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Mel Taub
Mel Taub

NY Times, Sun, Mar 09, 2008  PUNS AND ANAGRAMS

53-Across : For Nero it was more luxurious

Author:
Mel Taub
Editor:
Will Shortz
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 33
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© 2008, The New York Times
Across
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Gaps at U.S. canal : LACUNAS
8
Was out on pelts : SLEPT
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Playful talk in bed again : BADINAGE
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Is term used in British joints? : MITRES
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Quick joke about the QE1 or QE2, but not both : ONELINER
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Who accompanied Cortes : ESCORT
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In '51, a lot of girl : LOLITA
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Party in two Southern states : GALA
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Crowd on the outside of Trieste? : TRE
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Essayist in "The Liaison" : ELIA
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Let see the Highlander : CELT
24
Horror fare : FEAR
25
Old movie dog's head : RIN
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I bash the master : SAHIB
28
Frenchman on the lanai : ALAIN
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Monte, i.e., in the past : ONETIME
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No anger in a locale of W.W. I fighting : ARGONNE
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Girl in comedies : EDIE
34
Holder of ice cream once : CONE
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Laertes is a crook : STEALER
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It's in the chips at L.A. store : OLESTRA
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I sell cotton material : LISLE
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"No foolin'!" : STREW
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Sawback : WAS
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In which aesthetes star : ARTS
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It makes Al attractive : LURE
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"Conniptions" is proper : FITS
49
Nate's leader : NEO
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Run like a Pole : LOPE
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Kind, that is to say, of military operation : SORTIE
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For Nero it was more luxurious : TONIER
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Job for Marion at Disney : ANIMATOR
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It's our lover boy : SUITOR
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Housing that cost me $10.10 : TENEMENT
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Asset in French tearoom : TASSE
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Reston's rock group? : STONERS
Down
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It's in on all ointments : LANOLIN
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She makes Edna lie : ADELINE
3
101 + 51 + 1 hairs : CILIA
4
Kind of Arian : UNIT
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She reads up on two articles : NANA
6
How old a washer maker is : AGE
7
From whom Ivan gets a rise, e.g. : SERGEI
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Fish stunk : SMELT
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Ali's woman : LISA
10
Common abbreviation in alphabet cipher : ETC
11
Part one is changeable : PROTEAN
12
Ground for a trainer : TERRAIN
13
Movie featuring Bo or Ellie : BOLERO
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Harsh-sounding novelist : STERNE
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It's caught on a line or a cable : ALBACORE
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Yells "rah!" into the sky : CHEERSUP
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So elf sees these in the Arctic : FLOES
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'Tain't active : SIDLE
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Foreign friend Damien takes to heart : AMIE
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He was not just any wag in Washington : AGNEW
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At least they can quack : TEALS
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Tootsie ___ (Hoffman part) : ROLE
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Ellen's S.A.T. is biased : SLANTS
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Exhaust, or the result of a flat? : TIREOUT
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Land that juts into sea : ESTONIA
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One who taunts with a bird sound : TWITTER
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Food of a sort in the Army : RATIONS
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Declare as rest : ASSERT
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Tidbits for taster : TREATS
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Actor hearing of a British truck : LORRE
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This might get me far into a picture : FRAME
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Sole group of people born in late July or early August : LEOS
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Prefix that is on Chinese-related words : SINO
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Males who love Oprah Winfrey : OMEN
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Kind of elf : ITS
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Mag's follower : NET
Answer summary: 0 unique to this puzzle, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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