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MOVIES YOU MAY HAVE MISSED

New York Times, Sunday, December 16, 2007

Author:
David J. Kahn and Steve Kahn
Editor:
Will Shortz
90-Across : Like the letters on a dreidel
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This puzzle:

Rows: 21, Columns: 21 Words: 140, Blocks: 76 Missing: {QXZ} Puzzle has duplicate clues. This is puzzle # 125 for Mr. Kahn. This is puzzle # 7 for Mr. Kahn. Sunday freshness: 16%
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© 2007, The New York Times12/16/7 ( No. 21,222 )
Across
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Current : STREAM
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One making a delivery : MOM
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"___ fan tutte" : COSI
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Get set : JELL
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Fished with a baited line : TROLLED
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Garden figure : EVE
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"Too bad" : ALAS
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Cookie introduced in 1912 : OREO
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Movie critic Kael : PAULINE
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Prison movie about a medical miracle? : DEADMANWAKING
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Wine made from the moscato bianco grape : ASTI
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O.K.: Var. : INDORSE
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Global warming? : DETENTE
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Tim Allen comedy about unionizing seasonal workers? : THESANTACAUSE
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Loser's cry : RATS
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"Born Under ___ Sign" (1960s blues album) : ABAD
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Monkey business : TRICKERY
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I.S.P. of note : AOL
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In addition : ATTHAT
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With 95-Down, investigate : SEE
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Court pseudonym : ROE
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Pay to play : ANTE
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Home of golf's Sony Open : OAHU
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Turn over : CEDE
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Prequel to "Reservoir Dogs?" : PUPFICTION
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Onetime host of "Classic Concentration" : TREBEK
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Home of Chennai : INDIA
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Airports : DROMES
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Judicial cover-ups? : ROBES
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"Answer the question" : YESORNO
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Tuscany city : SIENA
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Request to Vanna White : ANI
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Ingmar Bergman classic narrated by Jacques Cousteau? : THESEVENTHSEA
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Brick holder : HOD
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Scintilla : GRAIN
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"Out of Africa" author : DINESEN
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With 69-Down, not just hard of hearing : STONE
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Positive potential : UPSIDE
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Meal with bitter herbs : SEDER
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Cloud of gas and dust : NEBULA
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Chaplin comedy about a religious migration? : THEGODRUSH
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Attend : GOTO
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On and after : ASOF
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Funny Louis and others : NYES
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Conductor ___-Pekka Salonen : ESA
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Game resembling crazy eights : UNO
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Like the letters on a dreidel : HEBREW
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Kreskin claim : ESP
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Joan Baez's "Farewell, ___," written by Bob Dylan : ANGELINA
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"___ and Janis" (comic strip) : ARLO
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Part of the Old World : ASIA
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Chiller about glass-climbing reptiles? : SNAKESONAPANE
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Stamp : IMPRINT
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Private telephone channel : TIELINE
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"It's ___" (Pet Shop Boys hit) : ASIN
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Tom Cruise action thriller about a nasty argument? : WAROFTHEWORDS
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Embellishment : GILDING
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Thingum : ITEM
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Jealous Olympian : HERA
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Skull and Bones member, e.g. : ELI
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One heading down a slippery slope : SLEDDER
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Sonoma neighbor : NAPA
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Oaxaca women: Abbr. : SRAS
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Red ___ #2 : DYE
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Hens, but not roosters : LAYERS
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Parade honoree, for short : STPAT
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Refuse : TRASH
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Way to go : ROUTE
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Jazz guitar great Herb ___ : ELLIS
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Laila who dances in and out of the ring : ALI
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Sci-fi movie about gender discrimination? : MENINBACK
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French red : MEDOC
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Had thirds, maybe : OVERATE
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Meter or liter : MEASURE
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Pic taker : CAM
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Suffix with pay : OLA
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Nautical danger : SANDREEF
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"Honest!" : ISWEAR
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Good ones are cracked : JOKES
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Home of 1-Down : ERIN
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Advanced : LENT
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Expensive box : LOGE
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Toothed, botanically : DENTATE
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1950s TV name : DESI
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Part of D.A.: Abbr. : ATTY
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Pops : DAD
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"Delightful!" : AAH
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Creamy color : ECRU
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Keystone ___ : KOP
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Spoof about the soul of a fraternity? : ANIMAHOUSE
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Midwest native : OTOE
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Magnifier : LENS
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Singer ___ Neville : AARON
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Bogart/Bacall mystery about serious basement dampness? : THEBIGSEEP
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London Underground, with "the" : TUBE
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Intuited : SENSED
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Loads : ATON
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Other: Sp. : OTRA
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Medieval hymn start : DIES
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Awarded zero stars, say : PANNED
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Romeo's last words : IDIE
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Goalie's area : CREASE
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Chihuahua, por ejemplo : ESTADO
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Not wanting to fight, say : DOVISH
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Sister of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands : IRENE
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Itch : YEN
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County of Cooperstown, N.Y. : OTSEGO
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ID theft target : SSN
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Hotfooted it : HIED
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"My ___!" : HERO
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Turned down, in a way : ONLOW
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See 73-Across : DEAF
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Fixes : RIGS
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Winter lift? : TBAR
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___ Reader : UTNE
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M.D. : PHYS
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Lois Lane player of early TV, whose first name is a hint to this puzzle's theme : NOELNEILL
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Assemble again : REGATHER
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Operate : USE
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Pizzeria in Spike Lee's "Do the Right Thing" : SALS
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Assemblages : THRONGS
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Not shown : UNAIRED
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With nothing to hide : NAKEDLY
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Vampy wear : BOA
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"Like, no way!" : ASIF
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Odd shares : NINTHS
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See 44-Across : INTO
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"Just ___ thought!" : ASI
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Kitchen attraction : AROMA
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Pitcher of milk? : ELSIE
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___ wagon : PADDY
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In reserve : ASIDE
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Cowboy rival : NINER
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Many Rice grads: Abbr. : ENGRS
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Victor's cry : IWIN
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___ Hari : MATA
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Get set : PREP
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Disco ___ : ERA
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Had a life : WAS
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Clover locale : LEA

Answer summary:
9 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 4 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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