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New York Times, Wednesday, November 13, 1996

Author:
M. Nosowsky
Editor:
Will Shortz
21-Across : Sped
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2548/27/19928/13/20102
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611.571,613877%
Manny Nosowsky

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 34 Missing: {QVXZ} Spans: 2 This is puzzle # 57 for Mr. Nosowsky. Wednesday freshness: 26%
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© 1996, The New York Times11/13/96 ( No. 17,172 )
Across
1
Portend : BODE
5
Over : ATOP
9
Short and maybe sweet : TERSE
14
A party to : INON
15
Where the Villa Borghese is : ROMA
16
Massage : KNEAD
17
Movie short about a perfectly timed ape? : ACLOCKWORKORANG
20
Frame : SETUP
21
Sped : TORE
22
Wild party : ORGY
23
Teri of "Tootsie" : GARR
25
Auto import from Europe : OPEL
27
Cummerbund : SASH
30
Movie short about arrestin' writer Anita? : BUSTINLOOS
35
It's unsmelted : ORE
36
Early Brit : PICT
37
Deem appropriate : SEEFIT
38
City for Miss Kitty : DODGE
40
Plop or plunk starter : KER
42
___-mouthed : MEALY
43
Brunch fare : OMELET
45
Actor Calhoun : RORY
47
Set : GEL
48
Movie short about a tireless parent? : MARATHONMA
50
"One man's ___ is another man's Persian" : MEDE
51
O'Casey or Penn : SEAN
52
Slightly open : AJAR
54
Maladies, worries, etc. : WOES
57
Withdraw by degrees : WEAN
59
Levi's "Christ Stopped at ___" : EBOLI
63
Movie short about Capone in court? : ANDJUSTICEFORAL
66
Sub detector : SONAR
67
Small songster : WREN
68
Astronaut Armstrong : NEIL
69
Jumbo shrimp : PRAWN
70
___ buco : OSSO
71
Small boat : DORY
Down
1
Opinion of others? : BIAS
2
In times past : ONCE
3
Blockhead : DOLT
4
"Stop already!" : ENOUGH
5
Two-by-two craft : ARK
6
Emergency hauler : TOWTRUCK
7
"Typee" sequel : OMOO
8
Repeat without thinking : PARROT
9
Ring result : TKO
10
Official class member : ENROLLEE
11
Kind of guard or end : REAR
12
Trilled : SANG
13
On pins and needles : EDGY
18
I.R.S. employee : CPA
19
French military caps : KEPIS
24
Baseball stat : RBI
26
Adversary : ENEMY
27
Sin city : SODOM
28
Free bakery "promotion" : AROMA
29
Matzoh time : SEDER
31
Back of a boat : STERN
32
Over 21 : OFAGE
33
Half-seas over : OILED
34
Fashion : STYLE
36
P.G.A.'s Calvin : PEETE
39
Vulnerable boxer's point : GLASSJAW
41
Woos : ROMANCES
44
Warms up : THAWS
46
British rule in India : RAJ
49
Boxer's combo : ONETWO
50
007, to Goldfinger : MRBOND
53
W.W. I army: Abbr. : AEF
54
Stinger : WASP
55
___ about (approximately) : ONOR
56
Author Ferber : EDNA
58
Tunes : AIRS
60
It's a cookie : OREO
61
Beastly home : LAIR
62
In a sick way : ILLY
64
Vase : URN
65
Musician Brian : ENO

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