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About Miss Daw

New York Times, Sunday, June 12, 1994

Author:
Frances Hansen
Editor:
Will Shortz
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Frances Hansen

This puzzle:

Rows: 21, Columns: 21 Words: 138, Blocks: 71 Missing: {KQ} Spans: 4 Puzzle has duplicate clues. This is puzzle # 83 for Ms. Hansen. Sunday freshness: 25%
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© 1994, The New York Times6/12/94 ( No. 16,287 )
Across
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Harass : HECTOR
7
A knight to remember : GALAHAD
14
Celebrated : FAMED
19
Beethoven's Third : EROICA
20
Scrutinize : EXAMINE
21
Give up occupancy : VACATE
22
Start of a verse : MARGERYMETALEPRECHAUN
25
Certain playing marbles : STEELIES
26
Tenor Peerce : JAN
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Apollo's twin : ARTEMIS
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Hall of Famer Mel : OTT
29
Wear with an air : SPORT
31
Hoop group, for short : NBA
32
Cozily warm : TOASTY
36
Thackeray's "___ Lyndon" : BARRY
37
"To A Skylark," e.g. : ODE
38
Sacred bull of Egypt : APIS
42
___ Rios (Jamaican resort) : OCHO
43
Swiss river : AARE
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Privy to : INON
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Chianti, e.g. : VINO
46
More of verse : WHOSAIDHISNAMEWASESAU
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Comparative suffix : IER
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Sgts. and cpls. : NCOS
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With full force : AMAIN
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Seafood serving : PRAWN
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Judas : TRAITOR
58
"Canterbury Tales" inn : TABARD
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Kvetched : MOANED
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"___ the Brave" (1965 Sinatra film) : NONEBUT
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Usher's concern : SEATING
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Quakers : ASPENS
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Stationary : ATREST
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Assailed : RAGEDAT
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Language from which "kiwi" comes : MAORI
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___ de Guerre (French award) : CROIX
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Test giver's call : TIME
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Pay dirt : ORE
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More of verse : ALOTOFHERAPLOMBISGONE
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The "limp watch" painter : DALI
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Minus : LESS
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Busy as ___ : ABEE
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Sister of John-Boy Walton : ERIN
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Old Greek theaters : ODEA
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Table scrap : ORT
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Trick : COZEN
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Admiral nicknamed "Bull" : HALSEY
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Eastern title : SRI
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Wherewithal : MONEY
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Tufted bird : TIT
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Cousins of the guinea pig : AGOUTIS
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Seine sight : ILE
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Football formation : WISHBONE
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End of verse : SINCESHESAWESAUSEESAW
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Decorative band : ARMLET
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Quiet, now : SEDATED
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Belgian ___ : ENDIVE
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Entreat : PLEAD
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Breviary contents : PRAYERS
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Gets smart with : SASSES
Down
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Haw's partner : HEMS
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Part of Q.E.D. : ERAT
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Part of the Earth : CORE
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Buster Brown's dog : TIGE
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Leopardlike cat : OCELOT
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Hen's tooth, e.g. : RARITY
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They have their settings : GEMS
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Bad ___, Mich. : AXE
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Opposite of long. : LAT
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Key of Beethoven's Seventh : AMAJOR
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Saint ___ of Poitiers (French bishop) : HILARY
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Concerning : ANENT
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RR sta. : DEP
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Statements in a legal case : FACTA
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Yearn : ACHE
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"Yes, ___!" : MAAM
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Needle case : ETUI
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Trophy rooms : DENS
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Fragrant garden plant : VERBENA
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So soon : YET
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Stopped ticking, as a clock : RANDOWN
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Robe : SARI
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C.E.O. : PRES
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Specifically : TOWIT
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Paint pigment : OCHER
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Now, in the barrio : AHORA
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1975 Abba hit : SOS
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"A Christmas Carol" cries : BAHS
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New York Indian : ONEIDA
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Garden-variety : AVERAGE
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Galileo, e.g. : PISAN
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Worshipful (of) : INAWE
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Audio : SOUND
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"O come, let us ___ Him" (carol lyric) : ADORE
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Turkish hospice : IMARET
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Merchant of Venice : ANTONIO
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Emblems : ICONS
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Apprehend : NAB
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Pile up : AMASS
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Freeloads : SPONGES
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Sluggishness : INERTIA
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Coaches : TUTORS
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Hotel lobbies, often : ATRIA
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Orange Bowl locale : MIAMI
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Smallest in amount : BAREST
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37 Down, en masse : TRIBE
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Brazilian novelist Jorge : AMADO
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Word with oil or plate : SALAD
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Dr. Jekyll's servant : POOLE
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Not a local: Abbr. : EXP
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1991 Val Kilmer film, with "The" : DOORS
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Palmer, to his "army" : ARNIE
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Wee : TEENY
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Cling fondly to : CHERISH
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I.R.S. agents : TMEN
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One who makes arrangements : FLORIST
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Loll about : LAZE
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Observe : OBEY
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Become set : GEL
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Pina ___ (rum drink) : COLADA
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Not round : ONEWAY
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Shows disapproval : HISSES
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Odysseus's adviser : ATHENA
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Silver, for one : STEED
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Silas Marner, e.g. : MISER
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"Turandot" slave girl : TIU
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"Rush!" : ASAP
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Miss : GIRL
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"This one's ___!" : ONME
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Pac 10 team : UCLA
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Bankrolls : WADS
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Hospital capacity : BEDS
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Medical suffix : OSIS
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Where the congregation congregates : NAVE
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Farm mothers : EWES
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Geller's forte, for short : ESP
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Summer in Savoie : ETE
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Sun. talk : SER

Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 3 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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