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Laxicography

New York Times, Sunday, May 15, 1994

Author:
Charles M. Deber
Editor:
Will Shortz
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Charles M. Deber

This puzzle:

Rows: 21, Columns: 21 Words: 140, Blocks: 74 Missing: {FJQX} This is puzzle # 20 for Mr. Deber. Sunday freshness: 36%
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© 1994, The New York Times5/15/94 ( No. 16,259 )
Across
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He was Sonny Corleone in "The Godfather" : CAAN
5
Swanky : POSH
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Tuscany town : SIENA
14
Vâclav Havel's home : PRAHA
19
Official language of Pakistan : URDU
20
Site of Hickam Air Force Base : OAHU
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In command : ONTOP
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Kidney-related : RENAL
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Lazy person's racquet sport? : BEDMINTON
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Physician in "Jurassic Park"? : PTERODOCTYL
27
Was emphatic : ASSERTED
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___-Litovsk Treaty, 1918 : BREST
29
Ewes look up to him : ARIES
30
Precipitate : RAIN
31
Winglike : ALAR
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Attacked : HADAT
34
Poolside shelter : CABANA
37
___ Wars (Rome-Carthage conflicts) : PUNIC
39
Sheer fabric : BATISTE
43
Mine entrance : ADIT
44
"You put up the tent, I'll get the wood"? : CAMPROMISE
48
January, in Juârez : ENERO
49
Parallel to : LIKE
50
Gun moll's gun : GAT
51
Still-life subject : PEAR
53
Bearded animals : GNUS
54
Malcolm X profiler : LEE
55
Believer in plant parenthood? : CHRYSANTHEMOM
61
Angle or pod preceder : TRI
62
Night sky marvels : AURORAE
64
More put-out : SORER
65
Pier support : GABION
67
Eau de Paris : SEINE
68
Up : ASTIR
69
Hospital supply : SERUM
70
Sierra ___ : MADRES
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Porter's "___ Kick Out of You" : IGETA
73
Lunatics : CRAZIES
76
Exchanged words : IDO
77
Expert on students' rash behavior? : DORMATOLOGIST
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Important D.C. lobby : NRA
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Take five : DOZE
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Flash Gordon serial site : MARS
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Doublet : TWO
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Card catalogue abbr. : ETAL
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Departments : AREAS
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Workplace for a short order cook? : RESTAURUNT
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Org. with a mission : NASA
95
Feeling : SENSATE
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Russian skater Rodnina : IRINA
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Pitched : ROLLED
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Harvard, Brown, Princeton, etc. : IVIES
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Epochs : ERAS
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Ms. Lollobrigida : GINA
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Perseus's mother : DANAE
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Del ___ of the 50's Phillies : ENNIS
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Marks off : DEMERITS
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Fruit that's hard as a rock? : POMEGRANITE
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Early meat eater? : CROMIGNON
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Bearing : POISE
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Standout performances : SOLOS
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Wave maker : TIDE
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Pop singer Brickell : EDIE
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Outfit : DRESS
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Ain't polite? : ARENT
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Dashed : SPED
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Major employer in Hawaii : DOLE
Down
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Where the conga originated : CUBA
2
Lover of Aphrodite : ARES
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Supplements : ADDS
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List in detail : NUMERATE
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Ottawa chief : PONTIAC
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Grainy : OATEN
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Did blacksmith's work : SHOD
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Marauder : HUN
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Voice from on high : SOPRANO
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Provisional : INTERIM
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Dijon dog days : ETES
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Arctic : NORTH
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Address abbr. : APO
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Apportion, as costs : PRORATE
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Not ad-libbing : RECITING
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Up-front amount : ANTE
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___ office (old Hollywood code group) : HAYS
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Aggregate : ALL
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Land on the Caspian : IRAN
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Some MOMA works : DADA
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Obfuscate : BLUR
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Datebook listings: Abbr. : APPTS
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Crosswise, nautically : ABEAM
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Greenhouse bloom : CALLA
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So long : ADIEU
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13 motorcycles? : BIKERSDOZEN
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Hard-to-read writing : CIPHER
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Doting on shiny coins? : SENTIMINTAL
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Cape Cod resort : TRURO
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Red dye : EOSIN
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Go along (with) : AGREE
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Tennyson's "The ___ Queen" : MAY
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Geomancer : SEER
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TV western star of the 50's : ROGERS
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Yowled : CRIED
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Victorian taxi : HANSOM
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Holding : ASSET
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"___ worry ..." : NOTTO
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Balloon, perhaps : TRIAL
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French Revolutionist Jean Paul : MARAT
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Opposite of neath : OER
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___ Sawyer of the comics : BUZ
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1992 Wimbledon champ : AGASSI
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Heir or heiress : SCION
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Kind of touch : MIDAS
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Idolize : ADORE
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Hungarian patriot Nagy : IMRE
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Wipe off : ERASE
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First course, maybe : SALAD
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Street show : RAREE
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Others, on the Orinoco : OTRAS
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D.C. campus : GWU
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Facility : EASINESS
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Blew up : ENLARGED
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Goths and Vandals : SAVAGES
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1776 battle site : TRENTON
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Most open : AIRIEST
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Merkel and O'Connor : UNAS
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Cut slightly : TRIMMED
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Level : TIER
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"The ___ Love" (Al Jolson tune) : ONEI
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Mister, down south : SENOR
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Sparkly collectible : GEODE
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Way out : DOOR
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Chere woman : AMIE
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Where Moses rafted : NILE
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Faucet fault : DRIP
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___-China : INDO
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Sweat (over) : TOIL
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Snick-or-___ : SNEE
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Mail-order abbr. : PPD
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Botanist Gray : ASA
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Coppers: Abbr. : CTS

Answer summary:
12 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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