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Candyland

New York Times, Sunday, November 19, 1995

Author:
Cathy Millhauser
Editor:
Will Shortz
84-Down : Singer Vikki
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Cathy Allis

This puzzle:

Rows: 23, Columns: 23 Words: 166, Blocks: 88 Missing: {JQX} Spans: 4 This is puzzle # 18 for Ms. Allis. Sunday freshness: 29%
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© 1995, The New York Times11/19/95 ( No. 16,812 )
Across
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Not so fast : ANDANTE
8
Deck supervisors : BOSUNS
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Making even : TRUEING
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By the sea : COASTAL
22
Bulletin board fastener : PUSHPIN
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Puff's land, in song : HONALEE
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Actress Barbara shows affection for E.M.T.'s? : HERSHEYKISSESLIFESAVERS
27
Biblical birthright seller : ESAU
28
Detecting device : SENSOR
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Dynamite sound : POW
30
Proceeds : WENDS
31
Barker and Bell : MAS
34
Preschool group? : ROE
35
C.E.O.'s degree : MBA
38
Colorado tributary : GILA
40
That: Sp. : ESO
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Naughty but nice women fail to reimburse Doris? : SWEETTARTSPAYDAYZERO
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Brief freedom? : LIB
49
Table scraps : ORTS
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"There was ___ woman who..." : ANOLD
51
"Une baignade" artist : SEURAT
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Capri suffix : OTE
56
"Just kidding!" : NOT
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Did nothing : SAT
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Cheese choice : EDAM
62
Rent : TORE
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Dumas heroes exploit losers? : THREEMUSKETEERSMILKDUDS
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Marathoner's ordeal : HILL
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Strenuous : TIRING
72
Buttercup relatives : ANEMONES
73
Imbue : STEEP
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Role for Liz in '63 : CLEO
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Get better in barrels : AGE
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Monthly check sender: Abbr. : SSA
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Kind of fingerprint : DNA
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Rossner title character acts derisively? : MRGOODBARSNICKERS
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"Cheers" network : NBC
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Furthermore : AND
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Tarzan creator's monogram : ERB
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Marvin Lee ___ aka Meat Loaf : ADAY
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Spring perennial : TULIP
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"Omnibus" host Cooke : ALISTAIR
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Open auto of old : TOURER
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Strip at a swim meet : LANE
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Fumbler defaces parts of diamonds? : BUTTERFINGERSMARSMOUNDS
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"Como ___ usted?" : ESTA
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Part of 36-Down : YOUR
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Abbr. on some hulls : USS
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N.T. book before James : HEB
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Juno, for one : DEA
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Note elevators : SHARPS
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"White Christmas" record label : DECCA
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Prompter beginning : TELE
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1970 Jackson 5 hit : ABC
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Dustin persona wheels young Dr. Westheimer? : TOOTSIEROLLSBABYRUTH
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Provider of home runs? : VCR
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Shell, to old poets : LYRE
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Son of Odin : TYR
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"What did I tell you!" : OHO
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Third king of Judah : ASA
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Actress Demich of 60's filmdom : IRINA
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67 degrees 30 minutes : ENE
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Varnish ingredients : ROSINS
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Holm and Hunter : IANS
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Ingenue's elderly beau bespeckles Della's mug? : SUGARDADDYDOTSREESESCUP
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Ezra Pound contemporary : TSELIOT
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More strapped : NEEDIER
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Singer Lynn : LORETTA
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Books stored horizontally : ATLASES
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"Gunsmoke" star : ARNESS
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Sawyer of ABC News : FORREST
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Pine (for) : ACHE
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Two-year-olds' chorus : NOES
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Operatic basso Enzo ___ : DARA
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Undertake : ASSUME
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Ordinal adjective : NTH
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Menlo Park monogram : TAE
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TV Tarzan's kin : ELYS
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Warm welcomes : BUSSES
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___ buco (veal dish) : OSSO
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His act was antitrust : SHERMAN
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Pkg. carrier : UPS
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Zilch : NIL
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Impudent nobody : SNIP
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"Ease on Down the Road!" musical : THEWIZ
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Bandleader Edmundo : ROS
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In the dark : UNAWARE
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Place for hangers-on? : EAVE
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TV's Kristen or Graff : ILENE
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Dweebs : NERDS
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Art base : GESSO
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Wine grape : PINOT
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Deborah, Graham and Jean : KERRS
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Stick-in-the-mud : FOGY
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In concurrence : ATONE
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A loser to Harry in '48 : STROM
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"I'm not supplying," on invitations : BYO
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Madam Polly : ADLER
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Article on Mont Blanc : LES
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Tropical tree-hangers : SLOTHS
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Hip : WITHIT
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40's singing brother Ray or Bob : EBERLE
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Aleutian island : ATTU
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LuPone of "Evita" : PATTI
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Sticks on : ADDS
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Best : OUTDO
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Beef cut : ROUND
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Miss Brooks portrayer : ARDEN
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"The Gondoliers" girl : TESSA
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Tackled moguls : SKIED
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Oxygen-dependent organism : AEROBE
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"I ___ Thief" (1935 film) : AMA
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Big name in burlesque : MINSKY
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Kind of sch. : ELEM
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Normandy battle site : STLO
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Surround with trees : ENARBOR
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Soufflé sine qua non : EGGS
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Majesty start : LESE
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Discount chain : KMART
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Chatter : PRATE
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Arrange systematically : CODIFY
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Gives weapons, old-style : ENARMS
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Growl : GNAR
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"Verrry interesting" Johnson : ARTE
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Mind set? : IDEAS
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Singer Vikki : CARR
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Enterprise helmsman : SULU
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Theaters near you : NABES
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Cheek makeup : BLUSH
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Roma is one : CITTA
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Two-seated carriage : LANDAU
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Behind on bills : INDEBT
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Seder period : PESACH
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Plunge in : START
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Flight destination in 1933 title : RIO
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Routine : USUAL
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Bare: Prefix : NUDI
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Do some salaaming : GREET
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Diamond of Queens : SHEA
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Peach ___ : MELBA
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Heels, e.g. : OBEYS
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Guiding light : POLARIS
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Teriyaki ingredient : SOY
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Blubber : CRY
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Rust : CORRODE
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Steak order : TBONE
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Goodies : TREATS
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Enrapture, slangily : SEND
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Insurance claim particulars : LOSSES
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Create smocking : SHIRR
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Fund ___ : RAISER
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Service program : VISTA
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Pizza part : CRUST
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Star of Orion's left foot : RIGEL
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Simba's "Lion King" love : NALA
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Novelist O'Brien : EDNA
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Football's Armstrong : OTIS
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Ego : SELF
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Dumas novel : ACTE
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"Phooey!" : NUTS
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Young oyster : SPAT
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___-eyed : DOE
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Ending akin to -ist : YER
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Cub house : DEN
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___ Locks (Great Lakes passage) : SOO
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Necessitate an "Oops!" : ERR

Answer summary:
9 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 5 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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