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New York Times, Wednesday, November 26, 1997

Author:
Nancy Schuster
Editor:
Will Shortz
64-Across : 58-Across ingredient
TotalDebutLatest
127/31/196511/26/1997
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
3213201
ScrabDebutPre‑WSFresh
1.5771027%
Nancy Schuster

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 74, Blocks: 46 Missing: {JQW} This is puzzle # 12 for Ms. Schuster. Wednesday freshness: 71%
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© 1997, The New York Times11/26/97 ( No. 17,550 )
Across
1
Junk E-mail : SPAM
5
Good engine sounds : PURRS
10
Police cry : RAID
14
Tramp : HOBO
15
Cause of an 1839-42 war : OPIUM
16
Giggler of Sesame Street : ELMO
17
Telephone button : HOLD
18
"Pagliacci" baritone : TONIO
19
Carson's predecessor at NBC : PAAR
20
Pleasantly drunk, so to speak : FEELINGNOPAIN
23
"Winnie-the-Pooh" baby : ROO
24
___ chi ch'uan : TAI
25
Extra added detraction? : FINANCECHARGE
32
H.S. math : ALG
33
Hot : SEXY
34
Vice ___ : VERSA
36
Bacteria-inhibiting drug : SULFA
39
French nobleman : DUC
40
"Waiting for Lefty" playwright : ODETS
41
Run ___ of (violate) : AFOUL
42
Name on over 75 whodunits : ERLE
44
Comic screech : EEK
45
Paris attraction : FOLIESBERGERE
49
Alphabetic sequence : LMN
50
Veto : NIX
51
Make a mistake : FUMBLETHEBALL
58
Japanese soup : MISO
59
Iranian V.I.P.'s : IMAMS
60
Hairdo : COIF
62
Art patron ___ Kahn : OTTO
63
Hawley's tariff act co-sponsor : SMOOT
64
58-Across ingredient : TOFU
65
Call from the minaret : AZAN
66
Poet dramatized by Goethe : TASSO
67
Shortly : ANON
Down
1
Sound at the movies : SHH
2
"Now you see it, now you don't!" : POOF
3
Skilled : ABLE
4
Big Apple museum, for short, with "the" : MODERN
5
Witches' brews : POTIONS
6
Well-informed about : UPON
7
Prize of the Nibelung : RING
8
Bankrupt : RUIN
9
Peanut butter choice : SMOOTH
10
Working again : REPAIRED
11
Jai ___ : ALAI
12
Single-named supermodel : IMAN
13
Like first-place medals in Grenoble : DOR
21
Mauna ___ : LOA
22
Nurmi, the Flying Finn : PAAVO
25
Cotton down : FLUFF
26
Yukon home : IGLOO
27
Gives over : CEDES
28
Demographer's region : EXURB
29
Sunrise to sunset to sunrise, e.g. : CYCLE
30
Feminist Germaine : GREER
31
First name in skin care : ESTEE
32
Simile's center : ASA
35
Quiz : ASK
37
Time for the werewolf alert : FULLMOON
38
Out on ___ : ALIMB
43
Che, formally : ERNESTO
46
Collect, as volunteers : ENLIST
47
Tomcat : GIB
48
Combo bet at Belmont : EXACTA
51
Irish name part : FITZ
52
Logo at Arthur Ashe Stadium : USTA
53
Austen heroine : EMMA
54
Santa Fe Trail stop : TAOS
55
Certain insurers : HMOS
56
Nutcase : LOON
57
Acctg. principle : LIFO
58
Kiwi's extinct cousin : MOA
61
Jollity : FUN

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