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New York Times, Monday, December 29, 2003

Author:
Gregory E. Paul
Editor:
Will Shortz
53-Across : Auto commuter's companion
TotalDebutLatest
1169/13/199410/17/2005
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ScrabDebutFresh
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Gregory E. Paul

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 40 Missing: {JKQWXZ} Spans: 1 This is puzzle # 108 for Mr. Paul. Monday freshness: 3%
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© 2003, The New York Times12/29/3 ( No. 19,774 )
Across
1
Overabundance : GLUT
5
Party pooper : DRAG
9
Excited, in dialect : HETUP
14
Viking letter : RUNE
15
Counterpart of a count : EARL
16
Wipe off, as a slate : ERASE
17
Person in the '00 class, e.g. : ALUM
18
___ cost (free) : ATNO
19
King or czar : RULER
20
Very tight, as 38-Across : BUMPERTOBUMPER
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Peacock's pride : TAIL
24
Torched. : LIT
25
Departure's opposite: Abbr. : ARR
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Put back in office : REELECT
31
At wit's ___ : END
34
Seashore : COAST
36
Sidewalk stand drink : ADE
37
Jai ___ : ALAI
38
Subject of frequent reports by helicopter : RUSHHOURTRAFFIC
42
Catch sight of : ESPY
43
Old cloth : RAG
44
It helps you get a leg up : STILT
45
Mudhole : STY
46
Welsh ___ : RAREBIT
49
Hush-hush org. : NSA
50
"Can't Help Lovin' ___ Man" : DAT
51
Old-fashioned verses : ODES
53
Auto commuter's companion : DRIVETIMERADIO
60
Paris's river : SEINE
61
"Mamma Mia" group : ABBA
62
A deadly sin : LUST
63
Number of deadly sins : SEVEN
64
Convene : MEET
65
Cut like a letter opener : SLIT
66
Lock of hair : TRESS
67
Raison d'___ : ETRE
68
Additionally : ALSO
Down
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Get, as a cab : GRAB
2
Doozie : LULU
3
E pluribus ___ : UNUM
4
Entice : TEMPT
5
Honeybunch : DEARIE
6
Noisy toy : RATTLE
7
River through Florence : ARNO
8
Amount squeezed from a tube : GLOB
9
Loner : HERMIT
10
Blow one's top : ERUPT
11
Fable : TALE
12
Customer : USER
13
Pay-___-view : PER
21
Third rock from the sun : EARTH
22
Problem of the stomach lining : ULCER
25
Fields are measured in them : ACRES
26
Push out of bed : ROUST
27
Hoarse : RASPY
29
The "L" of XXL : LARGE
30
Summer hrs., in N.Y.C. : EDT
31
Spritelike : ELFIN
32
Symbols of hardness : NAILS
33
Judicial declarations : DICTA
35
Like a wallflower : SHY
37
Toward the stern : AFT
39
Preach : ORATE
40
Former Mideast alliance: Abbr. : UAR
41
Fall flower : ASTER
46
Baltimore 11 : RAVENS
47
Plane on a mission : BOMBER
48
Put on one's thinking cap : IDEATE
50
Has supper : DINES
52
Chip dip : SALSA
53
Bucks and does : DEER
54
Split : RIVE
55
Easily calmed : TAME
56
Sarcastic reply to an assurance : IBET
57
Uninteresting : DULL
58
Egyptian fertility goddess : ISIS
59
Director Preminger : OTTO
60
Champagne-flight jet : SST

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