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New York Times, Wednesday, October 15, 2003

Author:
John Greenman
Editor:
Will Shortz
28-Down : Novelist Cather
TotalDebutLatest
644/7/19811/6/2009
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RebusScrabDebutPre‑WSFresh
21.47435214%
John Greenman

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 40 Missing: {FQXYZ} This is puzzle # 61 for Mr. Greenman. Wednesday freshness: 7%
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© 2003, The New York Times10/15/3 ( No. 19,699 )
Across
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Salaams : BOWS
5
Actress Grier : PAM
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Heads-up : ALERT
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Turf : AREA
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Medea rode on it : ARGO
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Where Hawkeye served : KOREA
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Getting warm : NEAR
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Cassandra, e.g. : SEER
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High-rise support : IBEAM
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"Enjoy yourself?" in Jakarta? : JAVANICETIME
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Horatian ___ : ODE
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It flows through the Seine : EAU
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Schmooze : GAB
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Radical 60's org. : SDS
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"Need your cup refilled?" in Apia? : WANTSAMOATEA
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Paints like Pollock : DRIPS
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Turkish muck-a-muck : AGA
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A bunch : GOBS
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Transporting network : RAILS
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Nice look? : VUE
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Hold in esteem : VALUE
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"American ___" : IDOL
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Like a fashionista : MOD
40
Largish combo : OCTET
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"Having indigestion?" in Denpasar? : GOTABALIACHE
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Pompous type : ASS
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Blotto : LIT
46
Floral chain : LEI
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Quiche, e.g. : PIE
50
"Get your idea across?" in Kingston? : JAMAICAPOINT
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Walking tall : PROUD
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Side in a 1980's war : IRAN
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Time period : SPAN
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Sharp as a tack : ACUTE
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Saws with the grain : RIPS
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Musical Horne : LENA
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Cornerstone features : DATES
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Medium talent? : ESP
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They may be driven to extraction : ORES
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A picker may pick one : BANJO
2
Mountain nymph : OREAD
3
Herringbone, e.g. : WEAVE
4
Gilbert of "Roseanne" : SARA
5
Like parts in a kit : PRECUT
6
Critic James : AGEE
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Monopoly deed figure : MORTGAGE
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Hands-on-hips : AKIMBO
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Brain area : LOBE
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Prior to, in poesy : ERE
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Stephen of "FearDotCom" : REA
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Skye cap : TAM
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Some Russians : ASIANS
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Some tides : NEAPS
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Paul Simon's "___ Rock" : IAMA
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Lifted, so to speak : STOLE
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Come out : DEBUT
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Freelancer's encl. : SASE
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Novelist Cather : WILLA
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Nejd native : SAUDI
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Quartz variety : AGATE
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Pedestal parts: Var. : DADOS
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Mob scenes : RIOTS
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Baltic capital : RIGA
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"Candide" author : VOLTAIRE
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TV monitor, of sorts : VCHIP
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Hurt severely : MAIM
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Vast expanses : OCEANS
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Windmill parts : BLADES
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Dogpatch's creator : ALCAPP
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March 17 marcher : PIPER
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Pointless : INANE
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Lab burners : ETNAS
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Gunnysack fiber : JUTE
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Camera diaphragm : IRIS
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___ Accords, 1993 : OSLO
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Inflate, as expenses : PAD
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Nipper's letters : RCA
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On strike, say : OUT

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