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New York Times, Monday, February 5, 1996

Author:
Robert Katz
Editor:
Will Shortz
25-Across : Like a low-watt bulb
TotalDebutLatest
761/6/19792/5/1996
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ScrabDebutPre‑WSFresh
1.472733%
Robert Katz

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 36 Missing: {BFGJQX} Spans: 3 This is puzzle # 76 for Mr. Katz. Monday freshness: 19%
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© 1996, The New York Times2/5/96 ( No. 16,890 )
Across
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Shut loudly : SLAM
5
Summary : RECAP
10
El___, Tex. : PASO
14
Arrived : CAME
15
To love, in Torino : AMARE
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Notorious czar : IVAN
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"Thanks___!" : ALOT
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"Melancholia" engraver : DURER
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Shake up : ROIL
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Oxymoronic proverb : MAKEHASTESLOWLY
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Capek play : RUR
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In___ of (as a substitute for) : LIEU
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Like a low-watt bulb : DIM
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Give off : EMIT
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Loath (to) : AVERSE
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Literary olios : ANAS
37
Old radio's "Easy___" : ACES
39
News briefs : ITEMS
40
Parsimonious proverb : WASTENOTWANTNOT
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Huge, old-style : ENORM
44
At hand : NEAR
45
Suffix with super or major : ETTE
46
Iroquoian language : SENECA
48
"Cut it out!" : STOP
50
Loser to D.D.E. : AES
51
Members of a wriggly field? : EELS
53
G.M. employees' union : UAW
55
Cautious proverb : HASTEMAKESWASTE
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Newsman Sevareid : ERIC
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Met offering : OPERA
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Bank offering : LOAN
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"The King and I" lady : ANNA
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Be in a bee : SPELL
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Beginner : TYRO
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Mover and shaker : DOER
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Keys in : TYPES
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Skips over, as TV ads : ZAPS
Down
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Swindle : SCAM
2
___land (Los Angeles) : LALA
3
How not to run : AMOK
4
European's "yard" : METER
5
Control tower figure : RADARMAN
6
Ostrich cousins : EMUS
7
Grocery transporter : CART
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Whirling : AREEL
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Olden Iran : PERSIA
10
Ballet twirl : PIROUETTE
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Confess : AVOW
12
Go yachting : SAIL
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Nothing but : ONLY
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Shade : HUE
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"Rosemary's Baby" writer Ira : LEVIN
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1925 Nobel Peace Prize recipient : DAWES
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Nutty : INANE
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Wall builder : MASON
29
Windows picture : ICON
30
What chapeaux cover : TETES
32
___-car (Hertz, e.g.) : RENTA
33
Struck down, in the Bible : SMOTE
34
Colorado's___Park : ESTES
36
Vehicle with a bell : STREETCAR
38
Hit, as a fly : SWAT
41
Show's host : EMCEE
42
Wake-up calls : AROUSALS
47
This doesn't count, in a saying : ALMOST
49
Furry foot : PAW
52
Mawkish : SAPPY
54
Viennese dance : WALTZ
55
President : HEAD
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River under the Ponte Vecchio : ARNO
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Trig function : SINE
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Preserve : KEEP
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___Stanley Gardner : ERLE
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Kind of bean : SOYA
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Football field protector : TARP
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Grandson of Adam : ENOS

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