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Frank Longo
Frank Longo

NY Times, Sun, Feb 22, 1998 Diagramless

32-Down : Queue before Q

Author:
Frank Longo
Editor:
Will Shortz
Rows: 17, Columns: 17, Words: 66, Blocks: 140
Notepad: This diagramless is 17 squares wide by 17 squares deep and has regular crossword symmetry.
1-Across begins in the eighth square of the top row.
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© 1998, The New York Times
Across
1
"For shame!" : TSK
4
Poetic pugilist : ALI
5
"Hee Haw" co-host : BUCKOWENS
11
Checkout counter needs : CASHREGISTERS
15
Thin out, as a gas : RAREFY
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Credits preceder : THEEND
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Rich rock : ORE
19
Where to find a Blue Light Special : KMART
21
Teetotaler : NONUSER
26
Dust Bowl victim : OKIE
27
Deciphers : MAKESOUT
30
DDT-banning grp. : EPA
31
1983 Rodney Dangerfield comedy : EASYMONEY
35
List abbr. : ETC
38
"Ta-ta, Tokyo!" : SAYONARA
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Misinformant : LIAR
43
Addressed : SPOKETO
45
"___ navidad!" : FELIZ
47
Chaney of chillers : LON
48
Guile : DECEIT
51
"Scarface" star, 1983 : PACINO
54
Soft salad base : BOSTONLETTUCE
58
An arm and a leg, so to speak : TOPDOLLAR
59
Gardner of "Mogambo" : AVA
60
Slugger Griffey Jr. : KEN
Down
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Confiscate : TAKE
2
Move through mud : SLOG
3
Flightless bird from Down Under : KIWI
5
Undergraduate teaching deg. : BSE
6
Between 30 and 3,000 Mhz : UHF
7
Boohoo : CRY
8
Part of i.e. : EST
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To the ___ degree : NTH
10
Quest : SEEK
11
Billiard bounce : CAROM
12
Where games are played : ARENA
13
Adventure hero ___ Williams : REMO
14
Cottonmouth or copperhead : SNAKE
15
Silver of the screen : RON
17
Stalactite starter : DRIP
20
Caddy contents : TEA
22
Tiny Tim played one : UKE
23
Poseidon's domain : SEA
24
Pothook shape : ESS
25
Acuff and Orbison : ROYS
28
Thurman of "Pulp Fiction" : UMA
29
Mattel makes them : TOYS
32
Queue before Q : NOP
33
Bowie collaborator Brian : ENO
34
Endangered ox : YAK
35
Keebler employee : ELF
36
In extra innings : TIED
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Novelist Carr : CALEB
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Thing of the past : RELIC
40
Joined (with) : ATONE
42
Puerto ___ : RICO
44
Lennon's lady : ONO
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Joie de vivre : ZEST
49
Most-televised judge of 1995 : ITO
50
Go one better than : TOP
51
Bakker's former org. : PTL
52
___ moment's notice : ATA
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Junkyard dog : CUR
55
Neighbor of Mont. : NDAK
56
It means nothing to Navratilova : LOVE
57
Joie de vivre : ELAN
Answer summary: 3 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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