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New York Times, Thursday, October 18, 2001

Author:
Elizabeth C. Gorski
Editor:
Will Shortz
53-Down : Battle of the ___
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Elizabeth C. Gorski

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 36 This is puzzle # 82 for Ms. Gorski. Thursday freshness: 30%
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© 2001, The New York Times10/18/1 ( No. 18,972 )
Across
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Related on the mother's side : ENATE
6
Card game with the 13 spades laid out : FARO
10
Unadorned : BALD
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Expensive watch : ROLEX
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Fine horse : ARAB
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"That's ___!" : ALIE
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Dessert made with pineapple : UPSIDEDOWNCAKE
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Deli order : NOVA
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Some facial features : TICS
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Out-and-out : UTTER
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Like some golf balls : TEED
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Six, in Tuscany : SEI
24
Phone trio : MNO
25
Body of work : OEUVRE
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Was considered special : RATED
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Flip : UPEND
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Strauss's "___ Heldenleben" : EIN
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Play stations? : ARENAS
34
Produced : SIRED
36
Alliance : BLOC
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Car opener? : RENTA
41
Gridiron move : PASS
42
Left ventricle attachment : AORTA
44
Hunk : ADONIS
46
William, to Diana : SON
47
Partied, so to speak : GOTDOWN
49
Sentences : DOOMS
52
Very soon : INASEC
54
Chamber worker?: Abbr. : SEN
55
Part of i.o.u. : OWE
57
Old ___, Conn. : LYME
58
"___ letter" (office order) : TAKEA
61
War maker : ARES
62
Wild goat : IBEX
63
Title song of a Duke Ellington album : UPTOWNDOWNBEAT
65
Gérard Depardieu work : CINE
66
One may be turning : LANE
67
Make merry : ELATE
68
Red army? : ANTS
69
Caltech grad: Abbr. : ENGR
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Be economical with : REUSE
Down
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Explodes : ERUPTS
2
More of a buttinsky : NOSIER
3
Concert pianist de Larrocha : ALICIA
4
Nugent and Turner : TEDS
5
Letters ending a PC code file name : EXE
6
See 35-Down : FACTO
7
"I smell ___!" : ARAT
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Shed item : RAKE
9
Shakespearean fairy : OBERON
10
African language : BANTU
11
Soap ingredient : ALOEVERA
12
Rental stables : LIVERIES
13
They get you nowhere : DEADENDS
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Where they say "G'day!" : DOWNUNDER
24
Riviera vista : MER
26
Cosmo staff : EDS
28
Social grace : TACT
29
Yo-yoing : UPANDDOWN
30
This, to Jorge : ESTO
33
Like some drink orders : NEAT
35
With 6-Down, a logician's phrase : IPSO
36
Vatican attraction : BASILICA
37
Zoo, so to speak : LOONYBIN
38
Gargoyle, e.g. : ORNAMENT
40
Like native llamas : ANDEAN
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Ripen : AGE
45
Charged item : ION
48
Eightfold : OCTUPLE
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Doctor in an H. G. Wells title : MOREAU
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Workout wear : SWEATS
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Battle of the ___ : SEXES
54
One who'll put you in stitches? : SEWER
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Name on an atomizer : ESTEE
59
___ impasse : ATAN
60
King ___ : KONG
61
Competent : ABLE
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Sedative, informally : DOWNER

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