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Patrick Berry
Patrick Berry

NY Times, Sun, Jul 11, 1999 Diagramless

27-Down : Servile underlings

Author:
Patrick Berry
Editor:
Will Shortz
Rows: 18, Columns: 18, Words: 80, Blocks: 100
Notepad: This diagramless is 18 squares wide by 18 squares deep and has regular crossword symmetry. 1-Across begins in the first square of the top row.
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© 1999, The New York Times
Across
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Fellow name on a title page : COAUTHOR
9
Babies-to-be : EMBRYOS
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Surmount in excellence : OUTSHINE
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Carefully distribute : DOLEOUT
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Where "it's lonely" : ATTHETOP
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Law : STATUTE
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Most wily : SLIEST
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Church amount : TITHE
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"WKRP in Cincinnati" actor : TIMREID
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Drive-in worker : CARHOP
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Genesis woman : EVE
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Stanch : STEM
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Destructive : BANEFUL
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In medias ___ : RES
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Mideast pooh-bah : EMIR
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Pucker-inducing : TART
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Manipulate : USE
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Very succinctly : INAWORD
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Pioneered : LED
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Utterly blown away : INAWE
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Enter one's name electronically : LOGIN
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Tot up : ADD
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Catches, as a radio broadcast : TUNESIN
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View : SEE
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Some teeth : COGS
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Cowboys or Indians : TEAM
48
"This means ___!" : WAR
51
Some firs : BALSAMS
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Con big-time : SNOW
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Hurry : HIE
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Brand of glue : ELMERS
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Gods in human form : AVATARS
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It's slung in a slingshot : STONE
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Extremely : EVERSO
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Rear auto compartment : TONNEAU
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Peacemaker : MEDIATOR
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Exploratory trips : OUTINGS
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Smooths : IRONSOUT
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Broadbrim hat : STETSON
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Pointless digressions : TANGENTS
Down
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Sled : COASTER
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Last longer than : OUTLIVE
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Occasionally : ATTIMES
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Cinema employee : USHER
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Big student projects : THESES
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Cuneiform communicator : HITTITE
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Lennon's love : ONO
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Salesman : REP
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Workers in publ. : EDS
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Amusing remark : MOT
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Obvious, as an error : BLATANT
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Hang it up : RETIRE
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Teenlike : YOUTHFUL
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Head for the mountains? : OUTHOUSE
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Like most churches : STEEPLED
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Moore of "G.I. Jane" : DEMI
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King, say : CARD
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Servile underlings : MINIONS
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Empty : BARE
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Cowboy's home : RANGE
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Nonstudent residents of a college community : TOWNIES
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Trouser measurement : WAIST
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Big guys : LUGS
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Old insulator : ASBESTOS
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Gave a hand : DEALTOUT
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Canned food company : DELMONTE
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Male turkeys : TOMS
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Child watcher : NANA
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Turns dangerously : CAREENS
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Left the past behind : MOVEDON
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Ethan Frome's creator : WHARTON
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Freshens : AIRSOUT
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Tourist magnets : RESORTS
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Straw used in hatmaking : SENNIT
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Like flags in the wind : WAVING
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Pick on, maybe : TEASE
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Long ___ : AGO
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Org. with destroyers : USN
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Cambridge sch. : MIT
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Timeline segment : ERA
Answer summary: 0 unique to this puzzle, 5 debuted here and reused later, 4 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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