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New York Times, Tuesday, February 24, 1998

Author:
Bill Ballard
Editor:
Will Shortz
35-Across : Statement from Pinocchio
TotalDebutLatest
102/24/19984/13/2004
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0342100
ScrabDebutFresh
1.573620%
Bill Ballard

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 38 Missing: {HQX} Spans: 3 This is the debut puzzle for Mr. Ballard. Tuesday freshness: 40%
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Z
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E
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D
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S
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S
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W
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K
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P
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O
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N
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V
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J
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Z
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© 1998, The New York Times2/24/98 ( No. 17,640 )
Across
1
What jazz ends with, in England : ZEDS
5
Leaves in, editorially : STETS
10
One who's decamped? : AWOL
14
Linen color : ECRU
15
One of the Dow Jones 30 : KODAK
16
Elizabeth of the Red Cross : DOLE
17
With 39-Across, often-quoted work of 1923 : STOPPINGBYWOODS
20
Sot : TOPER
21
Oval : ELLIPSE
22
Campus mil. org. : ROTC
25
90 degrees, on a compass : EAST
26
Unit of oil production: Abbr. : BBL
29
Matter to go to court over : TORT
31
Linen colors : BEIGES
35
Statement from Pinocchio : LIE
36
Old-fashioned music hall : ODEON
38
River to the English Channel : ORNE
39
See 17-Across : ONASNOWYEVENING
43
Evil one : OGRE
44
Common dice roll : SEVEN
45
Expected : DUE
46
Single-celled organisms : MONADS
49
Austin-based computer company : DELL
50
Knight : SIR
51
More than a snack : MEAL
53
Stir up : ROIL
55
Tropical woe : MALARIA
58
Israeli native : SABRA
62
What 17- and 39-Across is : ROBERTFROSTPOEM
65
Rainbows : ARCS
66
Rips to pieces : RENDS
67
Saroyan's "My Name is ___" : ARAM
68
TV sleuth Fletcher, to friends : JESS
69
Wear away : ERODE
70
Abysmal test score : ZERO
Down
1
Part of an orange : ZEST
2
Prefix with plasm : ECTO
3
Tiniest bit : DROP
4
Marvelous : SUPER
5
Schuss, e.g. : SKI
6
Quite a load : TON
7
Advantage : EDGE
8
Coffee ___ : TABLE
9
1973 NASA launch : SKYLAB
10
Alternative to pregnancy : ADOPTION
11
Coaxes : WOOS
12
Kind of shoppe : OLDE
13
"___ Miz" : LES
18
Subatomic particle : PROTON
19
Judicious : WISE
23
List heading : TODO
24
Ships' handlers : CREWS
26
Rarity for a century plant : BLOOM
27
"That's it!" : BINGO
28
Absorb facts : LEARN
30
Played (with) : TOYED
32
Diagrams : GRIDS
33
Ho-hum feeling : ENNUI
34
Rocker Bob : SEGER
37
"Well, I ___!" : NEVER
40
Like some stockings : SEAMLESS
41
Prefix with -drome : VELO
42
Sign up : ENLIST
47
Expensive : DEAR
48
"Les Mouches" dramatist : SARTRE
52
One with no hope of getting out : LIFER
54
Capital of Bolivia : LAPAZ
55
Extra : MORE
56
The basics : ABCS
57
Cartoonist Peter : ARNO
59
Reduce to tears, maybe : BORE
60
Stern : REAR
61
BB's and such : AMMO
62
The Brits in colonial India : RAJ
63
Unusual : ODD
64
Atlanta-to-Tampa dir. : SSE

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