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New York Times, Tuesday, December 31, 2002

Author:
Gene Newman
Editor:
Will Shortz
13-Down : Admiral's force
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Gene Newman

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 40 Missing: {QXZ} Spans: 1 This is puzzle # 10 for Mr. Newman. Tuesday freshness: 23%
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© 2002, The New York Times12/31/2 ( No. 19,411 )
Across
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Pat Boone's "___ Love" : APRIL
6
Symbol of redness : BEET
10
Norway's patron saint : OLAF
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Cranberry product : SAUCE
15
Brand for Bowser : ALPO
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Place to stack money : TILL
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35-Across, from 1955-61 : HUGHOBRIAN
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Finish line, perhaps : TAPE
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Windy City trains : ELS
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Gist : NUB
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Hindu royal: Var. : RANEE
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35-Across in 1964 : JAMESSTEWART
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Syndicate head : CAPO
30
Program airing : TELECAST
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One who opens a can of worms? : ANGLER
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Hospitalized patient's state : COMA
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See 17-, 23-, 48- and 57-Across : WYATTEARPPLAYER
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Otherwise : ELSE
42
City opposite Ciudad Juárez : ELPASO
43
Issues in paperback, perhaps : REPRINTS
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Barely managed, with "out" : EKED
48
35-Across in 1994 : KEVINCOSTNER
51
Carroll girl : ALICE
52
Spawner in the Sargasso Sea : EEL
53
One way to the WWW : AOL
56
Actor Moranis : RICK
57
35-Across in 1946 : HENRYFONDA
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Allot, with "out" : METE
62
"The Morning Watch" author : AGEE
63
Ear or tube preceder : INNER
64
Gofer: Abbr. : ASST
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Marquand's Mr. : MOTO
66
Approaches : NEARS
Down
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Court great Arthur : ASHE
2
One of the Fab Four : PAUL
3
Hairpieces, slangily : RUGS
4
"___ bin ein Berliner" : ICH
5
Hotelier Helmsley : LEONA
6
Its stakes may be a beer : BARBET
7
Inventor Whitney : ELI
8
It rates m.p.g. : EPA
9
Whole bunch : TON
10
Chief Pontiac, e.g. : OTTAWA
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Tropical vines : LIANAS
12
Trumpeter Herb : ALPERT
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Admiral's force : FLEET
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Bowery ___ : BUM
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Carmaker's woe : RECALL
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Finger-in-the-socket consequence : JOLT
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Spies seek them : SECRETS
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Swill : SLOP
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Fiesta Bowl site : TEMPE
27
Crow's sound : CAW
28
"___ number can play" : ANY
29
Links org. : PGA
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Forever, poetically : ETERNE
33
Vestige : RELIC
36
"It comes ___ surprise" : ASNO
37
Mimicker : APER
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Talk, talk, talk : YAK
39
Cleveland-to-Baltimore dir. : ESE
40
Serling of "The Twilight Zone" : ROD
43
Depends (on) : RELIES
44
Forces out : EVICTS
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Striker, often : PICKET
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Sound system : STEREO
48
Destiny : KARMA
49
Napoleonic marshal : NEY
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Spritelike : ELFIN
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Visitor to Siam : ANNA
54
German border river : ODER
55
Unseen "Mary Tyler Moore Show" character : LARS
57
___ and Swiss : HAM
58
Swelled head : EGO
59
Court divider : NET
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Common lunchtime : ONE

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