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New York Times, Saturday, February 5, 2000

Author:
Chuck Deodene
Editor:
Will Shortz
46-Across : "What ___!" ("That was rad!")
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Chuck Deodene

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 70, Blocks: 30 Missing: {FVXZ} This is puzzle # 27 for Mr. Deodene. Saturday freshness: 28%
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© 2000, The New York Times2/5/0 ( No. 18,351 )
Across
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Tunable drum : TABLA
6
Popular program in Huntsville, Ala. : SPACECAMP
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Outfit : EQUIP
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Light-mindedness? : PYROMANIA
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Bait alternative : LURES
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Puts in a jug : IMPRISONS
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Install, as flooring : LAYDOWN
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Mount first climbed in 1829 : ARARAT
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Actress Meyers : ARI
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Mixer : SOCIAL
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It may follow you : ARE
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Navel buildup : LINT
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Scythes : MOWS
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Steve ___ in "Family Matters" : URKEL
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Titicaca is one : LAGO
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Genesis grandson : ENOS
34
Gun emplacements : NESTS
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Drink in a frosted glass : MINTJULEP
38
Rubber, so to speak : TIRES
41
Coleridge work : RIME
42
Henchmen : APES
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"What ___!" ("That was rad!") : ARUSH
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Red sky, perhaps : OMEN
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Big jerk : YANK
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Syndicate : MOB
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"No problemo" : GLADTO
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Ashram founder's title : SRI
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Primitive : ANIMAL
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24/7 : NONSTOP
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Environs : LOCALAREA
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Knot : TIEUP
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Kamasutra focus : EROTICISM
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Very perceptive : ACUTE
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Consciousness : SENTIENCE
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Knife, maybe : PARER
Down
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Revelatory : TELLALL
2
Bubble sites : AQUARIA
3
Graveyard-shift work? : BURYING
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Schubert composition : LIED
5
Lhasa ___ (dogs) : APSOS
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Political flack's duty : SPINCONTROL
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Poe character Arthur Gordon ___ : PYM
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Ernst colleague : ARP
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Necklace stuff : CORAL
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OPEC V.I.P. : EMIR
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Familia dwelling : CASA
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Eskimo-inspired wear : ANORAKS
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Cairo skyline feature : MINARET
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Mellow tones : PASTELS
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19th Amendment beneficiaries : WOMEN
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Mt. Suribachi site : IWOJIMA
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What a fugitive may live under : ASSUMEDNAME
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Volumes : TOMES
30
Godard's "___ Femme Mariée" : UNE
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Service, as debt : REPAY
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Relative of -esque : ISH
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Slow, to a maestro : LENTO
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Treats in husks : TAMALES
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Mesabi yield : IRONORE
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Fateful crossing point : RUBICON
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Paris's Institut ___ : PASTEUR
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Traveling : ENROUTE
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Pilot : SKIPPER
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Candied, in cookery : GLACE
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Ready : ONTAP
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___ Stone, co-creator of "South Park" : MATT
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Others: Lat. : ALII
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Director Vittorio De ___ : SICA
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One-thousandth of a yen : RIN
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PC key : ESC

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