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New York Times, Monday, September 1, 1997

Author:
Gregory E. Paul
Editor:
Will Shortz
9-Down : Popular oven cleaner
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Gregory E. Paul

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 36 Missing: {GHJQXZ} This is puzzle # 50 for Mr. Paul. Monday freshness: 25%
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© 1997, The New York Times9/1/97 ( No. 17,464 )
Across
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Destine to disaster : DOOM
5
Pepper's partner : SALT
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Fix (in) : EMBED
14
___ Major : URSA
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Pop singer Brickell : EDIE
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TV's "Kate & ___" : ALLIE
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Word with land or critical : MASS
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Score before 15 : LOVE
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One who raises a stink? : SKUNK
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Famous Wall Street panic : BLACKFRIDAY
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Reverse of WNW : ESE
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De-squeaked : OILED
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Travel far and wide : ROAM
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Make war : BATTLE
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Modern refrigerators do it automatically : DEFROST
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Prefix with cycle : UNI
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Actor Davis : OSSIE
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Field enclosure : FENCE
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Marksman of Swiss legend : TELL
40
Exodus mountain : SINAI
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Mideast's Gulf of ___ : ADEN
43
Spud : TATER
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Skin: Suffix : DERMA
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Yucatan year : ANO
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Well-read : ERUDITE
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Kind of piano : PLAYER
52
Deftness : EASE
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Faint, as through ecstasy : SWOON
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Sit-ups firm these : ABS
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1971 Steve McQueen film : ONANYSUNDAY
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Officer-to-be : CADET
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Fountain drink : MALT
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Overhang : EAVE
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Mannerism : TRAIT
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Lackawanna's partner in railroading : ERIE
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Pavarotti piece : ARIA
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Final approval : SAYSO
70
Poetic contraction : NEER
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Old Fords : LTDS
Down
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Slow-witted : DUMB
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Like some vaccines : ORAL
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Bones : OSSA
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Army's mule, e.g. : MASCOT
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Concerned only with others : SELFLESS
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Idolize : ADORE
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Enraged : LIVID
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Ready to be hit, as a golf ball : TEED
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Popular oven cleaner : EASYOFF
10
Jan. 15 initials : MLK
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1957 Fats Domino hit : BLUEMONDAY
12
One, to Hans : EINS
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Astronaut Slayton : DEKE
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Narc's unit : KILO
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"All the Things You ___" : ARE
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Side squared, for a square : AREA
27
Montana city : BUTTE
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Lend ___ (listen) : ANEAR
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"Voices Carry" pop group : TILTUESDAY
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Honeybunch : DEAR
31
Happening place : SCENE
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Voice above baritone : TENOR
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Team : SIDE
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Suffix with elephant : INE
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Helen's mother, in Greek myth : LEDA
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Charlatan : IMPOSTER
44
Italian rice dish : RISOTTO
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Major League brothers' name : ALOU
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Half a score : TEN
51
Temper, as metal : ANNEAL
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Trap : SNARE
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Poet Elinor : WYLIE
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___ of the Apostles : ACTS
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Theda of Hollywood : BARA
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"You said it, brother!" : AMEN
59
Bull's-eye hitter : DART
60
Ardent : AVID
61
Yes votes : YEAS
63
Frozen Wasser : EIS

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