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New York Times, Friday, October 5, 2001

Author:
Elizabeth C. Gorski
Editor:
Will Shortz
1-Across : Spy rings?
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Elizabeth C. Gorski

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 72, Blocks: 34 Missing: {JQXZ} This is puzzle # 80 for Ms. Gorski. Friday freshness: 14%
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© 2001, The New York Times10/5/1 ( No. 18,959 )
Across
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Spy rings? : PEEPHOLES
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Pet : SNIT
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Like strike-breakers : ANTIUNION
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City of the Blessed Virgins : SIENA
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It helps you get the picture : TVANTENNA
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Hardly refined : CRASS
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___ polloi : HOI
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Where a needle is usually put? : ASIDE
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Disapproving syllable : TUT
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Wooded : SYLVAN
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Golfer Mattiace : LEN
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You may thank God for it: Abbr. : FRI
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"It's dark in here!" : ICANTSEE
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Managed : RAN
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Engage in basketmaking? : SHOOTHOOPS
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New member of la familia : BEBE
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Diplomat Mesta : PERLE
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Mouths, zoologically : ORA
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Ding-dongs, e.g. : PEALS
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Actress Swenson : INGA
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Ding Dongs, e.g. : SNACKCAKES
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Piece advocates?: Abbr. : NRA
43
Gives advance warming : PREHEATS
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No soothing sound : DIN
45
See 4-Down : OAK
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Woman's shoe feature : TSTRAP
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Ho's hanger : LEI
51
"Imus in the Morning" airer : MSNBC
54
Pilothouse abbr. : ENE
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Reply to "Who's there?" : ITSME
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Get one's bearings : ORIENTATE
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Jazz singer Jones et al. : ETTAS
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Folded : WENTUNDER
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Spate : RASH
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Quality of revenge? : SWEETNESS
Down
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Ways to go : PATHS
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Representative : ENVOY
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Online marketing : ETAIL
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With 45-Across, producer of small acorns : PIN
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With 6-Down, QB's cry : HUT
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See 5-Down : ONE
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___ Lamont ("Singin' in the Rain" role) : LINA
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Years on end : EONS
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Crawl : SNAILSPACE
10
"Yes" follower : SIR
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Slob's opposite : NEATFREAK
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Like life and health : INSURABLE
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Good flavor : TASTINESS
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Crowd creator : SCENE
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Two of diamonds? : DEES
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Solo part in Benjamin Britten's "Lachrymae" : VIOLA
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Molière play part : ACTE
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"Bad idea" : NAH
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"It's a mystery" : NOONEKNOWS
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It includes Numbers : TORAH
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Longer and thinner : SPINDLIER
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___ Marie, noted shipwreck of circa 1700 : HENRIETTA
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Players for prayers : ORGANISTS
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Brute : BEAST
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Election figs. : PCTS
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Ladies of Sp. : SRAS
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Krazy ___ : KAT
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Quince and others : POMES
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"Hard Cash" novelist : READE
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Pot starters : ANTES
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Matches : PEERS
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Samuel Adams, e.g. : BREW
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Movie : CINE
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Start of a Chinese game : MAH
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"Les nuits d'___" : ETE
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Fruitcake : NUT
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Big inits. in cable : TNN

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