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CO2

New York Times, Sunday, May 23, 1999

Author:
Harvey Estes and Nancy Salomon
Editor:
Will Shortz
Two-time Emmy winner as best actor in a comedy
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
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71.5252234.246%
Harvey Estes
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1521.5890833.032%
Nancy Salomon

This puzzle:

Rows: 21, Columns: 21 Words: 138, Blocks: 76 Missing: {QX} This is puzzle # 42 for Mr. Estes. This is puzzle # 29 for Ms. Salomon. Grid flow: 37.0 Sunday freshness: 8%
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© 1999, The New York Times5/23/99 ( No. 18,093 )
Across
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Action film sequence : CHASE
6
TV monitor? : FCC
9
Kind of car : USED
13
Twist : SCREW
18
Until, in Tijuana : HASTA
19
Solid backing : GUARANTEE
21
Sauce : HOOCH
22
Suggestions : INPUT
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Deep red garnet : ALMANDINE
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Not skimpy : AMPLE
25
One who wants the crème de mint? : COINCOLLECTOR
27
Steak, e.g. : REDMEAT
29
Relations : KIN
30
Bewail : RUE
31
He's a doll : KEN
32
Tilts : JOUSTS
33
Simple sack : COT
34
Failures : LAPSES
37
Basted : SEWN
38
Macaroni shape : ELBOW
41
Pro ___ : BONO
42
Very smart : CHIC
44
Professional suffix : IST
47
Sound of thunder : PEAL
48
Where a suit may be pressed : COUNTYCOURT
51
Large-print edition of the Bible, e.g. : TOME
53
Do-nothing : INDOLENT
55
Pulls down : EARNS
56
The T in M.T.M. : TYLER
57
Brezhnev, to Khrushchev : COMRADE
58
Yacht centers : BASINS
60
Veneer : FACING
61
Slicker : ICIER
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Subject of environmentalist study : OZONE
63
Pass out : ALLOT
64
Plantations' stations : MANORS
66
"___ stirreth up strifes": Proverbs : HATRED
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Heavy : VILLAIN
70
Some clarinets : ALTOS
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Street clearer : SIREN
72
Greenish blue : BERYLINE
73
Nostril wrinkler : ODOR
74
Ice pack? : COLDCOMFORT
77
Love symbol : EROS
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"Go on..." : AND
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Fit : ABLE
80
Bounce : OUST
81
Operative : AGENT
82
Tricksters : IMPS
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Passes on principle : DEMURS
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Do a takeoff on : APE
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Brownie topper : BEANIE
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Department in Provence : VAR
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"...sat down beside ___" : HER
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Actor Vigoda : ABE
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Where U.P.S. is headquartered : ATLANTA
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Visitor from the sticks : COUNTRYCOUSIN
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Furniture ensemble : SUITE
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Didn't flare : SMOLDERED
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Crime scene evidence : PRINT
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Gardener's gadget : EDGER
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Hoosier neighbor : WOLVERINE
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Plains Indian : OSAGE
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Ships : SENDS
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Major finale? : ETTE
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Pepper, for one : SGT
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More reliable : SANER
Down
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Peeper : CHICK
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Tonkin Delta capital : HANOI
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Like a fly reel : ASPIN
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Phaser setting : STUN
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Suffer embarrassment : EATCROW
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Parking lot sign : FULL
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Occurred : CAME
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Loon : CRACKPOT
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Fallen apart : UNDONE
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Slammer : STIR
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Poet's time of day : EEN
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Stag party? : DEER
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Boxer's sparring partner, at times : SHADOW
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School without dorms : COMMUNITYCOLLEGE
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Subject of sailors' knowledge : ROPES
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Big splash : ECLAT
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Stimulates : WHETS
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Heavy blow : GALE
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Prepares for a hand : ANTES
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No longer hot : OUT
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Button in Bond's car : EJECT
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Avoiding a clash : COLORCOORDINATED
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Dolt : LOUT
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Blyth of "Mildred Pierce" : ANN
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Looked down on : SCORNED
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Participants in 32-Across : SIRS
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Sweeping : EPIC
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Follower of the news? : LENO
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Birds fly back and forth in it : BADMINTON
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Fool mistake : BONER
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Barbarous brutes : HUNS
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Diamond ___ : SOLITAIRE
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Counterfeit cops? : TMEN
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Hands over : CEDES
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"Give me your answer" : YESORNO
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"Educating Rita" star : CAINE
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A little work : ERG
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Burrows : LAIRS
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Running figure : TALLY
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Committed a hockey infraction : BOARDED
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Tenochtitlán resident : AZTEC
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Bat eyelashes : FLIRT
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Detour : AVERT
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Chairman of note : MAO
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Two-time Emmy winner as best actor in a comedy : ALDA
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Rise : HILL
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Barge ___ : INON
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Jay's home : NEST
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Sounds of unhappiness : SOBS
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Anagram of 71-Down : BOSS
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French royal name, 987-1328 : CAPET
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Wake attendees : MOURNERS
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Expensive gift : FUR
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Opportune : APROPOS
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They go for the gold : MINERS
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Undergo natural selection : EVOLVE
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Hit 70's sitcom : MAUDE
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Truman's nuclear agcy. : AEC
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Bags of diamonds : BASES
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Liszt's "La Campanella," e.g. : ETUDE
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Set straight : ALIGN
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Noted park name : HYDE
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One of 3.5 billion : ASIAN
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Pig out : BINGE
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Computer command : ENTER
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"___ forgive our debtors" : ASWE
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Western weapon : COLT
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H.S. subject : TRIG
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Let out : RENT
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Major animal? : URSA
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Bit of repartee : MOT

Answer summary:
6 unique to this puzzle, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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