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Money Changing

New York Times, Sunday, November 29, 1998

Author:
Matt Gaffney
Editor:
Will Shortz
34-Down : Back stabber
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Matt Gaffney

This puzzle:

Rows: 21, Columns: 21 Words: 136, Blocks: 72 Missing: {Z} Spans: 1 This is puzzle # 48 for Mr. Gaffney. Sunday freshness: 66%
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© 1998, The New York Times11/29/98 ( No. 17,918 )
Across
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Classic soft drink : NEHI
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Exaggerate : OVERDO
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L.I.R.R. stops : STAS
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Illustrator Silverstein : SHEL
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Wharton grad, maybe : EXEC
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"...upon receipt ___" : HEREOF
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First name in mysteries : ERLE
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Mata ___ : HARI
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Part of the Musketeers' cry : WASHINGTONFORALL
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Neighbor of Britannia : ERIN
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Prefix with sphere : ECO
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1956 Charlton Heston role : MOSES
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Expressed : SAID
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Rip off : FLEECE
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Buffalo : STUMP
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Kind of bobsled : JEFFERSONMAN
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"See ya!" : TATA
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Troubled capital : BEIRUT
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"'Neath the ___" (Wellesley school song) : OAKS
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Refined : SMELTED
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Sandwich filler : SALAMI
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Third party label: Abbr. : SOC
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Big blaze : LINCOLNALARMFIRE
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1998 Wimbledon winner Novotna : JANA
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Flap, so to speak : ADO
56
Stir up : ROIL
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Capital built around Kyongbok Palace : SEOUL
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Less covered : BARER
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Positive : CERTAIN
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Four-time Super Bowl-winning coach : NOLL
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1973 Rolling Stones #1 hit : ANGIE
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Classic whodunit : HAMILTONLITTLEINDIANS
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More than brighten : ELATE
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Hebrew letters : YODS
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Annoys : MOLESTS
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Places for plants : SILLS
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Acidic prefix : ACETO
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"Beat it!" : SHOO
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"Didn't I tell you?" : SEE
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Lighthouse locale : ISLE
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Game requiring no equipment : JACKSONQUESTIONS
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What a mess : STY
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KFC order : BUCKET
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Ultimate challenge : EVEREST
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Judy Garland's real surname : GUMM
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Like some cows : SACRED
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Suffix with techno- : CRAT
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Partner's part, maybe : GRANTPERCENT
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"On the Beach" novelist : SHUTE
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Starts over : RESETS
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Hercules fell in love with her : IOLE
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London's ___ Road Studios : ABBEY
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Make : NET
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Leaning against : ANTI
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It began in 1337 : FRANKLINYEARSWAR
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Twice tres : SEIS
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Farm complaint : OINK
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Second of two : LATTER
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___ point (makes sense) : HASA
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Crosses, e.g. : PENS
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Languishes : ROTS
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Deprecatory reactions : SNEERS
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Saw : EYED
Down
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Most fresh : NEWEST
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Betting option : EXACTA
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Baseball announcer's phrase : HESOUT
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I, abroad : ICH
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Cry of horror : OHNO
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Side dishes: Abbr. : VEGS
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1910's-30's Harper's Bazaar designer : ERTE
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Old-time cars : REOS
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Family head : DON
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Compensate for : OFFSET
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Part of a letter : SERIF
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Traffic : TRADE
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Washday brand : ALL
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Identical : SELFSAME
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Polishes : SHEENS
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Part of some palaces : HAREM
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"Steppenwolf" wife : ERICA
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Shade of white : LINEN
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"The Bottle ___" (Stevenson tale) : IMP
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Klutz : OAF
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Norse god of discord : LOKI
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Like some Fr. nouns : MASC
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Back stabber : JUDAS
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Guffaw : ROAR
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Wisconsin city or its college : BELOIT
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Climatology subject : ELNINO
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Type spec. : ITAL
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Judaism, e.g.: Abbr. : REL
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"Bad Boys" actor, 1983 : MORALES
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1930 tariff act co-sponsor : SMOOT
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Not playing with ___ deck : AFULL
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City ESE of Calais : LILLE
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Gulfweed : SARGASSO
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Long odds : ONEINTEN
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Expressions of love : CARESSES
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One of the Fates : LACHESIS
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Don Quixote, e.g. : IDEALIST
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As a rule : NORMALLY
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Signs a lease with : RENTSTO
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Girl with a gun, in an Aerosmith song : JANIE
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Some people are stuck with them : BADLOTS
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Lord, say : TITLE
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Old town on the Hudson River : NYACK
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"Two Treatises on Government" writer : LOCKE
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Cato's clarification : IDEST
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Arrival phrase : IMHERE
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Prepared to hang : NOOSED
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___ a time : ONEAT
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One righting a wrong, perhaps : SUER
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Tries to get by leaping : JUMPSFOR
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Meridian : ACME
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Shopper's favorite : QVC
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Longing : ITCH
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Joke target : BUTT
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Rock variety : GNEISS
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Fishhook attachments : SNELLS
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Fashion show locale : RUNWAY
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Lounging : ATEASE
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Foursome : TETRAD
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Get : GRASP
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Richards of tennis fame : RENEE
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TV/film actor Mackenzie ___ : ASTIN
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Smiling : RIANT
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Dies, with "out" : CONKS
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Hunter's quarry : ELK
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Arab League member: Abbr. : SYR
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Starting stake : ANTE
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Data amount : BYTE
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Tuborg, e.g. : BEER
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Canal sites : EARS
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Latin metropolis : RIO
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Golfer Woosnam : IAN
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That vessel : SHE

Answer summary:
10 unique to this puzzle, 5 debuted here and reused later, 3 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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