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All Grown Up

New York Times, Sunday, January 9, 1994

Author:
Mel Rosen
Editor:
Will Shortz
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Mel Rosen

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Rows: 21, Columns: 21 Words: 140, Blocks: 78 Missing: {JQZ} This is puzzle # 25 for Mr. Rosen. Sunday freshness: 30%
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© 1994, The New York Times1/9/94 ( No. 16,133 )
Across
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Vulcan's workshop, in myth : ETNA
5
Movement begun by Tristan Tzara : DADA
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Digs into : BORES
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Parliamentarian's call : AYE
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Fritters away time : LOAFS
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Joie de vivre : ELAN
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Pass : ENACT
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Legends : LORE
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Heavy-duty farm machine : BUTTERFLYTRACTOR
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___ mater : DURA
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When D.S.T. ends : OCT
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Hilo mementos : LEIS
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Honors with style : FETES
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"Rinaldo" and others : OPERAS
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Vacillate : WHIFFLE
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Call by intercom : PAGE
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Signify : DENOTE
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Wall Street order : SELL
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Playing the toady : DEERINGOVER
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Fictional dog : LAD
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Bar orders : RYES
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Orangish food : YAMS
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Item of kabuki apparel : OBI
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Ballot abbr. : IND
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Seurat, e.g. : DOTTER
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"This must weigh ___ !" : ATON
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Sails close to the wind : LUFFS
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"Hey!" : PST
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"A Dissertation on Roast Pig" writer : CHARLESSHEEP
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Serving dish : BOAT
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N.C.A.A. participant: Abbr. : ATH
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Writer Murdoch : IRIS
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60's B-ball champs : UCLA
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Patent medicine : ELIXIR
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Certain clipping : TOENAIL
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Rugby get-together : SCRUM
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Yielding : PLIABLE
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Start of a Harper Lee title : TOKILL
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"Pardon me!" : AHEM
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Hide : PELT
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___ franchise : ALA
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"A Summer Place" star : EGAN
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Newspaper employee : LIONREPORTER
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Ring rock : GEM
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She played Jane to O'Keeffe's Tarzan : DEREK
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Yahtzee equipment : DICE
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Grasp : MASTER
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___ rule : ASA
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It's north of Minn. : ONT
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Police sch. : ACAD
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Drains : SAPS
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Ma Bell : ATT
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Rodgers-Hart show : PALKANGAROO
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Besides : PLUS
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Dreaming, to Hamlet? : THERUB
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Dusks, to Donne : EENS
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Least clever : DENSEST
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Smoothly, to Solti : LEGATO
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Flavorless : BLAND
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Logical start : IDEO
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Dian Fossey subject : APE
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"Unto us ___ is given" : ASON
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Fields-West film : MYLITTLEBIRDADEE
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Frangible : WEAK
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Lindsay's successor : BEAME
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Issue : EMIT
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Correct : EMEND
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34th, Elm, etc: Abbr. : STS
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Cavalry weapon : SABER
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First name in New York City politics : RUDY
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Apposes : ADDS
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Jostles : ELBOWS
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Faith healer, perhaps : TOUCHER
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One way to dress : NATTILY
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Sternward : AFT
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Just said no : DEFIED
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"___ fair... " : ALLS
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"Life with Father" writer : DAY
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Gift for a budding entomologist : ANTFARM
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Hammered : BEATEN
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In the old days : ONCE
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"Phooeyl" : RATS
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"Foucault's Pendulum" author : ECO
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Walked purposefully : STRODE
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Mayflower Compact signer : ALDEN
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Where to pack troubles : YOUROLDFOXBAG
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Slips : ERRATA
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Ego : SELF
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Buffered : EASED
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Presb. or Epis. : REL
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Co-host of morning TV : REGIS
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Agatha Christie's "___ at End House" : PERIL
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Hightailed it : FLED
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Oyster catch? : PEARL
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Sentinels : EYERS
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Robin's hangout? : GOTHAM
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Organ stop : OBOE
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Hollywood crosser : VINE
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Gregarious : SOCIAL
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Ancient Red Sea kingdom : NUBIA
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Send : THRILL
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Bedog : TAIL
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In ___ (batting poorly) : ASLUMP
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Ribbed silk fabric : FAILLE
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Parade : STREAM
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Praised, in a way : PATTED
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Filmland's Joe Besser, e.g. : STOOGE
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Pat Morita film : THEKARATEGOAT
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Swindle : EUCHRE
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Rocky debris : SCREE
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Bit of ammo : PELLET
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Petrol amounts : LITRES
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Striped yellow balls, in pool : NINES
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Retreats : SANCTA
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Fido and Fluffy : PETS
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Madrid landmark : PRADO
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Rock's Billy : IDOL
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Word from a pen : OINK
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Sheik Rahman et al. : OMARS
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Dead : KAPUT
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Entertains like Hammer : RAPS
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Catalyst : AGENT
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Egg tester : CANDLER
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Was appealing? : PLEADED
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Defer : SUSPEND
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Attorney ___ : ATLAW
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Luther's postings : THESES
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"Fat Man" and "Little Boy" of 1945 : ABOMBS
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More in order : NEATER
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Marvel : ODDITY
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Arabs, perhaps : STEEDS
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Puts in order : RANKS
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Ballad ending : EER
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Knob : NODE
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Sing : BLAB
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Soil sweetener : LIME
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Footnote note : IBID
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Voice vote : YEA
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Bird in a herd : EMU
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G.P.'S org. : AMA

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10 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 4 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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