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New York Times, Saturday, October 10, 1998

Author:
Bob Klahn
Editor:
Will Shortz
62-Across : Not kissproof
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
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CircleScrabDebutFresh
11.5746577%
Bob Klahn

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 70, Blocks: 32 Missing: {FQX} Spans: 1 This is puzzle # 33 for Mr. Klahn. Saturday freshness: 26%
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H
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O
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N
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J
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K
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E
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A
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U
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B
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J
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© 1998, The New York Times10/10/98 ( No. 17,868 )
Across
1
Knee-slapper : HOTONE
7
Trigger, for one : PALOMINO
15
"Foundation Trilogy" author : ASIMOV
16
Cut off : ISOLATED
17
Ace place? : SLEEVE
18
Stymied : THWARTED
19
Pal of Pooh : TIGGER
20
Vaudevillian, in a way : CORNY
21
Red-tagged : ONSALE
22
Fruitless : ARID
23
Pickle : JAM
26
Makes out : ESPIES
28
Corporate image : LOGO
29
Abalone eater : SEAOTTER
33
Eager to try : KEENON
35
Monks' head : ABBOT
36
Yerby's "A Rose for ___ Maria" : ANA
38
Safire subject : USAGE
39
Falls off the wagon : BOOZES
41
Candid, perhaps : SNAPSHOT
43
Deadly desire : ENVY
44
Statue base : PLINTH
46
Highball ingredient : RYE
47
Rushes : HIES
48
4:00 service : TEASET
53
Playwright/novelist Capek : KAREL
54
Transfix : IMPALE
55
Tortellini topping : MARINARA
58
Bad atmosphere : MIASMA
59
North Sea port : ABERDEEN
60
"Belvedere" artist : ESCHER
61
Rusty locale : JUNKYARD
62
Not kissproof : SMEARY
Down
1
Can't help but : HASTO
2
"Hold Me" country Grammy winner, 1988 : OSLIN
3
"The Way to Natural Beauty" author, 1980 : TIEGS
4
The end of Plato? : OMEGA
5
10,000 words, perhaps : NOVELETTE
6
Mountain known locally as Chomolungma : EVEREST
7
1934 Hall and Nordhoff adventure novel : PITCAIRNSISLAND
8
Taking liberty : ASHORE
9
Having little exposure : LOWRISK
10
Warner of Hollywood : OLAND
11
One of the Tudors : MARY
12
Onetime electronics giant : ITT
13
By birth : NEE
14
Like one : ODD
23
Person thought to bring bad luck : JONAH
24
To your heart's content : AGOGO
25
"Rouen Cathedral" painter : MONET
27
Kind of coal or coat : PEA
28
Nothing ___ : LESS
29
Its rattle is threatening : SABER
30
Key material : EBONY
31
"Heavens ___!" : ABOVE
32
Like mud : OOZY
34
Egad, e.g. : EUPHEMISM
37
Common female middle name : ANN
40
Meadowsweet : SPIRAEA
42
Now and again : ATTIMES
45
One with awful looks? : LEERER
47
Just around the corner : HANDY
49
Chop-chop : APACE
50
Princess in Woolf's "Orlando" : SASHA
51
Bugs chaser : ELMER
52
Starting to break down : TEARY
53
TV captain : KIRK
55
Key abbr. : MAJ
56
"The Thief of Baghdad" role : ABU
57
Cartoon character who says "You eediot!" : REN

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