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New York Times, Monday, January 20, 1997

Author:
S. Spadaccini
Editor:
Will Shortz
45-Across : Honkers
TotalDebutLatest
441/27/197710/5/1999
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
016184312
ScrabDebutPre‑WSFresh
1.54126814%
Stephanie Spadaccini

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 36 Missing: {JQXZ} This is puzzle # 22 for Ms. Spadaccini. Monday freshness: 72%
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C
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A
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P
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E
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B
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O
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M
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B
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S
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C
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A
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L
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E
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A
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T
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© 1997, The New York Times1/20/97 ( No. 17,240 )
Across
1
Garb for Superman : CAPE
5
Ice cream dessert : BOMBE
10
Work detail, for short : SPEC
14
Singer Guthrie : ARLO
15
Ness of "The Untouchables" : ELIOT
16
___ Strauss (jeans maker) : LEVI
17
What a ghost may give you : GOOSEFLESH
19
Coup d'___ : ETAT
20
Boundary : END
21
Meat cuts : LOINS
22
Stockholmer : SWEDE
23
Wise one : SAGE
24
Pay no attention : IGNORE
26
Georgia city where Little Richard was born : MACON
29
Western hero : SHERIFF
31
Keeps away from : AVOIDS
33
"Whose Life ___ Anyway?" (1981 movie) : ISIT
34
Suffix with cash : IER
37
Factory on a stream : MILL
38
Department at an auto shop : PARTS
40
Fairy tale starter : ONCE
41
Tally (up) : ADD
42
Bundled cotton : BALE
43
"Well said!" : TOUCHE
45
Honkers : TOOTERS
48
A Musketeer : ATHOS
49
Pass ___ (make the grade) : MUSTER
50
Poll amts. : PCTS
52
Bar for a bird : PERCH
53
California lake resort : TAHOE
55
Notwithstanding, briefly : THO
58
Actress Chase : ILKA
59
With feet pointing in : PIGEONTOED
61
Above, in Berlin : UBER
62
Not moving : INERT
63
Singer Fitzgerald : ELLA
64
Articulates : SAYS
65
Go along (with) : AGREE
66
Enemy's opposite : ALLY
Down
1
Hamster's home : CAGE
2
"East of Eden" brother : ARON
3
Slog (through) : PLOD
4
Dawn goddess : EOS
5
Obscure : BEFOG
6
Hardy and North : OLLIES
7
Bearing : MIEN
8
Most domineering : BOSSIEST
9
Numerical ending : ETH
10
Quite a few, after "a" : SLEWOF
11
"Network" co-star : PETERFINCH
12
Dodge, as a question : EVADE
13
Commend : CITE
18
African antelope : ELAND
22
Perturbed state : SNIT
23
Loam : SOIL
25
Grain for grinding : GRIST
26
Baby doll's cry : MAMA
27
Enthusiastic : AVID
28
One way to quit : COLDTURKEY
30
Personnel person : HIRER
32
Outpouring : SPATE
35
Reverberate : ECHO
36
"Cheers" actor Roger : REES
39
Emulating Paul Revere : ALERTING
40
Inning parts : OUTS
42
This and that : BOTH
44
Granola-like : OATEN
46
Katharine Hepburn has four : OSCARS
47
Globe : SPHERE
49
Opera star Nellie : MELBA
51
"Veddy" British actor Robert : COOTE
52
Papal name : PIUS
54
Finish for teen or golden : AGER
55
Auto commuter's bane : TOLL
56
"War is ___" : HELL
57
Singer Anita : ODAY
59
Actress Zadora : PIA
60
Wonderland drink : TEA

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