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Round Robin

New York Times, Sunday, April 2, 1995

Author:
Norman S. Wizer
Editor:
Will Shortz
72-Across : More antsy
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Norman S. Wizer

This puzzle:

Rows: 21, Columns: 21 Words: 136, Blocks: 76 Missing: {FJQXZ} This is puzzle # 23 for Mr. Wizer. Sunday freshness: 16%
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© 1995, The New York Times4/2/95 ( No. 16,581 )
Across
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Equivalent : SAME
5
Widened at the top, as an urn : EVASE
10
Former : LATE
14
Beer, informally : SUDS
18
Watergate prosecutor Jaworski : LEON
19
"Coming of Age" locale : SAMOA
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Images : ICONS
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Pique : SNIT
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Anglo-Saxon toiler : ESNE
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Film director Rene : CLAIR
25
Slew : BUNCH
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Irish author O'Brien : EDNA
27
Period : DOT
28
Word chain #1 (12 wds., coming full circle) : HOUSEPARTYLINEDRIVEWAYSIDEKICKBACKHANDOVERNIGHTCOURT
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Cackleberry : EGG
32
Bugbears, in Brighton : SPECTRES
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Charlotte and others : RAES
35
Subways : METROS
37
Drays : CARTS
38
Obscure : BLUR
40
Like Pindar's work : ODIC
41
Ill-fated flier of myth : ICARUS
43
Word chain #2 (7 wds., coming full circle) : BOATYARDARMCHAIRPOSTROADSHOW
46
Flags : DROOPS
49
Beat poet Gregory : CORSO
50
E.T.O. period : WWII
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First name in 50's politics : ADLAI
53
Seine scene : VUE
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Addition : ELL
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Singer Laine et al. : CLEOS
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Eastern inn : SERAI
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Turns abruptly : VEERS
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A bit overweight : STOUTISH
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Entertain : DIVERT
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Viscounts superiors : EARLS
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Secures : SHUTS
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Pay dirt : ORE
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Catty remarks : MEOWS
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Confidence scheme : STING
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More antsy : EDGIER
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Architects : CREATORS
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Pukalani porch : LANAI
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Gullywashers : RAINS
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Discreetly cautious : CHARY
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Contemporary architect : PEI
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Delivery initials : UPS
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Baby admonitions : NONOS
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It can be gotten out of bed : COAL
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Trail : SCENT
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Yield : RETURN
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What players on the bench need? : PIANOS
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Downwind : ALEE
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Have ___ good authority : ITON
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Fancy Dans : DUDES
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Peace talks city : GENEVA
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Beginning of the XIII century : MCCI
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In a calm manner : SERENELY
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Hgt. : ALT
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Bishopric : SEE
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Cracker spread : PATE
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Cliffside home : AERIE
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Certain Slav : CROAT
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Hot rock : LAVA
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Summers in Montreal : ETES
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Kennel cries : YELPS
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Headdress : TIARA
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Hebrew measure : OMER
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Membership on an exchange : SEAT
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Biblical verb : DOST
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Ship launcher? : HELEN
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Girls' magazine : TEEN
Down
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Coasts : SLEDS
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Fabulous fellow : AESOP
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Solitaire card game : MONTECARLO
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Chemical suffix : ENE
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Armed protectors : ESCORTS
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Esteems : VALUES
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Accumulate : AMASS
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Fabric for Francoise : SOIE
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Frontier sheriff : EARP
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Archives : LIBRARY
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Crucial : ACUTE
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June awards : TONYS
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Env. stuffer : ENCL
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Mariner's reading : SSE
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Secret : UNDERCOVER
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Wild dog : DINGO
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Single attenders : STAGS
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Japanese port city : SHIMODA
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In ___ (bogged down) : ARUT
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Train components : CARS
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Madre's brother : TIO
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___ de Boulogne (Parisian park) : BOIS
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Medieval French poem : LAI
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Freezes over : ICES
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Popular pistol : COLT
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Swiss river : AARE
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Knitting stitch : PURL
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Mtg. : SESS
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"Unforgiven," e.g. : WESTERN
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Verbatim : LITERAL
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New York inst. : LIU
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Originates : SIRES
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For or what follower : EVER
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Part of 14-Down : EAST
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Annapolis sch. : USNA
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Rub out : DOIN
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Done, to Donne : OER
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Put-down : SLUR
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Record : TAPE
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Lipton product : INSTANTTEA
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Essential part : GIST
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Magic entree : OPENSESAME
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Barr's Cabinet successor : RENO
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Goes unused : SITS
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Not the most sophisticated humor : CORN
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Prescribed dosage : ONEADAY
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70's TV "___ Sharkey" : CPO
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D-Day city : CAEN
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Little: Suffix : ULE
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Most afflicted : SICKEST
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Pertaining to hearing : OTIC
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1606 play of the Shakespeare apocrypha, with "The" : PURITAN
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Metric area measure : DECARE
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Stares : GAPES
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Puff up : ELATE
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Actress Thomas : MARLO
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Salsa companion : CHIPS
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Toast : SKOAL
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Embankment : LEVEE
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Ache : YEARN
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Scholarship criterion : NEED
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Growth hormone: Abbr. : ACTH
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Soft cheese : BRIE
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Educated guess: Abbr. : EST
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Fate : LOT

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 6 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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