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New York Times, Monday, November 27, 2000

Author:
Nancy Salomon and Marjorie Berg
Editor:
Will Shortz
1-Across : Starts of card games
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
1868/13/199511/7/2012116
SunMonTueWedThuFriSatVariety
3633533719611
RebusCircleScrabDebutFresh
1521.5890833%
Nancy Salomon
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
97/3/200011/14/20053
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
0900000
ScrabDebutFresh
1.573311%
Marjorie Berg

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 34 Missing: {QVZ} This is puzzle # 64 for Ms. Salomon. This is puzzle # 4 for Ms. Berg. Monday freshness: 85%
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D
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G
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© 2000, The New York Times11/27/0 ( No. 18,647 )
Across
1
Starts of card games : DEALS
6
Tree in Miami : PALM
10
"Dear" advice-giver : ABBY
14
Sing the praises of : EXTOL
15
Pavarotti piece : ARIA
16
Ripsnorter : LULU
17
Distasteful dose : BITTERPILL
19
Catchall abbr. : ETAL
20
Hogs' home : STY
21
Checked out : EYED
22
Hate with a passion : LOATHE
24
Practice in the ring : SPAR
25
Wipe out : ERASE
26
Irish capital : DUBLIN
29
Partridge's perch, in song : PEARTREE
32
Refrigerator gas : FREON
33
___ and all : WARTS
34
Undergrad degrees: Abbr. : BAS
35
Lo-cal : LITE
36
Actress Day : DORIS
37
College entrance exams : SATS
38
Play a role : ACT
39
Cole Porter title city : PAREE
40
Actress Roberts : JULIA
41
Deep-sea diver's distress : THEBENDS
43
Not innocent : GUILTY
44
Cox of "Total Recall" : RONNY
45
Cartoonist Walker : MORT
46
___-on-the-spot : JOHNNY
48
Walkman maker : SONY
49
Food additive : MSG
52
The "A" of Chester A. Arthur : ALAN
53
Part of a breakfast stack : BATTERCAKE
56
Two-thirds of the Belmont Stakes : MILE
57
Cousin of the bassoon : OBOE
58
Computer chip maker : INTEL
59
Hardly hard : SOFT
60
Small boat : YAWL
61
Goes at like a beaver : GNAWS
Down
1
Young socialites : DEBS
2
Way out : EXIT
3
Bar member: Abbr. : ATTY
4
Realtor's unit : LOT
5
Catch some extra Z's : SLEEPIN
6
Tribune or Post : PAPER
7
Dry as a bone : ARID
8
Diamond ___ : LIL
9
Shopping center habitués : MALLRATS
10
N.Y. Yankees div. : ALEAST
11
Turkey type : BUTTERBALL
12
Ho-hum : BLAH
13
Season to be jolly : YULE
18
Meg of "Sleepless in Seattle" : RYAN
23
Boat propellers : OARS
24
Gin flavor : SLOE
25
Spine-tingling : EERIE
26
C sharp : DFLAT
27
"Vega$" star Robert : URICH
28
Spouse, jokingly : BETTERHALF
29
Peels : PARES
30
1984 Weird Al Yankovic hit : EATIT
31
Piece in Harper's : ESSAY
33
Long-winded : WORDY
36
Irish lad of song : DANNYBOY
37
Legal action : SUIT
39
Quaker William : PENN
40
Patch up, in a way : JURYRIG
42
Hat tied under the chin : BONNET
43
Used up : GONE
45
Roadside stopover : MOTEL
46
Photocopier problems : JAMS
47
Mishmash : OLIO
48
Stash away : STOW
49
Spy ___ Hari : MATA
50
Slant unfairly : SKEW
51
Toothpaste types : GELS
54
Lawyers' org. : ABA
55
Larry King employer : CNN

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 5 debuted here and reused later, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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