDAKA
13
Plunderer : PREYER
21
___ Tweed : HARRIS
22
Oddsmaker's figure : SPREAD
23
Helping sort : PAL
24
Word with night or bridge : CLUB
29
More qualified : ABLER
31
Nonprofit group, frequently : DONEE
33
Irk : ANNOY
35
Paternal relative : AGNATE
37
Seat of County Kerry, Ireland : TRALEE
39
Hearing-related : AUDITORY
40
Like one popping the question, maybe : KNEELING
41
Window feature : SILL
44
Le Carré staple : SPY
45
Hat that may be tipped : BOWLER
46
Each : APIECE
47
Boil and bubble : SEETHE
49
Low sock : ANKLET
53
"As You Like It" setting : ARDEN
55
Benumbs : DAZES
58
Secluded spot : NOOK
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"That's ___!" (debate cry) : ALIE
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Actress ___ Flynn Boyle : LARA
64
Inlet : RIA
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Bard's early night : EEN

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