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New York Times, Monday, January 10, 2000

Author:
John Greenman
Editor:
Will Shortz
49-Across : Say another way
TotalDebutLatest
644/7/19811/6/2009
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
971019964
RebusScrabDebutPre‑WSFresh
21.47435214%
John Greenman

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 38 Missing: {JQW} This is puzzle # 57 for Mr. Greenman. Monday freshness: 56%
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R
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M
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C
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I
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© 2000, The New York Times1/10/0 ( No. 18,325 )
Across
1
Seldom seen : RARE
5
China's Chairman ___ : MAO
8
Gomorrah's sister city : SODOM
13
Profess : AVER
14
Ripsnorter : LULU
15
Words to live by : CREDO
16
Foremost : MAIN
17
___ were (seemingly) : ASIT
18
Cosmopolitan's ___ Gurley Brown : HELEN
19
Classic Disney character : PINOCCHIO
21
Debt acknowledgment : IOU
22
___ Baba : ALI
23
"Listen up!" : HEY
24
Archeologists' finds : FOSSILS
28
Varieties : GENRES
30
Close loudly : SLAM
31
Was on a jury : SAT
32
Mystery writer's prize : EDGAR
33
Close : SHUT
34
Like Playboy models : SEXY
35
Hard-to-eat-just-one item : PISTACHIO
38
Rickshaw : CART
41
Legislative excess : PORK
42
December 25 visitor : SANTA
46
Colorado Indian : UTE
47
Bees' home : HIVE
48
Time capsule activity : BURIAL
49
Say another way : RESTATE
51
"Oh yeah? ___ who?" : SEZ
52
Docs, for short : GPS
53
Decorative vessel : URN
54
Shakespeare's shrew tamer : PETRUCHIO
57
___ Island (immigrants' site) : ELLIS
59
Dr. Frankenstein's assistant : IGOR
60
Suffix with origin : ATOR
61
"Live free or die," to New Hampshire : MOTTO
62
Snaillike : POKY
63
Typesetting unit : PICA
64
Merlin of football and TV : OLSEN
65
WNW's opposite : ESE
66
Connery of 007 fame : SEAN
Down
1
Rioting : RAMPAGE
2
Was of use : AVAILED
3
Slowing a horse, with "in" : REINING
4
Brain-teasing Rubik : ERNO
5
Like corn flakes sitting in milk : MUSHY
6
Et ___ (and others) : ALII
7
Unfortunate : OUTOFLUCK
8
Sharp divide : SCHISM
9
Black-and-white cookies : OREOS
10
Actor Dom : DELUISE
11
Old poem : ODE
12
Tue. preceder : MON
14
Shoestrings : LACES
20
French dear : CHERI
25
"Holy smoke!," e.g. : OATH
26
Lenient : LAX
27
Mudhole : STY
29
Riveted with attention : RAPT
30
Stock unit : SHARE
33
Lincoln's hat : STOVEPIPE
34
Skyrocket : SOAR
36
Roasting rod : SPIT
37
Mazda competitor : ISUZU
38
Snarly dog : CUR
39
Grazed : ATE
40
Outcomes : RESULTS
43
Lingerie item : NIGHTIE
44
Traditional pudding ingredient : TAPIOCA
45
Election loser : ALSORAN
47
Pop group with the 1997 hit "MMMBop" : HANSON
48
Fruit on a bush : BERRY
50
Old hat : TRITE
51
Feed, as a fire : STOKE
55
Clashing figures? : EGOS
56
Beanies : CAPS
57
Funnyman Philips : EMO
58
Response to an on-line joke : LOL

Answer summary:
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