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New York Times, Monday, March 24, 2003

Author:
Alison D. Donald
Editor:
Will Shortz
Silent character in "Little Orphan Annie"
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Alison Donald

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 42 Missing: {FJVZ} Puzzle has duplicate clues. This is the debut puzzle for Ms. Donald. Monday freshness: 17%
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© 2003, The New York Times3/24/3 ( No. 19,494 )
Across
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Neighbor of Ecuador : PERU
5
Dressed : CLAD
9
Identical : EQUAL
14
Firefighters' tools : AXES
15
Poison ivy reaction : RASH
16
Pulitzer-winning novelist Alison : LURIE
17
Sales agents, briefly : REPS
18
This, south of the border : ESTO
19
Decorates richly : GILDS
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Very bright : SMARTASAWHIP
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Prefix with center : EPI
24
Med. plan : HMO
25
Part of the foot : INSTEP
29
Actress Meryl : STREEP
31
Motion while saying "Good dog!" : PAT
33
___ mode : ALA
34
Showered : RAINED
36
Mild, as weather : BALMY
38
Very bright : WISEASANOWL
40
Civil rights org. : NAACP
42
In a sour mood : MOROSE
43
Build (on) : ADD
44
"Undoubtedly" : YES
45
Mitchell of NBC News : ANDREA
49
Fly that carries sleeping sickness : TSETSE
52
___ Beta Kappa : PHI
53
Coast Guard rank: Abbr. : ENS
54
Very bright : SHARPASATACK
58
Mideast's ___ Peninsula : SINAI
61
Singer Fitzgerald : ELLA
62
"It's ___ to tell a lie" : ASIN
63
Disdain : SCORN
64
Prophet : SEER
65
Taboo : NONO
66
Like a tie game in overtime : TENSE
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Job : TASK
68
Shoelace problem : KNOT
Down
1
Analyzes grammatically : PARSES
2
Free (from) : EXEMPT
3
Fix : REPAIR
4
Moscow's land, once: Abbr. : USSR
5
Famous Boston dessert : CREAMPIE
6
Rope, cowboy-style : LASSO
7
"The Thin Man" dog : ASTA
8
Boat on the Indian Ocean : DHOW
9
Illinois city : ELGIN
10
Witticisms : QUIPS
11
Dot-com's address : URL
12
Help : AID
13
Parisian article : LES
21
Silent character in "Little Orphan Annie" : THEASP
22
Top 10 record : HIT
26
Towering : TALL
27
Shade tree : ELM
28
Salary : PAY
30
Rock's Clapton : ERIC
31
Mexican moolah : PESOS
32
Month in Israel : ADAR
35
Epithet : NAME
36
Sarajevo is its capital : BOSNIA
37
Impressed mightily : AWED
38
Walk in shallow water : WADE
39
Two-by-two vessel? : NOAHSARK
40
Singer ___ King Cole : NAT
41
TV interruptions : ADS
44
Nay opposer : YEA
46
Sanity : REASON
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San Fernando Valley community : ENCINO
48
Start of a John F. Kennedy quote : ASKNOT
50
Nicholas and Ivan, e.g. : TSARS
51
Sparkle : SHINE
52
Loses color : PALES
55
Part of R & R : REST
56
Nolo contendere, e.g. : PLEA
57
Aquarium : TANK
58
Speedy way to get to Paris : SST
59
___ cream : ICE
60
Negative in Normandy : NON

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