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New York Times, Friday, April 22, 1994

Author:
A.J. Santora
Editor:
Will Shortz
29-Across : Droll 1993 best seller
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A. J. Santora

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 74, Blocks: 40 Missing: {JQXZ} Spans: 2 This is puzzle # 191 for Mr. Santora. Friday freshness: 3%
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© 1994, The New York Times4/22/94 ( No. 16,236 )
Across
1
Hopeless : ALLUP
6
Where the tiller is : AFT
9
Zingers : MOTS
13
Free : LOOSE
14
Colorado skiing mecca : VAIL
16
Not right : AWRY
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How natives communicate : INTHEVERNACULAR
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Type of mail : METERED
21
Mighty mite : ATOM
22
___ Rabbit : BRER
23
Rebuffs : NOS
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Sort of : INAWAY
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Droll 1993 best seller : SEINLANGUAGE
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"The proof of the pudding ___..." : ISIN
34
Foofaraw : ADO
35
Seed : SOW
36
Dressing-down : TONGUELASHING
41
Actor Holm : IAN
42
Old B'way sign : SRO
43
Latch ___ : ONTO
44
Not the secretive sort : BLABBERMOUTH
49
Innumerable : MYRIAD
50
Yearbook classmates: Abbr. : SRS
51
To live, to Livy : ESSE
55
Richard Harris movie of 1977 : ORCA
57
Hornless : ACEROUS
59
Communicating (with) : ONSPEAKINGTERMS
63
Mr. Hulot's creator : TATI
64
Cabal : RING
65
"___ e Core" (1954 pop song) : ANEMA
66
On ___ (freelancer's terms) : SPEC
67
Mamie Eisenhower, ___ Doud : NEE
68
Wanderer : STRAY
Down
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MacLaine's "Out on ___" : ALIMB
2
Individualist : LONER
3
Soprano Lehmann : LOTTE
4
Heralds : USHERSIN
5
Look searchingly : PEER
6
Photographer Richard : AVEDON
7
Kind of cry : FAR
8
Actress Louise : TINA
9
Tribesmen in the film "Simba" : MAUMAU
10
Wise one : OWL
11
Singing syllable : TRA
12
Neighbor of Leb. : SYR
15
Hispanic community : LATINOS
18
"I came," to Caesar : VENI
19
Reps. and Sens. : CONG
24
Lillehammer events : SLALOMS
26
"Rome ___ built in a day" : WASNT
27
Part of old discotheque names : AGOGO
28
Hedge shrub : YEW
30
H.S. course : ENG
31
Palindromic lady : ADA
32
Three-time World Cup winner : ITALY
33
Sub detector : SONAR
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It's sold in lots : USEDCAR
38
Bungle : ERR
39
On a roll : HOT
40
Native : INHERENT
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Computer co. : IBM
45
Spike Lee's "Malcolm X," e.g. : BIOPIC
46
Uncover : BARE
47
Old English royal house : ORANGE
48
New London grp. : USCG
52
More bruised : SORER
53
Diploma word : SUMMA
54
New Republic piece : ESSAY
56
Related : AKIN
58
Greek letters : ETAS
59
Military sch. : OTS
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Rest : NAP
61
Genevieve, e.g. : STE
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Bach's "Partita ___ Minor" : INE

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