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New York Times, Monday, February 7, 2000

Author:
Gregory E. Paul
Editor:
Will Shortz
16-Across : Place to put a thimble
TotalDebutLatest
1169/13/199410/17/2005
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ScrabDebutFresh
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Gregory E. Paul

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 36 Missing: {FJXZ} This is puzzle # 78 for Mr. Paul. Monday freshness: 34%
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© 2000, The New York Times2/7/0 ( No. 18,353 )
Across
1
Thermonuclear blast maker : HBOMB
6
Trot or canter : GAIT
10
"Listen!" : HARK
14
Golfer Palmer, informally : ARNIE
15
Killer whale : ORCA
16
Place to put a thimble : ETUI
17
Corporate recruiter : HEADHUNTER
19
"Mama" speaker : DOLL
20
Wheat or barley covering : AWN
21
Wild time : ORGY
22
Sty : PIGPEN
24
Sty animals : HOGS
25
Identical : SAME
26
Quiet spot to sit : ALCOVE
29
September birthstone : SAPPHIRE
33
Market price : VALUE
34
Treadmill unit : MILE
35
Keats pieces : ODES
36
Lemon and orange drinks : ADES
37
Like some renewable energy : SOLAR
38
___ moss : PEAT
39
Gin flavor : SLOE
40
Thigh muscle, for short : QUAD
41
Garden tool : SPADE
42
Long workday, perhaps : TENHOURS
44
___ Pieces : REESES
45
Lena or Ken of film : OLIN
46
Violinist Leopold : AUER
47
Philadelphia N.F.L.'ers : EAGLES
50
Book before Romans : ACTS
51
Disputed skill, for short : ESP
54
Didn't have traction : SLID
55
Snob : HIGHHATTER
58
Fishing need : POLE
59
Buffalo's county : ERIE
60
Jonah's swallower : WHALE
61
Not far : NEAR
62
Cub Scout groups : DENS
63
Besmirch : SULLY
Down
1
Response to a comic : HAHA
2
Make beer, e.g. : BREW
3
___ even keel : ONAN
4
___-Atlantic : MID
5
Serve well : BEHOOVE
6
Deep bells : GONGS
7
Pretentious : ARTY
8
Freezer stuff : ICE
9
Roofing material : TARPAPER
10
Crop-dusting plane : HEDGEHOPPER
11
Surmounting : ATOP
12
"First in, first out," e.g. : RULE
13
Pottery oven : KILN
18
Impulse : URGE
23
Mischievous sort : IMP
24
Census taker's target : HOUSEHOLDER
25
Meal gotten from a garden : SALAD
26
"Stop!," to Popeye : AVAST
27
Soup scoop : LADLE
28
60's-70's Mets star ___ Jones : CLEON
29
Marner of fiction : SILAS
30
Think tank products : IDEAS
31
"The Cloister and the Hearth" author : READE
32
___ Park, Colo. : ESTES
34
Grieve : MOURN
37
Stepped on, as a bug : SQUISHED
41
Goes up and down : SEESAWS
43
___ Miss : OLE
44
Buzzi of "Laugh-In" : RUTH
46
Partner of pains : ACHES
47
"SportsCenter" channel : ESPN
48
Ingredient in facial tissues : ALOE
49
___ monster : GILA
50
Opposed to, hillbilly-style : AGIN
51
And others: Abbr. : ETAL
52
Unload, on Wall Street : SELL
53
Zebras, to lions : PREY
56
Ill temper : IRE
57
Wed. follower : THU

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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