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New York Times, Thursday, December 6, 2001

Author:
Richard Silvestri
Editor:
Will Shortz
7-Down : "___ Wiedersehen"
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Richard Silvestri

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 72, Blocks: 41 Missing: {JKQXZ} Spans: 4 Grid has supersymmetry. Puzzle has duplicate clues. This is puzzle # 106 for Mr. Silvestri. Thursday freshness: 6%
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© 2001, The New York Times12/6/1 ( No. 19,021 )
Across
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Hacks : CABS
5
Wild time : BLAST
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W.W. II battle site : STLO
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R.E.M.'s "The ___ Love" : ONEI
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Way to go : ROUTE
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All fired up : AVID
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Make stout : FATTEN
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Deli machine : SLICER
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Redhead's secret : HENNA
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Brief fright : START
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Injustice : RAWDEAL
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Like many receptions : CATERED
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According to : ALA
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Chemical ending : ENE
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Hot blood : IRE
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Cambridgeshire town : ELY
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___-de-lance : FER
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Peruvian spendable : SOL
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"For shame!" : TUT
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Postpone paying : OWE
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Piz Bernina, e.g. : ALP
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Vichy or Évian : SPA
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Visits briefly : STOPSIN
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Punters : BOATMEN
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"Midnight Cowboy" role : RATSO
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Shire of "Rocky" : TALIA
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Sonnet section : SESTET
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"Goodness!" : DEARME
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Mediterranean port : ORAN
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Gut buster? : ULCER
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Nonstandard contraction : AINT
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Was used up : WENT
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Fertile soil : LOESS
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It's hard to tell : SAGA
Down
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Do : COIF
2
Tolstoy heroine : ANNA
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Did some beachcombing : SIFTED
5
Souter's predecessor on the Supreme Court : BRENNAN
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It's up for auction : LOT
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"___ Wiedersehen" : AUF
8
Erwin of early TV : STU
9
170-pound newsmaker of 7/10/62 : TELSTAR
10
Swift work : SATIRE
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Miller product : LITE
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River to the Baltic : ODER
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Dancer Jeanmaire : RENEE
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Shade of gray : SLATE
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Half of a half-and-half : ALE
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Poli follower : SCI
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A great deal : RAFTS
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Rat Islander : ALEUT
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Split to unite : ELOPE
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Thomas of poetry : DYLAN
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Prefix with plastic : OSTEO
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Yearning : WISTFUL
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Roxy Music founding member : ENO
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U.S. dance grp. : ABT
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Put-on artists? : LOADERS
42
Opposite of neo- : PALEO
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Obvious : PATENT
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Pageant prizes : TIARAS
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Put away : STOW
51
Thornfield governess : EYRE
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___ bean : MUNG
54
Place in the Old West : ETTA
56
Andy Capp's wife : FLO
57
Secure : ICE
58
Point of law : RES

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