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Richard Silvestri
Richard Silvestri

NY Times, Sun, Jul 01, 2018 CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

8-Down : Where one may worship a body part (6)

Author:
Richard Silvestri
Editor:
Will Shortz
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 32, Blocks: 69
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© 2018, The New York Times
Across
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Go back and start another lawn by the sound (6) : RECEDE
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Jazzy guy, pocketing 200 milligrams of diamonds from the East, falls (8) : CATARACT
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Develop mutant terrapins (9) : TRANSPIRE
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Carry half of my carved emblem (5) : TOTEM
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I belong off base (7) : IGNOBLE
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Boy capturing rodents, returning .1, perhaps (7) : DECIMAL
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Back in the U.S., nearly succeed (5) : ENSUE
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In the morning, determined to suppress one kind of noise (7) : AMBIENT
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Excellent reader -- one in college? (7) : ELECTOR
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Go on a tear, being wasted (5) : BINGE
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Inform of a treasure, we hear (7) : APPRISE
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A European going around St. Paul, e.g. (7) : APOSTLE
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Person on a trail -- the woman covering one kilometer (5) : HIKER
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German article describes oddly stern Tomlin character (9) : ERNESTINE
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Put on, excuse nameless TV announcer (3,5) : DONPARDO
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Descendant of Irish National Leaguer eating the Spanish frittata (6) : OMELET
Down
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Was a salesman, retired and felt awful (8) : RETAILED
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Gossip about top-grade franchise (5) : CHAIN
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Break down the first black shade (7) : DISABLE
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For each person in front (5) : AHEAD
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Go after all but the last male diplomatic aide (7) : ATTACHE
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One international organization in possession of Roma robot (9) : AUTOMATON
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Where one may worship a body part (6) : TEMPLE
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Fashionable old vaudeville routine? Not precisely so (7) : INEXACT
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The woman records family diploma (9) : SHEEPSKIN
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Profit after tavern deal (7) : BARGAIN
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English gents inhabiting simple shelter, run-down building (8) : TENEMENT
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Flag raised right over each country in Africa (7) : ERITREA
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Grow flower around the outskirts of Salinas (7) : BLOSSOM
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Beaten mother took off (6) : MASHED
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One of us, in closing, is correct (5) : EMEND
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Former model is going to weave (5) : TWILL
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