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New York Times, Monday, April 29, 2002

Author:
Holden Baker
Editor:
Will Shortz
68-Across : Baseball score
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Holden Baker

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 80, Blocks: 38 Missing: {JQZ} Spans: 1 This is puzzle # 6 for Mr. Baker. Monday freshness: 2%
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© 2002, The New York Times4/29/2 ( No. 19,165 )
Across
1
Steals from : ROBS
5
Inferior, as writing : TRASHY
11
1936 candidate Landon : ALF
14
Norway's capital : OSLO
15
Certain apartment : SUBLET
16
Hair styling stuff : GEL
17
Robert Mitchum drama, 1958 : THUNDERROAD
19
"___ Got You Under My Skin" : IVE
20
"Beetle Bailey" character : SARGE
21
Big I.R.S. mo. : APR
22
Out of the wind : ALEE
23
Home of Bert and Ernie : SESAMESTREET
27
Educ. group : PTA
30
Mal de ___ : MER
31
Feather's partner : TAR
32
Seniors' org. : AARP
34
Golf targets : CUPS
37
Michelangelo masterpiece : PIETA
41
Billy Wilder film starring Gloria Swanson : SUNSETBOULEVARD
44
Fulton's power : STEAM
45
___ mater : ALMA
46
Buffalo's lake : ERIE
47
Kind of service : LIP
49
Charlottesville sch. : UVA
51
Chaney of horror films : LON
52
A trusting person may be led down it : PRIMROSEPATH
58
Millions of years : EONS
59
Calif. airport : LAX
60
Lhasa's land : TIBET
64
In the past : AGO
65
Source of many old pop songs : TINPANALLEY
68
Baseball score : RUN
69
Eight-armed creatures : OCTOPI
70
Frolic : LARK
71
Rocker Tommy : LEE
72
Pop maker : WEASEL
73
Brake part : SHOE
Down
1
Goes bad : ROTS
2
Dept. of Labor watchdog : OSHA
3
Make less clear : BLUR
4
The 40 in a "top 40" : SONGS
5
Mao ___-tung : TSE
6
Karel Capek play : RUR
7
The "A" in James A. Garfield : ABRAM
8
Slippery ___ : SLOPE
9
Citizen Kane's real-life model : HEARST
10
Balance sheet abbr. : YTD
11
Spry : AGILE
12
Embankment : LEVEE
13
Naval force : FLEET
18
Consider : DEEM
22
Get there : ARRIVE
24
Small group of believers : SECT
25
Popular vacation isle : ARUBA
26
Cash register output : TAPE
27
Quarterback's option : PASS
28
Drawn tight : TAUT
29
"Rule Britannia" composer : ARNE
33
Writings by David : PSALMS
35
D.C. type : POL
36
Recapitulate : SUMUP
38
"Duke of ___" (1962 hit) : EARL
39
Wynken, Blynken and Nod, e.g. : TRIO
40
Mideast's Gulf of ___ : ADEN
42
40-Down V.I.P. : EMIR
43
Popular hand soap : LAVA
48
Constabulary : POLICE
50
Lead-in to girl : ATTA
52
Oyster's prize : PEARL
53
Scalawag : ROGUE
54
Hole ___ (golfer's dream) : INONE
55
"Ho ho ho" crier : SANTA
56
Montreal team : EXPOS
57
"Rolling" things : HILLS
61
Dull : BLAH
62
Architect Saarinen : EERO
63
Toddler : TYKE
65
Pull along : TOW
66
Gibbon, for one : APE
67
Zippo : NIL

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