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New York Times, Monday, November 2, 1998

Author:
Sheldon Benardo
Editor:
Will Shortz
62-Across : Hippie attire
TotalDebutLatest
117/6/19988/28/2008
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
0603200
ScrabDebutFresh
1.482815%
Sheldon Benardo

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 74, Blocks: 38 Missing: {JQVXZ} Spans: 1 This is puzzle # 2 for Mr. Benardo. Monday freshness: 49%
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© 1998, The New York Times11/2/98 ( No. 17,891 )
Across
1
Castle protection : MOAT
5
Watch chains : FOBS
9
Moby-Dick, for one : WHALE
14
Tuneful Fitzgerald : ELLA
15
Nabisco cookie : OREO
16
Sponsorship : AEGIS
17
Coal stratum : SEAM
18
True : REAL
19
Affixes in a scrapbook, say : GLUES
20
Willie Mays at the Y? : AGIANTAMONGMEN
23
Traffic arteries : ROADS
24
Corrida cry : OLE
25
Olympic awards : MEDALS
28
Study of verse : POETICS
32
Standing : ERECT
33
Horse color : ROAN
35
Slice : CUT
36
Crossword by Joe DiMaggio, e.g.? : YANKEEINGENUITY
40
Somme summer : ETE
41
TV's Nick at ___ : NITE
42
NBC newsman Roger : ONEIL
43
She played the pretty woman in "Pretty Woman" : ROBERTS
46
Not mono : STEREO
47
Former Mideast inits. : UAR
48
Was inquisitive : ASKED
50
Ken Griffey Jr. at 100? : ANCIENTMARINER
56
Disappearing phone features : DIALS
57
Final notice : OBIT
58
Part of a marching band : TUBA
59
Wally's pal in "Leave It to Beaver" : EDDIE
60
Post-Christmas event : SALE
61
Dutch cheese : EDAM
62
Hippie attire : BEADS
63
Ogles : EYES
64
Lairs : DENS
Down
1
Phoenix suburb : MESA
2
Designer Cassini : OLEG
3
Jai ___ : ALAI
4
American larch : TAMARACK
5
Former Supreme Court Justice Abe : FORTAS
6
Mountain nymph : OREAD
7
Rays : BEAMS
8
Alone : SOLO
9
Move rapidly from side to side : WAGGLE
10
Footballer's protection : HELMET
11
Chills : AGUE
12
Legal claim : LIEN
13
Test-track curve : ESS
21
Nick of "The Prince of Tides" : NOLTE
22
Opposite of everybody : NOONE
25
Notorious Lansky : MEYER
26
Muse with a lyre : ERATO
27
Star in Cygnus : DENEB
28
Leaf : PAGE
29
Less welcoming : ICIER
30
___ pie (sweetheart) : CUTIE
31
French pen : STYLO
33
Reformer Jacob : RIIS
34
It's west of Que. : ONT
37
___ nous (confidentially) : ENTRE
38
Citer : NOTER
39
Like a first draft : UNEDITED
44
Geometer of 300 B.C. : EUCLID
45
Workers' rewards : RAISES
46
Ice hockey equipment : SKATES
48
Cornered : ATBAY
49
Photog's request : SMILE
50
Helper : AIDE
51
Zippo : NADA
52
Sniffer : NOSE
53
Classic art subject : NUDE
54
Israel's Abba : EBAN
55
Butts : RAMS
56
Society girl : DEB

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