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New York Times, Wednesday, December 8, 1999

Author:
Fred Piscop
Editor:
Will Shortz
6-Across : Bryn ___ College
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Fred Piscop

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 36 Missing: {QX} This is puzzle # 67 for Mr. Piscop. Wednesday freshness: 28%
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© 1999, The New York Times12/8/99 ( No. 18,292 )
Across
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Drops out of the game : FOLDS
6
Bryn ___ College : MAWR
10
Complement of socks : PAIR
14
Martin's "That's ___" : AMORE
15
Baseball family name : ALOU
16
Ferber of fiction : EDNA
17
Keys to a jail? : CANOPENERS
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Beats by a hair : NIPS
20
Track support : TRESTLE
21
Reorganize, and then some : SHAKEUP
23
Ford Explorer, e.g. : SUV
24
Tavern munchies : BEERNUTS
25
None too smart : DIM
28
Soggy ground : MIRE
30
Actor Wallach : ELI
31
Commotions : ADOS
33
Somersault : ROLL
35
Football-shaped : OVOID
39
Tabasco quality : ZEST
40
Worth an "F" : AWFUL
42
Like French toast : EGGY
43
Indian honorific : SAHIB
45
Poet Teasdale : SARA
46
Tart plum : SLOE
47
Poet McKuen : ROD
49
FedExed : SENT
51
Pull a boner : ERR
52
Rectangular score marking : HALFREST
56
Subway alternative : CAB
58
"Slips my mind" : IFORGET
59
Sonora shawls : SERAPES
63
They have holes in their middles : TORI
64
Faith among jailbirds? : JOINTTRUST
66
Canadian Indian : CREE
67
___ breve (music marking) : ALLA
68
Concert pianist Claudio : ARRAU
69
Coop group : HENS
70
Kennel plaint : YELP
71
Any "I Love Lucy" episode, now : RERUN
Down
1
Almanac tidbit : FACT
2
Baseballer Vizquel : OMAR
3
Unattended : LONE
4
Smeltery waste : DROSS
5
Biological wall : SEPTUM
6
Leonine locks : MANE
7
Rathskeller quaff : ALE
8
On the decline : WORSE
9
Fraternity hopeful : RUSHEE
10
Source of some jail violence? : PENKNIVES
11
Polite goodbye : ADIEU
12
Enter : INPUT
13
Horse-hoof smoothers : RASPS
18
"___ Madigan" (1967 film) : ELVIRA
22
Comic strip "___ and Janis" : ARLO
24
Site of longtime strife : BELFAST
25
Häagen-___ : DAZS
26
Inkling : IDEA
27
Dance in a 90's rock club : MOSH
29
Column crossers : ROWS
32
Side dish in a jail? : STIRFRIES
34
Tackle box item : LURE
36
Make eyes at : OGLE
37
Stereotypical lab assistant : IGOR
38
Coloring expert : DYER
41
Surgical incision maker : LANCET
44
Tennis's Bjorn : BORG
48
Wedding band alternative : DEEJAY
50
Prophylaxis target : TARTAR
52
Thumb : HITCH
53
Prior to, dialectally : AFORE
54
"Two Women" Oscar winner : LOREN
55
Pilfered : STOLE
57
Wilkes-___, Pa. : BARRE
59
Piece of cake : SNAP
60
Sound of a fine-tuned engine : PURR
61
Jacob's twin : ESAU
62
Leave speechless : STUN
65
Scarcely : ILL

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