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As Time Goes By

New York Times, Sunday, September 3, 1995

Author:
Ernie Furtado
Editor:
Will Shortz
122-Across : Contradict
TotalDebutLatest
3011/5/198612/13/1995
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
5734245
RebusCircleScrabDebutPre‑WSFresh
111.47711837%
Ernie Furtado

This puzzle:

Rows: 21, Columns: 21 Words: 142, Blocks: 82 Missing: {JQXZ} This is puzzle # 29 for Mr. Furtado. Sunday freshness: 16%
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© 1995, The New York Times9/3/95 ( No. 16,735 )
Across
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Caribbean resort : ARUBA
6
Mine, in Marseille : AMOI
10
Ballerina Spessivtseva : OLGA
14
Sir abroad : AGA
17
Cobbler's supply : SOLES
18
Copy cats : APERS
19
Official language of China : KUOYU
20
Stag goers : HES
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Spiffy, as clothes : SUNDAYGOTOMEETING
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Some M.I.T. grads : EES
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Straight : NEAT
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Rio seven : SETE
27
Hibernated : SLEPT
28
Grandma : NANA
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Venue for figure skaters : ICESHOW
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Not a happy time : BLUEMONDAY
35
Early TV sex symbol : DAGMAR
38
"___ tu" (Verdi aria) : ERI
39
On both sides of : ASTRIDE
40
Gave the once-over : OGLED
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Pitcher's target : MITT
43
Wizened : SERE
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Future corp. exec., maybe : MBA
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One full of grace : TUESDAYSCHILD
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No gentlemen, they : ROTTERS
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Get the message : SEE
55
Judge Lance : ITO
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Racing's Luyendyk : ARIE
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"...ready ___!" : ORNOT
58
Hawaiian hardwood : LEHUA
60
Scorecard division : INNING
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Vino center : ASTI
65
Hit protest song of 1970 : OHIO
68
When Solomon Grundy married : ONWEDNESDAY
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"Call Me Irresponsible" songwriter : CAHN
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___-Rooter : ROTO
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"The Volcano Lover" novelist : SONTAG
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Plentiful : AMPLE
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Pile up : AMASS
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By : ASOF
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Journal end : ESE
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Conk : BOP
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Radio transmission, briefly : TELECOM
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Gene Wilder flick : THURSDAYSGAME
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Suffix with witch or hatch : ERY
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Julio Iglesias hit : AMOR
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Tarlatan skirt : TUTU
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Shoulder of a lock bolt : TALON
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Come before : PREDATE
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___ Paul's : MRS
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German native : TEUTON
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Assistant of a sort : GIRLFRIDAY
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Detective's discovery : PATTERN
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Sub in a tub : OLEO
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Fathers : SIRES
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Hieroglyphic representation : IBIS
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Govt. investigators : TMEN
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Small pocket : FOB
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Premiere of 10/11/75 : SATURDAYNIGHTLIVE
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Palindromic lady : EVE
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Them, with "the" : ENEMY
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Photographer Arbus : DIANE
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Contradict : BELIE
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Electrical unit : REL
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"Make do" amount : LESS
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Tolkien tree giants : ENTS
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Be in control : STEER
Down
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Alliance: Abbr. : ASSN
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Womanizer : ROUE
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Forelimb part : ULNA
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Storytelling occasions : BEDTIMES
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Simile center : ASA
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Polygon perpendiculars : APOTHEMS
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Swift : METEORIC
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First word of Montana's motto : ORO
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Creeds : ISMS
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Productions : OUTPUTS
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Potential troublemaker : LOITERER
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Ob-___ (medical specialist) : GYN
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Summer mo. : AUG
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Leading : AHEAD
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Actress Davis : GEENA
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Gold check : ASSAY
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Turns one's hair gray : AGES
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Ships, in poetry : KEELS
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French-Belgian river : YSER
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Island south of Livorno : ELBA
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Compass heading : NNE
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Bag carrier : CADDIE
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"Service ___ smile" : WITHA
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Joan of art : MIRO
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"___ Billie Joe" (1967 song) : ODETO
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H or S, in Morse code : DOTS
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Fever : AGUE
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___ club : GLEE
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Draining : TIRINGOUT
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Brainy bunch : MENSA
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Stock, in cookery : BROTH
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John who played Gomez : ASTIN
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"Vingt ans apres" figure : ATHOS
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"...I'll tell ___ lies" : YOUNO
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Rule : LINE
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Retreats : DENS
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Hint : TRACE
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Kind of end : LOOSE
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Barley beard : AWN
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Muckraker Tarbell : IDA
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"...to ___ few" : NAMEA
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Kind of cab : GYPSY
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Hold forth : ORATE
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Hit out of the park : HOMER
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Frommer title : ITALY
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French political division : ETAT
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Pinch : DASH
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Bandleader Lanin : LESTER
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Winter wear : SCARF
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Dowdy person : FRUMP
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Estonian, e.g. : BALT
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Melville work : OMOO
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___ Station : PENN
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49-day period in Judaism : OMER
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Couturiers : MODISTES
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Pull forcibly on : STRAINAT
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Ashcans, in London : DUSTBINS
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Padding site : GAUNTLET
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Decaying substances : RADIUMS
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Mideast letters : PLO
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Hang around : TARRY
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Regarded : EYED
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"Entertainment Tonight" host : TESH
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Pickup person : GOFER
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Cole Porter's "___ Paris" : ILOVE
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Rise up : REBEL
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Comics dog : TIGE
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De ___ ("Justine" novelist) : SADE
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Miss equivalent : MILE
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'60s singer Sands : EVIE
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Not e'en once : NEER
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Condiment at Maxim's : SEL
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Actress Sue ___ Langdon : ANE
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Feminine force : YIN
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Recipe measure: Abbr. : TBS

Answer summary:
9 unique to this puzzle, 4 debuted here and reused later, 6 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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