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New York Times, Tuesday, March 2, 1999

Author:
Stephanie Spadaccini
Editor:
Will Shortz
1-Across : Parachute ___
TotalDebutLatest
441/27/197710/5/1999
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Stephanie Spadaccini

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 38 Missing: {QXZ} Spans: 1 This is puzzle # 38 for Ms. Spadaccini. Tuesday freshness: 5%
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© 1999, The New York Times3/2/99 ( No. 18,011 )
Across
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Parachute ___ : JUMP
5
"Animal House" party wear : TOGA
9
Ham it up : EMOTE
14
In midvoyage, maybe : ASEA
15
"___ restless as a willow..." (1945 movie lyric) : IMAS
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Morocco's capital : RABAT
17
Have on : WEAR
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Fissure : RIFT
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Ready for anything : ALERT
20
Sage advice, part 1 : IFATFIRSTYOU
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Got fresh with : SASSED
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Pennsylvania city : ERIE
27
"___, two, three, four..." : HUP
28
Wide shoe specification : EEE
30
One making picks and pans : CRITIC
35
The Little Mermaid : ARIEL
37
Bills and coins : CASH
40
Aborted mission words : NOGO
41
Sage advice, part 2 : DONTSUCCEEDDONT
44
Part of Q.E.D. : ERAT
45
Not masc. or fem. : NEUT
46
Uncomplaining servant : ROBOT
47
Sandwich meat : SALAMI
49
___ Tomé (island on the Equator) : SAO
51
Exist : ARE
52
Thingy : ITEM
55
Abba's home country : SWEDEN
57
Sage advice, part 3 : TRYSKYDIVING
62
Lasso : RIATA
63
Thrilled : GLAD
64
Jodie Foster's alma mater : YALE
68
Inquired : ASKED
69
Author Wiesel : ELIE
70
Say the paternoster : PRAY
71
Pasta sauce with basil : PESTO
72
Lairs : DENS
73
Test proctor's declaration : TIME
Down
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Leno's got a big one : JAW
2
Exploit : USE
3
___ culpa : MEA
4
It was liberated in August 1944 : PARIS
5
Rant : TIRADE
6
Skip over : OMIT
7
Faux pas : GAFFE
8
Moving : ASTIR
9
Pencil topper : ERASER
10
Soda fountain choice : MALT
11
Follow the rules : OBEY
12
Starch source : TARO
13
"___, Brute?" : ETTU
21
Seems : FEELS
22
Nouveau ___ : RICHE
23
Ray-Bans, e.g. : SHADES
24
The dawn : AURORA
25
Kind of cord : SPINAL
29
Behold, in old Rome : ECCE
31
___-European : INDO
32
"Tsk, tsk" : TOOBAD
33
Tune out : IGNORE
34
Actor Joseph of "Citizen Kane" : COTTEN
36
Songstress James : ETTA
38
Prefix with pressure : ACU
39
Where movies are made : SETS
42
Togetherness : UNITY
43
Go under for the third time : DROWN
48
Gilbert and Sullivan emperor : MIKADO
50
Digressions : ASIDES
53
Bordered : EDGED
54
A thousand, in France : MILLE
56
Pharaoh's land : EGYPT
57
Police sting : TRAP
58
Get up : RISE
59
Beasts of burden : YAKS
60
Editor's direction : STET
61
Stuck on oneself : VAIN
65
Mr. Onassis : ARI
66
Leave in a hurry : LAM
67
CBS symbol : EYE

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