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New York Times, Tuesday, February 18, 2003

Author:
Holden Baker
Editor:
Will Shortz
30-Across : What to eliminate ...
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Holden Baker

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 38 Missing: {JKQX} This is puzzle # 7 for Mr. Baker. Tuesday freshness: 9%
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© 2003, The New York Times2/18/3 ( No. 19,460 )
Across
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Like a tack : SHARP
6
Cape Cod town : TRURO
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Mercedes rival : BMW
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Fencing sword : SABER
15
Tore down : RAZED
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Sculler's need : OAR
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What to accentuate, to Bing Crosby ... : THEPOSITIVE
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Get mellower : AGE
20
Swift works : SATIRES
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Gown material : SATIN
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Neat dresser's quality : NATTINESS
27
Some radios : AMS
30
What to eliminate ... : THENEGATIVE
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Terra ___ : COTTA
36
Málaga Mrs. : SRA
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River to the Caspian : URAL
38
Home of the Jazz : UTAH
39
Rocker John : ELTON
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Cost to cross : TOLL
42
Abundant : RIFE
43
Place to graze : LEA
44
Have a gut feeling : SENSE
45
What to latch onto, with "the" ... : AFFIRMATIVE
49
Kobe currency : YEN
50
___ ridgeback (hunting dog) : RHODESIAN
52
Unable to sit still : ANTSY
55
Pre-cable need : ANTENNA
59
Halloween word : BOO
60
Whom not to mess with : MRINBETWEEN
64
Play for a sap : USE
65
Really spooky : EERIE
66
Lake ___, separating Switzerland and France : LEMAN
67
Mack who emceed TV's "The Original Amateur Hour" : TED
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Play for time : STALL
69
Bolt to unite : ELOPE
Down
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Fliers from De Gaulle : SSTS
2
"Good joke!" : HAHA
3
Help in a heist : ABET
4
Adjust, as a brooch : REPIN
5
Proportionately : PRORATA
6
See 32-Down : TRISTE
7
Squealer : RAT
8
Israeli weapon : UZI
9
Ministerial nickname : REV
10
Ukrainian port : ODESSA
11
Ferry or wherry : BOAT
12
Crèche trio : MAGI
13
Small songbird : WREN
18
Genesis son : SETH
22
Shrewd : ASTUTE
24
Administer the oath of office to : INSTATE
25
"I, Claudius" role : NERO
26
Alaska's first governor : EGAN
27
Integra maker : ACURA
28
Recurring theme : MOTIF
29
Shepherd's handful : STAFF
31
O. Henry specialty : IRONY
32
With 6-Down, Sibelius work : VALSE
33
Popular 90's sitcom : ELLEN
35
Not ours : THEIRS
39
Patron saint of sailors : ELMO
40
Heavy metal : LEAD
44
Space Needle site : SEATTLE
46
Rapper's improvisations : RHYMES
47
Sanford of "The Jeffersons" : ISABEL
48
Kudzu, for one : VINE
51
Staircase support : NEWEL
52
Border on : ABUT
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Cyrano's protrusion : NOSE
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Pigeon-___ : TOED
56
Verne skipper : NEMO
57
Kind of tide : NEAP
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___ Boleyn, queen to Henry VIII : ANNE
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Emeritus: Abbr. : RET
62
Nest egg letters : IRA
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Nada : NIL

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