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New York Times, Saturday, December 25, 1999

Author:
John Scott Marrone
Editor:
Will Shortz
44-Down : U.N. ostracizee
TotalDebutLatest
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John Scott Marrone

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 74, Blocks: 38 Missing: {FJQX} This is puzzle # 5 for Mr. Marrone. Saturday freshness: 2%
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© 1999, The New York Times12/25/99 ( No. 18,309 )
Across
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Santa's flight? : ORBIT
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Barry Manilow song locale : COPA
10
Buster : NARC
14
Seasonal songs : NOELS
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Selfish sort : USER
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Skin aid : ALOE
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Celebrity born Christmas 1924 : RODSERLING
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Certain column : TENS
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Boy or girl preceder : ATTA
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Unwrap : OPEN
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Nursery rhyme food : CURDS
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Question usually asked with raised eyebrows : MOI
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Celebrity born Christmas 1821 : CLARABARTON
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Beat : PUMMEL
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"Potemkin" setting : ODESSA
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Lift : STEAL
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Trunk's locale : REAR
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Celebrity born Christmas 1949 : SISSYSPACEK
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Teaser : PEST
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Peace on earth : AMITY
42
Fatherland, to Flavius : PATRIA
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Not smooth : GAUCHE
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Celebrity born Christmas 1642 : ISAACNEWTON
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Mauna ___ : KEA
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Potato chip flavor : CHIVE
54
Architect Mies van der ___ : ROHE
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Clue hunters, slangily : TECS
56
Apteryx australis : KIWI
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Celebrity born Christmas 1918 : ANWARSADAT
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Gravitate (toward) : LEAN
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Assembly : DIET
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Scolding, e.g. : ABUSE
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Bird on a cliff : ERNE
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Features of British jazz? : ZEDS
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Had : DUPED
Down
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Accesses : ONRAMPS
2
Eliminate with some effort : ROOTOUT
3
Parents' concerns on Christmas Eve : BEDTIMES
4
"Casablanca" role : ILSA
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Lao-___ : TSE
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Part of an apology : CULPA
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Lawn chair material : OSIER
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Feather, to an ornithologist : PENNA
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S.A. country : ARG
10
"___ does nothing without purpose": Aristotle : NATURE
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Flashing lights, say : ALERTS
12
Sonata parts : RONDOS
13
Many a corporate plane : CESSNA
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Resound : ROLL
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Two-timer, e.g. : CAD
24
Art collectibles : CELS
25
When repeated, an idyllic place : BORA
27
Spring time in Paris : MAI
30
Bar staple : RYE
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Part of a test track : ESS
32
Inclined : APT
34
Distance : SPAN
35
"For the Boys" co-star, 1991 : CAAN
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Easily tamed bird : EMU
37
Started again unexpectedly : KICKEDUP
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Start of a Perry Mason title : THECASE
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Fermented : YEASTED
42
Spot : PICKLE
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Not so red-cheeked : ASHIER
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U.N. ostracizee : TAIWAN
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Coulee : RAVINE
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Christmas traveler's worry : ICE
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Traveler : GOER
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"It's a Wonderful Life" role : ERNIE
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Impressed and how! : WOWED
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"___ life!" : THATS
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Anthropologist's topic: Var. : TABU
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Chisellike tool : ADZ
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Down : SAD

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1 unique to this puzzle, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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