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New York Times, Saturday, April 18, 1998

Author:
Frank Longo
Editor:
Will Shortz
23-Down : False
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
9110/29/199411/24/20192
SunMonTueWedThuFriSatVariety
150137142922
RebusScrabDebutFresh
41.4868687%
Frank Longo

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 66, Blocks: 39 Missing: {JQXYZ} Spans: 2 This is puzzle # 37 for Mr. Longo. Saturday freshness: 57%
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© 1998, The New York Times4/18/98 ( No. 17,693 )
Across
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Girl, in Aussie slang : SHEILA
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___-jongg : MAH
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Audi rival : BMW
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Novelist : PENNER
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"Our Gang" schoolteacher Miss ___ : CRABTREE
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Alfalfa, for one : RASCAL
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Least sissyish : MANLIEST
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French satellite launcher : ARIANE
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Arena tops : DOMES
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Head squeeze : NELSON
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Suffolk's county seat : IPSWICH
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Children's classic : GREENEGGSANDHAM
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1936 Medicine Nobelist Otto : LOEWI
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"Evil Woman" rock grp. : ELO
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Answer incorrectly : ERR
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Subj. of three of the six Nobel Prizes : SCI
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Adm.'s milieu : USN
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Pavement caution : SLO
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Clover site : LEA
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Not flabby : TONED
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TV show set in Springfield : FATHERKNOWSBEST
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Little lobster's look-alike : CRAWDAD
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Kitchen implement : REAMER
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First name in comedy : HARPO
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Get in : ARRIVE
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Pertaining to construction : TECTONIC
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"___ in the Rain" : SINGIN
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Aeschylus trilogy : ORESTEIA
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Fume : SEERED
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Curved path : ESS
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Party staple : DIP
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Ethyl acetate and others : ESTERS
Down
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Surprised with, with "on" : SPRANG
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Eavesdropper : HEARER
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Preserve, as fodder : ENSILE
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If : INCASE
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Rest against : LEANON
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A Francis : ARLENE
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Year the Paris Métro opened : MCM
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Heavenly neighbor of Scorpius : ARA
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Shop tools : HANDSAWS
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Word with knee or riding : BREECHES
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Slop site : MESSHALL
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Marked by drinking : WET
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Shown up unexpectedly : BLOWNIN
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Not exactly outgoing : TIMID
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1939 hit "___ for That" : IGO
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False : PSEUDO
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"Russlan and Ludmilla" composer : GLINKA
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Low : MOO
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Pointy shoe wearer : ELF
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Rude ones, at the dinner table : REACHERS
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Exhausting existences : RATRACES
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Dutch oven : STEWPOT
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Blocked (off) : CORDONED
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Kind of user : END
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Does' mates : HARTS
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Razorfish, e.g. : WRASSE
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39-Across, e.g. : SERIES
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Charlie of swing : BARNET
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Foreign fleer : EMIGRE
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Tennessee's first governor, John ___ : SEVIER
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Courses : TRENDS
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Familiar tapper : TOE
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Article of the Constitution regarding the judiciary : III
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Topper : CAP

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3 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 2 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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