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New York Times, Saturday, April 3, 1999

Author:
Pat M. Hugel
Editor:
Will Shortz
22-Across : Sheet of matted wool
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Pat M. Hugel

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 72, Blocks: 36 Missing: {FJQVWXZ} Spans: 6 This is puzzle # 2 for Mr. Hugel. Saturday freshness: 0%
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© 1999, The New York Times4/3/99 ( No. 18,043 )
Across
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Bake sale holders, often : PTAS
5
Season opener : PRE
8
Agreements : PACTS
13
Au fait : ABLE
14
Av follower : ELUL
15
Celebrity : ECLAT
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It can make a date : PALM
17
Obey a court order : RISE
18
"La ___ di seta" (Rossini opera) : SCALA
19
Oregon Trail sight : PRAIRIESCHOONER
22
Sheet of matted wool : BATT
23
Ore suffix : ITE
24
Atlas abbr. before 1991 : USSR
25
1935 musical with Astaire and Rogers : ROBERTA
27
Time in history : EON
29
Arthur and others : BEAS
30
John Beck's "Sleeper" role : ERNO
32
Cornered : ATBAY
36
Phoenix or Sparrow : AIRTOAIRMISSILE
39
One of Mia's exes : ANDRE
40
It may be tended : GOAL
41
Trial run : PREP
42
___ tangent : ARC
44
Spills one's guts : UNLOADS
46
McDonald's founder : KROC
49
Shadow, so to speak : PAL
51
Häagen-Dazs alternative : EDYS
52
Some noncoms : MASTERSERGEANTS
57
With all one's might : AMAIN
58
Where Zeno of Citium lectured : STOA
59
Kind of hall : BEER
60
Asperity : RIGOR
61
Series finale: Abbr. : ETAL
62
Future J.D.'s hurdle : LSAT
63
Minute : TEENY
64
Hamilton's place : TEN
65
Girl's name ending : ETTA
Down
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"Hair" producer : PAPP
2
Stowe tow : TBAR
3
Trackside shout : ALLABOARD
4
Highly stylized sculpting style : SEMIABSTRACTION
5
Bend at the bar : PLIE
6
This might provide a last shot : RUSSIANROULETTE
7
Chosen ones : ELECT
8
Mexican mint product : PESO
9
Ledger column : ACCOUNTSPAYABLE
10
Feud participants : CLANS
11
They're passed around campfires : TALES
12
First Super Bowl M.V.P. : STARR
14
Republic since 1993 : ERITREA
20
Itinerary abbr. : RTE
21
Bray beginning : HEE
25
It might run down the neck : REIN
26
Calc preceder, perhaps : TRIG
28
Rio Treaty implementer: Abbr. : OAS
29
Leicester cry : BAA
31
The toe of the Arabian Peninsula : OMAN
33
Branch office? : BIRDSNEST
34
Porters : ALES
35
"Uh-huh" : YEP
37
Across, in verse : OER
38
Like some aliens : ILLEGAL
43
E.R. administration : CPR
45
Cowley composition : ODE
46
It first opened in 1962 : KMART
47
Summer fabric : RAMIE
48
Missouri feeder : OSAGE
50
Resource : ASSET
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"Just you wait, ___ 'iggins..." : ENRY
54
Bookbinding leather : ROAN
55
Udder part : TEAT
56
Little miss, in a misión : SRTA

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