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New York Times, Monday, December 23, 2002

Author:
Lisa Bunker
Editor:
Will Shortz
39-Down : Nonsense
TotalDebutLatest
610/3/20012/14/2021
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1111020
RebusCircleScrabblePGramFresh
111.62164%
Lisa Bunker

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 36 Missing: {FX} This is puzzle # 2 for Ms. Bunker. Monday freshness: 60%
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© 2002, The New York Times12/23/2 ( No. 19,403 )
Across
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Polio vaccine developer : SALK
5
"Step aside, I'll do it" : LETME
10
Unexciting : BLAH
14
Have ___ to one's head : AGUN
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Bird-related : AVIAN
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Where Pearl Harbor is : OAHU
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Popular cookbook author : JAMESBEARD
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"Thin" coin : DIME
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Come into view : APPEAR
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Emergency situation : CODERED
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Lock opener : KEY
24
Lock location : HASP
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Scott Joplin's "Maple Leaf ___" : RAG
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Muckety-muck : NABOB
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"Bolero" composer : RAVEL
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Advance in years : AGE
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Isn't solvent : OWES
39
Dove houses : COTES
40
What's harvested : CROP
41
Remote control abbr. : VOL
42
Filmmaker Woody : ALLEN
43
"If you ___" (words of deference) : SAYSO
44
Worked up : ALLINALATHER
47
Fuel additive : STP
48
Manipulative one : USER
49
File folder feature : TAB
52
Excellence : QUALITY
56
Formally renounce : ABJURE
58
___ Minor (constellation) : URSA
59
Somerset Maugham novel, with "The" : RAZORSEDGE
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Mideast's Gulf of ___ : ADEN
63
Native Alaskan : ALEUT
64
Like a lime : SOUR
65
Pair : DUAD
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Duke, earl, etc. : PEERS
67
Three, in cards : TREY
Down
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Game show host Pat : SAJAK
2
With mouth wide open : AGAPE
3
Like some gravy and mattresses : LUMPY
4
Midleg : KNEE
5
Maze runner : LABRAT
6
Preceding day : EVE
7
___ Maria liqueur : TIA
8
___ Antony : MARC
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Signs, as a check : ENDORSES
10
Spanish grocery : BODEGA
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Den : LAIR
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"Life is hard ..." : AHME
13
Colored : HUED
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Englishman in colonial India : SAHIB
22
Author Roald : DAHL
25
Take a walk : STROLL
26
Flat part of a chart line : PLATEAU
28
___ Alamos, N.M. : LOS
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Occasions : EVENTS
30
Differentiate : VARY
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Modest people have small ones : EGOS
32
Possible result of 40-Down nonpayment : REPO
33
Exploding star : NOVA
34
Delinquent G.I. : AWOL
35
Carillon part : BELL
39
Nonsense : CLAPTRAP
40
Auto : CAR
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Opposing : ANTI
43
Most Yugoslavs : SERBS
45
Cuba, e.g. : ISLAND
46
Red suit : HEARTS
49
Elizabeth I was the last one : TUDOR
50
Present a case in court : ARGUE
51
Drunken : BEERY
52
Triplet plus one : QUAD
53
Language of Pakistan : URDU
54
Out of sight of shore : ASEA
55
Bush's alma mater : YALE
57
Joke : JEST
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Zuider ___ : ZEE
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Your and my : OUR

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