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New York Times, Sunday, June 19, 1994

Author:
Nancy Scandrett Ross
Editor:
Will Shortz
124-Across : Give a hand
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Nancy S. Ross

This puzzle:

Rows: 21, Columns: 21 Words: 144, Blocks: 76 Missing: {QZ} This is puzzle # 36 for Ms. Ross. Sunday freshness: 56%
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© 1994, The New York Times6/19/94 ( No. 16,294 )
Across
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Rodeo rope : LASSO
6
City north of Des Moines : AMES
10
Sch. supporters : PTAS
14
Esau's wife : ADAH
18
Travel section advertiser : USAIR
19
___ wire : LIVE
20
"Elektra" baritone : OREST
21
Army mascot : MULE
22
ROB'S : CARLREINER
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BRIDGET'S : PETERFONDA
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Neighbor of Scot. : ENG
27
JOHN'S : TEXRITTER
29
Escapee : ELUDER
30
Anarchist Goldman : EMMA
33
Gladly, in olden times : FAIN
34
Night rumblers : SNORERS
35
Asia-Africa link : SINAI
37
Org. once headed by Lewis Strauss : AEC
40
Half of D : CCL
41
Conceit : EGO
42
Exaggerator's suffix : EST
43
Yucca fiber : ISTLE
44
NANCY'S : FRANKSINATRA
48
They're checked at checkpoints : VISAS
49
Record collections : FILES
50
Adam was his father : SETH
51
Yellow-breasted bird : CHAT
55
Pale : ASHY
56
Cockatoo cousin : MACAW
57
Approved model: Abbr. : STD
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Contrary girl : MARY
59
Seventh Muslim month : RAJAB
61
Gershwin's "___ It a Pity?" : ISNT
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Flustered one : DITHERER
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Luau staple : POI
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BRANFORD'S : ELLISMARSALIS
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Actress Charlotte : RAE
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Monotonous : UNVARIED
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Organic compound : ENOL
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"___ people go" : LETMY
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Adolescent : TEEN
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Engine starter: Abbr. : IGN
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Stage actor Edmund and others : KEANS
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Group with the hit "Waterloo" : ABBA
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Silk wrap : SARI
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Vier minus eins : DREI
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Jumping-off point? : LEDGE
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Pines : TREES
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JEFF'S : LLOYDBRIDGES
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Innisfree and others : ISLES
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Rain protector : MAC
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Be in the red : OWE
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UniT of sound : BEL
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Road curve : ESS
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Liturgical music : CHANT
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Removes to a distance : ELOIGNS
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And that's not all : ETAL
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Fliers' org. : USAF
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Behave arrogantly : LORDIT
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LAURA'S : BRUCEDERN
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"To ___ their golden eyes": Shakespeare : OPE
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JAMIE LEE'S : TONYCURTIS
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CHRISTIE'S : HUGHHEFNER
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German donkey : ESEL
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Shake awake : ROUSE
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Ship to Colchis : ARGO
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Renaissance instruments : LUTES
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Give a hand : DEAL
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Snack : NOSH
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Longtime New Yorker editor : ROSS
127
Worth of the stage : IRENE
Down
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"The Women" playwright : LUCE
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Straight ___ arrow : ASAN
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MARIA'S : SARGENTSHRIVER
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Part of R.S.V.P. : SIL
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Bruins great : ORR
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Sam Shepard's "___ of the Mind" : ALIE
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Pert lass : MINX
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"Did you ___ !" : EVER
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Typeface line : SERIF
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Sign up early : PREENLIST
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Four: Prefix : TETR
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Enzyme suffix : ASE
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Muscles : STRENGTH
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Jeanne's love : AMOUR
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Firth of Tay port : DUNDEE
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Birch-family trees : ALDERS
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Lord of San Simeon : HEARST
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Study of light : OPTICS
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Due point: Abbr. : ETA
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Nonplus : FLOOR
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Changes course, nautically : TACKS
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Rubber region : MALAYA
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___ van der Rohe : MIES
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Provide space for : SEAT
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Hindu god : SIVA
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Osiris's wife : ISIS
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Cordial : AFFABLE
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Folk singer Andersen : ERIC
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Channel port : CALAIS
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Certain reporters : NEWSMEN
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Canio's wife in "Pagliacci" : NEDDA
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Crowning point : ACME
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SHARI'S : HARRYBELAFONTE
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Scope : AREA
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City in the Crusades : TYRE
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Neighbor of Algeria : MALI
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Caressed : STROKED
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O.T. bood after Isa. : JER
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Big-band vocalist Wynn : NAN
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Hypochondriac's preoccupation : ILLNESS
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Gifts for fathers : TIES
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Margaret's father's monogram : HST
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Sets : PUTS
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Militarily fit : ONEA
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"I wander'd till ___": Arnold : IDIED
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Heavy tool : SLEDGE
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Deep blue : ANIL
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Mason or Norman : MARSHA
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Xjclmzit obwny, e.g. : GIBBERISH
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Long time : AGES
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Stayed : BEEN
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Office abbr. : ASST
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Decline : DOWNTURN
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Some whiskies : RYES
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New Hampshire state flower : LILAC
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Personal quirks : TICS
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Raymond Smullyan topic : LOGIC
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Rounded and notched, as a leaf : RETUSE
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Softened : MELTED
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Words before cannon or wire : ALOOSE
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Pupil's protection : CORNEA
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Pastoral poem : IDYLL
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"Zigeunerliebe" composer : LEHAR
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Durham campus: Abbr. : UNH
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Heat measures, for short : BTUS
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Spanish peso : DURO
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Quiche ingredients : EGGS
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Greek letters : RHOS
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Ball ___ : PEEN
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European tongue : ERSE
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Kanga's child : ROO
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Big name in New Haven : ELI
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Soft coat : FUR

Answer summary:
9 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 9 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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