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New York Times, Thursday, July 26, 2001

Author:
Manny Nosowsky
Editor:
Will Shortz
43-Down : Hit the spot
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Manny Nosowsky

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 72, Blocks: 34 Missing: {QXZ} Spans: 2 Puzzle has duplicate clues. This is puzzle # 135 for Mr. Nosowsky. Thursday freshness: 56%
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© 2001, The New York Times7/26/1 ( No. 18,888 )
Across
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Refusal to buckle : SPINE
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How beef may be served : AUJUS
11
Brandy designation letters : VSO
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Not engaged : ALOOF
15
Smidgen : SKOSH
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Be distressed : AIL
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Typical dervish? : MANOFTHEWHIRLED
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Catch : ENSNARE
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Wager in Monte Carlo : LEROUGE
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Where to see Alain Delon or Geneviève Bujold : CINE
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Like cult films, again and again : RESEEN
25
Get-go : OUTSET
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Emerge : ARISE
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Time to get sharp? : WHETSEASON
33
Overcome : BEAT
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Market opener? : EURO
38
The Company : CIA
39
___ Major : URSA
40
Argo, e.g. : SHIP
41
Question from a confused astronaut? : WHERESDOWN
44
Leaves rolling in the aisles : SLAYS
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Sunday may have several of them : MASSES
47
Office machine : COPIER
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Tease : TWIT
52
Paper craft : ORIGAMI
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Jones and Smith, maybe : ALIASES
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What Miss Muffet believed a spider might do? : STANDINONESWHEY
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Great deal : TON
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Legal U.S. tender : TNOTE
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Uses digits? : FEELS
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___-Cat : SNO
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Shrek and others : OGRES
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Raiser of dough : YEAST
Down
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Previously said : SAME
2
Work out : PLAN
3
Bonding candidates : IONS
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Twelve, maybe : NOON
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Rubs out : EFFACES
6
White as a sheet : ASHEN
7
Tiny Tim instrument : UKE
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It may hang by the neck : JOWL
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Bring : USHERIN
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Counties overseas : SHIRES
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Consider worthwhile : VALUE
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Military operation : SIEGE
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Antiquated : OLDEN
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Stating the obvious : TRITE
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Future bloomers : ROSEBUDS
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Least brow-wrinkling : EASIEST
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Must pay : OWES
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"Nah!" : UHUH
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TV's Hatcher : TERI
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It brings traffic to a standstill : STOPSIGN
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Expression of pride? : ROAR
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Sore : ACHY
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One of the primal gods in Greek myth : EROS
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"... mercy on such ___": Kipling : ASWE
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Khakis : TANS
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Becoming less 14-Across : WARMING
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Boxer Griffith : EMILE
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Hit the spot : SATISFY
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Bring : LEADTO
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Receipt listings : COSTS
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"What the Butler Saw" playwright : ORTON
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Soft : PIANO
51
Goes down : WANES
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"___ out?" (dealer's query) : INOR
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Bide-___ : AWEE
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Queens place : SHEA
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Fish captured in pots : EELS
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Part of S.S.S.: Abbr. : SYST
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Suffix with Capri : OTE

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