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The New York Times

NY TIMES, FRI, JAN 23, 1998

January 23, 1998•Friday

Creator

Brendan Emmett Quigley

Editor

Will Shortz

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Clues

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1"Huh-uh"
10Star quality
15Spread out, in a way
16Root
17Sunday drives?
181946 Literature Nobelist
19Extreme
20"We the Living" author
21Outdone
22Pants specification
23Imparts
24Festive
27Transplant need
28Consternation
29Sociopolitical movement
33Sting
34Where Swansea is
35Light
36Enter from the rear, maybe
38Kid's comment
39Toast beginning
40Designer Lanvin
41Stole from
43First-place
44Sheds, British-style
45Sci-fi author Frederik
46Burlesque
49Before
50Swedes, gastronomically speaking
52Clear, in a way
53Crash course?
54Getup
55Trivial

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1"Big ___" of the comics page
2Sign
3Elevated, open country
4Metric measure
5Element #39
6Holy wars
7What CFC's deplete
8Radio, e.g.
9Some staffers, for short
10Level
11Chef Cardini's creation
12Full of vigor
13Onagers
14Got ready to drive
21Two-time Czech president
22Busy bodies?
23One gentleman of Verona
24Hook alternatives
25Golfer Dutra
26Noah Webster's alma mater
27Lunkheads
29Let up
30Bank claim
31Where Baha'i began
32Storage unit
34Some guys
37They sometimes whistle
38"Front!" runner
40Bach or Strauss, e.g.
41Hardly a people person
42Certain navel, slangily
43Boarded
44Noted PBS newsman
45Dark purple
46"I'm ___ it!"
47Bargain
48Being
50Agent, colloquially
51Professional org. since 1847
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