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New York Times, Friday, May 19, 2000

Author:
Martin Ashwood-Smith
Editor:
Will Shortz
56-Down : Road to Rome
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Martin Ashwood-Smith

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 70, Blocks: 32 Missing: {JQZ} Spans: 9, (3 triple stacks) This is puzzle # 41 for Mr. Ashwood-Smith. Friday freshness: 9%
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© 2000, The New York Times5/19/0 ( No. 18,455 )
Across
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"Dry," e.g. : WEATHERFORECAST
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Income taxes : INTERNALREVENUE
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Local farmers : MARKETGARDENERS
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School tie : PTA
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Singers' syllables : REMI
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Fair-sized musical group : NONET
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Late Zairean dictator Mobutu ___ Seko : SESE
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Volume purchase?: Abbr. : ENC
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Word repeated before "again" : TRY
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Revealer of the inner self? : XRAY
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Undertaking : ACT
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Delicious diet-breaker : CHOCOLATEMOUSSE
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It's black and tan : AIREDALETERRIER
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Form of geometry : SCALENETRIANGLE
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"___ Married an Axe Murderer" (1993 comedy) : SOI
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Massachusetts motto opener : ENSE
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"___ in the breath of heaven...": Keats : TIS
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Snorkel, e.g.: Abbr. : SGT
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Lackluster : DRAB
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First name in journals : ANAIS
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Longtime Delaware senator : ROTH
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Enthusiastic cry : OLE
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Wearer of an orange coat : BALTIMOREORIOLE
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Capital : UPPERCASELETTER
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Unrealistic hope : STARSINONESEYES
Down
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Pushovers : WIMPS
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Like half a family's relations : ENATE
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Trac II competition : ATRAS
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William Shatner's "___War" : TEK
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Abbr. on old maps : HRE
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___'acte : ENTR
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Foam at the mouth : RAGE
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Olympics sight : FLAME
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Sen. Hatch : ORRIN
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Gules, in heraldry : RED
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Like some money : EVEN
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Recent: Prefix : CENO
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Re : ANENT
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Not slipping as much : SURER
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Fractious : TESTY
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Breaks records : EXCELS
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Passed the doorstep : CAMEIN
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Bulldogger's place : RODEO
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Grammy winner Morissette : ALANIS
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Where Gerald Ford went to law school : YALE
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Actress Witherspoon and others : CORAS
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Went bad : TURNED
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Job for Poirot : CAS
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Comic strip sound : HIC
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___ pro nobis : ORA
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Start of a lunar calendar abroad : TET
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French 101 verb : ETRE
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Check-cashing requirement: Abbr. : SIG
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Partner of poivre : SEL
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It comes before long : ERE
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Frowned-on things: Var. : TABUS
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Not relevant : INAPT
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Marine creature with a transparent, saclike body : SALPA
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Reaction to bad news : GROAN
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Body of art : TORSO
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Like tubers : ROOTY
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Formal avenue : ALLEE
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Round parts? : BEERS
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Road to Rome : ITER
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Knights in shining armor : SIRS
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It follows four but not five : TEEN
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Space : HOLE
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Sprint rival : MCI
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High-___ : RES
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Mineralogical suffix : ITE

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 3 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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