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The Animals' Greatest Hits

New York Times, Sunday, May 12, 1996

Author:
R. Silvestri
Editor:
Will Shortz
79-Down : Noted writer-statesman
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Richard Silvestri

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Rows: 21, Columns: 21 Words: 142, Blocks: 72 Missing: {JQX} This is puzzle # 55 for Mr. Silvestri. Sunday freshness: 49%
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© 1996, The New York Times5/12/96 ( No. 16,987 )
Across
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Sports surprise : UPSET
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Rather : ABIT
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Supply with merchandise : STOCK
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Executes : DOES
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It's measured in watts : POWER
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"Nonsense!" : BOSH
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Tonkin city : HANOI
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Opposite of exo- : ENDO
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Gig for Domingo : OPERA
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Eddie Rabbitt hit? : HARECOMESTHESUN
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Before marriage : NEE
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"Let's Make a Deal" option : DOOR
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Entangle : RAVEL
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Longtime Susan Lucci daytime role : ERICA
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His and her : THEIR
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Like a horse : MANED
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Fraternity unit : CHAPTER
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Beleaguer : ASSAIL
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Purple with anger : LIVID
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Shpoke like thish : SLURRED
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Treat with contempt : SCORN
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German spa : BADEN
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Old radio's "___the Magician" : CHANDU
44
Radio format : TALK
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Snoop Doggy Dogg hit? : MYDINGOLING
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Scuttlebutt : DIRT
51
You can dig it : ORE
52
Marketing data : SALES
53
Meditation system : ZEN
54
Victors' cry : WEWON
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One-millionth of a meter : MICRON
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Mom-and-pop enterprise : STORE
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Expired : RANOUT
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Persian Gulf country : KUWAIT
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Use the bean : THINK
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Brawn : MUSCLE
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Pablo of musical fame : CASALS
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Fall in folds : DRAPE
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Conviction : BELIEF
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Of service : UTILE
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Fact finisher : OID
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Unseasoned : GREEN
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To a great extent : FAR
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Eat like a bird : PECK
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Byrds hit? : OWLBEAROUND
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Asian expanse : GOBI
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Region of Greece and Turkey : THRACE
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Rochester's boss, in old TV : BENNY
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Instrument for 63-Across : CELLO
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Augment : ENHANCE
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Middie opponent : CADET
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Straw bed : PALLET
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Record holders : SLEEVES
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Polite refusal : NOSIR
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Green sauce : PESTO
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Swift's "___of a Tub" : ATALE
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Cobbler, at times : SOLER
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Butter : GOAT
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Org. for Tyson : WBA
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Monkees hit? : GORILLAMYDREAMS
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Significant person? : OTHER
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Mars, in combinations : AREO
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Hardhearted : CRUEL
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Manitoba native : CREE
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Barely audible : FAINT
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Forsaken : LORN
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Easily confused : DITSY
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Look after : TEND
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Exhaust emanation : FUMES
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Topping : UPON
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John, Paul or John Paul : POPE
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Country Joe and the Fish hit? : SWEETSOLEMUSIC
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Perpetually, poetically : EER
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Car price factor : TRADEIN
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Execrate : ABHOR
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Hog wild? : BOAR
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Leb. neighbor : ISR
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Poem mentioning "the lost Lenore" : THERAVEN
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More than jostled : SHOVED
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Broke, in a way : TAMED
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"The___lama..." : ONEL
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Popular comedian, briefly : COS
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Young beaver : KIT
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Corey Hart hit? : DEERPRUDENCE
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Kind of inspection : ONSITE
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Brought out : EDUCED
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Sub detector : SONAR
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Singapore punishment : CANING
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Got wind of : HEARD
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Driveway stain : OIL
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Listen : HARK
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Some skirts : MIDIS
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MacGregor, for one : CLAN
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Put up : HUNG
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About : ASTO
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Vaccination reminder : SCAR
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Weighed down : LADEN
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Stand out : SHINE
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One way to choose : BYLOT
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Bob Cratchit, e.g. : CLERK
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Homer hero of '61 : MARIS
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Stratosphere layer : OZONE
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Los Lobos hit? : IWOLFFOLLOWHIM
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Libertine : ROUE
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Charge letters : TNT
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Do to do : SCALE
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Stayed at home : WASIN
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Cat Stevens hit? : IWALKTHELION
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Elm offering : SHADE
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Dope on a horse : TIP
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Wielded the scepter : RULED
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Jackson or Smith : KATE
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Chief's followers : TRIBE
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Word of choice? : MEENY
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Eight fluid ounces : CUP
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"Vita" describer : DOLCE
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Main force : BRUNT
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Dead duck : GONER
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Skillful : ABLE
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Haymarket Square event : RIOT
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English Channel feeder : ORNE
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G.I. Janes : WACS
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Put-down artist : ABASER
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Change the course of : REDIRECT
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Shekels : GELT
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Noted writer-statesman : HAVEL
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Thrown away : CASTOFF
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La corrida combatant : ELTORO
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More imminent : NEARER
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Without emotion : COLDLY
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Podded plant : PEA
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"Married...With Children" co-star : SAGAL
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"The Highwayman" poet : NOYES
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Set forth : POSED
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Blue books? : SMUT
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Feds : GMEN
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Pop music's ___King : BENE
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Liberal pursuits : ARTS
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Calculator part: Abbr. : LCD
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Model for filmdom's "The Greek Tycoon" : ARI
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Auxiliary verb : ARE
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Cross type : TAU

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