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New York Times, Wednesday, November 5, 2003

Author:
Nancy Kavanaugh
Editor:
Will Shortz
18-Across : Pitcher's success
TotalDebutLatest
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Nancy Kavanaugh

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 40 Missing: {JQXY} Spans: 2 Puzzle has duplicate clues. This is puzzle # 10 for Ms. Kavanaugh. Wednesday freshness: 2%
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© 2003, The New York Times11/5/3 ( No. 19,720 )
Across
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Pottery fragment : SHARD
6
Friday player : WEBB
10
Rooster feature : COMB
14
Giblets part : LIVER
15
Start of a fortuneteller's response : ISEE
16
Laugh heartily : ROAR
17
Dress style : ALINE
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Pitcher's success : SALE
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Cornell of Cornell University : EZRA
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___ West (life preserver) : MAE
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___-de-France : ILE
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Mai ___ : TAI
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Dosage, e.g. : AMOUNT
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Worked the soil : HOED
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Put in : ADD
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Allergy symptom : RASH
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Pink lady ingredient : GIN
39
Sitter's headache : BRAT
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39, perpetually, to Jack Benny : AGE
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Port in Yemen : ADEN
43
Noxious emanation : MIASMA
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Mack of old TV : TED
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Director Lee : ANG
49
Helpful connections : INS
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Yearn : ACHE
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Ear-related : OTIC
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___ lunch : OUTTO
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Part of WATS : AREA
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Onetime sister magazine of Penthouse : OMNI
64
Gunpowder component : NITER
65
Stationery store buy : REAM
66
Martin of the Rat Pack : DEAN
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Mother's aunt, e.g. : ENATE
Down
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Verbal assault : SLAM
2
Hawaiian port : HILO
3
Tel ___ : AVIV
4
___ Coty, Charles de Gaulle's predecessor : RENE
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"Get real!" : DREAMON
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Hoped : WISHED
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Actor Morales : ESAI
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Lux. neighbor : BELG
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60's hairdo : BEEHIVE
10
Crinkly fabric : CREPE
11
Exude : OOZE
12
Colt carrier? : MARE
13
Wire nail : BRAD
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Mr. Republican : TAFT
22
Runners carry it : SLED
25
Purity unit : KARAT
26
Publicist's concern : IMAGE
27
Was a buttinsky : NOSED
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"Boy, am I dumb!" : DUH
29
Safari sighting : RHINO
30
It's charged : ION
31
Anklebones : TARSI
32
Rhett's last words : ADAMN
33
Entry need, maybe : IDTAG
38
Attain : GET
39
Dickensian epithet : BAH
41
Cornerstone word : ANNO
42
Boxer's diet : DOGFOOD
43
Make whole : MEND
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"Fini!" : ITSDONE
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Pellagra preventer : NIACIN
48
Special Forces unit : ATEAM
50
"I kid you not" speaker : PAAR
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Big plot : ACRE
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Moon of Saturn : RHEA
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"Don't look ___!" : ATME
54
1492 vessel : NINA
55
Render useless : RUIN
56
Blues singer James : ETTA
57
Editor's mark : STET
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Like some losers : SORE

Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later.

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