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New York Times, Wednesday, March 21, 2001

Author:
Greg Staples
Editor:
Will Shortz
59-Across : Exasperating
TotalDebutLatest
257/4/19997/22/2004
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42111700
ScrabDebutFresh
1.5210227%
Greg Staples

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 36 Missing: {JQXZ} Puzzle has duplicate clues. This is puzzle # 15 for Mr. Staples. Wednesday freshness: 30%
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© 2001, The New York Times3/21/1 ( No. 18,761 )
Across
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Big drawer? : MECCA
6
Duck : AVOID
11
Groundskeeper's purchase : SOD
14
Be of service to : AVAIL
15
Kind of pie : MINCE
16
Forum greeting : AVE
17
Blithe fish? : CAREFREEEEL
19
Good time, informally : GAS
20
Suffix with block : ADE
21
From the sticks : RUSTIC
22
Spill the beans : TALK
23
Tightly packed : WEDGED
25
Shake off : LOSE
27
South American misfit? : ODDBALLLLAMA
33
Item on a card : BOUT
36
Ingrid's "Anastasia" co-star : YUL
37
Word with sand or bottom : DOLLAR
38
Sen. Hatch : ORRIN
40
Tattoo favorite : MOM
42
Cut's partner : PASTE
43
More crackers : MADDER
45
Start of a triple jump : HOP
47
Oodles : LOTS
48
Elvis movie sequel? : BLUEHAWAIIII
51
Slave girl of opera : AIDA
52
Liver is good for it : ANEMIA
56
Act the mother hen : FUSS
59
Exasperating : IRKING
62
Dancer Miller : ANN
63
Bit of binary code : ONE
64
Forbidden tea? : TABOOOOLONG
66
Fix, in a way : RIG
67
Shingle words : ATLAW
68
Deductions from gross weight : TARES
69
SAS announcement : ETA
70
She played Thelma in "Thelma and Louise" : GEENA
71
T, for one : SHIRT
Down
1
Colorful parrot : MACAW
2
Duck : EVADE
3
Had a feeling : CARED
4
Ltd., in Paris : CIE
5
Noyes or Nobel : ALFRED
6
With 61-Down, a Big 12 campus city : AMES
7
___ Cong : VIET
8
Treasury Secretary Paul : ONEILL
9
Freezing : ICECOLD
10
First of 50: Abbr. : DEL
11
It's a long story : SAGA
12
Like an oxeye window : OVAL
13
Pigeonhole's place : DESK
18
Not pale, as a complexion : RUDDY
22
Prevaricate : TELLALIE
24
Was creative : GOTIDEAS
26
Pen provisions : SLOP
28
No-good : BUM
29
Western airline : ALOHA
30
To boot : ALSO
31
Drudge in cyberspace : MATT
32
Son of Zeus : ARES
33
Long pass : BOMB
34
Like some traditions : ORAL
35
Language of Pakistan : URDU
39
Nostalgic soft drink : NEHI
41
Pronoun for Miss Piggy : MOI
44
Extend, as spokes : RADIATE
46
Eighty-eight : PIANO
49
Sing like a bird : WARBLE
50
They're full of bullion : INGOTS
53
Language from which "kiwi" comes : MAORI
54
Central : INNER
55
Frequent Woody Allen theme : ANGST
56
Driver's alert : FORE
57
Module : UNIT
58
Nintendo rival : SEGA
60
Zen riddle : KOAN
61
See 6-Down : IOWA
64
Telephone ___ : TAG
65
"Well, ___-di-dah!" : LAH

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