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New York Times, Wednesday, September 20, 2006

Author:
Joe DiPietro
Editor:
Will Shortz
17-Across : Very cool 1970's N.F.L.er?
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Joe DiPietro

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 34 Missing: {QXZ} This is puzzle # 92 for Mr. DiPietro. Wednesday freshness: 56%
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© 2006, The New York Times9/20/6 ( No. 20,770 )
Across
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"The Family Circus" cartoonist Keane : BIL
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Undoer of "ritardando" : ATEMPO
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Early late-night name : PAAR
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Big bird : EMU
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Big bow : SALAAM
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Avatar of Vishnu : RAMA
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Very cool 1970's N.F.L.er? : ACCOWLINGS
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Painter Nolde : EMIL
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Medical facility : CLINIC
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Some nods : OKS
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Feverish : ILL
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Nobel or Oscar : HONOR
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Watch readout, for short : LCD
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Dwight beat him twice : ADLAI
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Wipe out : END
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Girl rescued by Don Juan : LEILA
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"Fiddler on the Roof" matchmaker : YENTE
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Like Beethoven : DEAF
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Menu words : ALA
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Strapped : INNEED
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Fresh-squeezed ex-football star/pitchman? : OJSIMPSON
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Pill variety : CAPLET
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Set of wedges? : PIE
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Doesn't shut up : YAPS
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Hoagy Carmichael's "Star Dust," e.g. : OLDIE
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Was sweet (on) : DOTED
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Turn : ROT
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Blair's predecessor : MAJOR
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"___ calls?" : ANY
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Course coup : EAGLE
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Alley org. : PBA
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Sample : SIP
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___-faire : SAVOIR
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Novelist Janowitz : TAMA
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Novelist/poet not playing the field? : DHLAWRENCE
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Harbinger : OMEN
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In the least : ONEBIT
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Prefix with -lithic : NEO
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Illustrator Thomas : NAST
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Musically connected : LEGATO
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Both Begleys : EDS
Down
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Like some whales : BEACHED
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Company in the Martha Stewart stock trading scandal : IMCLONE
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Country singer Williams : LUCINDA
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Eddying : ASWIRL
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Rash response? : TALC
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Judge in I Samuel : ELI
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Word on both sides of "to" and "for" : MAN
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Gong site : PAGODA
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City in SW Russia : OMSK
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Opposite of post- : PRE
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Children's author trying to dry out? : AAMILNE
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Tardy person's question : AMILATE
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Came from behind : RALLIED
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"The fifth Beatle" : ONO
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Decline : SAYNO
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Leslie Caron musical : LILI
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Fasten firmly, as to a bench : CLAMPON
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1960's Detroit Tigers star McLain : DENNY
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Right on the map : EAST
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Leaf : FOLIO
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Shrink's statement : ISEE
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Boos : JEERS
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Compassion : PITY
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City SE of downtown Los Angeles : COMPTON
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Auburn foe : ALABAMA
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Mystery writer with a badge? : PDJAMES
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W.W. I battle locale : ARGONNE
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Maintained order over : POLICED
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Sound systems : STEREOS
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Nymph loved by Apollo : DAPHNE
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Loved by : DEARTO
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"___, Caesar!" : AVE
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"American ___" : IDOL
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Loretta of "M*A*S*H" : SWIT
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Colony member : ANT
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Stilt's place : LEG
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Litigator's org. : ABA

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