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New York Times, Friday, September 17, 1999

Author:
Patrick D. Berry
Editor:
Will Shortz
44-Down : Ears that can't hear
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2297/11/199911/4/20182
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981.541,84281%
Patrick Berry

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 64, Blocks: 34 Missing: {FJQWXZ} Spans: 3, (1 triple stack) This is puzzle # 2 for Mr. Berry. Friday freshness: 45%
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© 1999, The New York Times9/17/99 ( No. 18,210 )
Across
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Flatter : LAYITON
8
Disco pulser : STROBE
14
I stress? : EGOMANIA
16
Aftershock : TREMOR
17
Monroe's Veep : TOMPKINS
18
Bantu language : RUANDA
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Popular baked treat ingredients : RICEKRISPIES
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Put in one's two cents' worth : OPINE
23
Carpenters and harvesters : ANTS
24
Mock-portraying : APING
25
Air menace : MIG
26
Music collectibles : LPS
29
Scientific standard : CENTIGRADESCALE
34
Cold war thriller heroes : INTELLIGENCEMEN
35
Rent fixers? : NEEDLEANDTHREAD
36
Worrisome sound for a mail carrier : GRR
37
In the style of : ALA
38
Imparts : LENDS
39
Symbol of desire : PANT
41
Chronic gambler's problem : DEBTS
42
Workaholics don't use it much : VACATIONTIME
47
Like some patches : IRONON
48
Rod-shaped bacterium : BACILLUS
52
Putting on the line : AIRING
53
Quick buck? : ANTELOPE
54
"Ivanhoe" weapons : LANCES
55
Ancient Asia Minor country visited by St. Paul : GALATIA
Down
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Do-over : LET
2
In the past : AGO
3
"Day" in Hebrew : YOM
4
Like many a cover title : IMPRINTED
5
Coming down with something : TAKINGILL
6
In abeyance : ONICE
7
Target number in baccarat : NINE
8
Severe : STRINGENT
9
Word on the front of all U.S. coins : TRUST
10
Gains : REAPS
11
Old Dodge : OMNI
12
Point to : BODE
13
Historians' subjects : ERAS
15
Clamor (for) : ASK
20
Like a bookie joint, maybe : RAIDED
21
Word with can or season : OPENER
22
"The Homecoming" playwright : PINTER
24
Flying through : ACING
25
Not quite summa : MAGNA
26
"Woe is me" soliloquy : LAMENT
27
Speaks on bended knee : PLEADS
28
Directs : SENDS
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Research results : GLEANINGS
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Theatergoer's haunt : RIALTO
32
Chump : SCHLEMIEL
33
Coordination centers : CEREBELLA
39
Pre-exam feeling, maybe : PANIC
40
Go to confession : ATONE
41
Orders : DICTA
42
Tiny bottle : VIAL
43
Mozart's "Madamina," e.g. : ARIA
44
Ears that can't hear : CORN
45
Rockets grp. : NBA
46
Little kick : TANG
49
Something to bid on : LOT
50
News source, for short : UPI
51
"America, the Beautiful" closer : SEA

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5 unique to this puzzle, 4 debuted here and reused later, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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