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New York Times, Wednesday, April 4, 2001

Author:
Alan Arbesfeld
Editor:
Will Shortz
66-Across : Object of many knightly quests
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Alan Arbesfeld

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 40 Missing: {JKQ} This is puzzle # 31 for Mr. Arbesfeld. Wednesday freshness: 6%
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© 2001, The New York Times4/4/1 ( No. 18,775 )
Across
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Pickup spot? : NAPE
5
Women's group, of a sort : HAREM
10
Both ways, to an electrician : ACDC
14
"Fred Basset" cartoonist Graham : ALEX
15
Place for a toothpick : OLIVE
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Honey : DEAR
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___ Peak, in the Sierra Nevada : ALTA
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Like windows : PANED
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Wild : ZANY
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Hitchhiker's specialty : CATCHINGRIDES
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Suffix with neo- and zoo- : PHYTE
24
The path of virtue : TAO
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I : EGO
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Hwys. : RTES
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Mass offering? : WAFER
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Brest friend : AMI
37
Stroller wear : BABYBUNTING
40
Novelist Simpson : MONA
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Like a ___ bricks : TONOF
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Part of a fantasia : ARIA
44
Courting : PITCHINGWOO
47
Velvet finish? : EEN
48
Glacial ridge : ARETE
49
Old name in oil : ESSO
50
Gramm or Graham: Abbr. : SEN
51
Grammy category : RAP
54
Gymnast Comaneci : NADIA
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One-upmanship on the set : SCENESTEALING
64
Fan's sound : WHIR
66
Object of many knightly quests : GRAIL
67
With 45-Down, words after "Pssst!" : OVER
68
Good source of protein : TOFU
69
Kind of suit : LIBEL
70
Legendary loser : HARE
71
"The flood of deadly hate": Milton : STYX
72
Get away from : ELUDE
73
Penny, perhaps : ANTE
Down
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Org. for Kweisi Mfume : NAACP
2
Object of many prayers : ALLAH
3
Picayune : PETTY
4
Precise : EXACT
5
Kachina doll makers : HOPI
6
Mathematician Turing : ALAN
7
Best man's charge : RING
8
Six-time U.S. Open champ : EVERT
9
Press : MEDIA
10
Cutting tool : ADZE
11
Halt : CEASEFIRE
12
Blocker of "Bonanza" : DAN
13
Make a plea for sympathy, maybe : CRY
21
Angelica, for one : HERB
22
Swallow : DOWN
26
One who makes dreams come true : GENIE
27
Ballpark fixture : ORGAN
29
Comic Jacques : TATI
30
Dark, to poets : EBON
31
"The Playboy of the Western World" author : SYNGE
33
___ glance : ATA
34
Oscars' org. : AMPAS
35
Wavy pattern : MOIRE
36
Pick up : INTENSIFY
38
Hair decorations : BOWS
39
Govt. secrets? : UFOS
41
Function : ACT
45
See 67-Across : HERE
46
Mrs. Chaplin : OONA
52
Trig figure : ANGLE
53
Threat : PERIL
55
___ Bowl : ALOHA
56
Couch : DIVAN
57
Like krypton : INERT
58
Say yes : AGREE
60
Heart : CRUX
61
"Elephant Boy" star : SABU
62
Needing overtime : TIED
63
Allure competitor : ELLE
64
Gym gear: Abbr. : WTS
65
Popular : HOT

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3 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later.

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