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New York Times, Saturday, March 27, 1999

Author:
Rich Norris
Editor:
Will Shortz
43-Across : Wink: Var.
TotalDebutLatest
1894/27/19948/3/2024
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RebusScrabDebutFresh
31.571,11574%
Rich Norris

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 72, Blocks: 28 Missing: {FJQXZ} This is puzzle # 100 for Mr. Norris. Saturday freshness: 43%
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© 1999, The New York Times3/27/99 ( No. 18,036 )
Across
1
"Psssst!" source : SPRAYCAN
9
Checks (out) : SCOPES
15
Presence : CHARISMA
16
Husk-wrapped dish : TAMALE
17
Simulate : ROLEPLAY
18
Shadowy : UMBRAL
19
One abroad : UNE
20
Poetic period : EEN
21
E-mail address ending : EDU
22
James's follower : ABE
23
Top : BEST
25
Deserts : WASTES
27
Coll. course : SOC
28
"She's the One" actress : ANISTON
30
Big name in Dixieland : HIRT
31
Breakfast order : CREPES
34
1862 battle site : ANTIETAM
36
Irritates : RASPS
37
Loser in the Seven Years' War: Abbr. : RUS
38
Vacation locale with 3,500-year-old ruins : CRETE
39
Like some wells : ARTESIAN
41
Ease : LESSEN
42
Neckwear piece : BEAD
43
Wink: Var. : NICTATE
45
Affect, with "to" : GET
46
They take panes : SASHES
47
Distressed cry : YOWL
51
Arctic explorer John ___ : RAE
52
"___ Woman" (1975 hit) : IMA
53
Tiny bit : DAB
55
Struggle : VIE
56
Like Federal tax laws : ARCANE
58
It's binding : LIGATURE
60
Puts on : STAGES
61
Made an aqueduct, maybe : TUNNELED
62
They have sharp tongues : SHREWS
63
Bucks : SMACKERS
Down
1
Cancel : SCRUB
2
Button site : PHONE
3
Crackling sounds : RALES
4
Live : ARE
5
Exclamation of surprise : YIPE
6
"Surprised by Joy" autobiographer : CSLEWIS
7
Some appliances : AMANAS
8
"___, smile not at my sullen brow": Byron : NAY
9
Kind of union : STUDENT
10
"Caligula" playwright : CAMUS
11
Overseer of U.S. govt. money : OMB
12
Sponges : PARASITES
13
Involved : ELABORATE
14
Some local politicians : SELECTMEN
21
Broad collars : ETONS
24
Accessed, with "into" : TAPPED
26
Firm : STAUNCH
29
1987 Costner role : NESS
30
"Hiroshima" author, 1946 : HERSEY
31
Unwanted growth : CRABGRASS
32
Oxide of cerium, yttrium, etc. : RAREEARTH
33
Station wagon, in England : ESTATECAR
35
Tracy Marrow, familiarly : ICET
37
Mrs. Gorbachev : RAISA
40
Muddled : INAMESS
41
Ristorante order : LASAGNA
44
Ordinariness : TEDIUM
46
Strength : SINEW
48
Rudimentary seed : OVULE
49
Bell Atlantic employee : WIRER
50
City ENE of Manchester : LEEDS
54
Judge's seat, in law : BANC
57
Biographical bit : AGE
58
Mil. titles : LTS
59
Shatner's "___War" : TEK

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