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FILM PARADE

New York Times, Sunday, December 31, 2006

Author:
Elizabeth C. Gorski
Editor:
Will Shortz
106-Across : Ghost
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Elizabeth C. Gorski

This puzzle:

Rows: 23, Columns: 23 Words: 168, Blocks: 94 Missing: {Z} This is puzzle # 150 for Ms. Gorski. Sunday freshness: 69%
Notepad: Note: When this puzzle has been completed, the following answers will form a progression: 76A, 10D, 112A, 22A, 51A, 15D, 37A, 86D, 97A, 62D and 131A.
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© 2006, The New York Times12/31/6 ( No. 20,872 )
Across
1
Sharp competitor : RCA
4
"Do ___ to eat a peach?": Eliot : IDARE
9
German link : UND
12
Represent, as in legal matters : ACTFOR
18
Ectomorphic : LEAN
19
Worker with a chair : BARBER
20
Be a make-up artist? : LIE
21
Red fluorescent dye: Var. : EOSINE
22
1954 film set in 16th-century Japan : SEVENSAMURAI
24
Old cable inits. : TNN
25
They may get into a jam : GUAVAS
26
Low digits : TOES
27
Elite groups : OLIGARCHIES
29
About : INRE
30
Many garden plantings : ANNUALS
32
Most broad? : HAMMIEST
34
Wide shoe spec : EEE
37
1981 Alan Alda comedy, with "The" : FOURSEASONS
42
Underground network : ROOTS
43
Diplomat Silas : DEANE
45
Flip (out) : FREAK
46
Jubilant : ELATED
48
Barely beat : NIP
49
Director Welles : ORSON
50
Stockholm flier : SAS
51
1982 Dudley Moore tearjerker : SIXWEEKS
54
British gun : STEN
55
In a sardonic way : WRYLY
56
Blood line : AORTA
57
Goldman ___ : SACHS
59
Pre-Q queue : MNOP
60
Some accents : BROGUES
63
Bad beginning? : MAL
66
Prof.'s helpers : TAS
67
More manly-chested : HAIRIER
70
Charged : RANAT
71
"Yeah, that'll happen!" : DREAMON
73
"All the Things You Are" composer : KERN
74
Avian meat : EMU
75
Wordsworth works : ODES
76
1983 Charles Bronson thriller : TENTOMIDNIGHT
79
Symbol : ICON
80
Fed. medical research group : NIH
81
Fey of "30 Rock" : TINA
82
Supremos : LEADERS
83
QB Favre : BRETT
84
Child's activity? : COOKING
86
Candy holder : TIN
87
Madrid Mrs. : SRA
88
Browns slowly : BRAISES
90
Roman man : UOMO
91
"___ new?" : WHATS
93
Fights : BOUTS
94
Pang : THROE
96
Tale : YARN
97
1990 sequel to "Chinatown," with "The" : TWOJAKES
101
Half of a 1955 merger: Abbr. : CIO
104
January 1 events : BOWLS
105
Colorado Indian : UTE
106
Ghost : SPIRIT
107
Instruments with keys : MOOGS
109
Off : AMISS
110
Christopher who wrote "Still Me" : REEVE
112
1988 baseball flick : EIGHTMENOUT
115
Emeritus: Abbr. : RET
116
In an odd way : QUIRKILY
119
Magazine success : RENEWAL
120
Cart : HAUL
122
Subscription card option : BILLMELATER
127
Feminine suffix : ENNE
128
The Caribbean's ___ Islands : CAYMAN
130
Suffix with glass : INE
131
1987 Peter Falk crime caper : HAPPYNEWYEAR
133
"Quantum Healing" author : CHOPRA
134
Some linemen: Abbr. : RGS
135
Heraldic silver : ARGENT
136
Towel embroidery : HERS
137
Reasons : CAUSES
138
Summer clock setting: Abbr. : DST
139
Entangle : SNARE
140
Gridiron figs. : YDS
Down
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Incomes : REVENUES
2
Pause in verse : CAESURA
3
Cape ___, Mass. : ANN
4
"___ Said" (Neil Diamond hit) : IAMI
5
Knock out, say : DRUG
6
Start of a spell : ABRA
7
Tail end : REAR
8
"Love Story" author Segal : ERICH
9
Last month : ULTIMO
10
1995 Hugh Grant farce : NINEMONTHS
11
Rock stats : DENSITIES
12
Auspices : AEGIS
13
With 81-Down, tradition suggested by this puzzle's theme : COUNTDOWNIN
14
Bygone despot : TSAR
15
1970 Jack Nicholson picture : FIVEEASYPIECES
16
___ lark : ONA
17
Thing in court : RES
18
Original title of Beethoven's "Fidelio" : LEONORA
19
Rafter's wood : BALSA
22
Crooks : STAFFS
23
Dover delicacy : SOLE
28
Not liquidy : HARD
31
Begins courting : ASKSOUT
33
Cable staple since 1979 : ESPN
35
Organic compound : ENOL
36
Choosing-up word : EENY
38
"___ needle pulling thread" ("The Sound of Music" lyric) : SEWA
39
Flamenco cheer : OLE
40
Rob Roy's refusal : NAE
41
Co. shares : STK
44
Overthrowing, e.g. : ERROR
47
Twisty curve : ESS
52
Temper : IRE
53
Old IBM PC's : XTS
54
Price reader : SCANNER
56
Turkish V.I.P.'s : AGAS
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Feuding (with) : ATODDS
59
Gas station adjunct, often : MART
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It may go for a couple of bucks : BRONC
61
Dashboard feature : RADIO
62
1932 romance with Maurice Chevalier : ONEHOURWITHYOU
63
Actor with a mohawk : MRT
64
Kind of harp : AEOLIAN
65
Elegy : LAMENT
67
Laugh sound : HEH
68
Not play it straight : EMOTE
69
Peewees : RUNTS
71
Kind of test : DNA
72
War stat : MIA
73
Metric wts. : KGS
76
Baseball's Martinez : TINO
77
Part of E.S.L.: Abbr. : ENG
78
Bank offering : IRA
79
It's surrounded by white : IRIS
81
See 13-Down : TIMESSQUARE
83
Some cricketers : BATSMEN
85
Popular smokes : KOOLS
86
1999 film set in the Persian Gulf : THREEKINGS
88
___ choy : BOK
89
Parisian way : RUE
91
Flamingo, e.g. : WATERBIRD
92
Speedway letters : STP
93
Huge financial loss : BATH
94
It'll give you a lift : TBAR
95
Instruction to a chauffeur : HOME
96
Gagarin in space : YURI
98
Golf's Michelle : WIE
99
"... ___ quit!" : ORI
100
Springy dance : JIG
101
Joint proprietors : COOWNERS
102
Cold-blooded pets : IGUANAS
103
Horse handler : OSTLER
106
Unload : SELL
108
Like a Cyclops : ONEEYED
111
Most loathsome : VILEST
113
1545 council site : TRENT
114
No more than : MERE
117
Arm parts : ULNAS
118
Jewish orgs. : YMHAS
121
Concert gear : AMPS
123
Bring in : EARN
124
Org. for women drivers : LPGA
125
Copycat : APER
126
Actress Daly : TYNE
128
Junk bond rating : CCC
129
"I see!" : AHA
132
"___ me?" : WHY

Answer summary:
11 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 7 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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