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New York Times, Friday, September 15, 2000

Author:
Brendan Emmett Quigley
Editor:
Will Shortz
47-Across : Boil
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Brendan Emmett Quigley

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 64, Blocks: 39 Missing: {JQZ} Puzzle has duplicate clues. This is puzzle # 41 for Mr. Quigley. Friday freshness: 87%
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© 2000, The New York Times9/15/0 ( No. 18,574 )
Across
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Persian War participant : SPARTA
7
It may take a beating : BREAST
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Pillars of the community : ELDERS
14
Film critic Kael : PAULINE
15
Wind god : AEOLUS
16
Like some stomachs : CASTIRON
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Rattle of a sort : MARACA
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National competitor : AVIS
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Claustrophobic patient's dread : MRI
20
Siren : SEXKITTEN
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Make snaps, say : BAKE
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Sled parts : SLATS
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Comparatively cockeyed : WRIER
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Mass communication? : LITANY
27
Flu symptom : CHILLS
28
It's a wrap : SARONG
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Playground equipment : SLIDES
30
Swallow : ACCEPT
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Like some pie crusts : FLUTED
32
If-___ (computer routines) : THENS
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Popular supermarket tabloid : GLOBE
34
"___ sorry..." : WERE
35
Desire in the offing? : DEATHWISH
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Mathematician Lovelace : ADA
40
Preener, perhaps : BEAK
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Made a pig of oneself? : OINKED
43
Guardian : TUTELARY
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Loosen, as a 37-Down : UNLACE
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Big rolls : ELEVENS
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Boil : SEETHE
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Grayish green : RESEDA
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Treasure : ESTEEM
Down
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Place vulnerable to ripping : SEAM
2
They're entered in court : PLEAS
3
Like loads : ADORE
4
Become less gripping? : RELAX
5
Gas station plazas : TRUCKSTOPS
6
Attacker : ASSAILANT
7
It holds water : BASIN
8
Causes of some spinning wheels : RUTS
9
Philip Roth's "___, the Fanatic" : ELI
10
Sent flying? : AIRMAILED
11
Does some shoal searching? : SNORKELS
12
"The Alchemist" painter : TENIERS
14
Makes concrete? : PAVES
16
Malicious : CATTY
21
Punch : TANG
22
One given away : BRIDE
24
Sancerre and Sylvaner : WHITEWINES
25
Tears : LACERATES
26
Memorable 1999 hurricane : IRENE
27
19th hole : CLUBHOUSE
28
It's full of 29-Downs : SCHEDULE
29
See 28-Down : SLOT
30
Prominent 1988 Bush campaign adviser : ATWATER
31
Like some pie crusts : FLAKY
33
Subjects of ratios : GEARS
35
Country singer Carter : DEANA
36
Small fjord : INLET
37
It may have a blade : SKATE
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"Psycho" co-star, 1998 : HECHE
40
Ran : BLED
42
Believe : DEEM
44
Early evictee : EVE

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2 unique to this puzzle, 5 debuted here and reused later.

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