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FAMOUS FEMALES IN FILM (Hard Clues)

New York Times, Sunday, May 16, 1999

Author:
Nancy Nicholson Joline
Editor:
Will Shortz
63-Across : Response to a garbled fax
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Nancy Nicholson Joline

This puzzle:

Rows: 25, Columns: 25 Words: 190, Blocks: 106 Missing: {QX} This is puzzle # 89 for Ms. Joline. Sunday freshness: 65%
Special note: Special note: In 1999, the NYT published six special 25 x 25 "Millennium" puzzles. Each came with two sets of clues, easy and hard. The clues here are the hard ones. Click here to see the set.
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© 1999, The New York Times5/16/99 ( No. 18,086 )
Across
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Shakes : AGITATES
9
Shouting : CLAMOR
15
Do : COIF
19
Pointed ends : NIBS
23
Hardly vintage : VINEGARY
24
The Mormons' trek, e.g. : HEGIRA
25
___ Kumar, "The Jewel in the Crown" role : HARI
26
Request on an order : ASAP
27
Madonna role, 1996 : EVAPERON
28
Meryl Streep role, 1985 : ISAKDINESEN
30
"Qué ___?" : PASA
31
Devil's Island escapee ___ Belbenoit : RENE
32
Pops : SODAS
34
Home of the Ewoks : ENDOR
35
One who gets the message : DECODER
37
Signs of superciliousness : SNEERS
40
Old railroad car, maybe : DINER
42
Up : ASTIR
44
Strauss opera : SALOME
45
Part of an E-mail address : COM
47
Broadcast : STREWN
49
Suffix with glamour : ISE
50
Skyline features : SPIRES
51
Cate Blanchett role, 1998 : ELIZABETHI
56
Marie-France Pisier role, 1981 : COCOCHANEL
59
Hymenopteran : ANT
60
Prefix with form : PEDI
61
Attention : EAR
62
One of Chaucer's pilgrims : REEVE
63
Response to a garbled fax : RESEND
65
Person of great endurance : IRONSIDE
67
Brief warning : SLO
69
Ogee shapes : ESSES
71
City on the Loire : TOURS
74
Certain toothpaste tubes : COLGATES
75
1992 A.L. Championship Series M.V.P. : ALOMAR
78
Med. specialty : ENT
79
Son of Judah : ONAN
80
Chicken : SISSY
81
Sub components : SALAMIS
83
Alternatives to 32-Across : ADES
85
Year after Augustine became the first Archbishop of Canterbury : DCII
86
Center opening : EPI
89
Sir, in Portugal : DOM
90
Words repeated in "___ is above the law and ___ is below it": Theodore Roosevelt : NOMAN
93
Beau : GALLANT
95
Early record label : EDISON
98
Ingrid Bergman role, 1948 : JOANOFARC
100
Salad ___ : GREENS
101
Stopped : ABORTED
102
Our, in Augsburg : UNSER
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Ship's dir. : NNE
104
H.S. event : SAT
105
Rights org. : CORE
106
Dinosaurs' open mouths, e.g. : MAWS
108
It's hardly welcoming : ICINESS
111
Flood : SPATE
116
Dixie school : ELON
117
Final : NET
118
Strata : PLANES
119
Chamber pieces : ARMOIRES
122
Saw : DATED
124
Québec peninsula : GASPE
126
Real estate ad abbr. : BRS
127
Burly types : BOUNCERS
128
Rod : HEATER
130
Glow : ARDOR
133
W.W. II Mosquito pilots : RAF
134
Ancient Irish capital : TARA
135
Castaway site : CAY
137
Greer Garson role, 1943 : MARIECURIE
139
Sigourney Weaver role, 1988 : DIANFOSSEY
142
Quakers : ASPENS
144
Benevolent one : ELK
145
It's a natural : ELEVEN
147
Ice, with "up" : SEW
148
Celebrities get these : STARES
149
Some quarters : DORMS
151
Gumshoes : DICKS
153
They open up at night : DISCOS
158
Showed off : PARADED
160
Bel ___ : PAESE
162
Nursery school item : EASEL
164
Check : HALT
165
Miffs : IRKS
166
Sissy Spacek role, 1980 : LORETTALYNN
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Judi Dench role, 1997 : VICTORIA
172
To ___ (perfectly) : ATEE
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Lasting attachment : EVER
174
Like a crystal chandelier : AGLINT
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Effort : ENDEAVOR
