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New York Times, Monday, December 18, 2000

Author:
Nancy Kavanaugh
Editor:
Will Shortz
15-Across : Cat's hello
TotalDebutLatest
265/3/19996/25/2012
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Nancy Kavanaugh

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 38 Missing: {FJQXZ} This is puzzle # 5 for Ms. Kavanaugh. Monday freshness: 17%
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© 2000, The New York Times12/18/0 ( No. 18,668 )
Across
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Hockey disk : PUCK
5
Stately trees : ELMS
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Cousin of the raccoon : COATI
14
Symbol on the Hollywood Walk of Fame : STAR
15
Cat's hello : MEOW
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Milk dispenser : UDDER
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Indian dress : SARI
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Island east of Java : BALI
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Paris divider : SEINE
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1948 Olivia de Havilland drama : THESNAKEPIT
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Ages and ages : EON
24
Computer in "2001" : HAL
25
Start of a correction : ERASURE
27
Actor's stand-in : STUNTMAN
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40 days and 40 nights boat : ARK
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Kind of cavity : NASAL
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Desperate, as an effort : LASTDITCH
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Up there in years : OLD
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Vengeful feeling : SPITE
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Electronics giant : RCA
42
Dark spot in outer space : BLACKHOLE
45
Borrow, slangily : MOOCH
47
Dessert from an oven : PIE
48
Island in the West Indies : STMARTIN
50
Crooner Frank : SINATRA
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Whimsical : ODD
55
Suffix with sulf- : IDE
56
Possible title for this puzzle : CANYOUDIGIT
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Circumference : GIRTH
64
Seizes : GETS
65
___ a one : NARY
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Astronomical flareups : NOVAE
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Fill completely : SATE
68
At the summit of : ATOP
69
Uncompromising : STERN
70
Stepped (on) : TROD
71
Jay of "The Tonight Show" : LENO
Down
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"Hey ... over here!" : PSST
2
Great Salt Lake locale : UTAH
3
Give a darn : CARE
4
Hare ___ (religious sect) : KRISHNA
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Preserve for burial : EMBALM
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Pipe problem : LEAK
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Double agent : MOLE
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Put through a machine, as a credit card : SWIPE
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Puddinglike dessert : CUSTARD
10
"___ to Billie Joe" : ODE
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French farewell : ADIEU
12
Male caroler, maybe : TENOR
13
Actress Pappas : IRENE
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Part of N.R.A.: Abbr. : NATL
22
Furious : IRATE
26
Hit the slopes : SKI
27
Haughty one : SNOB
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Like a six-footer : TALL
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Initials in food certification : USDA
30
Brand for Rover : ALPO
31
Polish sites : NAILS
35
Proofreading mark : STET
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What horses with sulkies do : TROT
37
Old-fashioned 301 : CCCI
38
See 58-Down : HAHN
40
He-Man's twin sister, in TV cartoons : SHERA
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Tax pro, for short : CPA
44
Where meals are made : KITCHEN
45
Sober-motorists org. : MADD
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First, second, or third, e.g. : ORDINAL
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Hunted rodents : MOUSED
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Yield and No Parking : SIGNS
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Pinhead : IDIOT
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Chutzpah : NERVE
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Anxious feeling : ANGST
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Two semesters : YEAR
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With 38-Down, Nobel-winning German chemist : OTTO
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Fence opening : GATE
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Part of steel : IRON
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Printing goof : TYPO
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Driveway stuff : TAR

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