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New York Times, Sunday, July 9, 1995

Author:
Nancy Nicholson Joline
Editor:
Will Shortz
28-Across : Understanding
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Nancy Nicholson Joline

This puzzle:

Rows: 21, Columns: 21 Words: 144, Blocks: 77 Missing: {JQZ} This is puzzle # 72 for Ms. Joline. Sunday freshness: 38%
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© 1995, The New York Times7/9/95 ( No. 16,679 )
Across
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Siren : VAMP
5
Desert : ABANDON
12
Gathered : AMASSED
19
Dieters' choices : OLEOS
21
Colleague of Placido : LUCIANO
22
Kind of language : ROMANCE
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Pictorial card : TAROT
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Outcomes other than expected : IRONIES
25
1 + 76 : DRACULA
26
Engraves : ETCHES
28
Understanding : GRASP
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Socks and Millie, e.g. : PETS
30
Grill's go-with : BAR
31
Juan Carlos I, e.g. : REY
32
University of Georgia home : ATHENS
34
Shiraz native : IRANI
36
Italian noble house : ESTE
37
Robin of old ballad : ADAIR
38
Clinton aide Panetta : LEON
39
___-de-sac : CUL
41
Some radio shows : CALLINS
44
Art ___ : DECO
45
Party items that get broken : PINATAS
49
Gave a keynote : ORATED
50
Debonair : SUAVE
52
91 + 66 : DEADPANS
53
Diamond Jim's opposites : MISERS
54
Caen's river : ORNE
55
Outdo : TOP
56
Half of "The Odd Couple" : OSCAR
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Dickensian exclamation : BAH
58
Line in a forecast : ISOBAR
60
Uh's cousins : ERS
61
Snuggeries : NESTS
62
Zoo snack, maybe : BANANA
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They go in parentheses : ASIDES
66
Clock parts : FACES
69
Retreat : DEN
70
Calm : SERENE
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Kind of dog or horse : SEA
75
Lab culture mediums : AGARS
76
Choler : IRE
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Nursery school item : CLAY
78
98 + 6 : BIGMAC
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Gives back : RESTORES
83
The English : BRITS
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Wake up : AROUSE
85
Puts out, as a batter : RETIRES
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Frostbite sites : TOES
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Covered (for) : FRONTED
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Honor society letter : ETA
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Boast : CROW
90
Carried : BORNE
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Some are south : PAWS
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The Shadow's cover : CLOAK
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Paged : BEEPED
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Swiss accompaniment : HAM
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___ Miss : OLE
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Charon's river : STYX
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Spirits : SOULS
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"Porgy" author ___ Heyward : DUBOSE
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55 + 62 : KINGPIN
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Shakespeare's "lean and hungry" character : CASSIUS
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Plains Indians : KIOWA
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Group within a group : ENCLAVE
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Some coats : ULSTERS
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Film maker Coen : ETHAN
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Brings on again : REHIRES
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It's spotted on kids : MEASLES
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Without : SANS
Down
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Booth occupant, perhaps : VOTER
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Winged : ALATE
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Old-fashioned exclamation : MERCY
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Famous corner in literature : POOH
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109 + 77 : ALI
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Rehnquist's predecessor : BURGER
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Furniture finial : ACORN
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They're hidden in Hirschfeld drawings : NINAS
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Seat of honor locale : DAIS
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Alternative to a bikini : ONEPIECE
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Two-year-olds' utterances : NOS
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Elizabeth or Eve : ARDEN
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Addams Family member : MORTICIA
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Part of conjugation practice : AMAS
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Mil. defense grp. : SAC
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Rebuffs : SNUBS
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Display of pomp : ECLAT
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"The Wreck of the Mary ___" : DEARE
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Less rocky : STEADIER
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Substitutes : STANDSIN
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Certain camera shot : PAN
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"___ Way" (Sinatra bio) : HIS
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Aussie hopper : ROO
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Passes : ELAPSES
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Der ___ (Adenauer) : ALTE
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89 + 30 : LEVER
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Ruined : UNDONE
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Search thoroughly : COMB
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Piece for 21-Across : ARIA
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Tie : LASH
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Comic Carvey : DANA
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Stomach enzyme : PEPSIN
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Tic-___ (popular candies) : TACS
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Gray area: Abbr. : ANAT
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Lat. and Lith., once : SSRS
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11-time Orange Bowl champs : SOONERS
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Sophisticated : URBANE
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Big Band brothers : DORSEYS
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Claw : TEARAT
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Girl-takes-boy parties : SADIES
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Wodehouse's Wooster et al. : BERTIES
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Classify : ASSORT
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Excluded : DEBARRED
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Jamie of TV's "M*A*S*H" : FARR
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Writer-critic James : AGEE
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Players : CAST
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Twist : SCREW
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Yalies : ELIS
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Censor's target : SMUT
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Proficiency : EASE
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Got a top mark on : ACED
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Wellington nickname, with "the" : IRONDUKE
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Out : GONE
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Not taking the lead : REACTIVE
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Where to get a volume discount? : BOOKSALE
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Musical syllable : TRA
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89 + 41 : FOP
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Tricia Nixon now : COX
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Take care : BESURE
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Log roller : POKER
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Dress style : ALINE
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Country lass : WENCH
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Director Adrian et al. : LYNES
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Nabs : BUSTS
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One of the Saarinens : ELIEL
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Hullabaloo : HOOHA
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City south of Luxor : ASWAN
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Money : MEANS
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Box : SPAR
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Greek peak : OSSA
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Computer units : BITS
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The, in Torino : GLI
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Diploma word : CUM
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Natl. registry grp. : SSS

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 5 debuted here and reused later, 2 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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