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New York Times, Monday, March 13, 2006

Author:
Bernice Gordon
Editor:
Will Shortz
20-Across : Vain
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Bernice Gordon

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 40 Missing: {JQZ} Spans: 1 This is puzzle # 139 for Ms. Gordon. Monday freshness: 49%
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© 2006, The New York Times3/13/6 ( No. 20,579 )
Across
1
Role to play : PART
5
Poison ivy woe : ITCH
9
In ___ (not yet born) : UTERO
14
Worker in the garden : HOER
15
Connecting point : NODE
16
Word before and after say : NEVER
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"My Friend ___" of 50's TV : IRMA
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Mangled : TORN
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Words before "So sue me!" : ILIED
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Hurried : HASTY
24
It "has fleas" in an old ditty : MYDOG
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A few : SOME
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Forward flow : ONRUSH
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"That was bad of you!" : TSK
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Claw : TALON
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Pay the kitty : ANTE
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Alan of "M*A*S*H" : ALDA
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French cubist Fernand ___ : LEGER
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Big ___ (circus) : TOP
46
Mischief-maker : RASCAL
49
Hornswoggle : HOAX
51
Poet T. S. ___ : ELIOT
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Apportions (out) : METES
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Powdered cleaning agent : BORAX
63
Guy with an Irish Rose, on old Broadway : ABIE
64
Delete : XOUT
65
Question to the Lord in Matthew 26 : ISITI
66
Shout : YELL
67
Prefix with scope : ENDO
68
Goes a few rounds in the ring (with) : BOXES
69
Not delete : STET
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Glimpsed : SEEN
Down
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Look for people to scam online : PHISH
2
Major blood conveyor : AORTA
3
Story-telling uncle : REMUS
4
Pieces of land to develop : TRACTS
5
Put ___ words : INTO
6
Bugs Bunny or Wile E. Coyote : TOON
7
Computer information holder : CDROM
8
Funnyman Youngman : HENNY
9
A choir may sing in it : UNISON
10
Old Western Union delivery : TELEGRAM
11
Foul doings : EVIL
12
Where a yacht might run aground : REEF
13
City reg. : ORD
21
Capital of Japan before 22-Down : KYOTO
22
Old name for Tokyo : EDO
26
Homo sapiens : MAN
27
Airline to Tel Aviv : ELAL
29
Condo, e.g. : UNIT
30
Normandy invasion town : STLO
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"S.O.S.!" : HELP
32
Nicholas II was the last one : TSAR
33
Room in una casa : SALA
34
See 59-Down : KIDS
36
Be in the red : OWE
37
"And stay by my cradle till morning is ___" : NIGH
40
Mangle : LACERATE
41
Prefix with classical : NEO
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Many an Arthur Miller work : DRAMA
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One of the Carringtons on "Dynasty" : ALEXIS
48
___ Fail, Irish coronation stone : LIA
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Son of Darius I : XERXES
52
Green-lights : OKAYS
53
Lhasa's land : TIBET
55
Hearty steak : TBONE
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Give the slip : ELUDE
57
Attack : SETON
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Neither good nor bad : SOSO
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Cereal for 34-Down : TRIX
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Alexandria's river : NILE
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Go soft, as butter : MELT
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Baby's dinner neckwear : BIB

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