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REMEMBERING MOTHER

New York Times, Sunday, May 12, 2002

Author:
Alan Arbesfeld
Editor:
Will Shortz
116-Across : "Mon ___" (1958 French comedy)
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Alan Arbesfeld

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Rows: 21, Columns: 21 Words: 140, Blocks: 76 Missing: {QZ} This is puzzle # 39 for Mr. Arbesfeld. Sunday freshness: 53%
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© 2002, The New York Times5/12/02 ( No. 19,178 )
Across
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Coven participants : HAGS
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Globular : ORBED
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Places : LOCI
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They may be made with pads : MEMOS
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Fit : ABLE
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Who so far has run a three-minute mile : NOONE
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Finalizes : ICES
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Gleem competitor : IPANA
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___ de vivre : JOIE
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What wakes people up in Washington? : TACOMABELL
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1995 Oliver Stone film : NIXON
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Only a drug of forgetfulness? : JUSTSOMA
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"Buona ___" (Italian greeting) : SERA
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Girl who's "the flower of my heart" : ADELINE
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Places for cabins : SHIPS
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Bite : TANG
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Scope : ROOM
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___-Roman : GRAECO
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Hooting owl, maybe : OMEN
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Conglomerations : AMALGAMS
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Time on end : EONS
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Tibetan Christmas caroler? : FALALALALAMA
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"Let me explain ..." : SEE
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It's sometimes delayed: Abbr. : ETD
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Actress Hatcher : TERI
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Topic for Ovid : AMOR
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Chiang ___-shek : KAI
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Photographed a couple of Italian balloonists? : SHOTTWOOVERPARMA
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Supernatural spirit : JINN
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The Colosseum, e.g., today : RUINS
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New York stadium name : ASHE
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Darling, in Dijon : CHERIE
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Some pepper : CAYENNE
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Fray : RAVEL
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It has a police record : BLOTTER
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Overplayed one's feelings : EMOTED
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Jump from one foot to the other : JETE
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Brute : BEAST
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They may be caught at the beach : RAYS
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What soprano Gluck says upon being introduced? : YOUCANCALLMEALMA
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"Hold On Tight" grp. : ELO
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Of mice and men?: Abbr. : PLUR
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Mayberry kid : OPIE
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Source of Rockefeller money : OIL
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Order to a shooter : AIM
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Frontier beliefs? : PRAIRIEDOGMA
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Prefix with phobia : ACRO
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Scarlett O'Hara in "Gone With the Wind" : LEADROLE
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"A Beautiful Mind" fellow : NASH
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Lidded box : CASKET
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It takes grubs for grub : TOAD
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Barbed, in a way : TART
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American Chicle Co. brand : CERTS
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Kind of block : MORTISE
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Insightful : DEEP
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Semicolon? : DOTCOMMA
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Strikes : OMITS
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Veteran studio actress? : MGMGRANDMA
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Capital of Iran : RIAL
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"Mon ___" (1958 French comedy) : ONCLE
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Mother of Hermes : MAIA
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Brooklyn campus : PRATT
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"Live ___!" : ITUP
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Flood stoppers : DIKES
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Abbr. on 14-Across : ATTN
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Check recipient : PAYEE
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Mock comment of understanding : AHSO
Down
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Muslim duty : HAJJ
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___ ben Adhem : ABOU
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Musical flourish : GLISSANDO
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Burns : SEETHES
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Over : ONTOPOF
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Drifts : ROAMS
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City just south of Delray : BOCA
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Rock's Brian : ENO
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One side of the Senate, informally : DEMS
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Rehnquist's sign, appropriately : LIBRA
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Main : OCEAN
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Disney collectible : CEL
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Mallorca, e.g. : ISLA
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County seat on Long Island : MINEOLA
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Conclusion : EPILOG
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Nissan attire? : MAXIMASKIRT
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"___, upward thro' the golden air": Lindsay : ONON
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Right-minded : SANE
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Prudential competitor : AETNA
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Set (on) : SIC
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1/8 ounce : DRAM
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Aplenty : GALORE
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Turns right : GEES
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"Letting Go" novelist : ROTH
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Spreads on the table : OLEOS
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Former Met Throneberry : MARV
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Author Wiesel : ELIE
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School ___ : MARM
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Hardly Mr. Nice Guy : MEANIE
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Certain fisherman : SEINER
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Priest's urging : ATONE
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Run out : LAPSE
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Menotti opera character : AMAHL
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Weight allowances : TRETS
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Harmonize : TUNE
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Blowing : WINDY
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Poe bird : RAVEN
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Happy as ___ : ACLAM
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Beetle's relative : JETTA
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Women's wear : HOSE
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Life, for one : CEREAL
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Charlotte ___, Virgin Islands : AMALIE
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Playing two cellos at once, maybe? : YOYOMATRICK
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Come back : RECUR
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Old name in coin-op games : ATARI
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Port of Brazil : BELEM
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Ill-fated lover : JULIET
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1935 Laughton part : BLIGH
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Iridescent mineral : OPAL
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Musical ending : CODA
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Mil. addresses : APOS
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Key person : LOCKSMITH
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Swamp : MIRE
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Tons : ALOT
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Hosannas : PRAISES
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Engine parts : RODS
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Sign on an arrow : ENTER
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Transparency : ACETATE
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Queens locale : ASTORIA
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Tobacco plug : DOTTLE
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Bend : ARC
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___ one : ADMIT
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Reagan cabinet member : REGAN
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French nobleman : COMTE
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Temper : MOOD
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Old Dodge : OMNI
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Miss Woodhouse of fiction : EMMA
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Noted Shakespearean producer : PAPP
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Decisive time : DDAY
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1986 Art Spiegelman book : MAUS
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Food for Fido : ALPO
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Heater : GAT
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Big guns in D.C.? : NRA

Answer summary: 10 unique to this puzzle, 2 unique to Shortz Era but used previously.

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