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New York Times, Sunday, March 6, 1994

Author:
Frances Hansen
Editor:
Will Shortz
74-Down : Devilfish
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Frances Hansen

This puzzle:

Rows: 21, Columns: 21 Words: 138, Blocks: 70 Missing: {JQZ} Spans: 5 This is puzzle # 82 for Ms. Hansen. Sunday freshness: 39%
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© 1994, The New York Times3/6/94 ( No. 16,189 )
Across
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"Tales from Shakespear" cowriter : LAMB
5
Assays : TESTS
10
First word of "The Raven" : ONCE
14
Rybinsk Reservoir site : VOLGA
19
Author Wiesel : ELIE
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Kind of acid : OLEIC
21
Artificial : FAUX
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Wickerwork material : OSIER
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Dry cleaner's ad : MAKEYOURCOATREPELLENT
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D'Oyly Carte offering : OPERETTA
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Arduous journey : TREK
29
Bleeds : EXTORTS
30
Netman Ilie : NASTASE
31
Forest opening : GLEN
32
Mlle., across the Pyrenees : SRTA
33
Faulkner's "___ Lay Dying" : ASI
34
Rafsanjani's country : IRAN
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Oklahoma Indian : OTO
36
Bunyan's Blue Ox : BABE
40
Pest controller's ad : WEEXTERMINATEALLHOMES
47
Recherche : RARE
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Mirrored : APED
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Like marcelled hair : WAVY
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Like ___ from the blue : ABOLT
51
Greek letters : ETAS
52
Urban miasma : SMOG
53
Richard of "Pretty Woman" : GERE
54
Hooked grass-cutter : SICKLE
55
Singer with the Four Knights : NAT
56
Henley crew-member : OAR
57
Clout : PULL
58
Figures : DATA
59
Grocery-store ad : STOCKUPTOSAVELIMITONE
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___ account (absolutely not) : ONNO
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Billy Budd's captain : VERE
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Doctrine : ISM
70
Burns's "Scots Wha ___" : HAE
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Blocked, as a river : DAMMED
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Miss Muller, of a Whittier poem : MAUD
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Dream stages : REMS
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Physicist Niels : BOHR
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The ancient Mariner's cry : ASAIL
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Estella, to Miss Havisham : WARD
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Amneris's rival : AIDA
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C'est ___ (it's his) : ALUI
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Charlady's ad : WHYCLEANYOURSELFTRYME
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"Untouchable" Eliot : NESS
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Make a lap : SIT
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Feather: Prefix : PTER
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Yearling's mom : EWE
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Kett of old funnies : ETTA
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Bacheller's "___ Holden" : EBEN
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Proem : PREFACE
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Word provider? : SPONSOR
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Caeser's wife : UXOR
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Stripper, notably : REVEALER
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Pharmacy ad : WEDISPENSEWITHCONCERN
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Together : ASONE
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Crystal gazer : SEER
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___ and a day (legal time limit) : AYEAR
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Noisy-le-Sec seasons : ETES
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Cheap, poorly-made furniture : BORAX
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Separate the laundry : SORT
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Inclines : LEANS
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Dare, in Dogpatch : DAST
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It makes you pucker up : LEMON
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Tap in a confirmation service : ALAPA
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Radio equipment : MIKES
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Excises of a sort : BEERTAXES
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1982 Dustin Hoffman role : TOOTSIE
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Use a solvent : ELUTE
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Antitoxins : SERA
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Nervous twitch : TIC
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Kiltie's country : SCOTLAND
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Repeatedly : OFTEN
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London stoolie : NARK
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Prompter's hint : CUE
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As an old hand : EXPERTLY
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Electric-battery inventor : VOLTA
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Sonja Henie's home : OSLO
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One who's recumbent : LIER
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Lady's partner : GENT
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The humanities : ARTS
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It inflates your dough : YEAST
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Gladiators' stamping ground : ARENA
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Eulogize : EXTOL
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"Peer Gynt" composer : GRIEG
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Italian white wine : SOAVE
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Sense of a sentence : IMPORT
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Ohio University mascot : BOBCAT
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Running wild : AMOK
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Big Ben, for one : BELL
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Tasso's patron : ESTE
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Songbirds : WRENS
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Cause heartburn : EATAT
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Sappho's Muse : ERATO
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New Jersey mountain range : RAMAPO
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Midnight : TWELVE
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Bogart in "High Sierra" : EARLE
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Toussaint L'Ouverture's land : HAITI
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Dive suddenly, as a whale : SOUND
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Shield : GUARD
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Emma of "Dynasty" : SAMMS
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Spurious : PSEUDO
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Bleak : DISMAL
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Funny papers : COMICS
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Toll : KNELL
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Pistil part : OVARY
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Fischer-Dieskau's musical forte : LIEDER
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"___ Night" (Christmas carol) : OHOLY
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A Minor Prophet : NAHUM
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Spooky : EERIE
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Homer's was "rosy-fingered" : DAWN
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Late tennis great : ASHE
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Baseball's "Say Hey" : MAYS
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Devilfish : MANTA
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On high : RISEN
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Like some lies : BAREFACED
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Role for 101 Down : WAITRESS
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Kind of highway : ARTERIAL
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Bar, legally : ESTOP
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Isaac Stern stroke : UPBOW
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Passions : FERVORS
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'Twixt : TWEEN
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County on the Thames : ESSEX
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Make an effort : EXERT
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Popular pie variety : PECAN
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Queen of the Misty Isles : ALETA
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First discovered asteroid : CERES
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Dadaist Max : ERNST
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Sailor : SWAB
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Cuban dough : PESO
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Tang : ODOR
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Companion of the Pinta : NINA
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On-line person : USER
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Perlman of "Cheers" : RHEA
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Recent prefix : NEO
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Ship rope : TYE

Answer summary:
7 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 3 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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