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Frank Longo
Frank Longo

NY Times, Sun, Dec 13, 1998 Diagramless

27-Down : Couples with a club

Author:
Frank Longo
Editor:
Will Shortz
Rows: 17, Columns: 17, Words: 88, Blocks: 76
Notepad: This diagramless is 17 squares wide by 17 squares deep and has regular
crossword symmetry.
1-Across begins in the tenth square of the top row.
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© 1998, The New York Times
Across
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La Scala star : DIVA
5
Brouhaha : ADO
8
Whit : JOT
11
Returns pro : CPA
14
Like some airships, in build : SEMIRIGID
16
Playwright Burrows : ABE
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"Wait!" : HOLDONASECOND
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Yalie : ELI
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.035 ounce : GRAM
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"Caught you!" : AHA
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Bothered badly : ATEAT
27
Pale yellowish : FLAXEN
30
Ted Mack show : AMATEURHOUR
35
Ping-Pong need : NET
37
Marketplace : BAZAAR
38
Test for college srs. : GRE
39
Silvery gray : ASH
40
Genetic inits. : RNA
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Contemporary : MODERNDAY
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Good deeds grp. : BSA
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Afflict : AIL
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Valuable earth : ORE
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"Children of a Lesser God" co-star : MATLIN
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West of "I'm No Angel" : MAE
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It precedes Easter : PASSIONWEEK
55
Longest of the Finger Lakes : CAYUGA
59
Few: Prefix : OLIGO
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Financing abbr. : APR
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E.P.A. concern : ECOL
63
"Piggy" : TOE
66
April, to Eliot : CRUELLESTMONTH
71
Tenth grade : SOPHOMOREYEAR
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Chief Ouray, e.g. : UTE
75
Sure about : CERTAINOF
76
Bradley and Begley : EDS
77
Kenny G's instrument : SAX
78
Rage : IRE
79
Optimistic : ROSY
Down
1
Jeans material : DENIM
2
One-named supermodel : IMAN
3
Kind of aid or arts : VISUAL
4
Singer Franklin : ARETHA
5
In the past : AGO
6
Clamor : DIN
7
Weird : ODD
8
Binge : JAG
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Heckelphone's cousin : OBOE
10
Mallard's cousin : TEAL
11
Ho ___ Minh : CHI
12
Capitol Hill type : POL
13
Sour British brew : ALEGAR
14
Organism body : SOMA
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Mountaineer's tool : ICEAX
18
___ Vader : DARTH
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Mazda model : MIATA
25
Stage horses : TEAM
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Prefix with Disney : EURO
27
Couples with a club : FRED
28
Authorize : ENABLE
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A monster, familiarly : NESSIE
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James ___ Garfield : ABRAM
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Nut : MANIAC
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Rhododendron relative : AZALEA
33
Monsters : OGRES
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Samovar : URN
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Part of T.G.I.F. : THANK
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L-___ (wonder drug) : DOPA
43
Significant span : ERA
44
Mine, to Monet : AMOI
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Chinese principle : YANG
50
"It takes ___ tango" : TWOTO
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Hog call : SOOEY
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"Maybe" : ILLSEE
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America's Cup entrant : YACHT
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Brouhaha : UPROAR
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"The Taming of the Shrew" servant : GRUMIO
61
N.F.L. Hall-of-Famer Hirsch : ELROY
62
Staff symbol : CLEF
64
Obligation : ONUS
65
James of R.&B. : ETTA
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Many millennia : EONS
68
Whit : TAD
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"___ Miniver" : MRS
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Kind of sign : HEX
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Zool., e.g. : SCI
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Not 'neath : OER
73
Part of PMS : PRE
Answer summary: 5 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 3 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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