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New York Times, Tuesday, October 10, 2000

Author:
Frances Hansen
Editor:
Will Shortz
21-Across : Malady
TotalDebutLatest
12112/27/19643/29/2006
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Frances Hansen

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 38 Missing: {JQXZ} Spans: 2 This is puzzle # 112 for Ms. Hansen. Tuesday freshness: 15%
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© 2000, The New York Times10/10/0 ( No. 18,599 )
Across
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Five-time Wimbledon champion : BORG
5
Box a bit : SPAR
9
Prepare to swallow : CHEW
13
"I'll go along with that" : OKAY
14
Part of an act : SCENE
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Marathon : RACE
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Play starring 62-Across, 1952 : MRSMCTHING
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Wrinkle remover : IRON
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Humbug preceder : BAH
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"___ we having fun yet?" : ARE
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Malady : AILMENT
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Mosque priests : IMAMS
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Get the picture : SEE
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Film starring 62-Across, 1932 : AFAREWELLTOARMS
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More mature : OLDER
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"When Will ___ Loved" : IBE
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He should have swatted those two flies : NOAH
36
Stephen of "The Crying Game" : REA
37
Oscar-winner for 62-Across, 1970 : AIRPORT
41
New Deal org. : NRA
42
Column next to the ones : TENS
44
New: Prefix : NEO
45
"The Thinker" sculptor : RODIN
47
Play starring 62-Across, 1958 : ATOUCHOFTHEPOET
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Wahine's offering : LEI
52
Leader's place : FRONT
53
Unlucky : HAPLESS
57
The Trojans : USC
58
Diagnostic scanner, briefly : MRI
61
Jai ___ : ALAI
62
Tony-, Oscar- and Emmy-winner born 10/10/1900 : HELENHAYES
65
Starting point in tennis : LOVE
66
Cremona violin-maker : AMATI
67
Russia's ___ Mountains : URAL
68
Graze : FEED
69
Puente known as "El Rey" : TITO
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Cabbagelike vegetable : KALE
Down
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Big flop : BOMB
2
Gumbo : OKRA
3
Impetuous : RASH
4
Sock hop locale : GYM
5
Plot : SCHEME
6
Eastern Canadian prov. : PEI
7
Moffo or Magnani : ANNA
8
Sign on : REGISTER
9
___ War of 1853-56 : CRIMEAN
10
Loser to a tortoise : HARE
11
Nobel Prize subj. : ECON
12
Didn't stay : WENT
14
Pallet stuffer : STRAW
17
"Cheese" is produced near this : CAMERA
22
Prideful one, astrologically : LEO
23
High dudgeon : IRE
24
Remove, as shoes : SLIPOFF
26
Main artery : AORTA
27
Armada : FLEET
28
Hersey's bell town : ADANO
29
Wall St. deal : LBO
30
Sonata section : RONDO
31
Madame Curie : MARIE
32
Defiant answer to "Shall!" : SHANT
38
Where Yankee Doodle stuck a feather : INHISHAT
39
Alternative to a Maxwell : REO
40
Soldiers' ditch : TRENCH
43
Defiled : SULLIED
46
Go (for) : OPT
48
Unexciting grade : CEE
49
Closely following : TRUETO
50
Egypt's Mubarak : HOSNI
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Big share : HALF
54
___ vera : ALOE
55
Smooth the way : PAVE
56
Big rig : SEMI
58
Dame Hess : MYRA
59
Genuine : REAL
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Part of an archipelago : ISLE
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Opposite of long. : LAT
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Bering Sea bird : AUK

Answer summary:
1 debuted here and reused later, 4 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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