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New York Times, Monday, November 21, 1994

Author:
Norman S. Wizer
Editor:
Will Shortz
57-Across : Plant pests
TotalDebutLatest
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Norman S. Wizer

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 34 Missing: {BGJQXYZ} Spans: 1 This is puzzle # 22 for Mr. Wizer. Monday freshness: 49%
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© 1994, The New York Times11/21/94 ( No. 16,449 )
Across
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___ Hatteras, N.C. : CAPE
5
Clearheaded : LUCID
10
Egyptian cobras : ASPS
14
Mimics : APES
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Video arcade name : ATARI
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Turn obliquely : SKEW
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SCRAM : MAKETRACKS
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Antitoxins : SERA
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Football's ___ Bowl : PRO
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Safety org. : OSHA
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Current, as accounts : PAIDUP
24
Russian grassland : STEPPE
26
Black Sea resort : ODESSA
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Actors Silver and Howard : RONS
30
Illegal trader : INSIDER
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Words preceding war or God : ACTOF
36
Young 'uns : TOTS
38
Half of MCII : DLI
39
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Indiana Jones's quest : ARK
44
Franchise : VOTE
45
Vertical : APEAK
46
Made tea : STEEPED
49
Crimson and carmine : REDS
51
Adulates : ADORES
53
Standards of perfection : IDEALS
57
Plant pests : APHIDS
59
Italian wine district : ASTI
61
Hawaiian garland : LEI
62
Cut in a skirt : SLIT
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BEAT IT : HITTHEROAD
66
The Mikado's Lord High Executioner : KOKO
67
Papal vestment : ORALE
68
One of the Brontes : ANNE
69
Suffix with road or hip : STER
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Opera voice : TENOR
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Miss Trueheart of the comics : TESS
Down
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Summer getaways : CAMPS
2
"You'll always be ___ of me" : APART
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Tea type : PEKOE
4
Language ending : ESE
5
Yankee pitcher Don : LARSEN
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Great Salt Lake state : UTAH
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Chocolate bean : CACAO
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Get on one's nerves : IRK
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Allocate : DISPENSE
10
St. Francis's home : ASSISI
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VAMOOSE : SKEDADDLE
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Llama land : PERU
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Barter : SWAP
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Finish : TOPOFF
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Dolt : ASS
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Egg on : PROD
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Mental confusion : DITHER
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Took deliberate steps : STRODE
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Grammy-winning Fitzgerald : ELLA
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Peril : RISK
33
Discoverers' cries : AHAS
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"Dead ___" (Dick Francis novel) : CERT
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SKIDDOO : TAKEAHIKE
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Hall-of-Famer Mel : OTT
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Went too far : OVERSHOT
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Finnan ___ (fish dish) : HADDIE
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___ dixit : IPSE
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Film cutter : EDITOR
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Pea holder : POD
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One of two : EITHER
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Guy with a tail : SATAN
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"Home ___" : ALONE
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Shows partiality : LEANS
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Allies (with) : SIDES
57
Proposes : ASKS
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Scheme : PLOT
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Normandy invasion town, 1944 : STLO
64
Dander : IRE
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Tell (on) : RAT

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