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NAMES, NAMES, NAMES

New York Times, Sunday, February 15, 2004

Author:
Derrick Niederman
Editor:
Will Shortz
95-Down : Open-air arcade
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Derrick Niederman

This puzzle:

Rows: 21, Columns: 21 Words: 140, Blocks: 78 Missing: none – this is a pangram. Spans: 1 This is puzzle # 6 for Mr. Niederman. Sunday freshness: 39%
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© 2004, The New York Times2/15/4 ( No. 19,822 )
Across
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Like the names at 33-, 51-, 61-, 73-, 93-, 101- and 120-Across : THREEPART
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First alert, often : BARK
14
Put on a spit : IMPALE
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Welcome abroad : BIENVENUE
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"That's ___!" (angry retort) : ALIE
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"The Music Man" woman : MARIAN
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Like many driveways : ASPHALTED
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A security : NOTE
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Stat : PRONTO
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Dole (out) : LADLE
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Further condition to 1-Across : EQUALLENGTHS
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1929 Literature Nobelist : MANN
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"Mon ___!" : DIEU
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Substitute in the kitchen : OLEO
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Author and longtime professor of writing at Princeton : JOYCECAROLOATES
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Hunters' needs: Abbr. : LICS
43
Inventeur's need : IDEE
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___ Awards (annual prizes for African-American achievement) : EBONY
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Fruits de ___ : MER
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Bob Dylan song "___ for You" : IFNOT
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Supplied : FED
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Boatload : SLEW
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Final bid : PASS
50
Carol starter : ADESTE
51
Actress whose great-grandfather was a British P.M. : HELENABONHAMCARTER
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Tastiness : SAPOR
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Soccer star Hamm : MIA
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See 96-Across : TAT
60
Bauxite, e.g. : ORE
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Three-time French Open champion : ARANTXASANCHEZVICARIO
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"Delta of Venus" author : NIN
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Four CD's : MDC
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Part of a rainbow : HUE
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"___ Gold" (1997 film) : ULEES
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1988 and 1992 Olympic track gold medalist) : JACKIEJOYNERKERSEE
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Not yet shaped : UNHEWN
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Little hopper : TOAD
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Razor-billed birds : AUKS
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"This Old House" address : PBS
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"That's ___" (cautionary Roy Orbison song) : ANONO
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Since, informally : CUZ
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Bar offering : SUSHI
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Suffix with pluto- : CRAT
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Stock market overseer: Abbr. : NASD
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Six-time U.S. Open winner : CHRISEVERTLLOYD
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With 59-Across, a knock : RATA
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Stone made of silicon and oxygen : OPAL
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They move shells : OARS
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"Slaves of New York" actress : MARYBETHHURT
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Standard deviation symbol : SIGMA
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Knight from Atlanta : GLADYS
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President Taft's alma mater : YALE
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Stretches : ELONGATES
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Most basic : MEREST
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Annoyer : PILL
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Opposite of chic : DOWDINESS
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Minuscule : TEENSY
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Oil of ___ : OLAY
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He developed the "Three Principles of the People" : SUNYATSEN
Down
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TV schedule abbr. : TBA
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Greetings : HIS
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Shown again : REPLAYED
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Better : ENHANCE
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Daughter of Poseidon who was the ancestor of a prophetic clan : EVADNE
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Educational grant named for a senator : PELL
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Pot foundation : ANTE
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St.-Honoré, in Paris : RUE
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Spread, as hay : TED
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Shakespearean haunter : BANQUO
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Former Expos manager : ALOU
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Girl in a Beatles song : RITA
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Stem-to-stern item : KEEL
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Drive : IMPEL
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W.W. I battle locale : MARNE
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Woods, e.g. : PROGOLFER
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Aretha Franklin's "___ No Way" : AINT
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Wood strip : LATH
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1961 space chimp : ENOS
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Wriggling : EELY
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___ Rios, Ecuador : LOS
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Calculator button : MODE
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Go under : DROWN
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Kind of chamber : ION
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Peter Pan rival : JIF
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Theater turn-off? : CELL
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Busy as ___ : ABEE
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With all agreeing, after "to" : AMAN
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Musical John : TESH
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Bogus : ERSATZ
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Awaiting : INSTORE
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Circle : COTERIE
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Pioneer products : STEREOS
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Moscow's home: Abbr. : IDA
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Spanish muralist : SERT
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Stole : POACHED
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Curtain-rising time : ACTI
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Doll : HON
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Grp. pledged to "do no harm" : AMA
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Storage place : BIN
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Dallas hoopster : MAV
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Western Hemisphere city founded in 1521 : SANJUAN
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Writer Huffington : ARIANNA
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Mexico's Villa and others : PANCHOS
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Comic superheroes : XMEN
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Part of speech: Abbr. : ADJ
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Nix : SCOTCH
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Ben ___ : HUR
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Cry on opening a tax bill : EEK
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Hints : CUES
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Nog ingredient, maybe : ALE
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N.H.L. Hall-of-Famer who played for Montreal : KENDRYDEN
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W.W. II battle site, for short : IWO
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"___ Hit Parade" : YOUR
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Many a part in "The Pianist" : NAZI
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Stand : EASEL
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Essen's river : RUHR
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Sketch : SKIT
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Divides fairly : PRORATES
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Seattle Slew and others : BAYS
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Regular: Abbr. : STD
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Ninth in a series: Abbr. : SEPT
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Duke rival, for short : UVA
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Noisy : CLAMANT
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Jazzman : CAT
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Very much : SORELY
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Open-air arcade : LOGGIA
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Gulf : ABYSS
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Disagreeable : TESTY
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Bus. heads : MGMT
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Nautical direction : ALEE
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Coin grade : RARE
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Syringe : HYPO
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"Huzzah!," e.g. : HAIL
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"The Producers" role : ULLA
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Distributed : SOWN
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Home of the Brickyard 400 : INDY
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Mag. positions : EDS
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Singer Reed : LOU
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Like the Capitol bldg. vis-à-vis the White House : ESE
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Nine-digit ID : SSN

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

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