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THAT IS EXTRA

New York Times, Sunday, June 3, 2001

Author:
Bob Peoples and Nancy Salomon
Editor:
Will Shortz
115-Down : Positive response to Aunt Polly
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Bob Peoples
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Nancy Salomon

This puzzle:

Rows: 21, Columns: 21 Words: 140, Blocks: 74 Missing: {JQXZ} Puzzle has duplicate clues. This is puzzle # 3 for Mr. Peoples. This is puzzle # 74 for Ms. Salomon. Sunday freshness: 25%
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© 2001, The New York Times6/3/1 ( No. 18,835 )
Across
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Lawyerspeak and tech talk : ARGOTS
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Stiff-upper-lip type : STOIC
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Freed for a price : RANSOMED
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Less binding : LOOSER
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Pen : HUTCH
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Natural healer : ALOEVERA
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Response to "That's a good clarinetist"? : BUTISITARTIE
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Evanesce : FADEAWAY
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Pay (up) : ANTE
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Keats's "unravish'd bride of quietness" : URN
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Turns over, in a way : STARTS
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Religious sectarian's sinister alter ego? : DARKSIDEOFTHEMOONIE
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Kind of team : SWAT
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Double header? : DUO
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Two-time U.S. Open champ : ELS
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Kind of point : FOCAL
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One getting a cut: Abbr. : AGT
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Keds competitor : AVIA
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Hit the books hard : CRAM
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Architecture with a point : AFRAME
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Award-winning numbers person? : BOOKIEOFTHEMONTH
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Counterfeiter catchers : TMEN
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Remain : BIDE
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Word that may precede itself : UNTO
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Awards for Mamet : OBIES
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Amerada ___ (petroleum giant) : HESS
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Unable to get out : INDEEP
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Letter run : RSTU
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Has capacity for : STOWS
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Setting of Mailer's "Ancient Evenings" : EGYPT
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Finger in a fire? : HOTPINKIE
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Like Lucy of "Peanuts" : BOSSY
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Wrap choice : SARAN
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Bit : IOTA
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Not refined : GAUCHE
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Spot alternative : FIDO
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Doctor : ALTER
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Pop music's TLC, e.g. : TRIO
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Class for anglers? : TRIG
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Pork purchase : LOIN
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Halloween handout? : GOODIEFORNOTHING
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Flight board phrase : ONTIME
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"___ do you good" : ITLL
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Utah's state flower : SEGO
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Ed.'s pile : MSS
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Neopagan practice : WICCA
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Make a scene? : ACT
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Yes, in Yokohama : HAI
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Parts of window treatments : RODS
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Play dirty against an N.H.L. newcomer? : CHECKTHEKINGSROOKIE
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Like good (but not great) bonds : RATEDA
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Fair-hiring letters : EEO
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Part of ROM : ONLY
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It's undefined : GRAYAREA
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Ram's cap? : BUTTERBEANIE
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Enduring symbol : MONUMENT
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Voided : UNDID
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Leans (on) : RELIES
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Fellows may receive them : STIPENDS
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Red-blooded : LUSTY
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Founder of Scholasticism : ANSELM
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Goya's "Duchess of ___" : ALBA
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Like 100, but not 99 or 101 : ROUND
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"___ go!" : GOTTA
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Some willows : OSIERS
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Your, to Yvette : TES
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Indian honorific : SRI
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Archaeological find : SHARD
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Went sour : TURNED
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Polo Grounds legend : OTT
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Roll call response, in Rouen : ICI
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Where the heart is : CHEST
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Conductor Kubelik : RAFAEL
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They may arouse you : ALARMS
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Acknowledge, in a way : NODTO
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Accompanies to the airport, say : SEESOFF
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Fertility matters : OVA
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Cry from a litter : MEW
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Dash competitor : ERA
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It breaks every morning : DAY
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Harvard's is high : TUITION
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Don's business : THEMOB
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River in a Best Picture title : KWAI
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Stockpile : SAVEUP
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Word said with a grimace : OUCH
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Front : FORE
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How some interstates run : NORTHSOUTH
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Start of Caesar's boast : ICAME
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Furniture designer Charles : EAMES
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Part of S.L.R. : LENS
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"Steal This Book" writer Hoffman : ABBIE
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In operation : GOING
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Some like it hot : TODDY
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34-Down's opposite : AFT
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Measure : AMOUNT
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103-Down, facetiously : AHSO
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Has ready : KEEPSONICE
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Wrong : TORT
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Not yet final, in law : NISI
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French bean? : TETE
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Flight board abbr. : ETA
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Party to a séance : SPIRIT
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Córdoba kinsman : TIO
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Ring org. : WBA
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Circle overhead? : HALO
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"I'm ___ you!" : ONTO
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O.J.'s famous houseguest : KATO
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Drop on a stage : SCRIM
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Targets of some kicks : SHINS
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People with safe jobs? : YEGGS
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Go ballistic : RAGE
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Kind of eyes : GOOGOO
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Ebb's partner : FLOW
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Charged, in a way : IONIC
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Deep-six : DITCH
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Ready to be typeset : EDITED
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Monopoly quartet: Abbr. : RRS
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Wrong : INERROR
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Like some textbook publishers : ELHI
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Custard concoction : FLAN
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Fuss : TODO
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Knotwork : MACRAME
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Be there : ATTEND
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Scam artists : CHEATS
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Joke response : IGETIT
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Drinks a toast : SKOALS
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Tony-winning actress Ziemba : KAREN
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Asian capital : KABUL
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Poorly kept : SEEDY
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Nonprotruding navel : INNIE
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Saarinen the elder : ELIEL
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Positive response to Aunt Polly : YESM
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Ball club V.I.P.'s : GMS
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Dry ___ : ROT
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It may be dotted : ANI
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"You betcha" : YUP
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Burma's first P.M. : UNU
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QBs' goals : TDS
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Stage attire for Madonna : BRA
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Velvet finish? : EEN

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9 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later.

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