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LOVE IS ALL AROUND

New York Times, Sunday, February 11, 2007

Author:
Mark Feldman
Editor:
Will Shortz
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Rows: 23, Columns: 23 Words: 166, Blocks: 103 This is puzzle # 3 for Mr. Feldman. Grid flow: 13.1 Sunday freshness: 99%
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© 2007, The New York Times2/11/7 ( No. 20,914 )
Across
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Shooting marble : AGATE
6
Cradle call : MAMA
10
What I will follow : EFGH
14
Mystery writers' awards : AGATHAS
21
Printing process, briefly : LITHO
22
North Sea feeder : YSER
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Dramatic solo : ARIA
24
Observant Mormons, e.g. : TITHERS
25
Scottish hillsides : BRAES
26
With gusto : HEARTILY
27
Tendon injury : TEAR
28
Emotional traumas : HEARTBREAKS
29
Full of compassion : ALLHEART
30
Hit hard : SWAT
31
Pitchers' places : MOUNDS
33
From memory : BYHEART
34
Writer Gogol : NIKOLAI
36
Midwest and Plains states, e.g. : HEARTLAND
38
Old tar's shipmates : HEARTIES
40
Siberian river port : OMSK
44
No longer hungry : FULL
45
Where it's at : SITE
46
Endurance, informally : LEGS
47
Whitecap formation : FOAM
48
Maj.'s superior : LTCOL
49
French white wine : MUSCADET
51
Reddish-brown gems : SARDS
52
Relatively robust : HEARTIER
53
Magnanimous : GREATHEARTED
56
Washington's profile is on it : PURPLEHEART
58
Prevented : BOXEDOUT
60
Old Aegean region : IONIA
62
Get ___ (be rewarded at work) : ARAISE
63
Stumble upon : RUNACROSS
64
Enthusiast : NUT
65
Mary Hartman's TV hometown : FERNWOOD
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Screened, as a patient : PRESEEN
68
Swing : BAT
69
"Gilligan's Island" castaway : MARYANN
70
"MADtv" alternative : SNL
71
Dirty : SOIL
73
"Mr. Mom" co-star : GARR
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East Lansing sch. : MSU
77
1972 #1 Neil Young hit : HEARTOFGOLD
81
Deli delicacy : LOX
82
Depresses : DISHEARTENS
86
Free : LETLOOSE
88
Break ground? : HOE
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Grainy finishes : WOODTONES
91
Physicist Fermi : ENRICO
92
One can be educated : GUESS
94
Strong : POWERFUL
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Pregnant woman, in obstetrics : GRAVIDA
97
Feminine fiend : SHEDEMON
99
Pulitzer-winning biographer Leon : EDEL
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Pilotless plane : DRONE
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1938 #1 hit composed by Hoagy Carmichael : HEARTANDSOUL
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Physical sound? : HEARTBEAT
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Lee's men : REBS
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Ending with ranch : ERIA
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Crash-investigating org. : NTSB
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___'acte : ENTR
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Versatile vehicle : JEEP
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Work like ___ : ADOG
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Dental damage : DECAY
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White-collar work : DESKJOB
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She married Dick twice : LIZ
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Not yet showing signs of wear : NEWISH
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Founder of analytic psychology : JUNG
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"The Producers" extra : NAZI
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On a par with : EQUALTO
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Valentine symbol : REDHEART
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Get shot in a studio? : POSE
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Ply with drink : BESOT
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Better at stand-up : FUNNIER
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Still having a shot to win : INIT
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Lead-in periods : EVES
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Concertedly : ASONE
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Haberdashery buy : TIETACK
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14 for Si or 102 for No: Abbr. : ATNO
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Joins : WEDS
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Player of Santa in "Elf," 2003 : ASNER
Down
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Composer Berg : ALBAN
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"The ___ Left Behind Me" (Civil War tune) : GIRLI
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Have ___ with : ATALK
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Where "sage in bloom is like perfume," in song : THEHEARTOFTEXAS
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Dawn deity : EOS
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Oscar-winning "Titanic" song by Celine Dion : MYHEARTWILLGOON
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It touches three oceans : ASIA
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Get to people emotionally : MELTHEARTS
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Suffix with station : ARY
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Be consumed with envy : EATONESHEARTOUT
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Dream interpreter : FREUD
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Composer ___ Carlo Menotti : GIAN
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Lacking sympathy : HARDHEARTED
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In essence : ATHEART
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Bee Gees brothers : GIBBS
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"It's worth ___" : ATRY
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1917 Frank Lloyd film : THEHEARTOFALION
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"... made ___ woman": Genesis : HEA
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Deluge refuge : ARK
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Draft inits. : SSS
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Eastern European pork fat dish : SALO
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Of the morning : MATUTINAL
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Coll. fraternity with a skull-and-crossbones symbol : SIGEP
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Shakespeare's "The Rape of ___" : LUCRECE
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Andean capital : LIMA
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Río de la Plata, e.g. : ESTUARY
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To a greater extent : MORESO
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In the dumps : SADHEARTED
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U.K. distance measures : KMS
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___-da (pretentious) : LADI
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Well-trained company? : LIONEL
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Minimal money : CENT
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Give rise to : SPAWN
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After-dinner development : HEARTBURN
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Ukr. neighbor : RUS
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Sci-fi figures : ETS
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Cell stuff that fabricates protein, for short : RRNA
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"Dr." with Grammys : DRE
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Yonder : AFAR
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Very quick rotation meas. : RPS
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Flub : ERR
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eBay entry : BID
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Upper figure : MAX
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"Help wanted" letters : SOS
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Cosmonaut Makarov : OLEG
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Pays for oneself : GOESDUTCH
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Ravel's "___ Antique" : MENUET
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Fishhook line : SNELL
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Battleship inits. : USS
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1967 medical milestone : HEARTTRANSPLANT
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Drab shade : OLIVE
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Meeting points : FOCI
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Like a mensch : GOODHEARTED
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Become smitten with : LOSEONESHEARTTO
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Blue state : DOWNHEARTEDNESS
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Chemical suffix : IDE
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Urban grid : STREETS
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Joseph Conrad classic : HEARTOFDARKNESS
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Stowe villain : LEGREE
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Clothe : ENROBE
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Sneaky laughs : HEHS
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Typing speed stat. : WPM
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Tic-tac-toe win : OOO
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Meat stamp inits. : USDA
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Golden calf crafter : AARON
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Jewelry designer Peretti : ELSA
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Sixers' #6 : DRJ
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Where nairas are spent : NIGERIA
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Blood type, briefly : BNEG
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Quaint cry of surprise : BYJOVE
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Tenochtitlán resident : AZTEC
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Slew : DIDIN
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1980's screen slasher : JASON
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Earth protector : OZONE
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Pernicious pet : BITER
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Hip parts : ILIA
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Left : WENT
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Like antiques : USED
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Immature newt : EFT
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On the ___ vive : QUI
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Évreux article : UNE
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Sitcom planet : ORK
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Church perch : PEW
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Sound heard while shearing : BAA

Answer summary:
15 unique to this puzzle, 5 debuted here and reused later, 11 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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