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From the Dept. of Redundancy Dept.

New York Times, Sunday, November 13, 1994

Author:
Frank A. Longo
Editor:
Will Shortz
117-Across : International language system
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Frank Longo

This puzzle:

Rows: 21, Columns: 21 Words: 140, Blocks: 70 Missing: {JZ} This is puzzle # 2 for Mr. Longo. Sunday freshness: 42%
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© 1994, The New York Times11/13/94 ( No. 16,441 )
Across
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Fortuneteller's aids : TAROTS
7
Fraternal fellow : ELK
10
Magnetic flux symbol : PHI
13
People with flashlights : USHERS
19
Farthest point : APOGEE
20
"___ Dance" (Pointer Sisters hit) : NEUTRON
22
Sartre play : NOEXIT
23
Sot, perhaps : REELER
24
Strands : MAROONS
25
Half of a nursery rhyme name : DUMPTY
26
Congregates? : ASSEMBLESTOGETHER
29
Overpermissive : LAX
30
Family girl : SIS
31
Tax : TRY
32
Rainbow: Prefix : IRIDO
34
Upholstery fabric : FRISE
39
Poseidon's realm : THESEA
42
Admitted : FESSEDUP
45
Introverts : LONERS
47
Complain, in a way : MURMUR
49
Beat, as grain : THRESH
50
Collectibles? : OLDANTIQUES
53
___-majeste : LESE
55
Devoted : AVID
56
Music critic Downes : OLIN
57
___ probandi (legal doctrine) : ONUS
58
Geyser sight : STEAM
59
Madres' kin : TIAS
60
Abbr. for Jesse Jackson : REV
61
"Put Your Head on My Shoulder" singer : ANKA
62
Erupting : ABURST
64
Storm or Tracker : GEO
65
___ Lanka : SRI
66
Novelty? : NEWINNOVATION
69
Preteen : LAD
72
Liquor-free : DRY
74
Iroquois tribe : ONEIDA
75
Not give ___ : ARAP
76
Lady in a garden : EVE
77
Rakehell : ROUE
79
Lepidopterans : MOTHS
80
Swell suffix? : ITIS
81
At another time : ANON
82
Arkin of "Catch-22" : ALAN
83
River near Kassel : EDER
84
Halve? : BISECTINTWO
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Produce additional interest : RELOAN
89
In a sleeping position : SUPINE
91
Engraving instrument : STYLET
92
Candidate : ASPIRANT
94
Ethyl acetates : ESTERS
97
Susquehanna River town : SAYRE
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Hugh Hefner's Muse? : ERATO
99
Branch : ARM
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It fits in a lock : OAR
102
Terminal abbr. : ARR
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Make a fresh mix? : RESTIR
115
People who want to lose : DIETERS
116
Open house, perhaps : SOIREE
117
International language system : IDOISM
118
Spellbind : ENCHANT
119
Forte : TALENT
120
They may be glazed over : DONUTS
121
Pepper, for one: Abbr. : SGT
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Archaic exclamations : LOS
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Cover : SHEATH
Down
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Home of ancient Irish kings : TARA
2
Copyists : APES
3
Small deer : ROES
4
Look up and down : OGLE
5
Overflow : TEEM
6
Some Tuzla residents : SERBS
7
Tangle up : ENMESH
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Bucolic settings : LEAS
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Late rocker Cobain : KURT
10
Show : PROGRAM
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Dear : HONEY
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Technical sch. : INST
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Shaded part of a plant : UNDERSTEM
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Tart : SOURISH
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Fringe : HEM
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Actress Moreno : RITA
18
Charon's river : STYX
21
Horns : TOOTERS
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Soused : LIT
28
Lose no time : HIE
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Reduce taxes, in Britain : DERATE
34
Overwhelms : FLOORS
35
Swelling wave : ROLLER
36
Human being? : INDIVIDUALPERSON
37
Hollywood's Penn : SEAN
38
Directional suffix : ERN
40
Zoo attractions : EMUS
41
Not be a passive victim : SUE
42
It prohibited slavery : FREESTATE
43
Agcy. once headed by Edward R. Murrow : USIA
44
Some scholars, for short : PHDS
46
"Silver" star : STONE
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Extreme : ULTRA
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Soapberry tree : INKWOOD
52
Most charming : QUAINTEST
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Full of parody : SATIRIC
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Fiji's capital : SUVA
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___ day now : ANY
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Black cuckoos : ANIS
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Physique : BOD
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Commerce stat. : GNP
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"Toward Freedom" autobiographer : NEHRU
68
Brewery fixtures : OASTS
70
Deponent : AVOWER
71
Mean : DENOTE
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Impressive Impressionist : RENOIR
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___ avis : RARA
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Corrida cheers : OLES
79
Soldiers : MENATARMS
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"Uh-huh" : ISEE
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Author Seton : ANYA
84
Its atomic number is 83 : BISMUTH
85
Savings-account abbr. : INT
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"___ My Party" : ITS
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Expert in Mideast culture : ARABIST
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10, to a gymnast : PERFECT
93
Vetoes : NOS
95
Family dinners : ROASTS
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Baseball Hall-of-Famer Crawford : SAM
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Handily handling : ACING
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Lulls : RESTS
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Like the Negev : ARID
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Start from scratch : REDO
105
Time of danger : IDES
106
Country crooner McCoy : NEAL
107
1962 film villain : DRNO
108
Noted ark-itect : NOAH
109
Patio component : TILE
110
Geometry topic : AREA
111
Easter ends it : LENT
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Mr. Pecksniff of "Martin Chuzzlewit" : SETH
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Germanic war god : TIU

Answer summary:
11 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 3 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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