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CO2

New York Times, Sunday, May 23, 1999

Author:
Harvey Estes and Nancy Salomon
Editor:
Will Shortz
22-Across : Suggestions
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
11612/29/199311/26/200845
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
2015151219278
RebusScrabDebutFresh
71.5252247%
Harvey Estes
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
1868/13/199511/7/2012116
SunMonTueWedThuFriSatVariety
3633533719611
RebusCircleScrabDebutFresh
1521.5890833%
Nancy Salomon

This puzzle:

Rows: 21, Columns: 21 Words: 138, Blocks: 76 Missing: {QX} This is puzzle # 42 for Mr. Estes. This is puzzle # 29 for Ms. Salomon. Sunday freshness: 8%
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© 1999, The New York Times5/23/99 ( No. 18,093 )
Across
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Action film sequence : CHASE
6
TV monitor? : FCC
9
Kind of car : USED
13
Twist : SCREW
18
Until, in Tijuana : HASTA
19
Solid backing : GUARANTEE
21
Sauce : HOOCH
22
Suggestions : INPUT
23
Deep red garnet : ALMANDINE
24
Not skimpy : AMPLE
25
One who wants the crème de mint? : COINCOLLECTOR
27
Steak, e.g. : REDMEAT
29
Relations : KIN
30
Bewail : RUE
31
He's a doll : KEN
32
Tilts : JOUSTS
33
Simple sack : COT
34
Failures : LAPSES
37
Basted : SEWN
38
Macaroni shape : ELBOW
41
Pro ___ : BONO
42
Very smart : CHIC
44
Professional suffix : IST
47
Sound of thunder : PEAL
48
Where a suit may be pressed : COUNTYCOURT
51
Large-print edition of the Bible, e.g. : TOME
53
Do-nothing : INDOLENT
55
Pulls down : EARNS
56
The T in M.T.M. : TYLER
57
Brezhnev, to Khrushchev : COMRADE
58
Yacht centers : BASINS
60
Veneer : FACING
61
Slicker : ICIER
62
Subject of environmentalist study : OZONE
63
Pass out : ALLOT
64
Plantations' stations : MANORS
66
"___ stirreth up strifes": Proverbs : HATRED
67
Heavy : VILLAIN
70
Some clarinets : ALTOS
71
Street clearer : SIREN
72
Greenish blue : BERYLINE
73
Nostril wrinkler : ODOR
74
Ice pack? : COLDCOMFORT
77
Love symbol : EROS
78
"Go on..." : AND
79
Fit : ABLE
80
Bounce : OUST
81
Operative : AGENT
82
Tricksters : IMPS
84
Passes on principle : DEMURS
87
Do a takeoff on : APE
88
Brownie topper : BEANIE
91
Department in Provence : VAR
92
"...sat down beside ___" : HER
93
Actor Vigoda : ABE
96
Where U.P.S. is headquartered : ATLANTA
98
Visitor from the sticks : COUNTRYCOUSIN
102
Furniture ensemble : SUITE
103
Didn't flare : SMOLDERED
105
Crime scene evidence : PRINT
106
Gardener's gadget : EDGER
107
Hoosier neighbor : WOLVERINE
108
Plains Indian : OSAGE
109
Ships : SENDS
110
Major finale? : ETTE
111
Pepper, for one : SGT
112
More reliable : SANER
Down
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Peeper : CHICK
2
Tonkin Delta capital : HANOI
3
Like a fly reel : ASPIN
4
Phaser setting : STUN
5
Suffer embarrassment : EATCROW
6
Parking lot sign : FULL
7
Occurred : CAME
8
Loon : CRACKPOT
9
Fallen apart : UNDONE
10
Slammer : STIR
11
Poet's time of day : EEN
12
Stag party? : DEER
13
Boxer's sparring partner, at times : SHADOW
14
School without dorms : COMMUNITYCOLLEGE
15
Subject of sailors' knowledge : ROPES
16
Big splash : ECLAT
17
Stimulates : WHETS
19
Heavy blow : GALE
20
Prepares for a hand : ANTES
26
No longer hot : OUT
28
Button in Bond's car : EJECT
33
Avoiding a clash : COLORCOORDINATED
34
Dolt : LOUT
35
Blyth of "Mildred Pierce" : ANN
36
Looked down on : SCORNED
37
Participants in 32-Across : SIRS
38
Sweeping : EPIC
39
Follower of the news? : LENO
40
Birds fly back and forth in it : BADMINTON
41
Fool mistake : BONER
43
Barbarous brutes : HUNS
45
Diamond ___ : SOLITAIRE
46
Counterfeit cops? : TMEN
48
Hands over : CEDES
49
"Give me your answer" : YESORNO
50
"Educating Rita" star : CAINE
52
A little work : ERG
54
Burrows : LAIRS
56
Running figure : TALLY
58
Committed a hockey infraction : BOARDED
59
Tenochtitlán resident : AZTEC
60
Bat eyelashes : FLIRT
63
Detour : AVERT
64
Chairman of note : MAO
65
Two-time Emmy winner as best actor in a comedy : ALDA
66
Rise : HILL
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Barge ___ : INON
69
Jay's home : NEST
71
Sounds of unhappiness : SOBS
72
Anagram of 71-Down : BOSS
74
French royal name, 987-1328 : CAPET
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Wake attendees : MOURNERS
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Expensive gift : FUR
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Opportune : APROPOS
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They go for the gold : MINERS
85
Undergo natural selection : EVOLVE
86
Hit 70's sitcom : MAUDE
87
Truman's nuclear agcy. : AEC
88
Bags of diamonds : BASES
89
Liszt's "La Campanella," e.g. : ETUDE
90
Set straight : ALIGN
92
Noted park name : HYDE
93
One of 3.5 billion : ASIAN
94
Pig out : BINGE
95
Computer command : ENTER
97
"___ forgive our debtors" : ASWE
98
Western weapon : COLT
99
H.S. subject : TRIG
100
Let out : RENT
101
Major animal? : URSA
104
Bit of repartee : MOT

Answer summary:
6 unique to this puzzle, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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