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New York Times, Friday, April 9, 1999

Author:
Manny Nosowsky
Editor:
Will Shortz
31-Across : "Natural History" author
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Manny Nosowsky

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 72, Blocks: 31 Missing: {JQWXZ} This is puzzle # 86 for Mr. Nosowsky. Friday freshness: 30%
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© 1999, The New York Times4/9/99 ( No. 18,049 )
Across
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It challenges the imagination : ABSTRACTART
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Places to find tracks: Abbr. : LPS
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"Moll Flanders" author : DANIELDEFOE
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Pique : IRE
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Sabin development : ORALVACCINE
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Verify : VET
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Garden ___ : SAGE
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Incautious : HEEDLESS
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Alexander Calder form : STABILE
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Safe, on board : ALEE
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Kazakhstan, once: Abbr. : SSR
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Made go, in a way : OARED
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"Natural History" author : PLINY
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Shoshonean language : UTE
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They were once burned : BRAS
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"Reader, I married him" writer : BRONTE
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Stamp on a package : COD
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Suffix with ball or bass : OON
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"O Sole ___" : MIO
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People people, for short : EDS
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Man of choice : HOBSON
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Man around the house, maybe : HELP
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___ Tomé : SAO
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Book category : ADULT
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Lighter : BARGE
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Thesis intro? : SYN
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"___ make a long story short..." : SOTO
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People with licenses : DRIVERS
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Cabinet department : INTERIOR
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One for the road : HOBO
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Auto racer ___ Fabi : TEO
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Trusted : ONONESHONOR
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Halfway house? : INN
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Bring home the bacon : MAKEALIVING
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60's grp. : SDS
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Good amount of money : PRETTYPENNY
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Ructions : ADOS
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"Cleopatra" star, 1917 : BARA
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Rub, in a way : SNAG
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What grout may separate : TILES
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Gun : REV
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In the way of : ALA
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Atlanta-based medical org. : CDC
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Helpful group on-line : TECHIES
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Off the beaten track : AFIELD
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Actress Blakley of "Nashville" : RONEE
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Miffed, with "off" : TEED
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Brio : LIVELINESS
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Contemporary : PRESENTDAY
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Sees : SETSEYESON
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"Le roi d'Ys" composer : LALO
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Additionally : TOBOOT
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Early priest : AARON
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Product of sifting : BRAN
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For better or worse : SUCHASITIS
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Turned up? : STOODONEND
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Joe Kelly player in "Sayonara" : REDBUTTONS
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Right : PROPER
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Part of a hull : BILGE
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First name in old TV talk : MERV
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Spiny shrub : SLOE
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Beehive protector : HAIRNET
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"...foreign field that is forever England" penner : BROOKE
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Iranian bread : DINAR
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Treat rudely, in a way : SHOVE
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Runaway : ROMP
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Getting ___ years : ONIN
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City near the Westerwald : BONN
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Unbridled indulgence : ORGY
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Fill the bill? : EAT
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Like some digs : SLY
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Swiveler : HIP

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