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Tintinnabulation

New York Times, Sunday, June 23, 1996

Author:
F. Hansen
Editor:
Will Shortz
52-Across : In a narrow escape
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Frances Hansen

This puzzle:

Rows: 21, Columns: 21 Words: 140, Blocks: 72 This is puzzle # 91 for Ms. Hansen. Sunday freshness: 95%
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© 1996, The New York Times6/23/96 ( No. 17,029 )
Across
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Headed downward : SLID
5
"Forever" girl : AMBER
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"Not guilty," e.g. : PLEA
14
Movie moguls : CZARS
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Sportscaster Rote : KYLE
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Nursery rhyme vegetables : PEASE
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Sentry's cry : HALT
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Man of many words : ROGET
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Sans ornamentation : UNEMBELLISHED
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Best seller of 1944 : ABELLFORADANO
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Cote d'Azur resort : ANTIBES
28
Kind of service : WIRE
30
"I Write the Songs" singer : MANILOW
31
Charlie Brown's belligerent friend : LUCY
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Drug-yielding plants : COCAS
33
Chico's aunt : TIA
34
Island off the west coast of South America : CHILOE
37
Lumberjack's tournament : ROLEO
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Like some garages : ATTACHED
43
Greer of sports and TV : ROSEY
44
Stag line's favorite : BELLEOFTHEBALL
46
Joseph Lincoln book "Cap'n___" : ERI
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Eastern title : AGA
48
Golf champ Ballesteros : SEVE
49
Flag : TIRE
50
Fly in the ointment : SNAG
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Benevolent monopoly, once : MABELL
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In a narrow escape : SAVEDBYTHEBELL
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Start of a book : PARTI
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Exit on the sly : SNEAKOUT
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Checks : REINS
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Whitewater rafting site : CANYON
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Dress cut : ALINE
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Mercutio's friend : ROMEO
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Wood hyacinth : HAREBELL
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Frederick Ashton ballet : ONDINE
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Many a Hitchcock performance : CAMEO
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French director Tavernier : BERTRAND
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Foreign dignitaries : RAJAS
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Amaryllis : BELLADONNALILY
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Space station name : MIR
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One of a Latin trio : AMAS
75
Kipling's Rikki-Tikki-___ : TAVI
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Desperate : DIRE
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Start of a volume 1 label : ATO
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One with a habit : NUN
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Insurrectionism : REBELLIOUSNESS
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Italian holy man : SANTO
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Supreme Court, e.g. : TRIBUNAL
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Carols : NOELS
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Persian treat : CATNIP
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Ballot abbr. : IND
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Shaded walk : ALLEE
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Kind of land : LALA
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Oblique : SLANTED
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Taylor's third : TODD
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Leprechaun locale : IRELAND
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"Cautionary Tales" writer : HILAIREBELLOC
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Pre-World War I period : LABELLEEPOQUE
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Mountain ridge : ARETE
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Bop on the head : CONK
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Remove chemically : ELUTE
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America West Arena team : SUNS
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Household appliance : WAXER
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Sees red? : OWES
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Rum, to some : DEMON
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Was the ruin of : SANK
Down
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Gull-like bird : SKUA
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Boston suburb : LYNN
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"___the Stars Get in My Eyes" (1953 country hit) : ILET
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"Oklahoma!" choreographer : DEMILLE
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Per : APIECE
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Chaotic : MESSY
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Cousin of "Phooey!" : BAH
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Wyo.-to-Mo. direction : ESE
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Cousin of the coyote : REDWOLF
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"Aida" figure : PHARAOH
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Singer Patti et al. : LABELLES
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Puck : ELF
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Mote : ATOM
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Of the skull : CRANIAL
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Lion's or bull's place : ZODIAC
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"I've Got___..." : AGAL
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MGM Grand site : RENO
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Pack : STOW
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Audible navigational marker : BELLBUOY
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Disconcert : RATTLE
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Rapper with the group Body Count : ICET
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Whispered sweet nothings : COOED
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Wedges (in) : CRAMS
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Actor Paul : HOGAN
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"Camille Claudel" actress : ISABELLEADJANI
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Strengthen, as a levee : REVET
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"___Irish Rose" : ABIES
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Writer Ida : TARBELL
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"Kings Row" author : HENRYBELLAMANN
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Sappho's Muse : ERATO
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"Eat hearty!" : DIGIN
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Largest U.S. city hospital : BELLEVUE
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Race: Prefix : ETHNO
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Macon's river : SAONE
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Not so zany : SANER
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Drums, slangily : SKINS
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Headache remedy : BROMO
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Where Mocha is : YEMEN
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Attach, in a way : TIEON
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Wingding : PARTY
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A con artist may go by it : ALIAS
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"Sunrise Serenade" composer Frankie : CARLE
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Beachgoer's item : RADIO
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Murder mystery suspects, often : HEIRS
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Praying figure : ORANT
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Belgian province or its capital : NAMUR
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Nitpick : CAVIL
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Ecstasy : BLISS
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"The Untouchables" villain : NITTI
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Wilt : DROOP
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Indian of British Columbia : BELLABELLA
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One of the Astaires : ADELE
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Compassionate : TENDER
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More stunted : RUNTIER
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Opens : UNLOCKS
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Sign at an antique shop : SOLD
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Twitted : NEEDLED
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Starchy tuber foodstuff : SALEP
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Confounded : ATALOSS
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Growing in pairs, botanically : BINATE
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Lurch : CAREEN
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United : ATONE
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Stay fairly stationary, as a ship : LIETO
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Major Barbara's creator : SHAW
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Foreign currency : LIRA
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First name in TV emceeing : ALEX
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20's look : DECO
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Marine shade : AQUA
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Former Senate Armed Forces Committee head : NUNN
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Secretary, e.g. : DESK
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Roar : BELLOW
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Falstaff's quaff : ALE
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Activity for Caesar : BELLUM

Answer summary:
12 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 4 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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