176
Computer ___ : NERD
177
They've come out : DEBS
178
Soprano Mitchell et al. : LEONAS
179
Tossing : RESTLESS
Down
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Holds : AVERS
2
Fact : GIVEN
3
Vacant : INANE
4
Native Americans might raise a flap about this : TEPEE
5
Get on : AGE
6
Beat : TAR
7
Servant of Antony in "Antony and Cleopatra" : EROS
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Council : SYNOD
9
Pasta go-with, perhaps : CHIANTI
10
Second-rate : LESSER
11
Title of respect, abroad : AGA
12
Spy's equipment : MIKE
13
Military weapons : ORDNANCE
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Corporate operations : RAIDS
15
Cling to : CHERISH
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Intl. assn. since 1948 : OAS
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Burned up : IRED
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Maneuvers adroitly : FINESSES
19
Place near Vesuvio : NAPOLI
20
Vanessa Redgrave role, 1968 : ISADORADUNCAN
21
People who watch their bags : BASEMEN
22
Least lavish : SPAREST
29
Broadway concerns : NOTICES
33
Gossip : DISH
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It helps the medicine go down : CAPLET
38
Columbia competitor : RCA
39
Words of concurrence : SOBEIT
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Place for cards, perhaps : RECROOM
43
Ram : REAREND
46
Gettysburg figure : MEADE
48
Lot for Wednesday's child : WOE
51
"Paradise Lost" and others : EPICS
52
Writer Jones : LEROI
53
Favorites : IDOLS
54
Knocks : ZINGS
55
Lover's keepsake, perhaps : TRESS
57
Message ender : OVER
58
Rainy day provisions : NESTEGGS
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Think creatively : NOODLE
66
State, once : SAYEST
67
Oater feature : SALOON
68
Fleece providers : LLAMAS
70
Round-table sessions : SEANCES
72
Bestows lavishly : RAINS
73
Pet : SNIT
76
Mediterranean resort site : MINORCA
77
From : ASOF
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Settles : ADJUSTS
84
F.D.R.'s mother : SARA
87
Work with feet : POEM
88
Threatened : INDANGER
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Air : MANNER
92
Longtime TV western star : ARNESS
94
Reveals : LETSON
95
"The Hot Zone" virus : EBOLA
96
Jennifer Jason Leigh role, 1994 : DOROTHYPARKER
97
Part of E. I. Du Pont : IRENEE
99
Man's name meaning "champion" : NEIL
101
Whizzed through : ACED
107
Jaded : WEARIED
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Way to produce a champion animal, maybe : INBREED
110
Tel Aviv native : SABRA
112
Foes of the Romans : PICTS
113
Spheres : AREAS
114
À ___ (ashore): Fr. : TERRE
115
Elianic work : ESSAY
118
Home to Shining Path guerrillas : PERU
120
Horse colors : ROANS
121
Blew : MUFFED
123
Extremely : DAMNED
125
Collector : PACKRAT
129
Like corn on the stalk : TASSELED
131
Olympics event : DRESSAGE
132
Bribe : OIL
135
Salt lake : CASPIAN
136
Ancient Semitic goddess : ASTARTE
138
They don't stand on ceremony : ELOPERS
139
Transfers ports : DECANTS
140
Signs : INKS
141
1942-45 stat. disseminator : OWI
143
Completely clean again : ERASED
146
Schubert's birthplace : VIENNA
150
Calcium, e.g. : METAL
152
Break off : SEVER
154
Place to run aground : SHOAL
155
Do the honors, so to speak : CARVE
156
Miscellanies : OLIOS
157
Leads : STARS
159
Shade of gray : DOVE
161
East End greeting : ELLO
163
Sailor's rope : LINE
167
Grayback : REB
168
Female principle : YIN
170
Small music-makers : CDS
171
New Year's, abroad : TET

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2 unique to this puzzle, 5 debuted here and reused later, 2 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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