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New York Times, Saturday, February 27, 1999

Author:
John Scott Marrone
Editor:
Will Shortz
10-Across : Payoffs
TotalDebutLatest
73/26/19965/3/2003
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ScrabDebutFresh
1.493260%
John Scott Marrone

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 72, Blocks: 37 Missing: {FQ} Spans: 2 This is puzzle # 4 for Mr. Marrone. Saturday freshness: 8%
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C
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A
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R
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E
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W
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L
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O
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D
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Z
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S
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O
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P
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S
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O
M
A
N
I
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A
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N
E
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U
V
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A
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G
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T
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N
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K
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A
N
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B
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R
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N
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S
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P
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O
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H
C
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D
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A
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R
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T
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S
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U
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C
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S
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T
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R
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N
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D
P
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L
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L
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U
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X
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A
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T
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P
A
S
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R
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C
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U
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R
L
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N
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T
R
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P
R
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M
A
C
Y
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A
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R
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A
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N
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M
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U
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S
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D
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L
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O
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J
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M
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T
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T
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O
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D
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A
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L
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K
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N
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E
V
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T
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E
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S
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E
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© 1999, The New York Times2/27/99 ( No. 18,008 )
Across
1
1977 American League M.V.P. : CAREW
6
Arthur Rubinstein's birthplace : LODZ
10
Payoffs : SOPS
14
Rial spender : OMANI
15
Daughter of James II : ANNE
16
Colored part : UVEA
17
Mount : GETON
18
Shakespearean actor Edmund : KEAN
19
Switzerland's second most populous canton : BERN
20
Butte-to-Great Falls dir. : NNE
21
Predicament : SPOT
23
"Rats!" : OHCRUD
25
Short coming? : ARR
26
"The Fathers" novelist : TATE
27
Ten centimes, once : SOU
28
Sons of Leda : CASTORANDPOLLUX
34
Farm animal : ANT
35
Graze : PASTURE
36
What a pageboy does : CURLSIN
40
The Godhead and others : TRIUNES
41
First rank : PRIMACY
42
Gas: Prefix : AER
43
Sons of Rhea Silvia : ROMULUSANDREMUS
49
"L'Oca ___ Cairo" (Mozart opera) : DEL
50
Composer Janácek : LEOS
51
Expose, in verse : OPE
52
Beatrix Potter's Puddle-Duck : JEMIMA
55
Student's purchase : TEXT
56
Scrap : ORT
57
y and z, e.g. : AXES
58
Lowly one : TOAD
60
Assign : ALLOT
62
Writer who coined the phrase "categorical imperative" : KANT
63
Like some twins : EVIL
64
Make one's hair stand on end? : TEASE
65
They'll never get off the ground : EMUS
66
Retired racehorse, maybe : SIRE
67
What a knockout! : ETHER
Down
1
Product of a pot still : COGNAC
2
Egyptian god of the universe : AMENRA
3
Consumer Reports employees : RATERS
4
New Age music pioneer : ENO
5
Site of Wake Forest University : WINSTONSALEM
6
Crazy Horse, e.g. : LAKOTA
7
Early afternoon time : ONETEN
8
Kind of test : DNA
9
Serious Lewis Carroll topic : ZENOSPARADOX
10
Hip-hop, e.g. : SUBCULTURE
11
Superior to : OVER
12
24-Down town where Cole Porter was born : PERU
13
Smooth : SAND
22
Smoke, essentially : PARTICULATES
24
James Whitcomb Riley's beloved home : HOOSIERSTATE
29
Some rabbis : TALMUDISTS
30
Immunization letters : DPT
31
___ Tha ("The King and I" role) : LUN
32
North Yorkshire river : URE
33
Marks, as a ballot : XES
36
Heart starter : CPR
37
Tail: Prefix : URO
38
Flange : RIM
39
Sen. Schumer represents it: Abbr. : NYS
44
One of the 20 brightest stars : ALTAIR
45
It may be in the groove : NEEDLE
46
Jack : MOOLAH
47
Revolted : UPROSE
48
Irish ___ : SETTER
52
Hunky-dory : JAKE
53
Course concluder : EXAM
54
It may help one choose sides : MENU
59
Prefix with sac : OVI
61
Sanction : LET

Answer summary:
5 unique to this puzzle, 4 debuted here and reused later, 2 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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