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New York Times, Saturday, October 2, 1999

Author:
Rich Norris
Editor:
Will Shortz
14-Across : Solo
TotalDebutLatest
1894/27/19948/3/2024
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31.571,11574%
Rich Norris

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 70, Blocks: 34 Missing: {JKQXYZ} This is puzzle # 110 for Mr. Norris. Saturday freshness: 25%
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© 1999, The New York Times10/2/99 ( No. 18,225 )
Across
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Finds, informally : SCARESUP
9
Interruption cause, maybe : PAGER
14
Solo : ALLALONE
15
Cricket violation : NOBALL
16
Traction aids : BATHMATS
17
God represented in mummy wrappings : OSIRIS
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Remain : LIE
19
Teller : SNITCH
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Once, once : ERST
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Goes off : ERRS
24
Qaddafi, for one : DESPOT
26
Only Super Bowl won by the Jets : III
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___ Park : ESTES
29
Five-time Iditarod winner Rick : SWENSON
31
Start over : REOPEN
34
1963 Ray Charles hit : NOONE
35
Whale's location? : THAR
37
W.W. II battle site, for short : IWO
38
Some servers : URNS
39
Farsi speaker : IRANI
40
Nuke, maybe : REWARM
42
1993 Peace Prize co-winner : MANDELA
44
Passing : DEATH
47
Dog with a curled tail : PUG
48
Mus. direction : RITARD
51
Lounge : LOAF
53
Burke of "Burke's Law" : AMOS
55
Rejected : VETOED
57
They pass through tubes : OVA
58
Excoriate : SAVAGE
60
Projects : RADIATES
62
Edberg of tennis : STEFAN
63
Vented repressed feelings : ACTEDOUT
64
Like most owls : EARED
65
Times for shooting stars : PHOTOOPS
Down
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Black : SABLE
2
Eau ___ : CLAIRE
3
Makes fit : ALTERS
4
"Well done!" : RAH
5
"The moan of doves in immemorial ___": Tennyson : ELMS
6
Stinker : SOANDSO
7
Free : UNTIE
8
Annoyances : PESTS
9
Dropoff points: Abbr. : POS
10
Anne Nichols hero : ABIE
11
Outpost group : GARRISON
12
Speakers' shortcuts : ELISIONS
13
"Goosebumps" series author : RLSTINE
15
Ever, in dialect : NOHOW
20
"Strangers and Brothers" novelist : CPSNOW
23
Hair piece : STRAND
25
Staying power? : TENURE
28
More fantastic : EERIER
30
Standard : NORMAL
32
Plagiarist : PIRATE
33
One in a flock : EWE
35
Shocks : TRAUMATA
36
Toot follower : HANGOVER
39
Standoff : IMPASSE
41
Supplemented : ADDEDTO
43
Energize : LIVEN
45
Overly : TOOTOO
46
Escort, as to one's flat : HAVEUP
49
"It's ___!" (cry in a police drama) : ATRAP
50
Kind of motel : ROACH
52
Religious observances : FASTS
54
Reliable : SAFE
56
Losing proposition? : DIET
59
Not stay at home : GAD
61
Rumpus : ADO

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1 unique to this puzzle, 5 debuted here and reused later, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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