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New York Times, Monday, November 16, 1998

Author:
Nancy Salomon and Bob Frank
Editor:
Will Shortz
45-Across : Road-paving stuff
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
1868/13/199511/7/2012116
SunMonTueWedThuFriSatVariety
3633533719611
RebusCircleScrabDebutFresh
1521.5890833%
Nancy Salomon
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
511/16/19982/17/20044
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0410000
ScrabDebutFresh
1.551822%
Bob Frank

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 34 Missing: {JMQ} Spans: 3 This is puzzle # 18 for Ms. Salomon. This is the debut puzzle for Mr. Frank. Monday freshness: 41%
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© 1998, The New York Times11/16/98 ( No. 17,905 )
Across
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Like giants : TALL
5
Colorado resort : ASPEN
10
Up to the task : ABLE
14
Inspiration : IDEA
15
Puppeteer Lewis : SHARI
16
Emcee Trebek : ALEX
17
1966 Beatles song : GOODDAYSUNSHINE
20
Journalist Pyle : ERNIE
21
Door sign during store hours : OPEN
22
Refusals : NOS
23
Newspaper customers : READERS
26
Tire pattern : TREAD
28
Not for minors : ADULT
30
Begins, as work : SETSTO
33
Classifieds, e.g. : ADS
36
Pile : HEAP
38
Close, as a windbreaker : ZIPUP
39
1976 Harry Chapin song : BETTERPLACETOBE
43
Germless : CLEAN
44
Narrate : TELL
45
Road-paving stuff : TAR
46
New Jersey N.H.L.ers : DEVILS
48
Smacks : SLAPS
51
Poet T. S. ___ : ELIOT
53
Smacked the baseball good and hard : SWATTED
57
Have title to : OWN
59
Hot Springs and others : SPAS
61
"___ Doone" (1869 novel) : LORNA
62
1950 Ethel Merman song : BESTTHINGFORYOU
66
De-wrinkle : IRON
67
Occupied : INUSE
68
Pottery oven : KILN
69
Jamboree shelter : TENT
70
Unable to flee : ATBAY
71
Home runs or r.b.i.'s, e.g. : STAT
Down
1
Princeton or Clemson mascot : TIGER
2
Love to pieces : ADORE
3
Hotelier Helmsley : LEONA
4
"Well, ___!" ("Ain't you somethin'!") : LADIDA
5
Solid ___ rock : ASA
6
Like a wallflower : SHY
7
El ___, Tex. : PASO
8
Blow one's top : ERUPT
9
S.F. footballers, informally : NINERS
10
"Say ___" (doctor's order) : AAH
11
Lane changer's danger : BLINDSPOT
12
Comic Jay : LENO
13
Donald and Ivana, Burt and Loni, etc. : EXES
18
Monopoly acquisition : DEED
19
Reason to say "Gesundheit!" : SNEEZE
24
German industrial locale : RUHR
25
Got some shuteye : SLEPT
27
Working hard : ATIT
29
"The Canterbury ___" : TALES
31
Big brass instrument : TUBA
32
0, on a telephone: Abbr. : OPER
33
Multiple choice choices : ABCD
34
Strike out, as text : DELE
35
Eisenhower opponent : STEVENSON
37
Becomes tiresome : PALLS
40
Follow closely : TAIL
41
Join the military : ENLIST
42
Bear's scratcher : CLAW
47
Actress Loren : SOPHIA
49
___ Alto, Calif. : PALO
50
Baby deliverers, in birth announcements : STORKS
52
Corrupt : TAINT
54
Mom's urging to a picky eater : TRYIT
55
___ Gay (W.W. II plane) : ENOLA
56
Intimidate : DAUNT
57
Parting words? : OBIT
58
"The Way We ___" : WERE
60
Elitist's rejection : SNUB
63
Big bang maker : TNT
64
Govt. property overseer : GSA
65
Whimsical : FEY

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2 unique to this puzzle, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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