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Suit Yourself

New York Times, Sunday, November 2, 1997

Author:
Nancy Nicholson Joline
Editor:
Will Shortz
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Nancy Nicholson Joline

This puzzle:

Rows: 21, Columns: 21 Words: 140, Blocks: 77 This is puzzle # 83 for Ms. Joline. Sunday freshness: 95%
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© 1997, The New York Times11/2/97 ( No. 17,526 )
Across
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Strikes out : BOMBS
6
Res ___ loquitur : IPSA
10
Drink mixer : CLUBSODA
15
Actor ___ Phillips : LOUDIAMOND
19
Atlanta institution : EMORY
20
Biblical kingdom : MOAB
21
Shade of green : BERYL
22
Some eagles : ERNS
23
Burdened : LADEN
24
Ranch menace : PUMA
25
Nathan Hale was one : YALIE
26
"So ___" : BEIT
27
Ill omen : THEACEOFSPADES
29
Echolocation device : SONAR
31
___ Sutcliffe, early Beatle : STU
32
Kind of vaccine : SALK
33
Suffix with 20-Across : ITE
34
Kind of pigeon : HOMING
37
Played : ACTED
39
Got on : FARED
41
N.B.A. center Longley and others : LUCS
42
Nags they're not : STEEDS
43
First golfer to win all four majors : SARAZEN
46
Like a March wind : BRISK
48
Schoolboy collars : ETONS
49
Command at sea : AVAST
50
Flourish : THRIVE
52
Astronaut Bean et al. : ALANS
53
Oktoberfest sight : TENT
54
Leaf collectors? : EAVES
55
Suffix with free : DOM
56
One of a watery quintet : ERIE
60
Sign : INK
61
Powwow : PALAVER
64
Gay Nineties bon vivant : DIAMONDJIMBRADY
66
"___ cannot wither her": Shak. : AGE
67
Cabins and such : ABODES
68
Tickles : AMUSES
69
"Wow" : GEE
70
Comics girlfriend : TESSTRUEHEART
72
Quiet craft : GLIDERS
73
60's chess champ : TAL
74
This, to Cervantes : ESTO
75
Space station supply : AIR
76
Affair : FLING
77
Welles's "The Third Man" role : LIME
78
Lets go of : CEDES
80
Steamboat stops : LEVEES
82
Target : AIMAT
83
F.B.I. storage : FILES
84
Creepers : VINES
85
Weasels' cousins : MARTENS
87
Lights out : SCRAMS
89
Hang : PEND
90
Pocahontas's husband : ROLFE
91
Undiminished : WHOLE
92
Yule decorations : SANTAS
94
Skater Midori : ITO
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Wine choice : ROSE
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Poetic time of day : EEN
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Dentist's instruction : RINSE
102
Vegas bookings : NIGHTCLUBACTS
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Originator of cutout dresses : ERTE
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___-um (gnat) : NOSEE
109
"Picnic" playwright : INGE
110
Sole supporter? : CLEAT
111
Padre's brothers : TIOS
112
Preliminary drudgery : SPADEWORK
113
Live wire, so to speak : DOER
114
Like Pegasus : ALATE
115
Cheers : HEARTENS
116
Kind of organ : SENSE
117
Goals : ENDS
118
Cub Sandberg and others : RYNES
Down
1
Wallops : BELTS
2
Union Pacific terminus : OMAHA
3
Runway sight : MODEL
4
It may be continental : BREAKFAST
5
In ___ (harmonious) : SYNC
6
Ineffective : IMPOTENT
7
Not flat, as hair : POUFED
8
"The Maltese Falcon" role : SAMSPADE
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Ruffle : ABASH
10
Intimate : CLUBBY
11
Needing Dramamine, maybe : SEASICK
12
Some synthetics : ORLONS
13
Eager : DYING
14
"Jacta est ___" ("The die is cast") : ALEA
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Neighbor of Syr. : LEB
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Electra's brother : ORESTES
17
"Welcome aboard" sloganeer : UNITED
18
Ear ornaments : DIAMONDSTUDS
28
Where Slyne Head is : EIRE
30
Sell down the river, in a way : RATON
35
Best Picture of 1968 : OLIVER
36
Ruminates : MUSES
38
Ceremonial burner : CENSER
40
Much-discussed drug : AZT
42
Hem and haw : STAMMER
43
Gorge : SATIATE
44
Squares accounts : AVENGES
45
Most foul : RANKEST
46
Best Picture of 1995 : BRAVEHEART
47
Splits : RIVES
48
Precocious 1955 fictional heroine : ELOISE
51
Plunges : HEADERS
52
Decree : ADJUDGE
57
E. L. Doctorow best seller : RAGTIME
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Think tank member : IDEAMAN
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Grommets : EYELETS
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Way of standing : PAT
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Wears off : ABRADES
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Sarges' superiors : LOUIES
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Kimberley features : DIAMONDMINES
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Chem. majors' degrees : BSS
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Still going : ALIVE
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Tea : SOCIAL
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A Jackson : GLENDA
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General Motors' birthplace : FLINT
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Strictly speaking : LITERALLY
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Composer Bernstein : ELMER
81
Overwhelms : SMOTHERS
82
Woof alternative : ARF
83
Jai alai locale : FRONTON
84
They're always thin : VENEERS
86
Loads : ALOT
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Kind of contract : SWEETHEART
88
Marilyn's "Bus Stop" role : CHERIE
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Transfer : PASSON
90
Fixed : RIGGED
92
Maine Senator : SNOWE
93
Nasty : SNIDE
96
Milieu for Queen Elizabeth II : OCEAN
97
What a star may stand for : STATE
98
___ Park, Colo. : ESTES
101
Without restraint : INSPADES
103
A party to : INON
104
Bar on wheels : CLUBCAR
106
Hook shape : ESS
108
Scrape (out) : EKE

Answer summary:
9 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 4 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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