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New York Times, Friday, October 2, 1998

Author:
John Wolting
Editor:
Will Shortz
27-Down : Jazz chord
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John Wolting

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 70, Blocks: 30 Missing: {FJQ} Puzzle has duplicate clues. This is puzzle # 6 for Mr. Wolting. Friday freshness: 33%
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© 1998, The New York Times10/2/98 ( No. 17,860 )
Across
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Musical with the song "Why Should I Wake Up?" : CABARET
8
Drape : SWATHE
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Hero-worships : ADULATES
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Consumed flakes : CEREAL
17
Situation, informally : BALLGAME
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Site of Atatürk's mausoleum : ANKARA
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New Mexico State player : AGGIE
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Lift up : EXALT
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Whack : RAP
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It may be on the house : LIEN
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Traffic : TRADE
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Some traps : GINS
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Settler's building material : SOD
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Magpie's building material : TWIGS
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Take a stab (at) : LUNGE
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Not fresh : TRITE
30
Break : HIATUS
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Andy Warhol subject : MARILYNMONROE
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Northern : BOREAL
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Saw the sights? : AIMED
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Broke off : ENDED
37
"Stormy Weather" composer : ARLEN
38
Break : GAP
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A long time : AGES
42
Like some punk hairdos : SPIKY
43
Mendelssohn's "Fingal's ___" : CAVE
44
Slew : TON
45
Particle displacement symbols, in physics : ZETAS
46
Deduces, with "out" : DOPES
47
It may be crazy : NOTION
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Anticlimax : NONEVENT
51
Montreal, for one : ISLAND
52
1950's to today : SPACEAGE
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"Treatise on Money" author : KEYNES
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Gymnastics coach, often : SPOTTER
Down
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Leagues of intrigue : CABALS
2
Slow work : ADAGIO
3
Projected : BULGED
4
Ready to drop : ALLIN
5
Blow up : RAGE
6
Station letters : ETA
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Rashness : TEMERITY
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Step on it! : SCALE
9
Collapsed : WENT
10
Slow-moving vessel : ARK
11
Attack : TEARINTO
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Philippic : HARANGUE
13
Runs out : ELAPSES
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Some new retirees : SEXAGENARIANS
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Most junk mail, essentially : ADS
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Fine suit, maybe : TWILL
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Kind of dog : GUARD
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Jazz chord : TRIAD
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Chambermaid's charge : LINEN
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Plain lack : TREES
30
Snug : HOMEY
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Ferret look-alike : MONGOOSE
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With fire : ARDENTLY
33
Wimps : MILKSOPS
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Coffeehouse poet : BEATNIK
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Well-chosen : APT
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Eye in awe : GAPEAT
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Requite : AVENGE
40
Bug : PESTER
42
Telegraphs : SENDS
43
Break the Tenth Commandment : COVET
45
Time ___ : ZONE
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Like the Normandie, stylewise : DECO
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Charleson of "Chariots of Fire" : IAN
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Downy surface : NAP

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1 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later.

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