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New York Times, Thursday, April 6, 2000

Author:
Manny Nosowsky
Editor:
Will Shortz
66-Across : Airbase near Lubbock
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Manny Nosowsky

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 74, Blocks: 36 Missing: {JQZ} Spans: 1 This is puzzle # 106 for Mr. Nosowsky. Thursday freshness: 9%
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© 2000, The New York Times4/6/0 ( No. 18,412 )
Across
1
Hardly a close contest : ROMP
5
Marching band section : TUBAS
10
À la mode : CHIC
14
Biblical preposition : UNTO
15
Still : INERT
16
It may be minced : OATH
17
The latest : NEWS
18
"The Prince of Tides" star : NOLTE
19
___ Minor : URSA
20
Aim : INTEND
22
Underwater worker : FROGMAN
24
Picket sign for a Cape Canaveral technician? : NOFREELAUNCH
27
"Peer Gynt" character : TROLL
28
Prudential competitor : AETNA
32
Madame Bovary : EMMA
36
Frightening word : BOO
37
Golden ___ : OLDIES
38
Get fatter faster? : BEATTOTHEPAUNCH
41
Foul (up) : BOLLIX
42
Major club : ACE
43
Nudge : POKE
44
Candied : SWEET
45
Levelheaded : SOUND
47
Farm animal's anatomical pronouncement? : IHAVEAHAUNCH
53
Colorful playing marble : CATSEYE
56
Reduced : ONSALE
57
Baseball manager Felipe : ALOU
58
Yale of Yale University : ELIHU
61
Gung-ho : AVID
62
Use a spoon, in a way : STIR
63
Country album? : ATLAS
64
Clique : GANG
65
Mender's target : HOLE
66
Airbase near Lubbock : REESE
67
Sommer in the movies : ELKE
Down
1
Dustup : RUNIN
2
Bridge bid, briefly : ONENO
3
Calendar run : MTWTF
4
Toughie : POSER
5
Explosive situation : TINDERBOX
6
Certain numero : UNO
7
___ canto : BEL
8
Calculating : ARTFUL
9
Back : STERN
10
Paid reluctantly : COUGHEDUP
11
Disservice : HARM
12
Lead-in to shame or boy : ITSA
13
"The Chinese Parrot" hero : CHAN
21
Cook's hair wear : NET
23
City due west of Daytona Beach : OCALA
25
Spoils : LOOT
26
Song whose title translates as "Farewell to Thee" : ALOHAOE
29
First baseman Martinez : TINO
30
Where to go for the jugular : NECK
31
King Arthur of the courts : ASHE
32
Goes back to sea? : EBBS
33
Catty remark : MEOW
34
Like a parent who can't bear you? : MALE
35
Idle : ATLEISURE
37
Welcoming party : OPENHOUSE
39
Obligation at some churches : TITHE
40
Its cap. is Quito : ECUA
45
Slim and trim : SVELTE
46
One of the 12 tribes of Israel : DAN
48
Per annum : AYEAR
49
Utility bill basis : USAGE
50
Like some ships at sea : NAVAL
51
Sound at a toast : CLINK
52
Equivocate : HEDGE
53
Long green : CASH
54
Kind of sax : ALTO
55
Hard work : TOIL
59
___ de la Réunion : ILE
60
Is down with : HAS

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