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New York Times, Tuesday, March 21, 2000

Author:
Nick Grivas
Editor:
Will Shortz
39-Across : ___ Jones's locker
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
911/15/19996/1/20051
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0243000
ScrabDebutFresh
1.553325%
Nick Grivas

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 36 Missing: {JZ} This is puzzle # 2 for Mr. Grivas. Tuesday freshness: 49%
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© 2000, The New York Times3/21/0 ( No. 18,396 )
Across
1
Current units : AMPS
5
Many comedy teams : DUOS
9
Squirrel away : STASH
14
Some is junk : MAIL
15
Archer of "Patriot Games" : ANNE
16
Marseille menu : CARTE
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Collection in Old Icelandic : EDDA
18
Carpe ___ : DIEM
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"The ___ Incident" (1943 Fonda film) : OXBOW
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Assume what's being asked : BEGTHEQUESTION
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Parting word : ADIEU
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Not happy : UPSET
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Flushed : RED
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Trinity member : SON
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Ginnie ___ : MAE
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Mystery writer Josephine : TEY
31
Mr. Potato Head part : EAR
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Early Microsoft offering : DOS
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"A mouse!" : EEK
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Captures : BAGS
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Wake sleeping dogs, so to speak : BORROWTROUBLE
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___ Jones's locker : DAVY
40
NASDAQ listings: Abbr. : COS
41
Speakers' pause fillers : UMS
42
Ending with methyl : ENE
43
Round Table title : SIR
44
Indy 500 logo : STP
45
Place to take a cure : SPA
48
Cone bearer : FIR
49
Italian poet Torquato ___ : TASSO
51
Suffer a loss, slangily : EATIT
53
Get closer to home, in a way : STEALTHIRDBASE
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Not level : ATILT
57
Like service station rags : OILY
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Black-and-white hunter : ORCA
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___ fatale : FEMME
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At liberty : FREE
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Victory signs : VEES
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Long lock : TRESS
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A.T.F. agents : FEDS
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To be, to Tiberius : ESSE
Down
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One-celled pond dwellers : AMEBAS
2
Got by : MADEDO
3
Hardly the Queen's English : PIDGIN
4
List of candidates : SLATE
5
Miami-___ County : DADE
6
More than unusual : UNIQUE
7
Get the better of : ONEUP
8
Academic term : SEMESTER
9
Shipmate of Bones and Spock : SCOTTY
10
Downtown cruiser : TAXI
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Like sloths and tree toads : ARBOREAL
12
Alley Oop's time : STONEAGE
13
Chop down : HEW
21
Sitcom material : HUMOR
22
Search for : SEEKOUT
26
Welby and Kildare: Abbr. : DRS
29
Not gregarious : ASOCIAL
32
Like some martinis : DRY
33
Sci-fi visitors : ETS
34
Air rifle ammo : BBS
35
Item that may be slid down : BANISTER
36
Paycheck booster : OVERTIME
37
Least fortunate : WORSTOFF
38
Called balls and strikes : UMPED
39
Rock's ___ Leppard : DEF
43
The contiguous 48 : STATES
44
Dirty : SOILED
45
Oddballs may draw them : STARES
46
Zodiac fishes : PISCES
47
"Ten-hut!" undoer : ATEASE
50
Talia of "Rocky" : SHIRE
52
Beyond's partner : ABOVE
54
"Desire Under the ___" : ELMS
55
Cereal grasses : RYES
56
Toward the tiller : AFT

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later.

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