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New York Times, Tuesday, August 17, 1999

Author:
Stephanie Spadaccini
Editor:
Will Shortz
43-Across : Late singer Mel
TotalDebutLatest
441/27/197710/5/1999
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ScrabDebutPre‑WSFresh
1.54126814%
Stephanie Spadaccini

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 34 Missing: {FJZ} Spans: 3 This is puzzle # 42 for Ms. Spadaccini. Tuesday freshness: 21%
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© 1999, The New York Times8/17/99 ( No. 18,179 )
Across
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Plays a part : ACTS
5
Purple color : PLUM
9
American symbol : EAGLE
14
Boutique : SHOP
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Left the couch : ROSE
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Implore : PLEAD
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Dodges : ELUDES
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Wall upright : STUD
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Noted Downing Street address : TEN
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Maiden name indicator : NEE
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Give the gas : REV
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Garden store purchase : SEED
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Not the glad-handing sort : LONER
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Slanders : SMEARS
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Hope/Crosby "Road" destination : BALI
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Gunk : CRUD
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Permeate : IMBUE
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Autobiography? : IWITNESSACCOUNT
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Late singer Mel : TORME
44
Carve : ETCH
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Comic Bill et al. : NYES
46
Detective : SLEUTH
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Harbor sights : SHIPS
50
Use a mop : SWAB
52
Downed : ATE
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High ___ kite : ASA
56
Trash bag accessory : TIE
59
Designer Cassini : OLEG
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Like a baguette : CRUSTY
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Ambivalent? : UNDERTHEWHETHER
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Lively : BRISK
67
Geometry calculation : AREA
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Hawaiian bird : NENE
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Oozes : SEEPS
70
Airy home : NEST
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Baseball's ___ Slaughter : ENOS
Down
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Western ski area : ASPEN
2
2,880-mile long country : CHILE
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Close-fitting hat : TOQUE
4
Tater : SPUD
5
Charisma : PRESENCE
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Bagel topper : LOX
7
Mail org. : USPS
8
Track-and-field contests : MEETS
9
Not localized : EPIDEMIC
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Brewery product : ALE
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Polite fellow : GENT
12
Alençon product : LACE
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Paradise : EDEN
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A Saarinen : EERO
19
Paris gridwork : RUES
25
Chapter's partner : VERSE
27
They harass the insane : DEMONS
28
Kind of paper or test : LITMUS
29
Oxidizes : RUSTS
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"What ___!" ("Don't pass up this offer!") : ABUY
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Part of an ancient inscription : RUNE
33
Arranges, as music : SETS
34
Morsels : BITS
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Missing at roll call, maybe : AWOL
36
Marco's money : LIRE
38
Russian country house : DACHA
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ABC, CBS, etc. : NETWORKS
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Small talk : CHITCHAT
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"Stop!" : HALT
49
François's father : PERE
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Dramatist Brendan : BEHAN
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Grayish : ASHEN
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Office worker : STENO
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Actor Lew : AYRES
56
Big basins : TUBS
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Regarding : INRE
58
Singer Brickell : EDIE
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Actor Richard : GERE
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The ___ Reader (magazine) : UTNE
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One means of knowing : ESP
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Horror film director Craven : WES

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