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Blue Streak

New York Times, Sunday, November 14, 2004

Author:
Harvey Estes and Nancy Salomon
Editor:
Will Shortz
50-Across : Agreeable
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
11612/29/199311/26/200845
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
2015151219278
RebusScrabDebutFresh
71.5252247%
Harvey Estes
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
1868/13/199511/7/2012116
SunMonTueWedThuFriSatVariety
3633533719611
RebusCircleScrabDebutFresh
1521.5890833%
Nancy Salomon

This puzzle:

Rows: 21, Columns: 21 Words: 140, Blocks: 76 This is puzzle # 88 for Mr. Estes. This is puzzle # 131 for Ms. Salomon. Sunday freshness: 65%
Jim Horne notes:

The #@%*& symbols are used in the grid but the words are spelled out in the answer words below.

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© 2004, The New York Times11/14/4 ( No. 20,095 )
Across
1
Special team : ALLSTARS
6
Chi-town paper : TRIB
10
Get lost : SCRAM
15
Dumptruckful : LOAD
19
"Twelfth Night" role : VIOLA
20
Mrs. Chaplin : OONA
21
"Ta-da!" : THERE
22
Word processor command : UNDO
23
March trailer : APRIL
24
Haltingly : BYFITSANDSTARTS
26
Kind of bike : TANDEM
27
Used up : SPENT
28
Space flight's starting point : EARTH
29
Nice-smelling gifts : LEIS
30
Rhode Island's motto : HOPE
31
Colored a bit : TINGED
33
Shake : LOSE
34
Rights of passage, e.g. : EASEMENTS
36
Cook's exhortation : DIGIN
38
McCartney title : SIR
40
Despot of yore : TSAR
41
Portion of a ton: Abbr. : CWT
44
Aerosol output : MIST
45
Hems and haws : ERS
46
Totaled : RANTO
50
Agreeable : PLEASANT
52
F.D.R. power project : TVA
53
Made book marks? : PAGINATED
56
Extra cost in mail order : HANDLING
57
Choler : IRE
58
Fights dirty, in a way : BITES
59
Martinique, e.g. : ILE
60
Street of mystery : DELLA
61
Pro pitchers : ADMEN
63
Rod attachment : REEL
64
Some votes : NOES
65
Mock plea for civil language : STOPTHEPOUNDATPERCENTSTARANDCUSSING
69
Mix up : STIR
70
Came to : WOKE
71
Pricey : STEEP
72
Cut : HEWED
74
Russert of "Meet the Press" : TIM
75
Needed a doctor : AILED
76
Stale : OLD
77
Scarface portrayer : PACINO
78
Like some income : UNEARNED
80
South-of-the-border shout : OLE
81
Got a slice of : SHAREDIN
83
Obscure : BEDIM
84
Comic Gilliam : STU
85
"Rush Hour" star, 1998 : CHAN
86
Heartbeat, so to speak : SEC
87
Abbey ___ : ROAD
90
Fortune 500 inits. : ITT
91
Invoice word : REMIT
93
Coin of the realm : POUNDSTERLING
97
Sewed up : ICED
99
Perfumes with a joss stick : CENSES
104
Open : CANDID
105
First child : CAIN
106
Waxed bombastic : ORATED
108
Supermodel Campbell : NAOMI
109
Slave of opera : AIDA
110
That, to this : ALTERNATIVE
112
Values on a scale of 0 to 100 : PERCENTILES
113
Ship part : KEEL
114
60-Across's boss : PERRY
115
It's not good : EVIL
116
Ties up : EVENS
117
Highlands tongue : ERSE
118
Plain writing : PROSE
119
Hawk : SELL
120
"I Am Woman" singer, 1972 : REDDY
Down
1
"Cease" at sea : AVAST
2
Painter Fra Filippo ___ : LIPPI
3
"Two Women" Oscar winner : LOREN
4
Black bird : STARLING
5
Stored (away) : SALTED
6
Words before and after "or not" : TOBE
7
King's champion : ROYALIST
8
Ahead : INFRONT
9
Puts on the hook? : BAITS
10
Elm and Peachtree: Abbr. : STS
11
Ship provisioners : CHANDLERS
12
Roadside pull-off : RESTAREA
13
Oil worker : ARTIST
14
Imbroglios : MESSES
15
Like Wittenberg University in Ohio : LUTHERAN
16
Continuously : ONANDON
17
Crack : ADEPT
18
Some stadium features : DOMES
25
Best-selling 1974 detective novel : THESEVENPERCENTSOLUTION
32
Yankee nickname of old : DIMAG
35
Niles's ex on "Frasier" : MARIS
37
Cry at the card table : GIN
39
Investment option, briefly : IRA
41
Under the table : CLANDESTINE
42
Serendipitous : WELLTIMED
43
Make fit : TAILOR
47
All over : NATIONWIDE
48
Looking good on the tube : TELEGENIC
49
Lyrical lines : ODES
50
High degree : PHD
51
Clothes closer : SNAP
52
Something good : TREAT
53
Saturday night special : PIECE
54
Truly enjoyed : ATEUP
55
Firms : GELS
57
Penned up : IMPOUNDED
58
Like cattle on the range : BRANDED
61
Burn ___ in one's pocket : AHOLE
62
Faked out, in the rink : DEKED
64
Some relations : NIECES
66
Mattress type : TWIN
67
Surprise : STARTLE
68
___-Pei (Chinese dog) : SHAR
69
Pitiful pencil : STUB
73
King of the boxing world : DON
75
Combat gear : ARMOR
77
Wall Street scare : PANIC
79
Terrier type : AIREDALE
80
Giant of note : OTT
81
Witchy woman : SHEDEVIL
82
Showboater : HAM
84
John Hancock and others : SIGNERS
85
Thinking outside the box : CREATIVE
88
Mammy Yokum's creator : ALCAPP
89
Old phone user : DIALER
92
Many an agent : TENPERCENTER
93
Rich dessert : POUNDCAKE
94
Comparatively gritty : SANDIER
95
Holds, with "over" : TIDES
96
Hot rod propellant : NITRO
98
Rattletraps : CRATES
100
Green : NAIVE
101
Did a cobbler's job : SOLED
102
Fix : EMEND
103
Wuss : SISSY
107
Compaq competitor : DELL
111
Potent potable : RYE

Answer summary:
5 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 6 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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