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New York Times, Sunday, November 10, 2002

Author:
Cathy Millhauser
Editor:
Will Shortz
73-Across : Where the Tajo and Ebro flow
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Cathy Allis

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Rows: 21, Columns: 21 Words: 142, Blocks: 83 Missing: {Q} This is puzzle # 72 for Ms. Allis. Sunday freshness: 2%
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© 2002, The New York Times11/10/2 ( No. 19,360 )
Across
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Deck crew's boss, briefly : BOSN
5
Schools of thought : ISMS
9
With 110-Down, a beach sight : SAND
13
Wow : AMAZE
18
Sacramento's ___ Arena : ARCO
19
Roasting rod : SPIT
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Economic leader? : SOCIO
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Kentucky college or town : BEREA
22
Report on famine in utopia? : HEAVENANDDEARTH
25
They're sometimes funny : IDEAS
26
Seconds : SOMEMORE
27
What Roy Rogers had with dinner? : CAKESANDDALE
29
Part of TNT : NITRO
30
Return address letters? : IRS
31
Slipperiness exemplar : EEL
32
Deg. from Parsons, perhaps : MFA
34
Suffix with schnozz : OLA
36
Result of some sprees : DEBT
39
Bruin Phil, affectionately : ESPO
43
Like a transient's qtrs., maybe : SRO
44
Noted lawyer with the "It" Girl? : BOWANDDARROW
49
Jacket part : SNAP
50
Couch : PHRASE
52
Visits : DROPSINON
54
Mesabi range find : ORE
55
What an optometrist at a kindergarten examines? : EYESANDDEARS
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Contracted : NARROWED
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Wife of Esau : ADAH
61
Vascular viae : AORTAE
62
Fictional Twelve Oaks neighbor : TARA
63
Painter Magritte : RENE
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Penn. Ave. resident : PRES
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Considerably : MUCH
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Finalizes, as a deal : INKS
71
Oscar ___ Renta : DELA
73
Where the Tajo and Ebro flow : ESPANA
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Cut and paste, e.g. : EDIT
77
Rosefish by another name : REDPERCH
81
Princess plus Elvis? : THEKINGANDDI
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Gregory's "On the Beach" co-star : AVA
85
Heart recipient : VALENTINE
87
Welcome words at La Guardia : ONTIME
88
Auto racer Gordon : JEFF
90
Concerns of a safety sprinkler system? : FIREANDDRAIN
93
Bounder : CAD
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Regarding : ASTO
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Kind of chain : FOOD
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Human's tail? : OID
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Pork place : PEN
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Item on a chairlift : SKI
100
Extended period : EON
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Ball game : BOCCE
106
Cookie man with a Yankee Doodle? : AMOSANDDANDY
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Caesar salad ingredients : CROUTONS
116
Something to kick : HABIT
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Story of a leather worker who goes to seedy bars? : CURRIERANDDIVES
119
Banish : EXILE
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Gibson garnish : ONION
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Tommie in Mets history : AGEE
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Remaining silent, sometimes : TACT
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Girl : MISSY
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Broten of hockey fame : NEAL
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Some are O.T.C. : MEDS
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Civic group : ELKS
Down
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Scornful cries : BAHS
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It has a 1 3/4" diameter : OREO
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Ripoff : SCAM
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Devotion : NOVENA
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Playground retort : ISNOT
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Songbird : SPARROW
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Long Island county seat : MINEOLA
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Norm: Abbr. : STD
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Fleeces : SOAKS
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God's ___ (churchyard) : ACRE
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Their parents are parasites : NITS
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Qatar's capital : DOHA
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Tolerate : ABIDE
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Interferes : MEDDLES
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Suburb, for one : AREA
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Gung-ho quality : ZEAL
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Laid-back quality : EASE
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Brand : SEAR
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Music pub. giant : EMI
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Early seventh-century date : DCI
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A billionaire has a big one : NETWORTH
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One subject of a "Strange Case" in literature : MRHYDE
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What a nutty golfer calls/is called? : FOREANDDAFT
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Thermometer developer Celsius : ANDERS
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Shrinks, e.g.: Abbr. : DRS
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Seán O'Faoláin's "Come Back to ___" : ERIN
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___ gratia (in all kindness): Lat. : BONA
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Two things found at an Alaska casino? : SNOWANDDICE
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Trim : PARE
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Kind of page : OPED
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Lance : SPEAR
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Grp. that holds Blue and Gold Banquets : BSA
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Wine: Prefix : OEN
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"Phooey!" : DRAT
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"David Copperfield" woman : DORA
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Basilica feature : APSE
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Answer to the folk riddle "Over the hills, over the hills / Goes a fur coat" : ASHEEP
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Strong D.C. lobby : NRA
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Patriotic org. : DAR
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___-eyed : DOE
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Magi's home : ORIENT
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Waterproofing material for paper : PARAFFIN
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Eke out a living : MAKEDO
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Place of higher education, in slang : UNI
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Positive thinker's word : CAN
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"Moulin Rouge" actress : KIDMAN
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Put in a 97-Across : STIED
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O.T. book : LEV
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Henri feminizer : ETTA
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Something not to kick : SHIN
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Remain undecided : PEND
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Indian royal : RAJA
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Temporal brinks : EVES
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History Muse : CLIO
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Subway fare? : HERO
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"There but for the grace of God ___" : GOI
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A Beattie : ANN
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A Beatty : NED
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Fogies : FOSSILS
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Thoracic structure : RIBCAGE
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Trimmed : ADORNED
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Small : PETITE
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Peg Bundy portrayer ___ Sagal : KATEY
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Register : ENROL
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Husband of Frigg : ODIN
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Bill ___, the Science Guy : NYE
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Computer programmers' expertise : CODES
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Something to chew on : CUD
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Coughlike utterance : AHEM
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It's long on models : MAXI
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Sashes : OBIS
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Rodenticide name : DCON
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See 9-Across : DUNE
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"Willow Song," e.g. : ARIA
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Race site : OVAL
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Crick site : NECK
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Boom makers, for short : SSTS
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Zodiac figure : RAM

Answer summary:
7 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 2 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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