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Anagrammatic Disclosures

New York Times, Sunday, March 22, 1998

Author:
Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon
Editor:
Will Shortz
86-Down : Forward line players, in soccer
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© 1998, The New York Times3/22/98 ( No. 17,666 )
Across
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Purloin a sirloin? : RUSTLE
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Not for sure : CHANCY
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Hangers around the house : DRAPES
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Necessitate : ENTAIL
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___ de Balzac : HONORE
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Something too easily broken : PROMISE
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Overdo the diet : STARVE
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Director Martin Scorsese's anagrammatic claim : ISTRESSROMANCE
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Where a pupil sits : IRIS
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Recess for a joint : MORTISE
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Emmy-winning Daly : TYNE
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Rotten egg : CAD
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Jockey Eddie Arcaro's anagrammatic motto : DORIDEARACE
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Hors d'oeuvre cheese : BRIE
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Cartoon skunk Le Pew : PEPE
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Masthead figs. : EDS
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Queen's servants : ANTS
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King of comedy : ALAN
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Hole-making bug : BORER
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Fine subjects : ARTS
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Ulysses S. Grant's anagrammatic advice regarding hangovers : TRYSUNGLASSES
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Protectors from splats : SMOCKS
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Cried "Yee-haw!" : WHOOPED
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Poetic preposition : ERE
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A point in Mexico : NORTE
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Song-and-dance shows : REVUES
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Spree : JAG
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Sternward : AFT
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Artist Piet Mondrian's anagrammatic epigram : IPAINTMODERN
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Capitalist? : GOVERNOR
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Congress-thwarting move : VETO
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Author ___ Mae Brown : RITA
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Jackknife, e.g. : DIVE
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Farm prefix : AGRI
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Toothless : EDENTATE
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Kevin Costner's anagrammatic lament about his videos : NEVERINSTOCK
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What Leary tripped on : LSD
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Wheel track : RUT
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Sunshine in Québec : SOLEIL
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Babe Ruth, on the Yankees : THREE
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Intent : AIM
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Without rocks : ICELESS
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Sneaker bottoms : TREADS
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Carmen Miranda's anagrammatic ballroom tip : DANCEARMINARM
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What an ostiary guards : DOOR
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Oxlike antelope : ELAND
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Footless critter : APOD
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Stuff in a muffin : BRAN
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Slugger's stat : RBI
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Greet with old-fashioned etiquette : RISE
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Bath's county : AVON
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Len Deighton's anagrammatic avowal on writing : IDOLENGTHEN
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Beatles' "___ Loser" : IMA
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MacGraw's namesakes : ALIS
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Any spider : ARANEID
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Glaciated mountain peak : HORN
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Poet Denise Levertov's anagrammatic urging : DELVEINTOVERSE
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Tasselly hem : FRINGE
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Blow up : ENLARGE
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Let : RENTED
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Melt down, as fat : RENDER
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"Sophie's Choice" author : STYRON
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Helmet plumes : CRESTS
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Lots and lots : OCEANS
Down
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Have a hearth : RESIDE
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Virgin : UNTROD
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Domestic flights : STAIRS
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Ankles : TARSI
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Ullmann of moviedom : LIV
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Classic work of Euclid : ELEMENTS
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Trilled calls : CHIRRS
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Plantain lily : HOSTA
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Bit of clowning : ANTIC
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Whence the word "troll" : NORSE
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Canadian prairie tribe : CREE
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Aye-aye : YES
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Many a lecturer : DRONE
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Setting for "Don Pasquale" : ROME
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Org. with a much-quoted journal : AMA
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Lobster part : PINCERS
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Coop flier : ESCAPEE
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Rustic sow-and-sows? : SEEDERS
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Like a Nosy Parker : PRYING
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Maroon : STRAND
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Mudder fodder : OATS
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Shade : DARKEN
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B. B.'s bag : BLUES
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Prepare to be shot : POSE
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Quaker in the woods : ASPEN
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Carrier in a canal : BARGE
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Auteur's order : ACTION
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Bara the "vamp" : THEDA
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Gad about : ROVE
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"It's ___ move" : YOUR
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Get a rise out of? : LEAVEN
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Whine pathetically : SNIVEL
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Urban transports : MOPEDS
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Emulated Demosthenes : ORATED
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Composed : WROTE
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Rock's Bon ___ : JOVI
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Silky goat : ANGORA
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Like fast marches : FORCED
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Tots' wheels, for short : TRIKES
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Psychic shock : TRAUMA
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Oven ___ : MITT
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School door sign : GIRLS
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Brit's accented reply : RATHER
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Rational faith in God : DEISM
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Put to the proof : TRIED
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Without letup : NOEND
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"Pure ___" (1994 jazz album) : ELLA
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Drive out of one's lane : VEER
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Buff, so to speak : STRONG
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Grafting bud : SCION
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Teen-y problem : ACNE
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Tariff : IMPOST
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Alternately : TOANDFRO
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Mocks : DERIDES
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Foodstuff : ALIMENT
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How some country stars sing : NASALLY
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Product of erosion : RAVINE
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Trio abroad : DREI
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Runs colorfully : BLEEDS
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Name in a Beach Boys title : RHONDA
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In old show biz, he was no dummy : BERGEN
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Forward line players, in soccer : INNERS
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Set straight : ALIGN
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Singer Cara : IRENE
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Cupid's stock : DARTS
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Start : ONSET
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Like whose eyes, in a Ben Jonson verse? : THINE
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Of planes and flying : AERO
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Say it's so : AVER
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Alternate: Abbr. : VAR
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Mythical monster : ORC
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Abbr. on a boombox : REC

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