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Location Is Everything

New York Times, Sunday, May 4, 1997

Author:
Manny Nosowsky
Editor:
Will Shortz
2-Down : Colo. neighbor
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Manny Nosowsky

This puzzle:

Rows: 21, Columns: 21 Words: 140, Blocks: 73 Missing: {JQ} This is puzzle # 62 for Mr. Nosowsky. Sunday freshness: 52%
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© 1997, The New York Times5/4/97 ( No. 17,344 )
Across
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Pod used in cooking : SNAPBEAN
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Fish usually caught in the winter : SHAD
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Was upset and then some : HADAFIT
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"Enemies, A Love Story" actress : LENAOLIN
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De ___ hotel : LUXE
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Prismatic, as a stone : OPALINE
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Stubborn : OBDURATE
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Early comic writer : ARISTOPHANES
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Without means of support? : BRALESS
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With 30-Across, where to find a snowcap : ONTOPOF
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Symphonic poem inventor : LISZT
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Big snowfall : FOOT
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See 27-Across : OLDSMOKEY
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One way to get things down : PAT
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Like Jack : NIMBLE
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They roll on a Rolls : TYRES
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Old White House moniker : ABE
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Flake off : SHED
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Nice 'n Easy maker : CLAIROL
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Northern capital : OSLO
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Friend for Rover or Fido : REX
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Mad as a hornet : SORE
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Lose forward momentum : SIDESLIP
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Jack Mercer supplied his voice : POPEYE
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Kind of personality : TYPEA
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With 63-Across, pretty good : ABOVE
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"___ coffee?" : TEAOR
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African ranger : IMPALA
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See 55-Across : AVERAGE
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"___ It Kinda Fun" (1945 song) : ISNT
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PBS supplier : BBC
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Most blue? : TRUEST
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Gil Blas's creator : LESAGE
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Emergency room cases, for short : ODS
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"___ joy keep you" (start of a Sandburg poem) : LETA
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See 81-Across : CLOTHES
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Arrive, but just barely : EDGEIN
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Kick up ___ (complain) : AFUSS
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With 75-Across, unmentionables : UNDER
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Jack : KNAVE
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Sharp-toothed creatures : MORAYS
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Vegan morsels : SNOWPEAS
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Way up a hill : TBAR
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Prior to, poetically : ERE
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Warm, so to speak : NEAR
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Livestock feed : SOILAGE
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Medley : OLIO
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French surname start : DES
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"I've heard enough!" : CANIT
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Some speech sounds : NASALS
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Lt.'s inferior : ENS
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See 116-Across : MYDIGNITY
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Lecherlike : LEWD
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Drops : OMITS
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With 106-Across, phrase said with a sneer : BENEATH
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Bonelike : OSTEOID
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Revolutionary turned politico : DANIELORTEGA
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Thrust forward : PROTRUDE
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Noble : EXALTED
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Dusseldorf donkey : ESEL
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Exhaust : ENFEEBLE
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Is of value, colloquially : AINTHAY
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Name in book publishing since 1943 : DELL
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Having no spark left : DEFEATED
Down
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Hardly a fop : SLOB
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Colo. neighbor : NEBR
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See 67-Down : ANDAFTERPICTURES
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Saint in Brazil : PAULO
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Had to do with : BOREON
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Some bands : ELASTICS
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British isles : AITS
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Tampa-to-Jacksonville dir. : NNE
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Wounds with words : SLANDERS
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Wounds : HURTS
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Words to live by : AXIOM
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Democrat's opponent? : DESPOT
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Astaire and Rogers, e.g. : HOOFERS
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O.K.'d: Abbr. : APP
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Willy Wonka creator : DAHL
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Jai ___ : ALAI
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Platy propellers : FINS
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Don Juan's mother : INEZ
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Feeler : TEST
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Onetime Olympics host : TOKYO
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North of Virginia : OLLIE
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Book after Amos: Abbr. : OBAD
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Pound sound : YELP
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Call to attention : PSST
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Hello, of sorts : AHOY
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Year in Edward the Confessor's reign : MLI
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Fire damage : SOOT
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See 39-Down : AREASONABLEDOUBT
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With 38-Down, almost positive : BEYOND
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Puts forth : EXERTS
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Judge to be : DEEM
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King Harald's father : OLAV
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Actionable statements : LIBELS
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Opening for a dermatologist : PORE
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Linguist Mario : PEI
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Classified information? : APT
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Mantel piece : VASE
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Cousin of "Omigod!" : EGAD
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Parenthesis, essentially : ARC
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Oner : LULU
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Many years : AEON
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NATO capital : ATHENS
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Oriole's origin : EGG
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Allegedly at fault : BLAMED
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With 3-Down, features of some ads : BEFORE
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F.C.C. concerns: Abbr. : STDS
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Comics cry : EEK
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Gray of "Gray's Manual of Botany" : ASA
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Jocular suffix : EROO
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"___ each life..." : INTO
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In ___ (harmonious) : SYNC
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Puffed up : VAIN
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God offended by Daphnis : EROS
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Clothes line : SEAM
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Take the grand prize : WINITALL
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"The Bell Jar" writer : PLATH
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Uncomplicated : EASY
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___ Khan : AGA
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Gets rid of, as stock : SELLSOFF
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"Who'll volunteer?" : ANYBODY
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It's added to the bill : RIDER
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Colored : TINTED
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Parlor piece : SETTEE
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Some Canadian fliers : GEESE
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Actor Conrad of old films : NAGEL
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"If I ___ betting man..." : WEREA
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Halls of music : ODEA
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Skirt style : MAXI
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___ uproar : INAN
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Knight fight : TILT
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Clockmaker Thomas : SETH
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French department or river : ORNE
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Out of action : IDLE
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Proof of ownership : DEED
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Shepherd's setting : LEA
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Walker, briefly : PED

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 8 debuted here and reused later, 2 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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