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New York Times, Tuesday, July 8, 1997

Author:
Stephanie Spadaccini
Editor:
Will Shortz
90's group with the hit "Killing Me Softly," with "the"
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Stephanie Spadaccini

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 80, Blocks: 38 Missing: {JQZ} Spans: 3 This is puzzle # 29 for Ms. Spadaccini. Tuesday freshness: 2%
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© 1997, The New York Times7/8/97 ( No. 17,409 )
Across
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"Woe is me!" : ALAS
5
A wanted man, maybe : AWOL
9
Miss in the comics : PEACH
14
___ Le Pew : PEPE
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Oldsmobile, e.g. : MAKE
16
Sound during hay fever season : ACHOO
17
47-stringed instrument : HARP
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Flair : ELAN
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"Jurassic Park" sound : CLOMP
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Parental advice, part 1 : IVETOLDYOUMAYBE
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___ Moines : DES
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"O Sole ___" : MIO
25
Antislavery leader Turner : NAT
26
Call to Bo-peep : BAA
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Once more, country-style : AGIN
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Name : DUB
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See-through wrap : SARAN
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Scandinavian capital : OSLO
36
"The Official Preppy Handbook" author Birnbach : LISA
37
Advice, part 2 : TWOMILLIONTIMES
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___ Major : URSA
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Economist Smith : ADAM
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Listens to : HEEDS
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"See ya!" : BYE
44
Utopia : EDEN
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Served with a meal : FED
46
Choice of sizes: Abbr. : SML
47
Not their : OUR
48
Twaddle : PAP
51
End of the advice : NOTTOEXAGGERATE
57
"Silas Marner" author : ELIOT
58
Derby distance, maybe : MILE
59
Small field : ACRE
60
Training group : CADRE
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"Zip-___-Doo-Dah" : ADEE
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Wedding wear : VEIL
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Injured sneakily : KNEED
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Back talk : SASS
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Mesozoic and others : ERAS
Down
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Garden pest : APHID
2
What all partygoers eventually take : LEAVE
3
After, in Avignon : APRES
4
Fall mo. : SEPT
5
Flier Earhart : AMELIA
6
"Where's ___?" : WALDO
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"Sure, why not?" : OKAY
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Letterman rival : LENO
9
Hit game of 1980 : PACMAN
10
Showy display : ECLAT
11
Call to a mate : AHOY
12
Search, as a beach : COMB
13
Long (for) : HOPE
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Mideasterner : OMANI
22
Merger : UNION
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Where Bear Bryant coached, informally : BAMA
27
Oriental : ASIAN
28
Grab (onto) : GLOM
29
___-a-minute (call rate) : DIME
30
Previously owned : USED
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Chorale part : BASS
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The short end : STUB
33
Wrong : AWRY
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Floral gift : ROSE
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Ye ___ Tea Shoppe : OLDE
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Told a whopper : LIED
38
Soup scoop : LADLE
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"Ta-da!" : THERE
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Hammed it up : EMOTED
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90's group with the hit "Killing Me Softly," with "the" : FUGEES
46
Boutique : STORE
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Looks at boldly : OGLES
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Track car : PACER
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Open-air rooms : ATRIA
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Skins : PEELS
51
Isthmus : NECK
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Pearl Buck heroine : OLAN
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Coastal flooding factor : TIDE
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Holiday season, for short : XMAS
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Verdi heroine : AIDA
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90's party : RAVE

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