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NY Times, Sun, Feb 03, 2008 JUST FOLLOW DIRECTIONS

Author: Matt Ginsberg / Will Shortz
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Rows: 21, Columns: 21, Words: 140, Blocks: 72, Avg Word Len: 5.27, Missing: { B Q V Z }, Scrabble score: 546 (avg 1.48)
Open squares: 129, Cheater squares: 6, Freshness Factor™: 74.1, New York Times Across Lite file
This is puzzle 3 of 17 for Mr. Ginsberg — solos: 14, collaborations: 3, Sundays: 5

JimH notes: This grid numbering reflects the Across Lite version of this puzzle. As Linda G explains in her blog Madness..Crossword and Otherwise, the grid numbering is different in the printed version. See her blog post and her completed print version for details.

From Jerry Greenfield: The answer for clue "Titanic transmission" is SOS. This is incorrect. The SOS distress call was not in use at that time. The message the Titanic sent was "CQD" — Come Quick Danger. James Cameron has it correctly in the movie.
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© 2008, The New York Times
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1. Artist's digs, maybe : LOFT
5. Totally accurate : DEADON
11. Pineapple desserts : UPSIDEC
18. "___, gorgeous!" (Fanny Brice's comment to herself when looking in the mirror) : HELLO
19. One of wine's Gallo brothers : ERNEST
20. Autobiographical short story by Edgar Allan Poe : ELEONORA
21. Marisa of "What Women Want" : TOMEI
22. 1974 Mocedades hit : ERESTU
23. Careful consideration : HARDLOOK
24. Men's fashion accessories : TIECLIPS
26. Cork shooter : POPGUN
28. "Biography" network : AANDE
29. Accelerated : PICKEDS
30. Threw off the scent : MISLED
31. Check list? : PAYEES
32. Canonized mlle. : STE
33. More encouraging : ROSIER
34. Third word of "America" : TIS
35. Blue Devils' and Tigers' org. : ACC
38. Contact lens solutions : SALINES
40. They're better than one : TWOHEADS
45. Elton's johns : LOOS
47. Blind element : SLAT
48. Stereotypical reaction to Elvis : SWOON
50. Magneto's adversaries, in comic books : XMEN
51. Lugs : LOUTS
53. Spread in a spread : OLEO
55. - : TEEF
56. Passé : STALE
57. - : ALREADY
59. Classic Toyota sports cars : SUPRAS
61. ___ Bradshaw, "Sex and the City" role : CARRIE
62. Wynken, Blynken and Nod, e.g. : TRIAD
63. Turf, as opposed to surf : STEAK
64. Dancer Alvin : AILEY
65. Malodorous : SMELLY
67. Become part of : JOININ
68. Imp : GREMLIN
71. Place to get dates? : OASIS
72. Fronded plant : FERN
73. Fictional submariner : NEMO
75. Civil rights march site, 1965 : SELMA
76. Family : CLAN
77. - : DLEIF
78. Wise : SAGE
80. - : WING
81. Repeated John Gielgud role : KINGLEAR
83. Popular song from Broadway's "The Wiz" : EASEONT
86. Titanic message : SOS
87. Arctic diver : AUK
88. Runs : SPATES
90. Eponymous German electrophysicist : OHM
92. Begets : SPAWNS
96. Things on strings : PEARLS
97. Deterge : CLEANSE
101. Prefix with -zoic : PALEO
102. Sitcom title role for Brandy Norwood : MOESHA
103. 1997 Jim Carrey film : LIARLIAR
104. What a man and a woman become in marriage : ONEFLESH
106. Two-wheeled covered carriage : HANSOM
108. Hops-drying kilns : OASTS
109. Establishing a business : SETTINGS
110. Hero of Bellini's "I Puritani" : ARTURO
111. Anticipate : AWAIT
112. Mary Tyler Moore co-star : EDASNER
113. Seinfeld, for one : STANDC
114. Feast : DINE
 1. Sainted pope of A.D. 683 : LEOII
2. Ancient Mexican people : OLMEC
3. Evidence of dandruff : FLECKS
4. Facilities : TOILETS
5. - : DEEPS
6. Slips : ERRS
7. Hydrocarbon suffix : ANE
8. Execrate : DESPISE
9. Bone formation : OSTOSIS
10. Mathematical sequence of unknown length : NTUPLE
11. ___ Bator : ULAN
12. A pop : PER
13. Na2CO3 : SODAASH
14. Dental filling : INLAY
15. Literature's Lorna : DOONE
16. Lose little by little : ERODE
17. - : CAKES
18. U.R.L. lead-in : HTTP
20. Israeli P.M. Olmert : EHUD
25. They may be funny or bright : IDEAS
27. Neighbor of Switz. : GER
30. Educator Maria : MONTESSORI
31. Subatomic particle that is a nuclear binder : PION
33. Mideast money : RIAL
34. Bad dancer's handicap : TWOF
35. "Enough!" : ALLA
36. Collected : COOL
37. Mistress : COURTESAN
39. Bridges in Hollywood : LLOYD
40. The "ten" in "hang ten" : TOES
41. Reactionary : EXTREMEW
42. Flower also called a naked lady : AMARYLLIS
43. Hero maker : DELI
44. Old dirk : SNEE
46. Unblemished : STERLING
48. Lineage : STRAIN
49. Failings : WEAKNESSES
52. Breezes (through) : SAILS
54. Quite wrong : OUTINF
56. Business position : SALES
58. Word before and after "after" : DAY
60. Cross product : PEN
61. Geom. figure : CIR
64. Disco term meaning "galore" : AGOGO
65. Punch : SOCK
66. French Sudan, today : MALI
67. Raspberry : JEER
69. "___ Angel," 1933 film : IMNO
70. Scratch sheet listings : NAGS
72. Slams : FLAK
74. Fannie ___ (securities) : MAES
77. Jupiter or Mars : DEUS
79. ___ Gay, W.W. II bomber : ENOLA
82. Ointment ingredient : LANOLIN
83. Subject of the book "Last Flight" : EARHART
84. Setting for "Driving Miss Daisy" : ATLANTA
85. - : THEROAD
88. Call, or call on : SEE
89. Turkish pooh-bahs : PASHAS
91. Lake ___, third-largest lake in Africa : MALAWI
92. Imagine, informally : SPOSE
93. Sectioned, as a window : PANED
94. Prince Valiant's wife : ALETA
95. Tapestry threads : WEFTS
96. - : POHS
97. - : CIMOC
98. Month before Iyar : NISAN
99. "Socrate" composer : SATIE
100. First, in Frankfurt : ERST
102. Relig. title : MSGR
103. Lady's man : LORD
105. Anchorage-to-Fairbanks dir. : ENE
107. Great ball of fire : SUN
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