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New York Times, Friday, December 24, 1999

Author:
Brendan Emmett Quigley
Editor:
Will Shortz
17-Across : Like many modern computers
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531.631,16472%
Brendan Emmett Quigley

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 72, Blocks: 37 Missing: {HJZ} This is puzzle # 38 for Mr. Quigley. Friday freshness: 18%
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© 1999, The New York Times12/24/99 ( No. 18,308 )
Across
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Brown on the arms and the back of the neck : FARMERSTAN
11
Kind of capital : RISK
15
Weasel : EQUIVOCATE
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X-Games telecaster : ESPN
17
Like many modern computers : MULTIMEDIA
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Side of a fight that almost always loses : TORO
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Winnie ___ (famous plane) : MAE
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"1-2-3" singer Barry : LEN
21
Eight-line verse : TRIOLET
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La Guardia data: Abbr. : ETDS
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Flattery : OIL
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Conclusions : CODAS
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Red Cloud, for one : SIOUX
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No longer mint, in a way : CANCELED
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Mulligatawny ingredient : CURRY
35
Simpleton : BOOB
36
Needle : TEASE
38
Exercise : WIELD
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Raise the roof : YELL
43
Norse goddess of love : FREYA
45
Utter rapture : DELIRIUM
49
Class : GENRE
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1917 newsmaker : LENIN
52
Anemometer reading: Abbr. : VEL
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Baedeker of the Baedeker travel guides : KARL
55
Brisk : ALLEGRO
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You stand to lose it : LAP
60
Bon's opposite : MAL
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"See who ___" : ITIS
62
Headstone words : ANNODOMINI
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Harper's Weekly caricaturist : NAST
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Starter's call : READYSETGO
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___ perpetua (Idaho's motto) : ESTO
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Life of Riley : EASYSTREET
Down
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French women : FEMMES
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Like seals : AQUATIC
3
Excluded : RULEDOUT
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Prestigious sch. : MIT
5
Full of turpitude : EVIL
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Rival of Paris : ROMEO
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Like some routes through mountains : SCENIC
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Smidgen : TAD
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Fighting : ATIT
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Imminent : NEAR
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Upgrade the machinery : RETOOL
12
King Mark's bride : ISOLDE
13
Magazine feature : SPREAD
14
Difficult problems : KNOTS
22
Ross Sea sight : ICEBERG
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"Oh, what the hell" : SURE
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Kind of coat : LAB
29
Getting under one's skin? : XRAYING
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Rights org. since 1966 : NOW
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Do : COIF
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Nieuport's river : YSER
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Ransom ___ Olds : ELI
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Soup vegetable : LEEK
40
"Awesome!" : DYNAMITE
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1964 Murray Schisgal play : LUV
44
Set up : ARRANGE
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Flood-prone areas : DELTAS
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Beat the draft? : ENLIST
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Bamboozles : LIESTO
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It may have a hook : MELODY
50
Richardson of Nixon's Cabinet : ELLIOT
51
"I Believe" singer : LAINE
53
___-slipper : LADYS
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Dictionary notation : RARE
57
First to be called : ONEA
59
Put up : POST
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"If I Ruled the World" rapper : NAS
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Debussy subject : MER

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 2 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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