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New York Times, Wednesday, October 20, 1999

Author:
Richard Silvestri
Editor:
Will Shortz
56-Across : Horned thing?
TotalDebutLatest
1821/12/197810/27/2024
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ScrabDebutPre‑WSFresh
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Richard Silvestri

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 38 Missing: {BFJQ} Spans: 1 This is puzzle # 85 for Mr. Silvestri. Wednesday freshness: 19%
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© 1999, The New York Times10/20/99 ( No. 18,243 )
Across
1
Insecticide target : APHID
6
New Year's popper : CORK
10
Truck stop order : HASH
14
"Time in a Bottle" singer : CROCE
15
Bit attachment : REIN
16
Where Lima is : OHIO
17
With 38- and 62-Across, why the maharishi refused Novocain : HEWANTEDTO
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Place to play blackjack : RENO
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Become balanced : EVENOUT
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Pull out : EXTRACT
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"___ magnifique!" : TRES
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Goes underground : HIDES
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Screech : SHRIEK
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Broadcast : AIRED
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Endless years : AEON
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Hardly important : MINOR
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Check cashers' cards : IDS
38
See 17-Across : TRANSCENDDENTAL
42
"My boy" : SON
43
Good going down : TASTY
44
Legal rights org. : ACLU
45
Like Vikings : NORSE
46
Gentle breeze : ZEPHYR
48
Command to Rover : SPEAK
51
Lead singer for the Belmonts : DION
53
Dispute : CONTEST
56
Horned thing? : DILEMMA
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Lots of laughs : RIOT
62
See 17-Across : MEDICATION
64
___ Royale National Park : ISLE
65
Spread served in bars : OLEO
66
"The Faerie Queene" division : CANTO
67
Orchard item : PEAR
68
Grab (onto) : GLOM
69
John of rock : ELTON
Down
1
Pine (for) : ACHE
2
Before: Abbr. : PREV
3
Sewing machine inventor : HOWE
4
"...___ do better!" : ICAN
5
Indicate : DENOTE
6
Aegean vacation locale : CRETE
7
Multivolume ref. work : OED
8
Initiation procedure : RITE
9
Fort ___ (gold repository) : KNOX
10
Abominable : HORRID
11
Coming up : AHEAD
12
Subsequently : SINCE
13
Heckling sounds : HOOTS
18
Izmir inhabitant : TURK
22
Start of many limericks : THERE
24
Like Mother Cabrini : SAINTED
26
Srs.' worry : SATS
27
Lifesaver, e.g. : HERO
28
Horse of a certain color : ROAN
29
Caravansary : INN
31
500 spot : INDY
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Fishing need : ROD
34
Snafu : MESS
35
Restless desire : ITCH
36
Emmy-winning Tyne : DALY
37
Insulting remark : SLUR
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Tend, as a fire : STOKE
40
Sleeper or smoker : CAR
41
Velvet pile : NAP
45
Run off at the mouth : NATTER
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Suffix on era names : ZOIC
47
Intertwine : ENLACE
48
Money substitute : SCRIP
49
Modeling asset : POISE
50
Bomber name : ENOLA
52
Challenge for a nonnative speaker : IDIOM
54
E.P.A. concern : SMOG
55
Confess : TELL
57
And others, for short : ETAL
58
Make change? : MINT
59
Marquand sleuth : MOTO
60
In a while : ANON
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"Gloria in excelsis ___" : DEO

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

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