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New York Times, Friday, December 10, 1993

Author:
Alex K. Justin
Editor:
Will Shortz
44-Down : Mediterranean vessel
TotalDebutLatest
195/21/19924/2/1998
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5200345
ScrabDebutPre‑WSFresh
1.54103557%
Alex K. Justin

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 36 Missing: {JQV} This is puzzle # 6 for Mr. Justin. Friday freshness: 6%
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I
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M
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A
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N
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A
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B
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B
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E
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Y
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A
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S
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T
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A
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N
O
G
O
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W
R
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Z
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H
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G
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O
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N
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N
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W
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T
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X
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S
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A
T
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O
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T
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I
L
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N
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D
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S
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G
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N
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N
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K
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S
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R
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C
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Y
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B
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R
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F
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G
U
P
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I
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I
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T
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T
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E
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H
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N
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W
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L
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D
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U
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R
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B
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O
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F
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T
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A
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S
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S
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N
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E
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E
© 1993, The New York Times12/10/93 ( No. 16,103 )
Across
1
David Bowie's model wife : IMAN
5
Famed Dublin theater : ABBEY
10
Terrier of fiction : ASTA
14
Canceled : NOGO
15
Pen : WRITE
16
Paula of "CBS This Morning" : ZAHN
17
Burgeon : GROW
18
"Read my lips" declaration : NONEWTAXES
20
Never : ATNOTIME
22
Actress Graft of "Mr. Belvedere" : ILENE
23
It's forbidden : NONO
24
It may be blind : DATE
26
Veteran sailor : SEADOG
29
Polite refusal : NOTHANKS
33
Montreal street sign : ARRET
34
Indian craft : CANOE
35
Suffix with diet or planet : ARY
36
Bush Attorney General William : BARR
37
Become misty : FOGUP
38
Computer symbol : ICON
39
"How was ___ know?" : ITO
40
Buy a round : TREAT
41
Cultural: Prefix : ETHNO
42
1987 Costner thriller : NOWAYOUT
44
Carried on : LASTED
45
PC operator : USER
46
Country ballroom? : BARN
47
Alamogordo's county : OTERO
50
"Jack Sprat could ___" : EATNOFAT
54
Straight from the shoulder : NONONSENSE
57
Bear up? : URSA
58
Kuwaiti ruler : EMIR
59
Get ___ of one's own medicine : ADOSE
60
Go smoothly : SAIL
61
Actress Thompson : SADA
62
Kind of situation : NOWIN
63
Noted Ferrara family : ESTE
Down
1
Swenson of "Benson" : INGA
2
Satirist Sahl : MORT
3
Attic contest : AGON
4
"I'm not surprised!" : NOWONDER
5
Storefront sight : AWNING
6
Headache easer, for short : BROMO
7
Twining stem : BINE
8
Riviera season : ETE
9
Material for archers' bows : YEW
10
Rhododendron : AZALEA
11
___-Coburg (former duchy) : SAXE
12
"___He Kissed Me" (1963 hit) : THEN
13
Addie's husband in "As I Lay Dying" : ANSE
19
Church gift : TITHE
21
Drinking binge : TOOT
24
Dunking item : DONUT
25
Over : ATOP
26
Polio fighter : SABIN
27
Lyrist of myth : ERATO
28
"This way" sign : ARROW
29
Complain relentlessly to : NAGAT
30
Strauss's "Eine ___in Venedig" : NACHT
31
Jockey Julie : KRONE
32
Religious council : SYNOD
34
___d'Alene, Idaho : COEUR
37
Splitting tool : FROE
38
"I can't go on!" : ITSNOUSE
40
Spinks defeater, 1988 : TYSON
41
Deserve : EARN
43
Roman Eos : AURORA
44
Mediterranean vessel : LATEEN
46
Ezio Pinza and others : BASSI
47
Singles : ONES
48
Tony Musante TV series : TOMA
49
Novelist Bagnold : ENID
50
Sufficient, once : ENOW
51
Lippo Lippi et al. : FRAS
52
Didion's "Play It ___ Lays" : ASIT
53
Chaucer piece : TALE
55
Antonio or Juan : SAN
56
Conductor de Waart : EDO

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