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New York Times, Friday, December 17, 1999

Author:
Manny Nosowsky
Editor:
Will Shortz
34-Down : Chuck wagon honcho
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Manny Nosowsky

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 72, Blocks: 30 Missing: {GJQZ} This is puzzle # 97 for Mr. Nosowsky. Friday freshness: 17%
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© 1999, The New York Times12/17/99 ( No. 18,301 )
Across
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"Hey!" : PSST
5
Met fans : OPERABUFFS
15
Evening for Yvette : SOIR
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Washington post : SENATESEAT
17
Title girl in a song on the first Beatles album : ANNA
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"Be prepared" : SCOUTMOTTO
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Be in contact (with) : LIAISE
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Bitten one, for short : CLEO
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21-Across biter : ASP
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An apple : MCINTOSH
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Bit of raingear : MAC
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Profligate : ROUE
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Like the Arctic : UPNORTH
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Fickle : INCONSTANT
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Unconvincing : LAME
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Fool : BOOBY
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Show with skits, for short : SNL
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Spy's disguise : COVER
40
Get from ___ (progress) : ATOB
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She played Anita in "West Side Story" : RITAMORENO
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Gathered copiously : RAKEDIN
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"Buenos ___" : DIAS
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Bounder Down Under : ROO
47
Decent fellows : MENSCHEN
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Onetime outlawed org. : IRA
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Part of a rebel name : ELEE
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Like half a season's games : ATHOME
57
Is overjoyed : WALKSONAIR
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Biologist Metchnikoff : ELIE
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Like flotsam and jetsam : OCEANBORNE
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Fuse : MELD
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Like junior year : NEXTTOLAST
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View finders : EYES
Down
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Miserere, for one : PSALM
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Court figure in Washington : SONIC
3
1967 war site : SINAI
4
Unwelcome boarder : TRAINROBBER
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Bony : OSSEOUS
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Chest muscle, for short : PEC
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Methuselah's father : ENOCH
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Julia on screen : RAUL
9
Tackle : ATTEMPT
10
Opposite of celebrate : BEMOAN
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Entertaining grp. : USO
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Greek deli purchase : FETA
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Some dietary intake : FATS
14
Freeze : STOP
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Kind of silence : STONY
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Arrives, as darkness : SETSIN
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Decorator's concern : COLORSCHEME
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Take cargo from : UNLADE
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Four-star review : RAVE
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Federal agents : TMEN
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Man of the hour : HERO
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Building support : IBAR
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___ pretty sight : NOTA
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Chuck wagon honcho : COOK
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Six-foot worker, maybe : ANT
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Take it easy : COAST
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Director Howard Hawks's last film, 1970 : RIOLOBO
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Source of calling : MINARET
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Fails to : DOESNT
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Half of a well-known comedy duo : MEARA
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Like old socks, maybe : HOLEY
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Rousseau title character : EMILE
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Has got to have : NEEDS
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Champ's cry : IWON
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Mudder's day event : RACE
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"Fred Basset" cartoonist Graham : ALEX
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Hydroxyl compound : ENOL
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Krazy ___ : KAT
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Connections : INS

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 7 debuted here and reused later, 3 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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