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New York Times, Friday, September 5, 1997

Author:
Harvey Estes
Editor:
Will Shortz
54-Across : Tarquin's title
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Harvey Estes

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 72, Blocks: 34 Missing: {QZ} This is puzzle # 31 for Mr. Estes. Friday freshness: 36%
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© 1997, The New York Times9/5/97 ( No. 17,468 )
Across
1
Thoroughfares: Abbr. : STS
4
1920's chess champion Capablanca : JOSE
8
Nubian Desert site : SUDAN
13
Canvas coats? : OILPAINTS
16
Where to see Ben Franklin's portrait : CNOTE
17
Pump thump : HEARTBEAT
18
Attorney modifier : ATLAW
19
Going around the world : ORBITING
20
Much of boot camp : DRILLS
21
Fax button : SEND
22
Give away : REVEAL
23
Projecting part : PRONG
25
Cry of glee : WHEE
26
A.C.L.U. concerns: Abbr. : RTS
28
Vogue : TREND
29
Cigs : WEEDS
30
One of Frank's exes : MIA
31
Bill and Bob's opponent : ROSS
32
Sheds : MOLTS
33
Archly theatrical : CAMP
34
Ab ___ (from the beginning) : OVO
35
Cornerstone of Cartesianism : DOUBT
36
Centers : CORES
37
Nonexistent : NIL
38
Air France terminal : ORLY
39
Goggles : GAWKS
40
Threw over : DUMPED
42
!, to a printer : BANG
43
Particular : DETAIL
44
Greens, politically : LEFTISTS
48
Ardent : AFIRE
49
Quid pro quo : TITFORTAT
50
Sweetie pie : TOOTS
51
Monet subject : WATERLILY
52
Physicist Mach : ERNST
53
Raw material : ORES
54
Tarquin's title : REX
Down
1
Area near TriBeCa : SOHO
2
Class : TIER
3
Tabletop, perhaps : SLAB
4
In agreement : JIBING
5
Upright : ONEND
6
Actaeon, ultimately, in Greek myth : STAG
7
Hrs. in Quebec : EST
8
Hermes accessories : SCARVES
9
Free from restraint : UNTIE
10
Important monetary currency peg : DOLLARMARK
11
Every minute : ATALLTIMES
12
Intelligence : NEWS
14
Cooler places? : PRISONS
15
Work on, with "to" : ATTEND
20
Hero's list : DEEDS
22
Butler of fiction : RHETT
23
Support : PROVIDEFOR
24
Denouement : RESOLUTION
25
Young role on TV : WELBY
27
Drains : SAPS
28
Suffix in high-tech company names : TRON
29
___-be : WOULD
32
Prized mushroom : MOREL
33
Rodeo rider : COWGIRL
35
Most moronic : DOPIEST
36
Psalms singer : CANTOR
39
Faux pas : GAFFES
41
Exchanges : MARTS
42
She played Margo in "All About Eve" : BETTE
43
See : DATE
44
Jim Carrey, in a 1997 movie : LIAR
45
Sensation : STIR
46
Scheherazade specialty : TALE
47
An oath on it was once held to be inviolable : STYX
49
Company number : TWO

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