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Golly Gee

New York Times, Sunday, March 7, 1999

Author:
Randolph Ross
Editor:
Will Shortz
35-Across : Merchant ship
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Randolph Ross

This puzzle:

Rows: 21, Columns: 21 Words: 138, Blocks: 66 Missing: {CQXZ} This is puzzle # 47 for Mr. Ross. Sunday freshness: 99%
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© 1999, The New York Times3/7/99 ( No. 18,016 )
Across
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System of shorthand : GREGG
6
Have in the past : HAST
10
Palestinians : ARABS
15
Zip : NADA
19
Steinful : LAGER
20
Wrinkly fruit : UGLI
21
Ravel's "Trois Poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé," e.g. : NONET
22
Times past : ERAS
23
Type size : AGATE
24
Squeal of delight : GOODYGOODY
26
Indicator : SIGN
27
Mao's successor : DENG
28
Most moist : SOGGIEST
29
Put on again : RESTAGE
31
Big crop in Iowa : OATS
33
No-see-um : GNAT
34
One in a rush : HASTENER
35
Merchant ship : ARGOSY
38
Sits up on two legs, maybe : BEGS
39
Tamper with : RIG
40
Unethical items in the antique business : AGERS
41
A lot : LOADS
42
___ de combat : HORS
43
Identifying : PEGGING
45
Leapers : KANGAROOS
47
Cracked up : GIGGLED
48
Holiday drink : NOG
51
Least at peace : ANGRIEST
52
Poorer-fitting, in a way : BAGGIER
53
Didn't go straight : WOVE
54
Singing syllables : LALAS
55
Beans : NOGGINS
56
1994 Peace Nobelist : RABIN
57
Stand for : ABIDE
59
Sandwich holders : BAGGIES
60
"Holy cow!" : EGADS
61
Excessive ambition : GREED
62
Does many things at once : JUGGLES
63
"Fried Green Tomatoes" author : FLAGG
65
Pravda provider : TASS
66
Doesn't sit tight : WIGGLES
67
First mate of TV : GILLIGAN
70
York, for one: Abbr. : SGT
71
V.I.P.'s : BIGGIES
72
The best of times : GOLDENAGE
73
"Footloose" singer, 1984 : LOGGINS
74
"It's My Party" singer Lesley : GORE
75
Texas A & M player : AGGIE
76
Japanese-American : ISSEI
79
Race segment : LEG
80
Business suit shade : NAVY
81
City of an 1854 manifesto : OSTEND
82
Olios : MELANGES
84
Brush source : SAGE
85
Two-generation name in Indiana politics : BAYH
86
City on the Clyde : GLASGOW
87
Declaration before "to me" : ITSGREEK
89
Alike, in Alençon : EGAL
93
Der ___ (Adenauer) : ALTE
94
Addleheads : DINGALINGS
96
Words of wisdom : ADAGE
97
Dutch artist Jan van der ___ : MEER
98
Suffix with exped- : ITION
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Unworkable : NOGO
100
Old Venetian rulers : DOGES
101
Slips : ERRS
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California hockey player : SHARK
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___ point (embroidery stitch) : GROS
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Some molding profiles : OGEES
Down
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More than willing : GLAD
2
Latest thing : RAGE
3
William ___, Alaska's first 72-Down : EGAN
4
5
Post-univ. test : GRE
6
Science fiction awards : HUGOS
7
Wild-eyed : AGOG
8
Ones hiking through snow : SLOGGERS
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News : TIDINGS
10
Worse than jitters : ANGST
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Cheer : ROOT
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Enero to enero : ANO
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Makes limp and soiled : BEDRAGGLES
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Eye sores : STYES
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Savings : NESTEGG
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French rocket : ARIANE
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Macbeth's weapon : DAGGER
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Former SAG president and family : ASNERS
25
Voice votes : YEAS
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Mudhole : STY
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Last-ditch effort : STAND
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Went after : ASSAILED
34
Musical professor : HIGGINS
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Seltzer starter : ALKA
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Horse of a certain color : ROAN
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Most awkward : GANGLIEST
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Start up : BOOT
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Pro greats Jackson and White : REGGIES
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Pardner's mount : HOSS
43
Toes : PIGGIES
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"y," when compared : IER
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Stephen of "Citizen X" : REA
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Flocks : GAGGLES
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Absence of emotional complications : NOBAGGAGE
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"Art of Love" poet : OVID
50
D.D.E. and others : GENS
52
Mystifies : BOGGLES
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Modern diversionary political tactic : WAGGINGTHEDOG
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Like some doubts : NAGGING
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Like nothin' : REALEASY
57
Reps. : AGTS
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Crow : BRAG
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Prams : BUGGIES
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Manipulate : JIGGLEWITH
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Computer record : FILE
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Law degree : LLD
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Clown's need : WIG
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___ details : GORY
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Not fer : AGIN
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Scholarship criterion : NEED
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Spring sound : BOING
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See 3-Down : GOVERNOR
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Some drivers : LEASERS
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All choked up : GAGGING
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"Sure, count me in" : IMGAME
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Bear, so to speak : SELLER
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Roofing specialist : SLATER
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Pelé once played in it: Abbr. : NASL
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Symbol of strength : OAK
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"As ___ my witness" : GODIS
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Performed terribly : STANK
85
Kisses for Carlos : BESOS
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Fictional lab assistant : IGOR
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Breakfast name : EGGO
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Old-fashioned pledge : GAGE
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Miracle Mets lead-off man : AGEE
92
Discounted by : LESS
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Actress Peeples : NIA
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Trouble : ADO

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15 unique to this puzzle, 6 debuted here and reused later, 6 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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