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NAMES, NAMES, NAMES

New York Times, Sunday, February 15, 2004

Author:
Derrick Niederman
Editor:
Will Shortz
115-Across : Most basic
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Derrick Niederman

This puzzle:

Rows: 21, Columns: 21 Words: 140, Blocks: 78 Missing: none – this is a pangram. Spans: 1 This is puzzle # 6 for Mr. Niederman. Sunday freshness: 39%
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© 2004, The New York Times2/15/4 ( No. 19,822 )
Across
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Like the names at 33-, 51-, 61-, 73-, 93-, 101- and 120-Across : THREEPART
10
First alert, often : BARK
14
Put on a spit : IMPALE
20
Welcome abroad : BIENVENUE
21
"That's ___!" (angry retort) : ALIE
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"The Music Man" woman : MARIAN
23
Like many driveways : ASPHALTED
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A security : NOTE
25
Stat : PRONTO
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Dole (out) : LADLE
27
Further condition to 1-Across : EQUALLENGTHS
29
1929 Literature Nobelist : MANN
30
"Mon ___!" : DIEU
32
Substitute in the kitchen : OLEO
33
Author and longtime professor of writing at Princeton : JOYCECAROLOATES
39
Hunters' needs: Abbr. : LICS
43
Inventeur's need : IDEE
44
___ Awards (annual prizes for African-American achievement) : EBONY
45
Fruits de ___ : MER
46
Bob Dylan song "___ for You" : IFNOT
47
Supplied : FED
48
Boatload : SLEW
49
Final bid : PASS
50
Carol starter : ADESTE
51
Actress whose great-grandfather was a British P.M. : HELENABONHAMCARTER
55
Tastiness : SAPOR
58
Soccer star Hamm : MIA
59
See 96-Across : TAT
60
Bauxite, e.g. : ORE
61
Three-time French Open champion : ARANTXASANCHEZVICARIO
69
"Delta of Venus" author : NIN
70
Four CD's : MDC
71
Part of a rainbow : HUE
72
"___ Gold" (1997 film) : ULEES
73
1988 and 1992 Olympic track gold medalist) : JACKIEJOYNERKERSEE
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Not yet shaped : UNHEWN
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Little hopper : TOAD
83
Razor-billed birds : AUKS
84
"This Old House" address : PBS
87
"That's ___" (cautionary Roy Orbison song) : ANONO
88
Since, informally : CUZ
89
Bar offering : SUSHI
91
Suffix with pluto- : CRAT
92
Stock market overseer: Abbr. : NASD
93
Six-time U.S. Open winner : CHRISEVERTLLOYD
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With 59-Across, a knock : RATA
99
Stone made of silicon and oxygen : OPAL
100
They move shells : OARS
101
"Slaves of New York" actress : MARYBETHHURT
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Standard deviation symbol : SIGMA
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Knight from Atlanta : GLADYS
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President Taft's alma mater : YALE
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Stretches : ELONGATES
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Most basic : MEREST
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Annoyer : PILL
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Opposite of chic : DOWDINESS
118
Minuscule : TEENSY
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Oil of ___ : OLAY
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He developed the "Three Principles of the People" : SUNYATSEN
Down
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TV schedule abbr. : TBA
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Greetings : HIS
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Shown again : REPLAYED
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Better : ENHANCE
5
Daughter of Poseidon who was the ancestor of a prophetic clan : EVADNE
6
Educational grant named for a senator : PELL
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Pot foundation : ANTE
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St.-Honoré, in Paris : RUE
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Spread, as hay : TED
10
Shakespearean haunter : BANQUO
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Former Expos manager : ALOU
12
Girl in a Beatles song : RITA
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Stem-to-stern item : KEEL
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Drive : IMPEL
15
W.W. I battle locale : MARNE
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Woods, e.g. : PROGOLFER
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Aretha Franklin's "___ No Way" : AINT
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Wood strip : LATH
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1961 space chimp : ENOS
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Wriggling : EELY
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___ Rios, Ecuador : LOS
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Calculator button : MODE
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Go under : DROWN
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Kind of chamber : ION
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Peter Pan rival : JIF
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Theater turn-off? : CELL
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Busy as ___ : ABEE
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With all agreeing, after "to" : AMAN
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Musical John : TESH
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Bogus : ERSATZ
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Awaiting : INSTORE
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Circle : COTERIE
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Pioneer products : STEREOS
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Moscow's home: Abbr. : IDA
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Spanish muralist : SERT
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Stole : POACHED
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Curtain-rising time : ACTI
51
Doll : HON
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Grp. pledged to "do no harm" : AMA
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Storage place : BIN
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Dallas hoopster : MAV
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Western Hemisphere city founded in 1521 : SANJUAN
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Writer Huffington : ARIANNA
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Mexico's Villa and others : PANCHOS
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Comic superheroes : XMEN
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Part of speech: Abbr. : ADJ
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Nix : SCOTCH
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Ben ___ : HUR
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Cry on opening a tax bill : EEK
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Hints : CUES
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Nog ingredient, maybe : ALE
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N.H.L. Hall-of-Famer who played for Montreal : KENDRYDEN
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W.W. II battle site, for short : IWO
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"___ Hit Parade" : YOUR
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Many a part in "The Pianist" : NAZI
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Stand : EASEL
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Essen's river : RUHR
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Sketch : SKIT
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Divides fairly : PRORATES
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Seattle Slew and others : BAYS
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Regular: Abbr. : STD
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Ninth in a series: Abbr. : SEPT
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Duke rival, for short : UVA
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Noisy : CLAMANT
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Jazzman : CAT
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Very much : SORELY
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Open-air arcade : LOGGIA
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Gulf : ABYSS
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Disagreeable : TESTY
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Bus. heads : MGMT
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Nautical direction : ALEE
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Coin grade : RARE
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Syringe : HYPO
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"Huzzah!," e.g. : HAIL
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"The Producers" role : ULLA
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Distributed : SOWN
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Home of the Brickyard 400 : INDY
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Mag. positions : EDS
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Singer Reed : LOU
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Like the Capitol bldg. vis-à-vis the White House : ESE
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Nine-digit ID : SSN

Answer summary:
11 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 7 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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