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New York Times, Tuesday, March 23, 1999

Author:
Nathaniel Weiss
Editor:
Will Shortz
47-Down : Tourist attractions
TotalDebutLatest
33/23/199910/27/2004
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Nathaniel Weiss

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 37 Missing: {QVXZ} Spans: 4 Puzzle has duplicate clues. This is the debut puzzle for Mr. Weiss. Tuesday freshness: 19%
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© 1999, The New York Times3/23/99 ( No. 18,032 )
Across
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Ayatollahs' predecessors : SHAHS
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Gunslinger's command : DRAW
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"Oh, my!" : GOSH
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Hooded snake : COBRA
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Othello's false friend : IAGO
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"I'm ___ you!" : ONTO
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Start of a quip : AKLEPTOMANIACIS
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Summer shirt, informally : TEE
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Mallards' homes : PONDS
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Metric volume : STERE
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Place for a 45 : PHONO
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Clinch, as a deal : ICE
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Part 2 of the quip : SOMEONEWHOHELPS
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Son of Venus : AMOR
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Stiff denial : NOTI
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Old polit. cause : ERA
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Dosage unit : RAD
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Caribbean music : SKA
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Ovine utterance : BAA
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A major, maybe : KEY
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Hydrocarbon suffix : ANE
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Paris recreation area : PARC
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Lucy's partner : DESI
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Part 3 of the quip : HIMSELFASHEJUST
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Entanglement : WEB
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Encumbrances : LIENS
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One who grins and bears it : STOIC
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Greek S : SIGMA
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Biol., e.g. : SCI
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End of the quip : CANTHELPHIMSELF
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Novelist Waugh : ALEC
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Tallow source : SUET
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Words before sight and mind : OUTOF
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Entanglement : MESH
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Stumbles : ERRS
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Query before "Here goes!" : READY
Down
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"Out!" : SCAT
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Balderdash : HOKE
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Strong of body and mind : ABLE
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Charlemagne's realm: Abbr. : HRE
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Early Greek lyric poet : SAPPHO
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1934 quintuplet : DIONNE
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Forcefully stuff, as a throat : RAMDOWN
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Turkish generals : AGAS
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Took the trophy : WON
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Chin beard : GOATEE
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___ and for all : ONCE
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Move : STIR
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Place for a run : HOSE
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Warner Bros. creation : TOON
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Resort island off Naples : ISCHIA
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Word in a price : PER
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Whit : IOTA
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"The Terminator" woman : SARAH
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Yemeni's neighbor : OMANI
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E-mail need : MODEM
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Play ___ with (damage) : HOB
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Belgian composer Guillaume : LEKEU
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Newspapers, with "the" : PRESS
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"Don't mince words!" : SAYIT
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Oration : SPEECH
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Henry Kissinger biographer Marvin : KALB
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Canine cry : ARF
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Thickness : CALIPER
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Radio staff, for short : DJS
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On/off ___ : SWITCH
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Tourist attractions : SIGHTS
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Prefix with spherical : HEMI
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Captivate : ENAMOR
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Defraud : SCAM
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It may be spun : TALE
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Half of binary code : ONES
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Disparagement : SLUR
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___ good example : SETA
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Oaf : CLOD
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Conjectural : IFFY
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Ethnic suffix : ESE
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"So ___ me!" : SUE

Answer summary:
5 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later.

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