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Will Weng
Will Weng

Hasty Pudding

New York Times, Sunday, January 7, 1990

89-Across : Piña ___ (rum drink)

Author:
Will Weng
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 21, Columns: 21, Words: 144, Blocks: 80, Avg Word Len: 5.01, Missing: { J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 536 (avg 1.48)
Open Squares: 107, Cheaters: 6, FITB: 7, XRef: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 11, Grid flow: 27.1
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© 1990, The New York TimesNo. 14,670
Across
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Up to now : SOFAR
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Smeltery leavings : SLAGS
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Sound seeking silence : TST
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Supplement : ADD
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Beckett's "___ Dies" : MALONE
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Slanting type : ITALIC
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Absence of the skull : ACRANIA
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Lacking a key : ATONAL
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Mexican's moola : DINERO
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Former N.Y. Senator : KEATING
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Start of an impetuous person's prayer, with 101 Across : LORDGIVEMEPATIENCE
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Small whale : SEI
28
Quality of having limits : FINITENESS
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Exotic dinner bell : GONG
36
Red Queen's advice to Alice : FASTERFASTER
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Sign for Churchill : VEE
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Writer James and family : AGEES
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"Can do" serviceman : SEABEE
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Clump of ivy : TOD
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Pious talk : CANT
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An apple inspired him : NEWTON
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German river : ELBE
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___ capita : PER
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Word after omni or mini : BUS
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Taunt to an early motorist : GETAHORSE
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Relative of a prom : HOP
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Central American : LATINO
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Units of syllabic length : MORAE
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Jewish month : ADAR
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Armenia's capital : ERIVAN
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Ordinary : SOSO
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Impetuous guest's question : WHENDOWEEAT
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French head : TETE
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"Twelfth Night" lass : OLIVIA
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Sty sounds : OINK
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Mexican O.K.'s : SISIS
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Like weak coffee : WATERY
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Chess pc. : KNT
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Sally of "All in the Family" : STRUTHERS
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Wino : SOT
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Word before rata : PRO
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Merry sounds : HAHA
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Symbolic show-biz city : PEORIA
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In a while : SOON
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Hush-hush agcy. : CIA
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Piña ___ (rum drink) : COLADA
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Sp. Misses : SRTAS
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Neighbor of Arg. : URU
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Impetuous motorist's sounds : HONKHONKHONK
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Wires: Abbr. : TELS
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Status honored in May : MOTHERHOOD
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Private eye : TEC
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Rest of 24 Across : ANDIWANTITRIGHTNOW
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Number-2 golf club : MIDIRON
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Brought under control : REINED
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Relating to gulls : LARINE
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Catalogue company's activity : MAILING
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Mall units : STORES
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Worn away : ERODED
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Chang's twin : ENG
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Opp. of NNW : SSE
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Ruhr city : ESSEN
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Famous golf cup : RYDER
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Japanese P.M.: 1964-72 : SATO
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Swan genus : OLOR
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"Ae ___ Kiss," Burns poem : FOND
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Word jugglings: Abbr. : ANAGS
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Kind of pitcher : RELIEF
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Particle, in Scotland : STIM
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Memory or Drury : LANE
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Syrian city, to the French : ALEP
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Tall veldt grazer : GIRAFFE
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Nova ___ : SCOTIA
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___ leave it : TAKEITOR
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Like a sachet : SCENTED
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Lost-article checker : TRACER
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Black cuckoo : ANI
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Cacophony : DIN
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Hammarskjöld : DAG
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Prefix for adroit : MAL
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Freshwater fish : IDE
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Solar disk : ATEN
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Passages : VIAS
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Foot part : INSTEP
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Shifty : EVASIVE
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Cambodian coin : SEN
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Prepare the table : SET
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Kind of plank : GANG
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Type of arch : OGEE
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Eft : NEWT
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Impetuous person's advice : GETAMOVEON
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Asian partridge : SEESEE
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Welty product : TALE
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One of the tides : EBB
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Dakota Indian : REE
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N.Y.C. artists' area : SOHO
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Brusque person's command : CUTITSHORT
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Home for a Viking : NORWAY
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Study hard : PORE
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Grill's partner : BAR
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Cheer : RAH
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Peddle : HAWK
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Eases : LETSUP
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One of the Turners : NAT
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Singleton : ONE
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Mine access : ADIT
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Juan or Carlos : DON
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Plant : SOW
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Swedish poet Hansson : OLA
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Stays to the end : SITSOUT
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Minor prohibition : NONO
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Sonora is one : ESTADO
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Cavatina : AIR
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N.Y.C. subway line : IRT
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Followers: Suffix : ITES
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Polish city : KRAKOW
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Ruler who fled: Jan. 16, 1979 : SHAH
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Notable French artist-designer : ERTE
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Coin of Iran : RIAL
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Impertinence : SASS
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Type of device on which a door swings : PINHINGE
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Dearie : HON
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A resin : ALK
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___, esse, fui ... : SUM
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Spanish treasure : ORO
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Certain barriers : CORDONS
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Some seines : CODNETS
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Opposed : ANTI
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Pétain and Matisse : HENRIS
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Like a filibusterer's voice : HOARSE
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Bowler : KEGLER
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Greet : HAIL
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Cautious : CHARY
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Uncles, in Toledo : TIOS
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Concerning : INRE
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One of the ages : TEEN
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Boxing units: Abbr. : RDS
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Walked on : TROD
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Pheasant group : NIDE
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Special person : ONER
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Mat. day : WED
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Former Mlle. : MME
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Writer Fleming : IAN
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Do archeology work : DIG

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