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Emily Cox
Emily Cox
Henry Rathvon
Henry Rathvon

NY Times, Sun, Feb 29, 2004 CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

23-Down : Whiff of a city Ovid knew (5)

Author:
Emily Cox & Henry Rathvon
Editor:
Will Shortz
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© 2004, The New York Times
Across
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More expensive "Cryptic Reader" (6) : DEARER
4
Wandering epic that is rather sad (8) : PATHETIC
9
Neighborhood passage from Italo Calvino (5) : LOCAL
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Frost included in novelist Benchley's outline (9) : PERIMETER
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Love poetry by one across the ocean (7) : OVERSEA
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Hemingway's spoken for grave (7) : EARNEST
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Story penned by an extraterrestrial (5) : ALIEN
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Slow article by Italian poet (7) : ANDANTE
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Make fun of Eliot's china displays (3,4) : TEASETS
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Bellow photographed outside university (5) : SHOUT
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Stubborn bug pursues "Paradise Lost" character (7) : ADAMANT
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Worn-out cast in Thornton Wilder play (3,4) : OURTOWN
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Earlier mentioned ideas for a novel (9) : AFORESAID
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Kingsley, hot for folk in Pennsylvania (5) : AMISH
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Browning's "To a Con" (8) : TOASTING
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Some penmen talking about the mind (6) : MENTAL
Down
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Woolf character let in light (8) : DALLOWAY
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Old scholar translated [sic] "Hamlet" (9) : ALCHEMIST
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New addition is working for "Invisible Man" author (7) : ELLISON
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Concur with a man like Sophocles, almost (5) : AGREE
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Epic poet with a Parisian-style hit (4,3) : HOMERUN
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Publisher's offering one-point consonant in Scrabble play (5) : TITLE
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Crackpot traces an editor's marks (6) : CARETS
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Act Shakespeare's shrew, vocally calm (7) : PLACATE
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Bad notes for CD or DVD's debut (7) : DISCORD
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Adjusted incomes, to someone like Adam Smith (9) : ECONOMIST
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Shetland horses around French author (8) : STENDHAL
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An imitator's time for a poetic foot (7) : ANAPEST
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A family shares it, agreeing about subject of a Keats ode (7) : SURNAME
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Philosopher, e.g., took a seat around front (6) : SAVANT
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Whiff of a city Ovid knew (5) : AROMA
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Exact copy contains first-rate Clemens (5) : TWAIN
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