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THE SOUND OF MUSIC

New York Times, Sunday, January 22, 2006

Author:
George Barany and Michael Shteyman
Editor:
Will Shortz
86-Down : Doctor's signboard
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Michael Shteyman

This puzzle:

Rows: 21, Columns: 21 Words: 140, Blocks: 72 Missing: {JKV} Spans: 6 Featured in Will Shortz's favorite puzzlemakers. Puzzle has duplicate clues. This is the debut puzzle for Mr. Barany. This is puzzle # 37 for Mr. Shteyman. Sunday freshness: 2%
Notepad: When this puzzle is completed, the circled letters, read in order from left to right (column by column), will reveal the name of a Mystery Person.
Jim Horne notes:

The mystery person is WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART.

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© 2006, The New York Times1/22/6 ( No. 20,529 )
Across
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Oliver Twist, e.g. : WAIF
5
Little fight : SETTO
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Squawker : CRAB
14
Advanced : LENT
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Some chorus voices : ALTI
19
Run ___ of : AFOUL
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Father-and-son name in football coaching : SHULA
21
Modeler's need : CLAY
22
As a toddler visiting a farm, Mystery Person heard a pig squeal and ... : IDENTIFIEDITASAGSHARP
26
Dorothy's transport to Oz : TORNADO
27
Aardwolf features : STRIPES
28
Puncture : LANCE
29
"Comin' ___ the Rye" : THRO
31
Blunderbuss : OAF
32
Francis, e.g. : ROI
33
After a single hearing of a sacred piece in the Sistine Chapel, Mystery Person ... : WROTEITDOWNFROMMEMORY
44
Continental money : EUROS
45
One of Alcott's "Little Men" : DAN
46
Privy to : INON
47
Concept embodying yin and yang : TAO
48
Founded: Abbr. : ESTD
49
Jawbreaker? : FIST
51
Less loco : SANER
53
Mythical creature : SATYR
55
Mystery Person once composed a piano piece that, to be performed correctly, required the ... : USEOFTWOHANDSANDANOSE
59
One pole: Abbr. : NEG
60
Hematite component : IRON
61
Song from on high? : YODEL
62
Med. specialty : ENT
63
Use for support : STANDON
65
Massenet opera : LECID
66
Jewish sect : HASIDIM
70
Back : AGO
71
Trowel wielder : MASON
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Uncommon : RARE
73
Singer with a palindromic name : ONO
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Mystery Person would sometimes compose symphonies ... : WHILEPLAYINGBILLIARDS
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Assailed : HADAT
81
Revere : ADORE
82
Well : ABLY
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Cars once advertised as "The Gold Standard of Value" : REOS
84
Loosen up, maybe : OIL
85
Org. with an acad. near Colo. Spr. : USAF
86
___-mo : SLO
87
Country north of Tonga : SAMOA
88
Scholars believe that "A Musical Joke" by Mystery Person was ... : AREQUIEMFORHISPETBIRD
95
Tribe with a state named after it : UTE
96
Part of l'année : MAI
97
Carrier whose name means "skyward" : ELAL
98
G-rated : CLEAN
101
Whine-making? : MOANING
105
Throw : AREARUG
110
Mystery Person once wrote a waltz in which the choice of measures played was determined ... : BYTHEROLLINGOFTWODICE
113
Suffix with switch : EROO
114
12 on a cube : EDGES
115
"Whole ___ Love" (1969 hit) : LOTTA
116
Gusto : ZEST
117
Buzzed : RANG
118
Gregor Mendel research subject : PEAS
119
Northernmost county of Massachusetts : ESSEX
120
Cuts off : ENDS
Down
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"Hold it!" : WAIT
2
Fashion executive Gucci : ALDO
3
Path of Caesar : ITER
4
Spender of markkas, once : FINN
5
Greeted informally : SAIDHI
6
Pains : EFFORT
7
Vous, familiarly : TOI
8
January 27, 1756 (Mystery Person's birthdate), e.g. : TUES
9
Chicago district : OLDTOWN
10
Bloke : CHAP
11
Deceit : RUSE
12
"___ the heavy day!": "Othello" : ALAS
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Catch : BAG
14
Celebratory toast : LCHAIM
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Gusto : ELAN
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Buster? : NARC
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Family : TYPE
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Working ___ : STIFF
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"Soap" family : TATES
24
Part of Bush's "Axis of Evil" : IRAN
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___-eyed : SLOE
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Favored : ODDSON
32
He outpolled H.H.H. in '68 : RMN
33
Tots : WEEUNS
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Brown shade : RUSSET
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Sandinista head : ORTEGA
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List heading : TODO
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Swear words : OATH
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Finished cleaning : RINSED
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Youngest Oscar winner in history : ONEAL
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Poetic time of day : MORN
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1931 Medicine Nobelist Warburg : OTTO
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Some stingers : RAYS
43
Days of ___ : YORE
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1960's TV series set at Fort Courage : FTROOP
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Exuberant casino cry : IWON
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Ice treat : SNOCONE
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Simple arithmetic : ADDING
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U.S.-born grandchild of Japanese immigrants : SANSEI
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Nay sayer : ANTI
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Act antsy : FIDGET
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Reply to a captain : AYESIR
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So very much : DEARLY
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Simba's mate, in "The Lion King" : NALA
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Furlough : LAYOFF
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Campus building : HALL
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Long green : DOREMI
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Away from the elements : INDOOR
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Israeli intelligence group : MOSSAD
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Letter salutation : MADAM
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Five-carbon sugar : RIBOSE
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"Hold your horses!" : WHOA
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Locks : HAIR
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Furloughed : IDLE
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Use a surgical beam : LASE
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"Road" picture destination : BALI
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___-American : ARAB
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One-eighty : UIE
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Doctor's signboard : SHINGLE
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Canonized fifth-century pope : STLEO
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Edible clam : QUAHOG
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Minneapolis-based magazine : UTNE
91
Old Dodges : OMNIS
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Game stopper : RAIN
93
Missouri feeder : PLATTE
94
Swab target : EARWAX
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"Good buddy" : CBER
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Neighbor of Draco : LYRA
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___ jacket : ETON
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Fashion : MODE
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"Eugene Onegin" girl : OLGA
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Pub quaffs : ALES
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Gunks : GOOS
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Chisellike tool : ADZE
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It means nothing to the French : RIEN
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Golden State sch. : UCSD
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Understands : GETS
111
Agt. : REP
112
Basketball stat. : FTS

Answer summary:
6 unique to this puzzle, 4 debuted here and reused later.

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