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Working Together

New York Times, Sunday, December 18, 1994

Author:
Manny Nosowsky & Bob Klahn
Editor:
Will Shortz
121-Down : Authors Anya and Ernest
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Bob Klahn

This puzzle:

Rows: 23, Columns: 23 Words: 164, Blocks: 92 Missing: {QZ} Spans: 2 This is puzzle # 34 for Mr. Nosowsky. This is puzzle # 6 for Mr. Klahn. Sunday freshness: 22%
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© 1994, The New York Times12/18/94 ( No. 16,476 )
Across
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Lindstrom or Zadora : PIA
4
Wand waver's word : PRESTO
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Starting : ASOF
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Gazelle hound : SALUKI
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Du Maurier's "Jamaica ___" : INN
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Lean against : RESTON
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Windsurfers' mecca : MAUI
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Confidentially : INTRUST
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Part 1 of a quote : THECOMPUTERISINCREDIBLY
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Sharif-Andrews movie "The ___ Seed" : TAMARIND
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Notices : ADS
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M.G.M founder Marcus : LOEW
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Napkin holder : LAP
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Guardian Angels founder Curtis : SLIWA
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Looks pooped : SAGS
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Summer theater, sometimes : BARN
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Nauru export : GUANO
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Quote, part 2 : FASTACCURATEANDSTUPID
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Horrified : AGHAST
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Housman's was from Shropshire : LAD
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Jawbone source : ASS
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Withdraws, with out : OPTS
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Clanton foe of 1881 : EARP
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1974 McCartney/Wings hit : JET
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Save : SALTAWAY
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Author of the quote : LEOCHERNE
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Someone else : ANOTHER
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Valiant mate : ALETA
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Cairo in "The Maltese Falcon" : LORRE
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Quote, part 3 : MANISUNBELIEVABLY
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Know, somehow : INTUIT
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Provider of sound bytes? : CDROM
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Little wise one : OWLET
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Supercilium : EYEBROW
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Hot time in Chile : ENERO
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Engage in vote-swapping : LOGROLL
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Where to take a load off : WHARF
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Totaled : RANTO
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Sartre novel : NAUSEA
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Quote, part 4 : SLOWINACCURATEAND
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Lost City of the ___ : INCAS
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Ypsilanti's river : HURON
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Albertville abodes : CHALETS
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Quote, part 5 : BRILLIANT
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Catch : OVERTAKE
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Auto racer ___ Fabi : TEO
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Opulence : LUXE
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Electronic monitors, for short : CRTS
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A little butter : KID
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Carl Icahn company : TWA
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Buck : RESIST
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Quote, part 6 : THEMARRIAGEOFTHETWOIS
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Prop (up) : SHORE
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Start of a child's rhyme : EENY
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Toll rds. : TPKS
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It means "high woods" : OBOES
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Single layer : HEN
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Fourth-down option : PUNT
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Whodunit writer Grafton : SUE
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Criticize vigorously : SAILINTO
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End of the quote : AFORCEBEYONDCALCULATION
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Steroid, for instance : HORMONE
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Ballet bend : PLIE
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Plumbiferous : LEADEN
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Selected at random : ANY
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Columbus, e.g. : GENOAN
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Attacks a sub? : EATS
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Camisole size : PETITE
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Govt. code grp. : NSA
Down
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"The Gale Storm Show" co-star : PITTS
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Bisected : INHALF
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Iron deficiency problem : ANEMIA
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By share : PRORATA
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Do-fa filler : REMI
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Cable staple : ESPN
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Draw alternative : STUD
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Sandbox set member : TOT
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Last word "A Christmas Carol" : ONE
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In the thick of : AMIDST
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Guff : SASS
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Paris accord : OUI
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Where Sibelius made his markkaa : FINLAND
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1994 Elle Macpherson film : SIRENS
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De novo : ANEW
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Cornwall co. : LTD
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Lake of Lucerne canton : URI
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Genghis' grandson : KUBLAI
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Gas-pump platform : ISLAND
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Tit for tat, perhaps : TYPO
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Ravens' ravin's? : CAWS
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Madras music : RAGA
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Classic '30s auto : CORD
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Hang : SUSPEND
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Cunning : ART
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Pastoral plaint : BAA
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Austrian painter Klimt : GUSTAV
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College in East Orange, N.J. : UPSALA
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"The Morning Watch" author : AGEE
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Bewitch : CHARM
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Carson's swami : CARNAC
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"Rocket Man" John : ELTON
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World chess champ, 1960-61 : TAL
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Burr Tillstrom puppet : OLLIE
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Hoosier state flower : PEONY
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Eggy cake : TORTE
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Hit the dirt? : SCRUB
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Husband of Medea : JASON
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Count : ENUMERATE
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Unload, so to speak : SELL
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Sylvia Plath title : ARIEL
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Flycatcher? : WEB
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N.F.L city: Abbr. : ATL
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"Whoopee!" : YAY
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Charles, to Elizabeth : HEIR
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Oilman ___ Pickens : TBOONE
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Fell : HEW
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Easily angered : IREFUL
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Henry VI founded it : ETON
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Shute's "A ___ Like Alice" : TOWN
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Slap hard : WHACK
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___ Rizzo of "Midnight Cowboy" : RATSO
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Writer Godwin : GAIL
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Like the futhark alphabet : RUNIC
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Peace Nobelist ___ Arias Sanchez : OSCAR
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Inclined : LEANT
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Doesn't wear out : LASTS
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Long : ACHE
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Elvis' record label : RCA
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Moses' burden : TABLETS
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Torrent : ONRUSH
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"___ nuff!" : SHO
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1964 Murray Schisgal play : LUV
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Get a lode of this : ORE
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Sterile bee : WORKER
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After a while : INTIME
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Price twice : RETAG
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Popular Civil War song : DIXIE
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In case : LEST
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Miss Clare of "Bleak House" : ADA
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Old photo : TINTYPE
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Technique : WAY
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Washington's ___ Stadium : RFK
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Like most highways : TWOLANE
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To Sandburg, it comes on little cat feet : THEFOG
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French painter Daumier : HONORE
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National Cartoonists Society award : REUBEN
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It's put before Descartes : RENE
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Chopin's "Twelve Grand ___" : ETUDES
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"Well"-financed grp. : OPEC
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Final notice : OBIT
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Heraclitus, e.g. : IONIAN
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Authors Anya and Ernest : SETONS
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Persian pooh-bah : SHAH
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Raskolnikov's love in "Crime and Punishment" : SONYA
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Baseball's Alejandro : PENA
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Huff : SNIT
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Hightail it : SCAT
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Autobahn auto : AUDI
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"___ a song..." : ILET
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D.D.E's Veep : RMN
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Bill's companion : COO
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1941 Pulitzer winner Winslow : OLA
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The Eiger, e.g : ALP
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"To Kill a Mockingbird" author : LEE

Answer summary:
7 unique to this puzzle, 6 debuted here and reused later, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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