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New York Times, Saturday, September 9, 2000

Author:
Dana Motley
Editor:
Will Shortz
59-Across : Make up
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Dana Motley

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 72, Blocks: 33 Missing: {JQWXZ} Puzzle has duplicate clues. This is puzzle # 7 for Ms. Motley. Saturday freshness: 1%
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© 2000, The New York Times9/9/0 ( No. 18,568 )
Across
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See red? : STOP
5
Boat on a lake : SKIFF
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Accessories for Cio-Cio-San : OBIS
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"Super" sight : NOVA
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The blahs : ENNUI
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April or May : NAME
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Turgenev's birthplace : OREL
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Jimmy Webb's "___ We" : DIDNT
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Russian, e.g. : SLAV
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Mild antiseptic : BORICACID
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Pick up like a sponge? : CADGE
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U.S. beverage since 1923 : SANKA
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1917 Victor Herbert operetta : EILEEN
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Place for a gondola : CANAL
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Woolgatherer? : KNITTER
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It might be in parentheses : ASIDE
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Bottle preparer, perhaps : NANNY
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Augustine's "De Civitate ___" : DEI
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Plum relative : MAGENTA
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It could be a lifesaver : GASMASK
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N.T. book : EPH
40
Creator of small cubes : DICER
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Just enough to tease : TASTE
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Bow (to) : TRUCKLE
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Winetrees : ASHES
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"Ishtar" extras : CAMELS
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Throws out a line, perhaps : EDITS
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Siouan tongue : OMAHA
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Rage : RAISECAIN
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Pound in Turkey : LIRA
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Quiz show feature : PANEL
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It may be irresistible : URGE
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Change machine input : ONES
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Make up : ATONE
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Control-driven people, supposedly : LEOS
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Chips and dips, say : NOSH
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It's subject to crashing : PARTY
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Like some apples : TART
Down
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Hard-to-approach sort : SNOB
2
Dominguín's opponent : TORO
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Through : OVER
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Fence of defense : PALISADE
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Driver's choice : SEDAN
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Notion : KNICKKNACK
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Where Brazil and Angola are : INDIANA
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Broker's suggestion : FUND
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Clothes shopper's concern : FIT
10
Reduced : ONSALE
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Twaddle : BALDERDASH
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Corporate concern : IMAGE
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___ X (Coca-Cola's secret ingredient) : SEVEN
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Pot marigold : CALENDULA
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Carthage, e.g. : CITYSTATE
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"Empedocles on ___" (Matthew Arnold poem) : ETNA
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Emanated : CAME
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"Urgent!" : ASAP
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Sleep clinic topic : NIGHTMARES
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It's in the mix : INGREDIENT
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One of four direcciones : ESTE
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Turner and others : IKES
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Body movements : TICS
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The arts as shown on TV, e.g. : MASSCULT
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Richard I's mother : ELEANOR
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Paraphrased piece : REHASH
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Two points in time? : COLON
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Acid head? : AMINO
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Soul's ___ Brothers : ISLEY
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Reynosa rodent : RATA
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Specialty : AREA
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Hockey's Kravchuk or Korolev : IGOR
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Birth place : NEST
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Twaddle : PAP

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

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