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New York Times, Friday, August 7, 1998

Author:
Frank Longo
Editor:
Will Shortz
23-Down : Some Pepsi purchases
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
9110/29/199411/24/20192
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150137142922
RebusScrabDebutFresh
41.4868687%
Frank Longo

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 64, Blocks: 32 Missing: {JKQWXZ} Spans: 2 This is puzzle # 41 for Mr. Longo. Friday freshness: 86%
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© 1998, The New York Times8/7/98 ( No. 17,804 )
Across
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"Speed" speeder : BUS
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Mimeographs, e.g. : DUPLICATORS
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"Come ___ My House" (Clooney hit) : ONA
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Woodstock performer, 1969 : ARLOGUTHRIE
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Assembly-line principle : DIVISIONOFLABOR
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Former Gov. Bayh : EVAN
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Bluebeard's seventh wife : FATIMA
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Peripatetic religious leader : DALAILAMA
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Stomach tightener : SITUP
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Five and ten, e.g. : CARDINALS
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Not neurotic : SANE
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Oman, for one : SULTANATE
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Sue Grafton's "___ for Lawless" : LIS
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Causes of many swoons : TEENIDOLS
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Opposite of "huh?" : AHA
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Used a clothesline : DRIPDRIED
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Legendary elephant eaters : ROCS
43
Projecting parts : SALIENCES
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Best : CREAM
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Stir : SENSATION
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Last team coached by Leo Durocher : ASTROS
51
Heraldic wreath : ORLE
52
1990's CBS detective drama : DIAGNOSISMURDER
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One way to vanish : INTOTHINAIR
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Free : RID
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Deleterious defoliant : AGENTORANGE
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England's Isle of ___ : ELY
Down
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Foreshadowed : BODED
2
Historic computer of 1951 : UNIVAC
3
"Pancho Villa" star, 1972 : SAVALAS
4
Cologne article : DAS
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Where the Reuss River originates : URI
6
Al Fatah grp. : PLO
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McCallister of "Montana Territory" : LON
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Walt Kelly's "___ Pogo" : IGO
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Trouser turnup : CUFF
10
Where to find 5-Down : ATLAS
11
Words preceding a clarification : THATIS
12
Like satellites : ORBITAL
13
Mainland Equatorial Guinea : RIOMUNI
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Tabasco coverings : SERAPES
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Going nowhere : INARUT
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Went nowhere : IDLED
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Some Pepsi purchases : LITERS
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Chronic liar : ANANIAS
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Unit of a legion : MANIPLE
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Jafar's nemesis, in film : ALADDIN
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Inventory : STORES
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"Nadja" actress Löwensohn : ELINA
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Quadrant, say : SECTOR
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Part of ancient Greece with the city Megalópolis : ARCADIA
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Fooling (around) : HORSING
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Cel material : ACETATE
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Yeats heroine : DEIRDRE
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Noted Assyrian king mentioned in Isaiah : SARGON
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French sun : SOLEIL
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Puerto ___, Chile : MONTT
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Square, in a way : NERDY
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TriBeCa neighbor : SOHO
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Base address : SIR
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Concert ending : INA
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___ Pablo, Calif. : SAN
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Certain jet : MIG
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Suffix with press : URE

Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 7 debuted here and reused later, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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