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New York Times, Thursday, October 12, 2000

Author:
A. J. Santora
Editor:
Will Shortz
61-Across : Pageant winner
TotalDebutLatest
2531/26/19565/22/2005
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RebusScrabDebutPre‑WSFresh
41.5234018556%
A. J. Santora

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 40 Missing: {QXZ} This is puzzle # 241 for Mr. Santora. Thursday freshness: 9%
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© 2000, The New York Times10/12/0 ( No. 18,601 )
Across
1
Tasks at checkout counters : SCANS
6
Scammed : HAD
9
Radio music format, in brief : MOR
12
Deli item : SALAMI
14
Bit : IOTA
15
"Chances ___" : ARE
16
Pageant attire : EVENINGGOWN
18
Musical symbol : DOT
19
Pageant venue : ATLANTICCITY
21
Protrude : JUT
24
What's-___-name : HER
25
Gets ready to swing : TEESUP
26
From : ASOF
28
Hot temper, e.g. : TRAIT
31
Unaided : LONE
32
Keep it coming : RENEW
34
Sails under false colors : PRETENDS
36
Old pageant name : BERTPARKS
39
Truman program : FAIRDEAL
42
Significant ___ : OTHER
46
Agin it : ANTI
47
Journalist Pearson et al. : DREWS
50
Princess Diana had one : AURA
51
Stone markers : STELES
53
Congeniality gesture : HUG
55
61-Across, e.g. : TEN
56
Pageant announcement : HERESHECOMES
60
___ moment : INA
61
Pageant winner : MISSAMERICA
65
It's superior to Lake Superior: Abbr. : ONT
66
Proof word : ERAT
67
Enron Field team : ASTROS
68
Burnsian negative : NAE
69
Comic Gilliam : STU
70
Lessens : EASES
Down
1
Wind dir. : SSE
2
Cleveland player, for short : CAV
3
Bar tap : ALE
4
Granny : NANA
5
Forge worker : SMITH
6
Something funny : HOOT
7
Nervous : ATWITTER
8
Pageant routine : DANCE
9
Big Apple thoroughfare : MADISON
10
Full and strong : OROTUND
11
Fixes, as a manuscript : RETYPES
13
Cove : INLET
14
Car key place: Abbr. : IGN
17
Actress Teri : GARR
20
Keyboard instrument : CELESTA
21
Place for pennies : JAR
22
Handling : USE
23
Amount of bricks : TON
27
Hot and shivery : FEBRILE
29
Computer giant : APPLE
30
Part of a pension plan, briefly : IRA
33
Joined : WED
35
Lights out, so to speak : TKO
37
Hold aside for a year, as a college athlete : REDSHIRT
38
Oozy stuff : TAR
39
Pageant display : FASHION
40
Feeler : ANTENNA
41
Stress, in a way : ITERATE
43
Straw construction : HUT
44
"___ on my bed my limbs I lay": Coleridge : ERE
45
Jogged : RAN
48
"Stop right there" : WHOA
49
Like some college honors : SUMMA
52
Salinger heroine et al. : ESMES
54
Honkers : GEESE
57
Genesis man : ESAU
58
St. Louis zone: Abbr. : CST
59
Mex. title : SRTA
62
Org. with a code : IRS
63
Iowa school : COE
64
Fool : ASS

Answer summary:
6 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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