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New York Times, Sunday, May 21, 2006

Author:
Ashish Vengsarkar
Editor:
Will Shortz
16-Down : Computer protection
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Ashish Vengsarkar

This puzzle:

Rows: 21, Columns: 21 Words: 138, Blocks: 78 Missing: {Q} Spans: 1 Puzzle has duplicate clues. This is puzzle # 2 for Mr. Vengsarkar. Sunday freshness: 42%
Jim Horne notes:

To understand this, you have to divide the word QUOTE into its five letters, Q, U, O, T, and E.

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C
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© 2006, The New York Times5/21/6 ( No. 20,648 )
Across
1
Codger : CUSS
5
Mischief maker of myth : LOKI
9
1945 news, in headlines : ABOMB
14
"Amerika" author : KAFKA
19
Part of the Dept. of Labor : OSHA
20
Option for heads : IWIN
21
Indian queen : RANEE
22
It begins "Sing, goddess, the wrath of Peleus' son ..." : ILIAD
23
Seasonal salutation : DEARSANTA
25
"Jeopardy!" phrase : THEANSWERIS
27
Start of quote : BRITISHWAITINGLINE
29
Column of boxes on a questionnaire : YESES
30
Failing grades : EFS
31
Shipboard cries : AYS
32
Nursery cry : WAH
35
Column of boxes on a questionnaire : NOES
38
Of a heart chamber : ATRIAL
42
New at the beach, maybe : PALE
43
Part 2 of quote : SECONDPERSONSINGULAR
49
Very wide spec. : EEEE
50
Command to a dog : STAY
51
-like : ISH
52
Geometry figure? : EUCLID
53
Of a certain hydrocarbon group : ARYL
54
Crew alternative : VNECK
57
Bombay-born dancer Juliet : PROWSE
59
Lao-tzu follower : TAOIST
62
"The Return of the Jedi" girl : OOLA
64
Latin 101 verb : AMAT
65
Montgomery of jazz : WES
68
Part 3 of quote : OPRAHWINFREYSMAGAZINE
73
Originally : NEE
74
Carry : TOTE
75
Drug drop, maybe : KILO
76
Goolagong of tennis : EVONNE
77
Sight for sore eyes? : MIRAGE
79
Capital of Meurthe-et-Moselle, France : NANCY
82
Trials : WOES
83
Like some cats : CALICO
86
___ minimum : ATA
88
Langston Hughes poem : ITOO
90
___ the finish : INAT
91
Part 4 of quote : DRINKWITHJAMANDBREAD
96
Zero : LOVE
97
Shark, e.g. : MENACE
98
Postpaid encl. : SASE
99
Suffix with lact- : IDE
100
Cup holder : BRA
102
Alternative to gov or edu : COM
104
Related maternally : ENATE
108
End of quote : WORLDWIDEWEBPREFIX
115
Time to grow rice : RAINYSEASON
117
Pictorial : NONVERBAL
119
Kind of acid : BORIC
120
Dock site : INLET
121
Tongue site : SHOE
122
Slick : OILY
123
Actress Graff : ILENE
124
Goes a mile a minute : TEARS
125
Cache contents : ARMS
126
Fill : SATE
Down
1
Shipping option, for short : COD
2
Words on a medicine bottle : USEBY
3
Opposite of hog : SHARE
4
Closet contents of a 21-Across : SARIS
5
Trysts : LIAISONS
6
Admits, with "up" : OWNS
7
Acquaintances : KITH
8
Very impressed : INAWE
9
Ray, Klee and Millais : ARTISTS
10
Thai money : BAHT
11
"That's ___ haven't heard!" : ONEI
12
Willfully tightening the screws, say : MEAN
13
Calcutta native : BENGALI
14
Wellington natives : KIWIS
15
Architect William van ___ : ALEN
16
Computer protection : FIREWALL
17
Chiang ___-shek : KAI
18
Pop-ups, e.g. : ADS
24
Pad user : STENO
26
Slippery : SLY
28
Miles away : AFAR
33
Jai ___ : ALAI
34
Drove : HERD
36
1999 Ron Howard comedy : EDTV
37
Nine inches : SPAN
39
Robert, for one : ROI
40
Police dept. employee : INSP
41
Guru habitat : ASHRAM
42
Purple shade : PUCE
43
Colorful wrap : SERAPE
44
Fictional donkey : EEYORE
45
Oliver's love in "As You Like It" : CELIA
46
"___ the Needle" (1981 movie) : EYEOF
47
Like some acoustic music : NEWAGE
48
Composer Mahler : GUSTAV
49
Stationery brand : EATON
55
Something to pop : CORK
56
Nobel-winning economist Lawrence : KLEIN
58
Medical suffix : OMA
60
Rodney Dangerfield's "I don't get no respect," e.g. : SHTICK
61
Like the arrangement of gems in some bracelets : TWOROW
63
"The Shelters of Stone" heroine : AYLA
65
A Ryder : WINONA
66
The Supreme Court, e.g. : ENNEAD
67
View for Shakespeare? : SEEST
69
Eur. land : ITA
70
Undo : NEGATE
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One of the Gandhis : SONIA
72
"Holy cow!" : ZOWIE
77
Grabber's cry : MINE
78
People: Prefix : ETHN
80
Cig. purchases : CTNS
81
Film character who says "Do, or do not. There is no 'try'" : YODA
83
Fifth-century year : CDLI
84
2003 A.L. M.V.P., to fans : AROD
85
Go-getter : LIVEWIRE
87
1977 double-platinum Steely Dan album : AJA
89
Checks out : OBSERVES
92
Exclamation at the end of a trip : IMADEIT
93
Résumé parts : ACCENTS
94
___ Mix : MEOW
95
Actress Zellweger : RENEE
100
Utah's ___ Canyon : BRYCE
101
Literary inits. : RLS
103
Bright circle? : MENSA
105
Bushes rarely seen nowadays : AFROS
106
Leg part : TIBIA
107
Glorify : EXALT
109
"Come ___!" : ONIN
110
Fall off : WANE
111
Madonna's "La ___ Bonita" : ISLA
112
No bystander : DOER
113
Physicist with an element named after him : BOHR
114
___ Penh : PNOM
115
Diamond stat. : RBI
116
MSN competitor : AOL
118
Burn cause : LYE

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

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