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New York Times, Wednesday, May 5, 2004

Author:
Nancy Salomon
Editor:
Will Shortz
Number of Triple Crown winners through 2003
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
1868/13/199511/7/2012116
SunMonTueWedThuFriSatVariety
3633533719611
RebusCircleScrabDebutFlowFresh
1521.5890833.033%
Nancy Salomon

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 36 Missing: {JPQZ} This is puzzle # 119 for Ms. Salomon. Grid flow: 36.9 Wednesday freshness: 72%
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© 2004, The New York Times5/5/04 ( No. 19,902 )
Across
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Set of principles : ETHIC
6
Young 'uns : TADS
10
Hospital units : BEDS
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Former Big Apple mayor Abe : BEAME
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Wise one : GURU
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Skater's leap : AXEL
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1937 Triple Crown winner : WARADMIRAL
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Lothario : RAKE
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Abracadabra stuff : MAGIC
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1978 Triple Crown winner : AFFIRMED
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Dutch disease victims : ELMS
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Tropical tuber : TARO
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1941 Triple Crown winner : WHIRLAWAY
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Mell Lazarus comic strip : MOMMA
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Tony winner McKellen : IAN
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Ishmael's skipper : AHAB
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Like a Triple Crown winner : FAMOUS
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Reply to the Little Red Hen : NOTI
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1935 Triple Crown winner : OMAHA
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Dirty dishes locale : SINK
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Number of Triple Crown winners through 2003 : ELEVEN
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Small change : CENT
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Hindu honorific : SRI
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Removed from copy : DELED
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1919 Triple Crown winner : SIRBARTON
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"Java" trumpeter Al : HIRT
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Designed to minimize wind resistance : AERO
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1948 Triple Crown winner : CITATION
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Rhythmic numbers : LILTS
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"Metamorphoses" poet : OVID
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1943 Triple Crown winner : COUNTFLEET
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Sitarist Shankar : RAVI
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Eye up and down : OGLE
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Duffers' warning cries : FORES
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Shoelace problem : KNOT
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In custody : HELD
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Said with a sneer : SNIDE
Down
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"Charlotte's Web" author's monogram : EBW
2
Bulls or Bears : TEAM
3
___-kiri : HARA
4
Graphics machine : IMAGER
5
Façade part : CEDILLA
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___ Friday's (restaurant chain) : TGI
7
That certain something : AURA
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Having open windows, maybe : DRAFTY
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Infection fighter : SULFA
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Sots' sites : BARROOMS
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Midterm, for one : EXAM
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Apollo astronaut Slayton : DEKE
13
Musher's transport : SLED
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"Heeere's Johnny!" announcer : MCMAHON
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"___ la Douce" : IRMA
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Dog-paddled : SWAM
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Plied with Bordeaux or Burgundy : WINED
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Outsider, in Hawaii : HAOLE
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Big name in chips : INTEL
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Primitive counters : ABACI
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A wee bit wet : MOIST
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The writer Saki's real name : MUNRO
33
Welcome to one's home : ASKIN
36
Radiator adjunct : FANBELT
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"Enough, already!" : IVEHADIT
40
Wife of Zeus : HERA
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Revision, informally : EDIT
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Importers' duties : TARIFFS
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Flunky : STOOGE
49
Deodorant type : ROLLON
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Copier company : RICOH
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Party popper? : CORK
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Novelist Turgenev : IVAN
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Modern recorder : TIVO
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No longer legal : NULL
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Hollywood's Hatcher : TERI
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Give a special berth : SEED
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Homer's TV neighbor : NED
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Mao ___-tung : TSE

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