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New York Times, Wednesday, June 10, 1998

Author:
Nancy S. Ross
Editor:
Will Shortz
52-Across : It's south of the Pyrenees
TotalDebutLatest
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Nancy S. Ross

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 38 Missing: {JVZ} This is puzzle # 50 for Ms. Ross. Wednesday freshness: 25%
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© 1998, The New York Times6/10/98 ( No. 17,746 )
Across
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Portend : BODE
5
Shopaholic's watchword : SPEND
10
Small denomination : SECT
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Sorority letters : RHOS
15
Trial's partner : ERROR
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"Oh, were it not true!" : ALAS
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Gershwin's "It ___ Necessarily So" : AINT
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1911 Stravinsky ballet : PETROUCHKA
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Flirt : COQUETTE
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Blacker : INKIER
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Short-lived Egypt-Syria union: Abbr. : UAR
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O.E.D. item : DEF
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Lands on the Persian Gulf : EMIRATES
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After-exercise refreshers : SAUNAS
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Having a pallor : WAXY
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Choir voice : ALTO
37
Batter's woe : SLUMP
38
Roxy Music co-founder : ENO
39
1841 Adam ballet : GISELLE
41
Chinese "way" : TAO
42
Nostalgic look : RETRO
44
Mozart's "Il mio tesoro," e.g. : ARIA
45
Tart : ACID
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Unbending : STEELY
48
Chopin specialty : NOCTURNE
50
Keats's "To Autumn," e.g. : ODE
51
Altar in the sky : ARA
52
It's south of the Pyrenees : IBERIA
55
Family reunion activity : BARBECUE
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1945 Prokofiev ballet : CINDERELLA
62
Kan. neighbor : OKLA
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Head start : EDGE
64
Actress Patricia et al. : NEALS
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Camera part : LENS
66
Dak., once : TERR
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Kind of fund : SLUSH
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Quod ___ faciendum : ERAT
Down
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Bric-a-___ : BRAC
2
Oberlin locale : OHIO
3
1869 Minkus ballet : DONQUIXOTE
4
River's end : ESTUARY
5
Important school mo. : SEPT
6
___-à-porter (ready-to-wear) : PRET
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Highly collectible lithographer : ERTE
8
Neither's partner : NOR
9
"Star Wars" characters : DROIDS
10
Amount Santa carries : SACKFUL
11
Like some textbook publishing : ELHI
12
Party centerpiece : CAKE
13
Peter, e.g. : TSAR
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Misgiving : UNEASE
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Cause that NOW championed : ERA
25
Decorative pitchers : EWERS
26
"Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe" painter : MANET
27
___ chi ch'uan : TAI
28
Forbidden-question asker, in "Lohengrin" : ELSA
29
Rear : STERN
31
1892 Tchaikovsky ballet, with "The" : NUTCRACKER
32
With all one's might : AMAIN
33
Some fine porcelain : SPODE
36
Hodgepodge : OLIO
39
Hawn of Hollywood : GOLDIE
40
"Le ___ des cygnes" : LAC
43
Stock up on again : REORDER
45
Halo : AUREOLE
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Longs (for) : YEARNS
49
Check : TAB
52
80's-90's hip-hop star : ICET
53
Wait : BIDE
54
Technician: Abbr. : ENGR
55
Blue, in Bonn : BLAU
56
Shakespeare title starter : ALLS
57
Reckless : RASH
58
It parallels a radius : ULNA
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90 degrees : EAST
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Mud ___ : EEL

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