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New York Times, Tuesday, May 17, 1994

Author:
Harvey Estes
Editor:
Will Shortz
68-Across : Quotes poetry
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Harvey Estes

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 35 Missing: {FJKQZ} This is puzzle # 10 for Mr. Estes. Tuesday freshness: 42%
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© 1994, The New York Times5/17/94 ( No. 16,261 )
Across
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On the ___ (very angry) : WARPATH
8
For the well-to-do : UPSCALE
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November winner : ELECTEE
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Savannah's place : GEORGIA
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"Evil Ways" band : SANTANA
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Bar members : LAWYERS
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Dynamite's kin : TNT
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Christian Science founder : EDDY
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Pope's "An ___ on Man" : ESSAY
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___ way (incidentally) : BYTHE
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Murals and the like : ART
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Free-for-all : MELEE
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Play callers : UMPS
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Ill-fated sibling rival : ABEL
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Put on a pedestal : EXALT
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Ark builder : NOAH
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Singer Falana : LOLA
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String player : CELLIST
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"Hop to it!" : GETBUSY
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Cancer's symbol : CRAB
43
Reds' Rose : PETE
45
2:1, e.g. : RATIO
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"A-one and ___" : ATWO
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"I smell ___" : ARAT
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TV pitchman Merlin : OLSEN
49
"A Christmas Carol" boy : TIM
51
Student of optometry? : PUPIL
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Edinburgh dwellers : SCOTS
56
Aloe ___ (lotion ingredient) : VERA
57
Retirement kitty, for short : IRA
60
Evangeline, e.g. : HEROINE
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Last-place finisher, so it's said : NICEGUY
65
Unyielding : ADAMANT
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Fence in : ENCLOSE
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Reneges : WELSHES
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Quotes poetry : RECITES
Down
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Frontierward : WEST
2
Chester Arthur's middle name : ALAN
3
Monthly due : RENT
4
%: Abbr. : PCT
5
___ loss for words : ATA
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Belief : TENET
7
Edith + Holly : HEADHUNTER
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Hideous : UGLY
9
Black-eyed one, perhaps : PEA
10
Farmer, in the spring : SOWER
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Billy + Lucille : CRYSTALBALL
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"Rock of ___" : AGES
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Italian bread : LIRA
14
Word before come and go : EASY
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Car for test-driving : DEMO
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Alexander + Timothy : BELLBOTTOMS
24
Abominable Snowman : YETI
25
Tennis's Arthur : ASHE
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Islamic center : MECCA
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Bring to bear : EXERT
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Steven Bochco TV drama : LALAW
30
Patti + Lana : PAGETURNER
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Boxing matches : BOUTS
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Borden bovine : ELSIE
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Instructions to Macduff : LAYON
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Lunch meat : SPAM
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"Star Trek" counselor : TROI
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Record : TAPE
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Basketball's Thomas : ISIAH
52
"Common Sense" author : PAINE
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"Saint Joan" playwright : SHAW
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Sign over : CEDE
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Reverend Roberts : ORAL
56
Animal docs : VETS
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"___ You Babe" : IGOT
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Misleading move : RUSE
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Senate votes : AYES
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SSW's reverse : NNE
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New Deal grp. : CCC
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Yale player : ELI

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

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