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Leap Mos.

New York Times, Sunday, January 23, 1994

Author:
Charles M. Deber
Editor:
Will Shortz
57-Down : Arthur Murray lesson
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Charles M. Deber

This puzzle:

Rows: 21, Columns: 21 Words: 140, Blocks: 78 Missing: {HQZ} This is puzzle # 19 for Mr. Deber. Grid flow: 43.5 Sunday freshness: 21%
Jim Horne notes:

The title "Leap Mos." means that in the theme answers (identified by all-caps clues), the three-letter month abbreviations are replaced by the following month in the grid. For example, at 23-Across, REAGAN TO BUSH is PREDECESSOR, but in the grid it becomes PREJANESSOR.

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© 1994, The New York Times1/23/94 ( No. 16,147 )
Across
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Tess Durbeyfield's seducer : ALEC
5
In a good lookout position : ATOP
9
Game saver, at times : TARP
13
Word of woe : ALAS
17
Beans : SOYAS
19
He played Ugarte in "Casablanca" : LORRE
21
Word ending a radio announcement : OVER
22
Mona _____ : LISA
23
REAGAN, TO BUSH : PREDECESSOR
25
ARMY CRITTERS? : OCTOPUSES
27
Persevering : SEDULOUS
28
Shaggy-maned mammal : BISON
30
Gaucho's home : PAMPAS
31
Booty : LOOT
32
Mickey and Mighty : MICE
33
Fluff : DOWN
34
Milton hero : SAMSON
37
PARTS : SEPARATES
40
Taj Mahal city : AGRA
44
_____ mode : ALA
45
Almost : NEARLY
47
Reinforcement : BRACE
48
In medias _____ : RES
49
Festival : GALA
51
Tom of the T-M Bar Ranch : MIX
52
Logo : TRADEMARK
55
_____ blanche (sword) : ARME
56
CLEANING-RELATED : JANITORIAL
60
Comets' heads : COMAE
61
It often comes with a twist : MARTINI
63
Onetime Dodge model : ARIES
64
1983 Michener best seller : POLAND
65
Signs of boredom : YAWNS
66
Barbershop sounds : SNIPS
67
Dumas's "The Black _____" : TULIP
68
Mugged, maybe : EMOTED
70
Jim Backus provided his voice : MAGOO
71
Kids' board game : CAREERS
73
One who's starstruck : GAPER
74
TUNA SALAD STAPLE : MAYONNAISE
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Vituperates, with "into" : RIPS
78
Traveler s aid : GUIDEPOST
80
Consoles, perhaps : TVS
81
Flappers? : EARS
82
Printers' measures : ENS
83
Casino equipment : RAKES
85
Most parched : DRIEST
88
Court matter : NET
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Retardant : DAMP
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QUADRENNIAL EVENT : INAUGURAL
93
Rubs out : ERASES
95
Some banks have them : ATMS
97
Chop-chop : ASAP
98
Cordon _____ : BLEU
99
Equus hemionus : ONAGER
102
Prearrange : SETUP
104
The Yankee Clipper : DIMAGGIO
108
JUST-IN-CASE CRAFT : LIFEBOATS
110
FIX-UPS : RENOVATIONS
112
Quotation notation? : ANON
113
Shoo, to Socks : SCAT
114
Working stiff : PROLE
115
Conductor Koussevitzky : SERGE
116
Monster's home? : NESS
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Novel ending : ETTE
118
Fox hunt cry : YELP
119
Summer shirts : TEES
Down
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Sacred serpents : ASPS
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Tradition has it : LORE
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Gazed upon : EYED
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BAYOU RESIDENTS : CAJUNS
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Alaskan people : ALEUT
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Start of a bowl game : TOSS
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Heraldic golds : ORS
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Rectitude : PROBITY
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_____ avail (fruitless) : TONO
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Stratford stream : AVON
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Increase the r.p.m.'s : REV
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Said "Let's wed" : PROPOSED
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Wellesley grad : ALUMNA
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Speaketh? : LISP
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Drifting : ASEA
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Smart talk : SASS
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Gunfight site, in films : SALOON
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Longtime Susan Lucci role : ERICA
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Singer Peter : NOONE
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Rabbit's foot : PAW
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Milosevic, e.g. : SERB
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Year in the reign of Louis VII : MCLXI
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Transferable print : DECAL
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"Lonesome Dove" genre : SAGA
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Wake-up call : ALARM
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VERBAL BLUNDER : MALAPROPISM
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African antelope : ORIBI
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Bandleader Shaw and namesakes : ARTIES
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1962 film "_____ Bulba" : TARAS
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TENSE STUDENTS? : GRAMMARIANS
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Did not premiere : RERAN
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"You _____ For It" (old Art Baker show) : ASKED
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Approvals : AMENS
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Bubbly : AERATED
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_____ des Beaux-Arts : ECOLE
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"Le Misanthrope" author : MOLIERE
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Lucky strike : FIND
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Arthur Murray lesson : TANGO
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Rigel's locale : ORION
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G.O.P. birthplace : RIPON
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Poetic contraction : TWERE
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All-natural : PURE
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Skater David : SANTEE
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Cup of café : TASSE
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Goaded, with "on" : EGGED
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Volcano's opening? : MAUNA
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Colognes : MUSKS
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Mannerly : CIVIL
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Berlin's river : SPREE
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Rivers and others : JOANS
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Walk into _____ : ATRAP
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J.F.K. drop-ins : SSTS
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Cowslip : PRIMROSE
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Til : SPAT
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Curtains : DRAPERY
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Onetime march site : SELMA
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Dog rewards : TREATS
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Heathens : PAGANS
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Seize the throne : USURP
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SHAKESPEAREAN LASS : JULIET
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Thrice, in prescriptions : TER
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Pull-up assister : BICEP
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Wang Lung's wife : OLAN
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Diamond group : NINE
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Judean prophet : AMOS
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Immediately, to a surgeon : STAT
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Ferrara family : ESTE
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Avant-garde writer Floyd : DELL
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Al from Tennessee : GORE
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"The Dark at the Top of the Stairs" playwright : INGE
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Sugars : OSES
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Don't just sit there : ACT
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A deer, a female deer : DOE

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