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SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN

New York Times, Sunday, April 10, 2005

Author:
Elizabeth C. Gorski
Editor:
Will Shortz
104-Down : Silver dollar plants
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Elizabeth C. Gorski

This puzzle:

Rows: 23, Columns: 23 Words: 166, Blocks: 96 This is puzzle # 133 for Ms. Gorski. Sunday freshness: 51%
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© 2005, The New York Times4/10/5 ( No. 20,242 )
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Realtor, e.g.: Abbr. : AGT
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Things that can be rolled over, for short : IRAS
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Delicateness : TACT
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Foes of Lenin : TSARISTS
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Science fiction writer Frederik : POHL
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Not taking sides: Abbr. : NEUT
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Lab gel : AGAR
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Deli order : HAMONRYE
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Gazetteer datum : AREA
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Fill until full : SATE
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Corn syrup brand : KARO
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Helping : AVAILING
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Place with a board : COOP
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Where 67-Down taught : PRINCETON
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Make lace : TAT
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Away, in a way : ASEA
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Beat up on : HURT
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E.R. lifelines : IVS
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"Excuse me ..." : AHEM
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Go by foot, slangily : LEGIT
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Greek war goddess : ENYO
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Sound quality : TIMBRE
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Ward (off) : STAVE
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Attacked : HADAT
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One who's taken in : ADOPTEE
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Flight suit stitching : USAF
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First name in motorcycle jumping : EVEL
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Dangerous strain : EBOLA
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Reason for a bounced check: Abbr. : NSF
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Scientist's question : HOW
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Santiago charger : TORO
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Bird's home: Var. : AERY
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Bohr who was a contemporary of 67-Down : NIELS
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Locations for some schools : REEFS
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___'acte : ENTR
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Stay in the sun too long : FRY
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"Au contraire!" : NOTSO
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___ Laredo, Mexico, on the Rio Grande : NUEVO
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True or false: Abbr. : ANS
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Spiritual path : TAO
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Old Big Apple paper, with "the" : TRIB
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Big D.C. lobby : NRA
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"I've Got the World on a String" composer : ARLEN
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Belle-___-en-Mer, France : ILE
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Discount rack shorthand : IRR
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Work on the edge? : HONE
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Cable inits. : TNN
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"That ___ lie!" : ISA
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Extension : LIMB
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Famed statement by 67-Down : E=MC2
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Proofreader's notation : ITAL
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Darlin' : HON
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Industrial container : VAT
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Days of ___ : YORE
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Colorado native : UTE
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"E.R." regulars : RNS
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First strategy : PLANA
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Big record label : EMI
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Contrite type : RUER
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"There but for the grace of God ___" : GOI
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Part: Abbr. : SEG
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Come of age? : RIPEN
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Prestigious schools : IVIES
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Literary inits. : TSE
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Squabble : SPAT
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Early astronaut : CHIMP
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Soul : ANIMA
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Gradually withdraw : WEAN
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Unit of storage : SILO
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"Frasier" role : ROZ
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Bailout key : ESC
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Small sheds : COTES
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Mayo's locale : EIRE
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Company that has its ups and downs : OTIS
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Small snowfall : ONEINCH
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Jerome Kern tune "___ Forget" : TRYTO
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Woody Allen's feeling, often : ANGST
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Empress of the Blues ___ Smith : BESSIE
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Italian honey : CARA
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Sip : NURSE
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Love personified : AMOR
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Blockhead : ASS
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In-flight info, in brief : ETAS
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Soft shoes : MOCS
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Yankee's club : BAT
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67-Down, for one : PHYSICIST
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Peak in les Alpes : MONT
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Biology lab organism : ANAEROBE
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"Hogwash!" : LIES
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Kyrgyzstan range : ALAI
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One who hasn't turned pro? : ANTI
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"The Sterile Cuckoo" actress, 1969 : MINNELLI
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French 101 infinitive : ETRE
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Corn cake : PONE
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Enlisted V.I.P.'s : NCOS
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9:59 : ONETOTEN
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Ph.D.'s work: Abbr. : DISS
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Sugar lovers : ANTS
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Lake Erie-to-Lake Ontario dir. : ENE
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Like the Navajo language : APACHEAN
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Bouts : GOROUNDS
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Proposal by 67-Down : THEORYOFRELATIVITY
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Notwithstanding : INSPITEOF
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Mirrors may show them : REARVIEWS
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Psychologist's study : AUTISM
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W.W. II gun : STEN
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"Courage!" : TAKEHEART
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Type size : AGATE
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Rebounds : CAROMS
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Suffix with Jumbo : TRON
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Observation, part 3 : THATEVERYTHING
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How bitter enemies attack : SAVAGELY
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High-end viola : AMATI
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Louis, for one : ROI
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Where a Laker may live : INLA
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Indian honorifics : SRIS
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Northumberland river : TYNE
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Nintendo rival : SEGA
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It might have WiFi access : LAPTOP
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Rachel and Kit : CARSONS
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Four-time champ at Wimbledon : LAVER
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67-Down won this in 1921 : THENOBELPRIZE
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C4H8 : BUTENE
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1950 Doris Day film : TEAFOR2
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Slightly : ABIT
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End of the observation : DOESNTHAPPENATONCE
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Go-for-broke choice : ALLORNONE
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Univ. employees : TAS
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Start of an observation by 67-Down : THEONLYREASON
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Observation, part 2 : FORTIMEISSO
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Dark time, briefly : EVE
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Singer Simone : NINA
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Green : NAIVE
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It's over the North Pole : URSAMINOR
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Notable who died April 1955 : ALBERTEINSTEIN
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Rainbow : ARC
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Breaks down : ROTS
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Boutros-Ghali's U.N. successor : ANNAN
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Hungarian hero ___ Nagy : IMRE
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Slips in a pot : IOUS
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Ormandy and Onegin : EUGENES
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On a par with : =TO
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Mix anew, as greens : RETOSS
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Boundary: Abbr. : LIM
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Rival composer of Mozart : SALIERI
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"___ a Man," John Ciardi poetry collection : IMET
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Police V.I.P. : SARGE
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Table watchers : PITBOSSES
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Bakery product : CROISSANT
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Silver dollar plants : HONESTIES
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It's been passed : ACT
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Like suits and boots : WEARABLE
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Home of the Red Barons in minor-league baseball : SCRANTON
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Dress down : CHASTISE
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One with steady nerves, slangily : ICEMAN
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"Omoo" setting : TAHITI
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"___, O Ship of State!" : SAILON
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Metal fastener : UBOLT
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Fort ___, Fla. : MYERS
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Hawaiian honeycreeper : MAMO
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"Hey, what's going ___ there?" : ONIN
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Mr. Peanut accessory : CANE
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In the mail : SENT
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Begged : PLED
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Bullfighter's cloak : CAPA
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Antique auto : REO

Answer summary:
14 unique to this puzzle, 2 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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