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New York Times, Tuesday, December 28, 1999

Author:
Randall J. Hartman
Editor:
Will Shortz
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Randall J. Hartman

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 40 Missing: {QWX} Spans: 1 This is puzzle # 31 for Mr. Hartman. Tuesday freshness: 3%
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© 1999, The New York Times12/28/99 ( No. 18,312 )
Across
1
Charlie Parker's music : JAZZ
5
High-five sound : SLAP
9
"Gunga Din" setting : INDIA
14
Fortuneteller's beginning : ISEE
15
Adorable : CUTE
16
Has to have : NEEDS
17
It has a broad side : BARN
18
Cupid : AMOR
19
Lowlands, to poets : VALES
20
Black eye : POORREPUTATION
23
Do something : ACT
24
___ Master's Voice : HIS
25
It goes from C to C : OCTAVE
29
Analogous : AKIN
31
"___ Rosenkavalier" : DER
34
Detergent target : GRIME
35
Rose's Broadway beau : ABIE
36
Lavish attention (on) : DOTE
37
Red-eye : LATENIGHTFLIGHT
40
"Mrs. Bridge" author Connell : EVAN
41
Abbr. in many company names : BROS
42
Lancelot's attire : ARMOR
43
Room to relax in : DEN
44
Peter or Paul : TSAR
45
On pins and needles : UNEASY
46
Prior to, to Prior : ERE
47
Genetic inits. : RNA
48
Pinkeye : CONJUNCTIVITIS
56
Burn soothers : ALOES
57
Carry on : RAVE
58
Opposed : ANTI
60
Color faintly : TINCT
61
Jai ___ : ALAI
62
Lute shape : PEAR
63
Like a sweep's uniform : SOOTY
64
End-of-class signal : BELL
65
Pound of poetry : EZRA
Down
1
Triangular sail : JIB
2
Job order notation : ASAP
3
Definitely a flunking score : ZERO
4
Founder of Stoicism : ZENO
5
Like cabs on a rainy day : SCARCE
6
"Serpico" director Sidney : LUMET
7
Resting on : ATOP
8
Where the Amazon rises : PERU
9
To no avail : INVAIN
10
___-foot oil : NEATS
11
Pickle purveyor : DELI
12
Logical start? : IDEO
13
Org. : ASSN
21
Poe called it "grim, ungainly, ghastly, gaunt and ominous" : RAVEN
22
Chop shop supplier : THIEF
25
Gawked at : OGLED
26
Hunger for : CRAVE
27
Moon of Saturn : TITAN
28
"Right on!" : AMEN
29
Dislike, and then some : ABHOR
30
Do-it-yourselfers' needs : KITS
31
Doctrine : DOGMA
32
Cultural values : ETHOS
33
Take another shot : RETRY
35
Taj Mahal site : AGRA
36
Awful : DIRE
38
"Ghosts" playwright : IBSEN
39
Island west of Maui : LANAI
44
Reliable : TRUSTY
45
Show for the first time : UNVEIL
46
Tape deck button : EJECT
47
Letterman, to Leno : RIVAL
48
"Memory" musical : CATS
49
Mixed bag : OLIO
50
Eating peas with a knife, e.g. : NONO
51
Grouch : CRAB
52
Whopper : TALE
53
End of a dash : TAPE
54
Don Juan's mother : INEZ
55
Top banana : STAR
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Author Levin : IRA

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