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New York Times, Saturday, April 25, 1998

Author:
Jim Page
Editor:
Will Shortz
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Jim Page

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 72, Blocks: 31 Missing: {FJKQYZ} This is puzzle # 104 for Mr. Page. Saturday freshness: 52%
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© 1998, The New York Times4/25/98 ( No. 17,700 )
Across
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Like some military actions : REARGUARD
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"The Immoralist" author : GIDE
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Y.M.C.A. feature : INDOORPOOL
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Legalistic phrase : INRE
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Access to plumbing or wiring, perhaps : CRAWLSPACE
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Va. neighbor : NCAR
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Forever, or close to it : EON
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Place of honor : DAIS
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Plants after a flood : RESOWS
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Pitcher's rubber, in slang : SLAB
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A Houston : MATT
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Identifies : PEGS
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One writing an Op-Ed piece : OPINER
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A couple of English queens : ANNES
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Shot putter? : SALOON
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___ gratia : DEI
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Turn over : GIVE
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Skip it : ELISION
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High-strung horse, e.g. : SNORTER
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Kind of control : COST
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Computerphile's concern : RAM
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Goes into ecstasy : SWOONS
46
Places for tricornes : TETES
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Piece in the game Sebastopol : DOMINO
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___ Beach, Fla. : VERO
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Open score : ADIN
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Nonsense : TOSH
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Brownie points : MERITS
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Nails' target : ITCH
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Debussy's "Air de ___" : LIA
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Cities : URBS
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Terry Bradshaw and others : EXSTEELERS
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"Thank you, ___!" : MAAM
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Famed wordsmith : PETERROGET
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E-mail: Abbr. : MSGS
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"Get Shorty" co-star : RENERUSSO
Down
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Reduces to bits : RICES
2
Volunteer : ENROL
3
Turkish city, site of a 1943 Churchill conference : ADANA
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Brouhaha : ROW
5
Like some records : GOLD
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Where the Little Dipper is : URSAMINOR
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___ Way : APPIAN
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Criticized but good : ROASTED
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Fixer : DOC
10
Chinese medicine : GINSENGROOT
11
Disguised : INCOGNITO
12
Catches up : DRAWSEVEN
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Suffixes with ballad and command : EERS
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Celtic sea god : LER
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Grp. that rates : EPA
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Chamber of commerce policies : BOOSTERISMS
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___ chic : TRES
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Pounded dish : POI
31
Sun. talks : SERS
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Nazarenes, for one : SECT
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Lotion ingredients : ALOEVERAS
34
Canvas water container : LISTERBAG
36
Phony : INSINCERE
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Zip : NADA
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Dominate, so to speak : OWN
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Dress seller : MODISTE
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Sponge : SOT
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Hand cover : MITTEN
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Salyut cosmonaut Atkov and others : OLEGS
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Begets : SIRES
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Must : HASTO
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Name on a champagne label : MUMM
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Natl. Chicken Month : SEP
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German title : HERR
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Generation ___ (twenty-something) : XER
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Actor Ferrigno : LOU

Answer summary:
5 unique to this puzzle, 5 debuted here and reused later, 2 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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