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Presidential Echoes

New York Times, Sunday, November 30, 1997

Author:
Charles Deber
Editor:
Will Shortz
42-Across : Bones, in anatomy
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Charles M. Deber

This puzzle:

Rows: 21, Columns: 21 Words: 140, Blocks: 76 Missing: {FJQ} This is puzzle # 25 for Mr. Deber. Sunday freshness: 73%
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© 1997, The New York Times11/30/97 ( No. 17,554 )
Across
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Tater : SPUD
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Start of a palindrome : MADAM
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Figurehead site : PROW
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Silent one : HARPO
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Mata ___ : HARI
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Yankee Conference town : ORONO
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Piquant : RACY
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"Yond Cassius has ___ and hungry look": Julius Caesar : ALEAN
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President's vision? : EISENHOWERSEYES
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You can get a rise out of it : YEAST
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High spots : PLATEAUS
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Dances for Desi : RUMBAS
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Mario Cuomo, e.g. : EXGOV
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Fraternity letters : XIS
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Lasting forever : EONIAN
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Red ___ : SEA
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President's bird? : VANBURENSWREN
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Spoiled child, perhaps : WHINER
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Athletic type, supposedly : ARIES
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Bones, in anatomy : OSSA
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Architectural flute : STRIA
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___-mo : SLO
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Innocent, e.g. : POPE
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Stable locks : MANE
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Place to buy a pie : PIZZERIA
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Prankster : IMP
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President's injuries? : NIXONSNICKS
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___-Unis : ETATS
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Parts of a baseball schedule : DAYGAMES
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Archenemies, maybe : NEMESES
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Czar's reply to protesters : NYET
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Broad sash : OBI
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Flaubert's birthplace : ROUEN
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___ Khan : AGA
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Shot, e.g. : AMMO
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They do the thinking : CEREBRA
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Superiors : ABBESSES
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Bar at night, perhaps : ROOST
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President's testament? : WILSONSWILL
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Annex : ELL
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Banker types : MONEYMEN
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London gallery : TATE
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Spring time in Lisbon : MAIO
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Boston's Bobby : ORR
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___ Prayer : LORDS
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Leave a mark on : SCAR
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Big garden products brand : ORTHO
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Look into again, as a case : REOPEN
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President's takeover? : COOLIDGESCOUP
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Misjudge : ERR
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Fictional weaver : MARNER
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Mouths : ORA
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Does high-tech surgery, in a way : LASES
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One of the Brady bunch : MARCIA
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Baby's pastime : PEEKABOO
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Protected bird : EGRET
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President's weapon? : BUCHANANSCANNON
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Rice-___ : ARONI
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"...___ saw Elba" : EREI
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"Let ___ Cake" : EMEAT
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Bewilder : DAZE
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Part of a ship's bow : HAWSE
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Reddish-brown gem : SARD
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One-sided tilts : ROUTS
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Victory, to Wagner : SIEG
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Popular dog name : SHEP
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Easter egg hunt sight : PAIL
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Constellation animal : URSA
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Plan to take off : DIET
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Angora : MOHAIR
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Sound reveille : AROUSE
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Gives, old-style : DOWS
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Chemical suffix : ANE
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The mornings after : MORROWS
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Early infant: Var. : PREMIE
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Some shades : RAYBANS
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Kind of liner : OCEAN
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"Swiss Family Robinson" author Johann : WYSS
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President's fog? : HAYESHAZE
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Nikita's successor : ALEXEI
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President's beam? : REAGANSRAY
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El ___ : PASO
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Airing : ONTV
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Link : NEXUS
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Noted jazz bandleader : SUNRA
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Nordrhein-Westfalen city : ESSEN
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Hardly stimulating : VAPID
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Bouquet : AROMA
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Surprisingly cold : NIPPY
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Busy one : BEE
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Etiquette subjects : NONOS
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Emerald City V.I.P., with "the" : WIZ
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Bluebloods : ELITE
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Get hot under the collar? : ROAST
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Some rtes. : TPKS
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Upswing : RISE
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Ape : MIMIC
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Pink-slip : AXE
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Old-fashioned heating devices : ETNAS
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Apprehend : NAB
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Aloof ones : SNOBS
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Prefix with modulator : NEURO
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Stammerer's phrase : IMEAN
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The 21st, e.g.: Abbr. : CEN
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Dinner for the Cratchits : GOOSE
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Mercury model : SABLE
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Electrical unit : REL
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Goop : GEL
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Hardwear? : ARMOR
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Often-recited Christmas poet : MOORE
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President's line? : MONROESROW
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Pitcher : EWER
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Unwanted coat? : RIND
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Honor : AWARD
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Snippet : BIT
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Alliance until 1977 : SEATO
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Root of diplomacy : ELIHU
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Single-master : SLOOP
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President's article of apparel? : TYLERSTIE
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Flight path : STAIR
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Fed. holiday, often : MON
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"Happy Days" father, informally : MRC
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Less available : SCARCER
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Actress Braga : SONIA
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Maid : CLEANER
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Expo '70 site : OSAKA
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Shows pride in one's appearance : PREENS
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Corsage staple : ORCHID
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Attacks : GOESAT
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Founds : ERECTS
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Spanish actress Carmen ___ : MAURA
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Mother of Judah : LEAH
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Where Shah Jahan is entombed : AGRA
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U.K. honors : MBES
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French tire : PNEU
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Common conjunctions : ANDS
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Sons of, to a sabra : BNAI
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Seep : OOZE
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Standard force : ONEG
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"Yo te ___" : AMO

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

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