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Mel Taub
Mel Taub

NY Times, Sun, Nov 15, 1998 Puns and Anagrams

8-Down : Who can't stand earth?

Author:
Mel Taub
Editor:
Will Shortz
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 70, Blocks: 30
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© 1998, The New York Times
Across
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Each is made for relaxation : CHAISE
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Got a shred of a shred : SHARED
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The illusive Hampton : PHANTOM
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Are chimps able to eat these? : CANAPES
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Makes pigs run to phone : RINGSUP
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Mott is a philosopher in physics : ATOMIST
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Where Moyer went to school : EMORY
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Learn of songwriter : ARLEN
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Kind of shirt, that is, or what to wear with it : TIE
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A charge -- it comes out of levity : LEVY
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Sign of Rene's contempt : SNEER
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Bird that's more peeved in Boston? : SORA
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Take on more 'elp : IRE
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Who heard strong winds in the Highlands : GAELS
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How I made a bull's-eye : AIMED
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She's all cream : MARCELLA
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Vashionable clothes : VINERY
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Stupidest, anyway : LEASTWISE
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Ms. Rosa Marsh : MORASS
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I.e., narrow metal objects : IRONWARE
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Heroine of "I, Descartes" : IRENE
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Harde labore : TOILE
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Ada's leader at State : NEV
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Without a basis for family members : SIBS
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___ letter (wrote actress Berger) : SENTA
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Type of one C.P.A. : PICA
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Main locale? : SEA
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Ash St. hiding place : STASH
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In 1501, it was fearful : TIMID
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Fashionable camera shots? : INTAKES
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Send Elias to a lonely place : ISOLATE
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51 trees not producing fruit : STERILE
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Rendered Dante, e.g., ineffective : NEGATED
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What Teddie did at the mag : EDITED
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Agreed to be harnessed : GEARED
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Make him care for monster : CHIMERA
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Where Eva Horn hails from : HANOVER
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Hot under the choler? : ANGRY
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It's not X or Z : ITSY
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___ City (extremely cheap place to live) : SOU
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Picks jurors who have seen lamp : EMPANELS
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S.C. taverns serve them : SCALES
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Who can't stand earth? : HATER
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Shortly without a name : ANON
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Kind of page : RAM
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Exemplification of Poe item : EPITOME
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He wants Dreiser badly : DESIRER
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Limper race : PRELIM
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Sad yet calm : STEADY
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Orientals, to other Orientals : RELATIONS
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Rooms of a lass from Madrid : SALAS
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Yes, nuevo : SINEW
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What to see, e.g., in formation : GEESE
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It flows to sea in France : AISNE
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Families see L.A. before Nova Scotia : CLANS
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Miss Oliva : VIOLA
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In pain, but with grin : WRITHING
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I'm sis's better half : MISSIS
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Home to Ernie the Cuban : ORIENTE
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Returned money (in re a debt) : REBATED
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I meant a way to stimulate : ANIMATE
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Creed? It may be spoken thus : RECITED
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At five, a deed may be avoided : EVADED
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Kidded when being seated : TEASED
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Sleet forms on monument : STELE
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50 pair covered with hair : PILAR
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Successor to the "R" model set : SKIT
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Got a robe : TOGA
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He takes charity to heart : ARI
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Another kind of page : SEE
Answer summary: 1 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 2 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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