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New York Times, Friday, January 17, 2003

Author:
Sherry O. Blackard
Editor:
Will Shortz
1-Down : W.W. II area
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Sherry O. Blackard

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 66, Blocks: 30 Missing: {JQZ} This is puzzle # 22 for Ms. Blackard. Friday freshness: 95%
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© 2003, The New York Times1/17/3 ( No. 19,428 )
Across
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Woman in a "Paint Your Wagon" song : ELISA
6
They may go on park walks : PRAMS
11
Kind of pad : SOS
14
Like musical instruments : TUNED
15
Loose on : LETAT
16
Violinist Jean-___ Ponty : LUC
17
"___ Thief" (1950 movie) : ONCEA
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Not separate from : ATONEWITH
20
Mountain goat's perch : CRAG
21
Site of Churchill College : CAMBRIDGE
22
1967 Pulitzer-winning novel by Bernard Malamud : THEFIXER
24
Radioactive isotope : IONIUM
25
One who suspends an action, in law : ABATOR
26
___ Aigner, noted designer of shoes and handbags : ETIENNE
27
Romantic verse starter : ROSESARERED
30
Feller : AXER
31
Hand-held entrees : TACOS
32
___ city atty. : ASST
36
Brando, notably : METHODACTOR
38
Web-surfing needs, at times : USERIDS
42
Ideals : OPTIMA
43
Early 20th-century art movement : PURISM
44
Marcher's instrument : BAGPIPES
46
Tough spots : KNOTHOLES
48
No more : OVER
49
Essays : ENDEAVORS
50
Pick up : SENSE
52
Shoe spec. : EEE
53
Like typical Georgian woods : PINEY
54
Council member, maybe : ELDER
55
Places for sgts. : PDS
56
Popeye's creator : SEGAR
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Procedures: Abbr. : SYSTS
Down
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W.W. II area : ETO
2
Collectible for a so-called paileontologist : LUNCHBOX
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4
Check on : SEEAFTER
5
Some ballet twosomes : ADAGIOS
6
Find a job for : PLACE
7
Fix, as a road : RETAR
8
Little bit : ATOM
9
Quintessential news headline : MANBITESDOG
10
Olympics no-no : STEROID
11
Came home feet first, maybe : SLIDIN
12
Overpower in battle : OUTGUN
13
Be up to something : SCHEME
19
Red or white : WINE
22
Renowned 1939 film setting : TARA
23
Site of raw material? : XRATEDMOVIE
26
Suffix with smack : EROO
28
Stinkers : RATS
29
Command level: Abbr. : ECH
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With real effort : ACTIVELY
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Allowances : STIPENDS
34
Duke in "King Henry VI" : SOMERSET
35
Skipping syllables : TRAS
36
Fender benders, e.g. : MISHAPS
37
Puts side by side : APPOSES
38
Household expenses : UPKEEP
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Lay out : SUNNED
40
Wears down : ERODES
41
Solemnity : RITE
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Kentucky college : BEREA
45
From Nineveh: Abbr. : ASSYR
47
Like "War and Peace" : LONG
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Ambulances' destinations: Abbr. : ERS

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