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New York Times, Tuesday, January 4, 2000

Author:
Joy L. Wouk
Editor:
Will Shortz
40-Across : Instrument with fingerholes
TotalDebutLatest
1332/15/19788/8/2000
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1522243222108
ScrabDebutPre‑WSFresh
1.521912422%
Joy L. Wouk

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 38 Missing: {JKQXZ} Spans: 3 This is puzzle # 132 for Ms. Wouk. Tuesday freshness: 21%
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© 2000, The New York Times1/4/0 ( No. 18,319 )
Across
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A crow's-nest tops it : MAST
5
Person with a puffy white hat : CHEF
9
Stew server : LADLE
14
Toe stubber's cry : OUCH
15
Partner of now : HERE
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In progress : AFOOT
17
Grimm beast : OGRE
18
Turner who was called "The Sweater Girl" : LANA
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___ Domingo (Caribbean capital) : SANTO
20
Salty septet : SEAS
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Demand too much of : OVERSTRAIN
23
Hence : ERGO
24
___ publica : RES
25
Opposite WNW : ESE
26
Connecticut town near New London : NIANTIC
29
Tin foil, e.g. : WRAP
33
Auto manufacturer's woe : RECALL
36
Recently stolen : HOT
37
"At ___, soldier!" : EASE
38
Bikini, e.g. : ATOLL
39
Longing : YEN
40
Instrument with fingerholes : FLUTE
41
Some J. P. Morgan hldgs. : IRAS
42
Beaver's work : DAM
43
Ironing challenge : COLLAR
44
Mother of Apollo : LETO
45
Hurled word : EPITHET
47
Caviar : ROE
49
New Deal inits. : NRA
50
Hops kiln : OAST
54
Football squad warm-ups : SCRIMMAGES
58
Acknowledge frankly : AVOW
59
Cropped up : AROSE
60
Barley beards : AWNS
61
Poor, as excuses go : LAME
62
Turn red, perhaps : RIPEN
63
Give stars to : RATE
64
Marcel Marceau, e.g. : MIME
65
Bottomless pit : ABYSS
66
Took a gander at : EYED
67
Inuit's transport : SLED
Down
1
Archie's dimwitted pal : MOOSE
2
Boring tool : AUGER
3
Scrawny one : SCRAG
4
George W. Bush story? : THESONALSORISES
5
___ hydrate (knockout drops) : CHLORAL
6
Angels' place : HEAVEN
7
1954 Literature Nobelist : ERNESTHEMINGWAY
8
North Carolina's Cape ___ : FEAR
9
Wears well : LASTS
10
No more begging? : AFAREWELLTOALMS
11
Lady of Lisbon : DONA
12
"An Iceland Fisherman" author Pierre : LOTI
13
School on the Thames : ETON
22
Faction : SECT
27
Under the weather : ILL
28
Charged particle : ION
30
Actor Julia : RAUL
31
"The Thin Man" pooch : ASTA
32
Social equal : PEER
33
Scold harshly, with "at" : RAIL
34
Basic French verb : ETRE
35
Chesterfield or ulster : COAT
39
Jabber : YAP
40
Hostile force : FOE
42
Regard as : DEEM
43
Performed a ballet step : CHASSED
46
Thirty, in Montréal : TRENTE
48
Broken mirrors and others : OMENS
51
Be of use to : AVAIL
52
English Channel feeder : SOMME
53
Coarse wool fabric : TWEED
54
___ Lee Corporation : SARA
55
Baby's bed : CRIB
56
Cordlike : ROPY
57
Bern's river : AARE

Answer summary:
1 debuted here and reused later, 5 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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