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New York Times, Wednesday, January 17, 2001

Author:
Alan Arbesfeld
Editor:
Will Shortz
41-Across : Grand
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Alan Arbesfeld

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 38 Missing: {QZ} Spans: 1 This is puzzle # 30 for Mr. Arbesfeld. Wednesday freshness: 12%
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© 2001, The New York Times1/17/1 ( No. 18,698 )
Across
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Like many a wrestler : BEEFY
6
Balance sheet item : DEBT
10
One of a great quintet : LAKE
14
___ Rogers St. Johns : ADELA
15
Alice's chronicler : ARLO
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Beasts in a span : OXEN
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Purple shade : LILAC
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Plowman's need : REIN
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Cutlass maker, briefly : OLDS
20
Start of a quip about middle age : ITSWHENITTAKES
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"Star Wars" walk-ons : ETS
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Kachina doll makers : HOPI
25
Embellish, in a way : LARD
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It may be upside-down : CAKE
31
Fireplace : INGLE
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Org. with a much-cited journal : AMA
36
Needing patches : WORN
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Micromanager's concern : DETAIL
38
Middle of the quip : LONGERTORECOVER
41
Grand : AUGUST
42
It's insurable : LIFE
43
Ike's command, once: Abbr. : ETO
44
Small songbirds : WRENS
45
Blackthorn fruit : SLOE
46
Ruse : PLOY
47
Blame bearer : GOAT
49
Smoker or diner : CAR
51
End of the quip : THANTOGETTIRED
58
Steinbeck hero : JOAD
59
Scads : ALOT
60
When repeated, an Ivy League tune : BOOLA
61
Social introduction? : ANTI
62
Baltic port : RIGA
63
Packing heat : ARMED
64
"___ here long?" : BEEN
65
Object of blind devotion : IDOL
66
Aggressive sort : TYPEA
Down
1
Java neighbor : BALI
2
Tinker with, in a way : EDIT
3
Fish lacking ventral fins : EELS
4
Full of holes : FLAWED
5
Spinnaker's place : YACHT
6
Extremely, informally : DARN
7
"... ___ saw Elba" : EREI
8
Cheerful : BLITHE
9
Old TV sidekick : TONTO
10
Investigate : LOOKINTO
11
Linchpin's place : AXLE
12
Reebok competitor : KEDS
13
Pulver's rank: Abbr. : ENS
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Accompanist? : ESCORT
22
Pricing word : APIECE
25
Bochco TV drama : LALAW
26
Love affair : AMOUR
27
Place to practice driving : RANGE
29
Class in which posers are presented : ART
30
Small hill : KNOLL
32
Court attention-getter : GAVEL
33
Be still, at sea : LIETO
34
N.F.L. great Hirsch : ELROY
36
Smith's partner : WESSON
37
Cause for a recall : DEFECT
39
Kipling classic : GUNGADIN
40
Earth Summit site : RIO
45
Stone-faced : STOLID
46
Monk's home, maybe : PRIORY
48
Arcade name : ATARI
50
Chance to swing : ATBAT
51
Calisthenics improve it : TONE
52
Motive for some crime : HATE
53
Full of energy : GOGO
54
List ender : ETAL
55
Win big : ROMP
56
Virginia's Robert ___ : ELEE
57
Arp movement : DADA
58
Front end of a one-two : JAB

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