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New York Times, Wednesday, July 3, 2002

Author:
Peter Gordon
Editor:
Will Shortz
10-Down : "Stay" singer Lisa
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Peter Gordon

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 36 Missing: {WZ} Spans: 3 This is puzzle # 87 for Mr. Gordon. Wednesday freshness: 3%
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© 2002, The New York Times7/3/2 ( No. 19,230 )
Across
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Currency substitute : SCRIP
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Big party : BASH
10
The Beatles' "___ Madonna" : LADY
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Japanese verse : HAIKU
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Part of A.M. : ANTE
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Yellow spread : OLEO
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When many people have cookouts : INDEPENDENCEDAY
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Formerly : NEE
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They average 100 : IQS
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Free : PROBONO
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Bug : FLU
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Enter : GOIN
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Spanish snack : TAPA
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Monopoly game token : IRON
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Novelist Rona : JAFFE
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Flamenco cries : OLES
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It's nothing, really : NIL
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Big name in beauty products : LOREAL
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Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi creation : STATUEOFLIBERTY
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People in People : CELEBS
42
Energy : PEP
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Uno y dos : TRES
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Pittsburgh's Mellon ___ : ARENA
45
Speaker in the Baseball Hall of Fame : TRIS
46
Henry of the House Judiciary Committee : HYDE
47
Emperor who poisoned Britannicus : NERO
49
Singer Sumac : YMA
51
Feeling pins and needles : ATINGLE
55
Santa ___ : ANA
56
Unagi, at a sushi bar : EEL
59
Tablet inscription on 38-Across that commemorates 17-Across : JULYIVMDCCLXXVI
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Up to snuff : ABLE
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Actress Skye : IONE
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Home on the range : TEPEE
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Take a breather : REST
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Mmes., in Madrid : SRAS
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Embellish : ADORN
Down
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Painful place to be kicked : SHIN
2
Sugar source : CANE
3
Fairgrounds attraction : RIDE
4
War-hero president : IKE
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Iris's center : PUPIL
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Makes verboten : BANS
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What's more : AND
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Walk over : STEPON
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Artist Toulouse-Lautrec : HENRI
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"Stay" singer Lisa : LOEB
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Designer Gucci : ALDO
12
Person with a list : DEAN
13
Go up and down rapidly : YOYO
18
Zebras, e.g. : EQUINES
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Grifter's ploy : CONJOB
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Buckle : FASTEN
24
One who works on a swing : GOLFPRO
25
Puccini opera : TOSCA
26
Adjust : ALTER
27
"The Power of Positive Thinking" writer : PEALE
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Carnival city : RIO
31
1986 self-titled soul album : ARETHA
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Boat to Staten Island : FERRY
33
In the cards : FATED
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"Family Ties" mom : ELYSE
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Not really sing : LIPSYNC
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Congo border river : UBANGI
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Aloha shirt accessory : LEI
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Aftershock : TREMOR
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Graceland name : ELVIS
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Island south of Sicily : MALTA
51
Open slightly : AJAR
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Part of an IV : TUBE
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Troubles : ILLS
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Da's opposite : NYET
55
Pair in a dead man's hand : ACES
56
Montreal player : EXPO
57
Penultimate fairy tale word : EVER
58
Bank holding : LIEN
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Modern courtroom evidence : DNA
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Marked, as a ballot : XED

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