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FROM U TO ME

New York Times, Sunday, November 25, 2001

Author:
Bob Klahn and Harvey Estes
Editor:
Will Shortz
20-Across : Dean of government
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
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Bob Klahn
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71.5252247%
Harvey Estes

This puzzle:

Rows: 21, Columns: 21 Words: 140, Blocks: 70 Missing: {QZ} Puzzle has duplicate clues. This is puzzle # 45 for Mr. Klahn. This is puzzle # 60 for Mr. Estes. Sunday freshness: 42%
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© 2001, The New York Times11/25/1 ( No. 19,010 )
Across
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Uninterpreted info : RAWDATA
8
Defeat decisively : STOMP
13
Range war? : COOKOFF
20
Dean of government : ACHESON
21
Elixir : TONIC
22
Unappetizing : INSIPID
23
ThighMaster user's favorite libation? : WHISKEYSOMERS
25
Coin of Cairo : PIASTER
26
Large-eyed lemur : LORIS
27
Round of snacking? : OREO
28
Calls from yawls : AHOYS
29
Peruvian money : SOLS
30
Feds with cigs? : SMOKINGGMEN
34
Son of the Sun : INCA
38
Watergate evidence : TAPE
40
Edmonton skater : OILER
41
Private detective : SNOOP
42
Corrupt : BAD
45
Fine feather repairer? : DOWNMENDER
49
Candidate of 2000 : ALGORE
50
Charm : ENAMOR
52
Annie portrayer Quinn : AILEEN
53
Suppressed laugh : SNICKER
54
Ninth-century Saxon king : EGBERT
55
Reagan program, for short : SDI
56
1976 uprising site : SOWETO
58
"Gorillas in the Mist" author : FOSSEY
59
French dialect : CAJUN
62
Corvine call : CAW
63
Pathfinder's target : MARS
67
Wipe out : ERASE
68
Arizona newspaper? : MESATODAY
70
Catcher in the wry? : BERRA
71
Go with : DATE
72
Time on end : EON
73
Watched, as a TV show : HADON
74
Perturbation : DISMAY
75
Alongside : NEXTTO
78
Women's cells : OVA
79
Calmer : OPIATE
80
Certain terrier, informally : SCOTTIE
83
Called the game : REFFED
86
Like the night, to Keats : TENDER
87
Potential : LATENT
88
Letters hanging on a wall? : MAILFRAMED
90
Attack ___ : ADS
91
Sound introduction? : ULTRA
92
"The Last of the Mohicans" colonel : MUNRO
93
"La Storia" novelist Morante : ELSA
95
Goo : GLOP
96
Form a hit squad? : MERGETOKILL
100
Cartoonist Drake : STAN
104
"The Fountainhead" character : ROARK
106
March time : IDES
107
Easter Island's owner : CHILE
108
Gandhi and Nehru : INDIANS
111
Measure of Barry Bonds? : MILESPERHOMER
115
Spooky critter : BEASTIE
116
Esther of "Good Times" : ROLLE
117
Exhaust : WEAROUT
118
Prospered : MADEHAY
119
Reptilian : SCALY
120
Magnitudes : EXTENTS
Down
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"Love Is a Hurtin' Thing" singer, 1966 : RAWLS
2
Blessing preceder : ACHOO
3
Brief attempt : WHIRL
4
Cut it out : DESIST
5
Calls upon : ASKS
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Dactyl : TOE
7
Even one : ANY
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One might bring you a bundle : STORK
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"What Women Want" actress : TOMEI
10
Confrontation : ONEONONE
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It crashed on 3/23/2001 : MIR
12
Windows boxes : PCS
13
Goose egg : CIPHER
14
Ring source : ONION
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Key start? : OSAY
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Expression of love is gaining popularity? : KISSINGCOMESIN
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Decide to leave, with "out" : OPT
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Giant syllable : FIE
19
Yalta monogram : FDR
24
"Wellll ...?" : SOO
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One of the maj. leagues : AMER
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Sleek and stylish : SPORTY
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Copy cats : MEW
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1947 French Nobelist André : GIDE
33
Hollows : GLENS
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Hiding place : NOOK
36
Nub : CORE
37
Takeoff artist : APER
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Renée of "The Big Parade" : ADOREE
41
Buttonhole, e.g. : SLIT
42
Kvetched : BEEFED
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Smooth yarn : ANGORA
44
Blots lightly : DABSAT
46
Budding : NASCENT
47
Cursed alchemist : MIDAS
48
Mount Sinai prophet : ELIJAH
49
Over : ANEW
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Readiness to produce meals for G.I.'s? : MESSENTERPRISE
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Go to and fro : SWAY
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Song heard at the SkyDome : OCANADA
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Actress Hagen : UTA
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Doze : NODOFF
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Naval unit : ARMADA
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Steamy : RRATED
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Author of "Strong Poison" : SAYERS
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It's no big thing : MOTE
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Sole provider? : DOVER
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Ladies and gentlemen : BIPEDS
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It's a turnoff : EXIT
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"I'm all ears!" : DOTELL
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Vulcan's Chimney : ETNA
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Hairy cousin : ORANG
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Hard punch : SLUG
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"Steeeerike!", e.g. : CALL
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"Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" lyricist Harbach : OTTO
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Leprechaun land : EIRE
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Naval unit : FLOTILLA
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Darkness : MURK
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Brooks of "The Producers" : MEL
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___ Beat (1960's music) : MERSEY
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On solid ground : ASHORE
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Rage : MANIA
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Children's author Scott : ODELL
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"One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" novelist : KESEY
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Mindspring or AOL, for short : ISP
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Shakespearean Athenian : TIMON
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Native Alaskan : ALEUT
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"Doggone!" : NERTS
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103-Down, mildly : OATH
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Tête-à-tête : CHAT
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One of the Dow Jones Industrials : IBM
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Grant source: Abbr. : NEA
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Little League coach, often : DAD
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Half a couple : MRS
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Games grp. : IOC
113
Farm mate : EWE
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Friend for Rover : REX

Answer summary:
9 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later.

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