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New York Times, Friday, March 24, 2000

Author:
Manny Nosowsky
Editor:
Will Shortz
15-Across : Mainstay
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Manny Nosowsky

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 68, Blocks: 30 Missing: {JZ} Spans: 5, (1 triple stack) This is puzzle # 103 for Mr. Nosowsky. Friday freshness: 21%
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© 2000, The New York Times3/24/0 ( No. 18,399 )
Across
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Water, facetiously : ADAMSALE
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They may be given by wedding guests : TOASTS
15
Mainstay : LINCHPIN
16
Dislodge : UPROOT
17
Site of a land rush, once : INDIANTERRITORY
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Miniature : TOY
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Society page word : NEE
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Spring time : EQUINOX
22
So-called "Chinese gelatin" : AGAR
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See 24-Across : SUMS
24
One who does 23-Across : ADDER
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Melted caramel, e.g. : GOO
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Brief Mideast alliance: Abbr. : UAR
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Need for wedding parties? : MARRIAGELICENSE
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Argot suffix : ESE
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Shot : BBS
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Seventy-___ : SIXER
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Kind of force : GALE
43
Writer ___ Wister : OWEN
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Queen of Henry II : ELEANOR
48
Remote abbr. : VOL
49
Metric starter : ISO
52
Shows levelheadedness : LISTENSTOREASON
55
Have in mind : INTEND
56
Burger, pizza and hot dog listing, maybe : KIDSMENU
57
Carol opener : ADESTE
58
Epic journeys : ODYSSEYS
Down
1
Got out (from) : ALIT
2
Rat Pack name : DINO
3
Cap'n ___ of "Show Boat" : ANDY
4
AT&T competitor : MCI
5
Utopia : SHANGRILA
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Concern for some sleepers : APNEA
7
Carafe size : LITER
8
Suffix with menth- : ENE
9
Bead material : TURQUOISE
10
Painkiller : OPIUM
11
Cager Gilmore : ARTIS
12
Before you know it : SOON
13
Tuna belly, at a sushi bar : TORO
14
A tenth part of the waters of Oceanus : STYX
18
Extends shoe life : RESOLES
22
Hawk's home : AERIE
24
"No more mercy in him than there is milk in ___ tiger": Shak. : AMALE
25
Benjamin ___, first black general in the U.S. Army : DAVIS
26
Sitting duck, maybe : DRAKE
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Trivial Pursuit edition : GENUS
28
Detach : UNFIX
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"That's ___ subject" : ASORE
30
Send for consultation : REFER
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Hair color : ASHBLONDE
33
Peanuts : GOOBERS
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Never-ending : CEASELESS
35
Fey : ELFIN
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Airport choices : GATES
42
Concerning : ANENT
43
Not perfectly round : OVOID
44
Going on and on : WORDY
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Literary pseudonym : ELIA
46
The Swedish Nightingale : LIND
47
Renaissance art patron : ESTE
49
"Oh" : ISEE
50
Big name in electronics : SONY
51
Something borne : ONUS
53
Ring call : TKO
54
Clock radio settings (in two ways) : AMS

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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