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New York Times, Thursday, July 19, 2001

Author:
Marjorie Richter
Editor:
Will Shortz
34-Across : Stretch beside the water
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Marjorie Richter

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 74, Blocks: 36 Missing: {JQZ} Spans: 1 This is puzzle # 3 for Ms. Richter. Thursday freshness: 27%
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© 2001, The New York Times7/19/1 ( No. 18,881 )
Across
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Time's 1977 Man of the Year : SADAT
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Attempt : STAB
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Festive : GALA
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Waive one's rites? : ELOPE
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Obsidian, before cooling : LAVA
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Huge-screen film format : IMAX
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Absolute : UTTER
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Firm head : EXEC
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Information unit : BYTE
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Wine shop customer? : SHERRYPICKER
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Untangle : SORTOUT
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Andean fauna : LLAMAS
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Web browser entry : URL
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What a waste pipe provides : DRAINAGE
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Melee memento : SCAR
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Stretch beside the water : COAST
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Pink-slip : CAN
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Get kicked? : TAKEITONTHESHIN
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Mentalist Geller : URI
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Log holder, perhaps : GRATE
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Moon, personified : LUNA
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Loses the right to : FORFEITS
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Cole Porter, schoolwise : ELI
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Fried filled-tortilla dish : FLAUTA
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Kind of diver : DEEPSEA
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Herring on a fishhook? : DANGLINGSHAD
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Flight controller? : WING
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Milk source : GOAT
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Arthur Ashe's "___ Road to Glory" : AHARD
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Big yard, perhaps : ACRE
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Indy 500's 200 : LAPS
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Scout master? : TONTO
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Scan, say : READ
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Vortex : EDDY
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Keats title starter : ODEON
Down
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Oobleck's creator : SEUSS
2
Even if, briefly : ALTHO
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New grandparent, often : DOTER
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Opening : APERTURE
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It reigned in the 1790's : TERROR
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Wasn't up : SLEPT
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Hack : TAXI
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"___ plaisir!" : AVEC
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Strong reaction : BACKLASH
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"The Prophet" author Kahlil ___ : GIBRAN
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"Yentl" actress Irving : AMY
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Global positioning fig. : LAT
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Good hacker : AXE
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Deborah's "The King and I" co-star : YUL
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A-list : ELITE
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___ Picchu, Peru : MACHU
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Time's partner : AGAIN
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Medicinal plant : SENNA
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Proscriptions : DONTS
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Assign stars to : RATE
31
Things : STUFF
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"Good Christian Men, Rejoice," e.g. : CAROL
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Director Kurosawa : AKIRA
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Fur or fleece : COAT
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Marvin Gaye's "Can ___ Witness?" : IGETA
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Amorous complication : TRIANGLE
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Careless : SLIPSHOD
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Reneged (on) : FUDGED
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Dark period of poetry : EEN
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Smooth, in scores : LEGATO
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Scatterbrained : DITSY
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Classic western : SHANE
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Give ___ (heed) : EARTO
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Accessory : ADDON
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Cattle driver : GOAD
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Sgt. Friday's force : LAPD
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Dove's aversion : WAR
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It has a chilling effect : ICE
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Org. that fought the Brady bill : NRA

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