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New York Times, Monday, November 15, 1999

Author:
Nick Grivas
Editor:
Will Shortz
55-Across : Coke vis-à-vis Pepsi
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Nick Grivas

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 74, Blocks: 36 Missing: {JQXZ} Spans: 1 This is the debut puzzle for Mr. Grivas. Monday freshness: 45%
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© 1999, The New York Times11/15/99 ( No. 18,269 )
Across
1
Support, with "up" : PROP
5
Conveyance for Huckleberry Finn : RAFT
9
Dinner fowl : CAPON
14
Arizona Indian : HOPI
15
Singer Guthrie : ARLO
16
Popular pain reliever : ALEVE
17
No couch potato, him : DOER
18
500 sheets : REAM
19
Fathered : SIRED
20
French germ fighter in Missouri? : STLOUISPASTEUR
23
___ the task : UPTO
24
Now's opposite : THEN
25
Visited : CAMEBY
28
Adversaries : FOES
29
Female G.I. : WAC
32
Italian baritone Pasquale ___ : AMATO
33
Land of shamrocks : EIRE
34
Hence : ERGO
35
"M*A*S*H" star in Indiana? : FORTWAYNEROGERS
38
Buffalo's lake : ERIE
39
Exploit : DEED
40
"La Gare Saint-Lazare" artist : MONET
41
"Get it?" : SEE
42
Dolt : CLOD
43
Accumulations : MASSES
44
"One Life to Live," e.g. : SOAP
45
Writer Jaffe : RONA
46
Mexican muralist in California? : SANDIEGORIVERA
52
Handed down a decision : RULED
53
Nothin' : NADA
54
Revered object : IDOL
55
Coke vis-à-vis Pepsi : RIVAL
56
Disney's "___ and the Detectives" : EMIL
57
Africa's longest river : NILE
58
Tent-pitching need : STAKE
59
Actress Russo : RENE
60
Hardens : GELS
Down
1
High degrees? : PHDS
2
Cheer (for) : ROOT
3
German auto : OPEL
4
Ballet whirl : PIROUETTE
5
Hen's tooth, e.g. : RARITY
6
Response to "Am not!" : ARESO
7
Hoo-ha : FLAP
8
Crimson shade : TOMATORED
9
Social strata : CASTES
10
Not from Earth : ALIEN
11
Llama country : PERU
12
___ easy (eggs order) : OVER
13
Celebrated outlaw ___ Kelly : NED
21
Violin stroke : UPBOW
22
Transparent : SHEER
25
Casual eateries : CAFES
26
Love, in Roma : AMORE
27
Osmond or Curie : MARIE
28
Punished in addition to giving jail time : FINED
29
Small songbirds : WRENS
30
Come to terms : AGREE
31
Expenses : COSTS
33
Morning coffee, for one : EYEOPENER
34
Helping to avoid humiliation : EGOSAVING
36
1952 and '56 candidate Stevenson : ADLAI
37
Muscat resident : OMANI
42
Treat tenderly : CODDLE
43
It should be raised on a ship : MORALE
44
Move furtively : SNEAK
45
"The Thinker" sculptor : RODIN
46
Three-piece apparel : SUIT
47
Thomas ___ Edison : ALVA
48
Willing to take part : GAME
49
Singer Adams : EDIE
50
Restaurant freebie : ROLL
51
Pub brews : ALES
52
They have Xings : RRS

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