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New York Times, Thursday, December 21, 2000

Author:
Manny Nosowsky
Editor:
Will Shortz
39-Across : Select speedy news-gatherers?
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Manny Nosowsky

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 74, Blocks: 34 Missing: {FXZ} Spans: 1 This is puzzle # 120 for Mr. Nosowsky. Thursday freshness: 61%
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© 2000, The New York Times12/21/0 ( No. 18,671 )
Across
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French registry listings : NOMS
5
Rule opposed by Gandhi : RAJ
8
"Gesundheit!" evoker : AHCHOO
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Before long : INAWHILE
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Dover neighbor : CALAIS
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Drop in : COMEOVER
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Govt. investments : TBILLS
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Big-shouldered game bird? : HUMPBACKQUAIL
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Inspiration for Yeats : ERATO
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Money in China : YUAN
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It's tied at the back : OBI
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Woebegone : SAD
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Inn serving : ALE
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Pocketful of dough : WAD
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Challenge authority : SASS
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Greenish-yellow pear : BOSC
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Artful Dodger? : REESE
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Select speedy news-gatherers? : PICKQUICKPAPERS
42
Pianist Claudio : ARRAU
43
Shoelaces : TIES
44
Gray area: Abbr. : ANAT
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21-Across, for one : DEA
46
Period in the earth's history : EON
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Artful Dodger, e.g. : DIP
50
Subj. for skeptics : ESP
51
"... maids all in ___" : AROW
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Smidgens : IOTAS
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Is not apt to write right? : HASAWEAKQUILL
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Picturesque : SCENIC
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Mistreatment : ILLUSAGE
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"___ be the day!" : THATLL
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Good source for Vitamin C : LIMETREE
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Yam user? : POPEYE
68
Telecommunications acronym : LAN
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Cutty ___ : SARK
Down
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Cubbyhole : NICHE
2
"We're ___ way!" : ONOUR
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Bambino watcher : MAMMA
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Thoroughly searched : SWEPT
5
Horse-racing Hall-of-Famer ___ Ridge : RIVA
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1960's P.M. ___ Douglas-Home : ALEC
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Uneven : JERKY
8
De facto : ACTUAL
9
Slow Cuban dance : HABANERA
10
Mid-2nd-century date : CLII
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Frightening time : HALLOWEEN
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Standard stuff : OIL
13
1940's spy org. : OSS
15
Wanderers : HOBOS
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Relative of "honked" : QUACKED
24
Port on the Shatt-al-Arab : BASRA
25
Explanation preceder : IDEST
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Egypt's ___ Simbel : ABU
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"Stop procrastinating!" : DOITNOW
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Digger : SPADE
32
Buenos ___ : AIRES
33
Dump : SCRAPHEAP
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Relative of reggae : SKA
36
Poli ___ : SCI
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Smog-regulating grp. : EPA
40
How a stomach might react to strange food : QUEASILY
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Kind of particle : PSI
47
Answer giver : ORACLE
49
Ballet step on tiptoe without bending the knee : PIQUE
52
"One Touch of Venus" composer : WEILL
54
Bumps : OUSTS
55
Pageant wear : TIARA
56
Popular early serials writer : ALGER
57
Well-groomed : SLEEK
59
Money to play with : ANTE
60
Others, to Octavian : ALIA
61
J train? : KLMN
62
Fuel additive brand : STP
63
Comedienne Margaret : CHO

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