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Celebrity Types

New York Times, Sunday, May 21, 1995

Author:
Dean Niles
Editor:
Will Shortz
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Rows: 21, Columns: 21 Words: 142, Blocks: 78 Missing: {FJ} Puzzle has duplicate clues. This is puzzle # 3 for Mr. Niles. Sunday freshness: 14%
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© 1995, The New York Times5/21/95 ( No. 16,630 )
Across
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Register message : NOSALE
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Slippery ___ : ELM
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Clayey deposit : MARL
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Florentine statue : DAVID
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Guyana's ___ Indians : ARAWAK
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Kind of flour : SOY
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Jai ___ : ALAI
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"___, shine; for thy light is come...": Isaiah : ARISE
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Vietnamese seaport : DANANG
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==}:‡]] : ABRAHAMLINCOLN
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Bone cavities : ANTRA
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"Indeed!" once : QUOTHA
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Former gold coins of Spain : PISTOLES
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Bye-bye : ADIEU
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A good deal : LOTS
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78-Across's shoe width : EEE
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Short spans : SECS
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8(:o) : MICKEYMOUSE
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Battle site of 1944 : STLO
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Bud : PAL
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It starts "In the name of Allah..." : KORAN
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Dada papa : ARP
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Implanted : SOWED
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Basra resident: Var. : IRAKI
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Evidence left behind : TRACE
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Kind of neck : EWE
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Drama kudos : OBIES
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Certain solvents : ELUANTS
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[g-}] : COLONELKLINK
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Mark ___, Oliver of 1968 film : LESTER
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Game full of traps : SKEET
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Newspaper space : LINAGE
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___ Lee cheesecake : SARA
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Tank : VAT
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Hideaway : LAIR
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Get-together : SOCIAL
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First name in erotica : ANAIS
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Garlicky dish : SCAMPI
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*‡(:o)} : BOZOTHECLOWN
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Square-cut-cigar : CHEROOT
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Jazz style : BEBOP
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Sign of a smash : SRO
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Singer Bob Marley, e.g. : RASTA
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Cotton thread : LISLE
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1919 Edith Day musical : IRENE
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Teacher's grp. : NEA
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One of the archangels : URIEL
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Hog's thigh : HAM
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Brute : OGRE
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I8-#)""' : GROUCHOMARX
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Towel tag : HERS
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Want-ad initials : EOE
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Caboose position : REAR
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Kumiss imbiber : NOMAD
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Convoke : ASSEMBLE
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Spoors : TRACKS
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Author Calvino : ITALO
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CI[:-=)I : CHARLIECHAPLIN
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Speculator : PLAYER
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Begrime, in Britain : COLLY
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When les étoiles come out : NUIT
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Dweller on the Mekong : LAO
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Freshen : AERATE
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Slight : TOKEN
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Preserve, in a way : TAPE
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Cry of pain : YOW
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Criminal evidence : PRINTS
Down
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Nothing, in Nogales : NADA
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Port south of Cartagena : ORAN
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**‡:-)}}}} : SANTACLAUS
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Stars and bars, e.g. : AWARDS
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Hawaii island : LANAI
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Record from the heart: Abbr. : EKG
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Jacob's twin : ESAU
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Western livestock peril : LOBO
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Eucalyptus, e.g. : MYRTLE
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Literally "high-souled" : MAHATMA
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___ rigueur (to the fullest extent): Fr. : ALA
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Mover's equipment : RAMP
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Symbols of purity : LILIES
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Pre-Raphaelite Rossetti : DANTE
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Bowed, in music : ARCO
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Early stringed instrument : VIOL
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___ Royale National Park : ISLE
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Studies : DENS
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Call on a yawl : AHOY
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Encouraging words from a student : ISEE
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Riding whips : QUIRTS
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Comic Philips : EMO
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Theologian Kierkegaard : SOREN
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Fast pitch : SPIEL
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___ Naval Weapons Station, N.J. : EARLE
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Passenger balloon part : CAR
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Hang of it : KNACK
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Rises, as water : UPWELLS
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Ferber book : SOBIG
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Wind around : TWINE
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Kind of soup : LEEK
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Indulges to the extreme, informally : ODS
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Early TV medium : KINESCOPE
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Battery type : SOLARCELL
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Kit ___ (candy bar brand) : KAT
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Contemporary : COEVAL
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Wife of Henry II : ELEANOR
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Literary pseudonym : ELIA
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Feature : TRAIT
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Ontario-Quebec border river : OTTAWA
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High-calorie snack : KNISH
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Port in 1943 fighting : SALERNO
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Crowd sounds : RAHS
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Dried out : SOBER
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___ hole (modern worry) : OZONE
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"To wrap up..." : INSUM
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Christina's father : ARI
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(¶-) : MOSHEDAYAN
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Kind of extremes : POLAR
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Tabloid twosomes : ITEMS
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North Atlantic sighting : BERG
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___ de Lion : COEUR
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Stone memorials : CAIRNS
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Such is a life : BIO
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Chorus sound : TRA
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Old recording disk : ACETATE
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Prefix meaning "outer" : EXO
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Vast desert : GOBI
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Give some slack : RELENT
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Beethoven's "___ Quartet" : HARP
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One way to convey information : ORALLY
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John Wayne film : HATARI
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Welsh actor Williams : EMLYN
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One making rapid strides : MILER
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S&L deposit : ACCT
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"Out!" : SHOO
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___ vaccine : SALK
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First name in mysteries : ERLE
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S.A. country : ECUA
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Bye-bye : CIAO
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Be close to : KNOW
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Riga denizen : LETT
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Assayers assay them : ORES
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With it : HIP
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Twaddle : PAP

Answer summary:
5 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 4 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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