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New York Times, Monday, March 16, 1998

Author:
Mark Moldowsky
Editor:
Will Shortz
49-Across : Weapon swung by a gaucho
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21/5/19983/16/1998
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Mark Moldowsky

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 36 Missing: {JQXZ} This is puzzle # 2 for Mr. Moldowsky. Monday freshness: 32%
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© 1998, The New York Times3/16/98 ( No. 17,660 )
Across
1
Diminished over time, as the moon : WANED
6
Model T starter : CRANK
11
15-Across swung one : BAT
14
French novelist Zola : EMILE
15
Baseball's Hammerin' Hank : AARON
16
Grow old : AGE
17
"Great" words from Jerry Lee Lewis : BALLSOFFIRE
19
Sought office : RAN
20
Tallow source : SUET
21
Like a haunted house : EERIE
23
Cosmetics : POWDERS
27
Name to a position : APPOINT
29
Not these or those : OTHERS
30
Artist Eric : SLOANE
31
Time on the job : STINT
32
Physical stature : BUILD
33
Letter after pi : RHO
36
Tennis units : SETS
37
Gnatlike insect : MIDGE
38
St. Paul's architect Sir Christopher : WREN
39
Before, in poetry : ERE
40
Alternative to a convertible : SEDAN
41
Appearances : MIENS
42
Lustrous cotton fabric : SATEEN
44
Harsh : SEVERE
45
Clothes with slogans : TSHIRTS
47
Charity event : BENEFIT
48
Second City's #1 airport : OHARE
49
Weapon swung by a gaucho : BOLA
50
Needlefish : GAR
51
"Great" Asian landmark : WALLOFCHINA
58
Indiana Jones's quest : ARK
59
"The Waste Land" poet : ELIOT
60
Word after dog or jug : EARED
61
Bro's sibling : SIS
62
"You Light Up My Life" singer Boone : DEBBY
63
Drive too fast : SPEED
Down
1
Spider's snare : WEB
2
Doctors' grp. : AMA
3
Nothing : NIL
4
Building wing : ELL
5
Tapioca pudding, e.g. : DESSERT
6
Parisian diners : CAFES
7
Huck Finn's conveyance : RAFT
8
Jackie's second : ARI
9
"___ any drop to drink": Coleridge : NOR
10
Patella protector : KNEEPAD
11
"Great" Australian landmark : BARRIERREEF
12
Once more : AGAIN
13
Group belief : TENET
18
Mine and yours : OURS
22
Seemingly forever : EON
23
Sheriff's group : POSSE
24
Weasel relative : OTTER
25
"Great" ocean predators : WHITESHARKS
26
TV rooms : DENS
27
True up : ALIGN
28
True north spot : POLE
30
Khartoum is its capital : SUDAN
32
Waits : BIDES
34
Artist Matisse : HENRI
35
Beginning : ONSET
37
Make the acquaintance of : MEET
38
Marry a woman : WIVE
40
Scattered, as seeds : STREWED
41
What Dennis does to Mr. Wilson : MENACES
43
Lungful : AIR
44
The individual : SELF
45
Ceremonial gowns : TOGAS
46
Puppeteer Lewis : SHARI
47
Ill-gotten gains : BOOTY
49
Splotch : BLOB
52
Pub choice : ALE
53
Women's ___ : LIB
54
See by chance, with "upon" : HAP
55
Intense anger : IRE
56
Maiden name preceder : NEE
57
Use an abacus : ADD

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