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New York Times, Monday, January 6, 2003

Author:
Sarah Keller
Editor:
Will Shortz
25-Down : "... off ___ the wizard"
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Sarah Keller

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 40 Missing: {JQWXZ} Spans: 1 This is puzzle # 16 for Ms. Keller. Monday freshness: 27%
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© 2003, The New York Times1/6/3 ( No. 19,417 )
Across
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First father : ADAM
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"Voila!" : THERE
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Vocalized : SUNG
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Characteristic carrier : GENE
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Pass along : RELAY
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"... with a banjo on my ___" : KNEE
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With 59-Across, indication of caring : HEARTINTHE
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Author Turgenev : IVAN
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___ Deco : ART
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Prefix with dynamic : AERO
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Football great Favre : BRETT
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Indication of larceny : HANDINTHETILL
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Declares : AVERS
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"___ Gang" : OUR
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Caustic chemical : LYE
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18-wheeler : SEMI
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Test, as ore : ASSAY
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Indication of detachment : HEADINTHECLOUDS
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Bing, bang or boom : NOISE
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Future attorney's hurdle: Abbr. : LSAT
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Appropriate : APT
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U.S. or Can. money : DOL
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Like an oboe's sound : REEDY
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Indication of opportunity : FOOTINTHEDOOR
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Plant life : FLORA
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Quark's place : ATOM
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Place to retire : BED
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Jazz's Fitzgerald : ELLA
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See 17-Across : RIGHTPLACE
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Like some dorms : COED
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Patronized, as a restaurant : ATEAT
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Starting from : ASOF
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It ebbs and flows : TIDE
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Tiny poker stake : PENNY
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Having an angle : BENT
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Turkish title : AGHA
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Does and bucks : DEER
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Object of loathing : ANATHEMA
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Debussy's "La ___" : MER
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True's partner : TRIED
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Painter Matisse : HENRI
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Rock's ___ John : ELTON
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Stadium sound : RAH
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Watch closely : EYE
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Blouse accompanier : SKIRT
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Show, as plans : UNVEIL
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With precision : NEATLY
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Tamed : GENTLE
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Gets some color, as they say : TANS
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Gem mineral : BERYL
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Like the Sahara : ARID
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"... off ___ the wizard" : TOSEE
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1950's Communist-hunting grp. : HUAC
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Cigarette's end : ASH
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Two-finger sign : VEE
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Leaning : ATILT
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Sounds from a librarian : SHS
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Delhi's land : INDIA
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It follows 11 : NOON
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Butter alternative : OLEO
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Computer company's customers : USERBASE
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Father : DAD
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Where hogs wallow : STY
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Have an influence on : AFFECT
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Hoi ___ : POLLOI
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Drove (along) : TOOLED
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Frolic : ROMP
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Give and take? : TRADE
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Broadway actress Uta : HAGEN
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Wharton's "___ Frome" : ETHAN
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Daft : DOTTY
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Supply-and-demand subj. : ECON
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Skillful : DEFT
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Perform like Salt-N-Pepa : RAP
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Suffix with Manhattan : ITE
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Place for beakers : LAB

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