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New York Times, Friday, November 30, 2001

Author:
Elizabeth C. Gorski
Editor:
Will Shortz
54-Down : "___ framed!"
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Elizabeth C. Gorski

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 72, Blocks: 34 Missing: {JKQXZ} Spans: 2 This is puzzle # 84 for Ms. Gorski. Friday freshness: 18%
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© 2001, The New York Times11/30/1 ( No. 19,015 )
Across
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Church abutter, maybe : MANSE
6
Some alerts, for short : APBS
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Like a mite : WEE
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Superior strings : AMATIS
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Member of a pod : SEAL
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Retail store opening? : WAL
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With pluck : GAMELY
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Statement upon delivery : ITSAGIRL
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A restaurant patron said ... : INEVEREATSNAILS
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Welcome to one's home : SEEIN
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Cracker, of sorts : YEGG
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Signature piece? : PEN
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Zip : NADA
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Nineveh's river : TIGRIS
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It's ruled by a sultan : OMAN
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Man of means, in Manchester : NOB
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Blue-ribbon : SELECT
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"You Can Call Me Al" singer : SIMON
38
The waiter asked ... : WHY
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Make good on : REPAY
41
Hinged flap on an airplane : ELEVON
43
Like school, sometimes : OUT
45
Sun-cracked : SERE
46
Firedome, for one : DESOTO
47
Some TV's : RCAS
49
Legal thing : RES
50
Sped : TORE
52
Dalmatian, e.g. : CROAT
54
The patron replied ... : IPREFERFASTFOOD
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Happy-go-lucky person, perhaps : WHISTLER
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Loser at Châlons in A.D. 451 : ATTILA
62
Shout before firing : AIM
63
___ signum : ECCE
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Eyed rudely : LEERED
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Artful : SLY
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G, e.g. : NOTE
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Grounds : DREGS
Down
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Epiphany figures : MAGI
2
Make ___ of : AMAN
3
Gets specific : NAMESNAMES
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Skier Mahre : STEVE
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Actress Heckart : EILEEN
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Java is in it : ASIA
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Niggling : PETTY
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They have short legs and long ears : BASSETS
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Like "chow" vis-à-vis "edibles" : SLANGIER
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Chapter in 20th-century hist. : WWII
11
Eden, for one : EARL
12
Corner pieces : ELLS
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Six Day War combatant : SYRIAN
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Noisy groups : GAGGLES
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Pump with money : ENDOW
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Got shot in a studio? : POSED
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"South Pacific" hero : EMILE
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Can't take : ABHOR
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Prepared numbers : REPERTOIRE
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Empathetic words : ICARE
31
Lid problems : STYES
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Nays : NOVOTES
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Seldom : NOTOFTEN
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Adam's-needle, e.g. : YUCCA
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Remington rival : NORELCO
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Kind of bone : TARSAL
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In one's cups : SOTTED
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Like Homo habilis : ERECT
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À la : AFTER
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"___ framed!" : IWAS
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4-Down's twin : PHIL
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Frosted : RIMY
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Priceless? : FREE
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Designer for Jackie : OLEG
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Some stay at home : DADS

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