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PERSONAL SCORE

New York Times, Sunday, June 27, 1999

Author:
Robert Malinow
Editor:
Will Shortz
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Robert Malinow

This puzzle:

Rows: 21, Columns: 21 Words: 140, Blocks: 72 Missing: {JQX} Spans: 2 Puzzle has duplicate clues. This is puzzle # 5 for Mr. Malinow. Sunday freshness: 15%
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© 1999, The New York Times6/27/99 ( No. 18,128 )
Across
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Brute : SAVAGE
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Pregame fixture : ANTHEM
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Joke : LEGPULL
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Embodiment : AVATAR
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Solar wind source : CORONA
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Property receiver : ALIENEE
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Reactions to baby pictures : AWS
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Big bang creator : AMATOL
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Sci-fi extra : DROID
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Cancún kinsman : TIO
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Curlew's cousin : SNIPE
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Drive gear : LARIAT
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Chicago's ___ Expressway : EDENS
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Anticipatory exclamation : OHOH
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"My Mama Done ___ Me" : TOL
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Burning heat : IRE
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1998 report producer : STARR
43
It (1961) : WASAVERYGOODYEAR
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Misfortunes : ILLS
51
Charles de Gaulle's birthplace : LILLE
52
Cell component : ANODE
53
Capitulate : CAVEIN
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Employ a therapeutic technique : ROLEPLAY
59
Fed. grant giver : NSF
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Red dye no. 1? : HENNA
63
They may get a licking after dinner : OREOS
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From the heart : AORTAL
67
Frostflower : ASTER
68
Serb, e.g. : SLAV
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He (1960) : DONTLOVEYOU
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Person with vows : MONK
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More than flinches : PALES
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Features of a face : SERIFS
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1930 Triple Crown jockey : SANDE
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Viola d'___ : AMORE
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Part of B.C.E. : ERA
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Flivver : MOTORCAR
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Movie that Khrushchev watched being filmed : CANCAN
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Fritter away : WASTE
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Kind of sprawl : URBAN
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Accordingly : ERGO
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They (1951) : CALLTHEWINDMARIA
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Cabbage : MOOLA
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1990 stage and film biography : YUL
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Renowned British runner : COE
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Marxist? : ZANY
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After-bath application : TOWEL
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Sleep inducer : OPIATE
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Recycled item : EMPTY
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Itinerary abbr. : ETA
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Refuse : DROSS
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Old Plymouth : VOLARE
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Itinerary word : VIA
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Triumph : PREVAIL
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Does more than see : RAISES
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Relative of jujuism : VOODOO
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Revolution's enemy, maybe : TYRANNY
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Fixes firmly : EMBEDS
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Novelist's need : ENDING
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Roman-fleuve : SAGA
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Testify : AVOW
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Distillery items : VATS
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Letters in a long-distance company's number : ATT
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Cartoonist Wilson : GAHAN
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Recluse : EREMITE
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With intensity : ACUTELY
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Prohibition : NONO
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National debt unit : TRILLION
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Dearie : HON
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Insect study: Abbr. : ENT
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Muslim messiah : MAHDI
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De Niro's role in "Raging Bull" : LAMOTTA
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The Morlocks ate them : ELOI
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Beam : GIRDER
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Confident solver's tool : PEN
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Bind : UNITE
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Kerensky's successor : LENIN
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Building toy : LEGOS
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Flavor : SAPOR
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Remove a slip? : ERASE
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We (1945) : SHALLOVERCOME
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Slangy suffix : AROO
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Demond's co-star, in 70's TV : REDD
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She (1989) : DRIVESMECRAZY
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Night stalker : OWL
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It grows on you : HAIR
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Mideast peace talks site : OSLO
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Kind of welder : ARC
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Yaw : VEER
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"The Beggar's Opera" writer : GAY
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Buttinsky : YENTE
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Slow, to Salieri : LENTO
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Shroud of Turin material : LINEN
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Lewis Carroll animal : SNARK
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"Gotcha!" : AHA
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Bike part: Abbr. : PED
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Baggy : LOOSE
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Moore co-star : ASNER
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Discretion : SAYSO
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Negotiate, as a loan : FLOAT
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Successor to the Prophet, in Islam : ALI
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Cry of pain : OOF
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Road houses? : RVS
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Parker's need : SPACE
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Missouri town where Truman was born : LAMAR
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Onward : ALONG
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It's a drag to fishermen : TRAWL
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"___ momento" : UNO
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Part of a Hemingway title : SEA
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Oil container : DRUM
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Copy cats? : MEW
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"East of Eden" girl : ABRA
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Picnic hamperer : RAIN
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York, for one: Abbr. : NCO
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"Comin' ___" (1981 3-D western) : ATYA
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Close : SHUT
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Air : TELEVISE
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Vocal opposition : NAY
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Without interest : ALOOFLY
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Oversight : LAPSE
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Straight, in a way : ICELESS
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Laplander, e.g. : NOMAD
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Corrupt : DEPRAVE
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Part of a Hemingway title : OLDMAN
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Proffer bait : TEMPT
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Fur seal : OTARY
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Morning alarm : WAKER
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Ship that brought the Statue of Liberty to the United States : ISERE
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Join securely : TENON
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This pulls a bit : REIN
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Endorsed : OKED
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Middle of a famous boast : VIDI
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___ a secret : INON
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Worked up : AGOG
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1960's singer Little ___ : EVA
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Flight : LAM
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Ballot abbr. : LIB
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Provincetown catch : COD

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

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