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New York Times, Thursday, August 22, 2002

Author:
Cathy Millhauser
Editor:
Will Shortz
27-Across : Special interest grps.
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Cathy Allis

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 74, Blocks: 38 Missing: {JQZ} Spans: 1 Puzzle has duplicate clues. This is puzzle # 71 for Ms. Allis. Thursday freshness: 43%
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© 2002, The New York Times8/22/2 ( No. 19,280 )
Across
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Follow-up to the best seller "Angela's Ashes" : TIS
4
Mass segment : CREDO
9
Bank offering, briefly : IRA
12
Moo goo gai pan pan : WOK
13
Kind of class : RULING
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Prefix with pod : DECA
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Like Botox injections? : INYOURFACE
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Interruption : AHEM
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Some campers' supplies : TARPS
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Open, as shipped goods : UNCRATE
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Like a housecat's no-no? : OUTSIDETHEBOX
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Special interest grps. : PACS
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Wool finisher, commercially : ITE
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Approximately : SAY
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"Gross!" : ICK
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Perplexed, after "at" : ALOSS
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Linguist Chomsky and others : NOAMS
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Like a chunky person's belt buckle? : AHEADOFTHECURVE
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Nasty-smelling : FETID
42
Mouth-burning : FIERY
43
Cartoonist Keane : BIL
44
Acronymic car of old : REO
46
"Platoon" setting : NAM
47
Heater feature : COIL
48
Like a "M*A*S*H" character's soles? : UNDERTHERADAR
53
Results in : LEADSTO
54
Words of assent : AMENS
57
PBS science show : NOVA
58
Like a kid with spin control? : OVERTHETOP
62
Blue shade : ANIL
63
Soap, e.g. : SERIAL
64
___ Weekend (Gannett publication) : USA
65
Salt Lake City-to-Provo dir. : SSE
66
Blue shade : LAPIS
67
Satisfied : MET
Down
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Little jerk : TWIT
2
Home of the Gaels, in college sports : IONA
3
Rise abruptly : SKYROCKET
4
Tart part : CRUST
5
Karel Capek play : RUR
6
Grimm character : ELF
7
Domingo, e.g. : DIA
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When the baton indicates : ONCUE
9
It's a challenge : IDAREYOU
10
Getting better, after "in" : REHAB
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Vinegar: Prefix : ACETO
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Ladies' partners : GENTS
16
Wall St. abbr. : AMEX
18
Numbered composition : OPUS
22
High-risk : CHANCY
24
Grain ___ : SILO
25
Words with hit or take : ITOFF
26
Preordain : DESTINE
27
Singer known as the Sparrow of Paris : PIAF
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Mourn (for) : ACHE
32
Dangerous biters : ADDERS
33
Fleece : SHEAR
35
Botanical site : ARBORETUM
36
Early second-millennium year : MVII
37
Behave like a bear : SELL
39
Terrier type : AIREDALE
40
Columnist Bombeck : ERMA
45
Four Holy Roman emperors : OTTOS
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Pulled in : CAME
48
Site of a Monteggia's fracture : ULNA
49
Some Dodges : NEONS
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___ Cup : DAVIS
51
Shanty : HOVEL
52
Arlene and Roald : DAHLS
55
Symbol of prying : NOSE
56
Quarrel : SPAT
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Oft-nicknamed period : ERA
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Stretch of turbulent water : RIP
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Skater Babilonia : TAI

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

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