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New York Times, Monday, May 11, 1998

Author:
Gregory E. Paul
Editor:
Will Shortz
36-Across : Gun grp.
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Gregory E. Paul

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 38 Missing: {JKQXZ} Spans: 3 This is puzzle # 59 for Mr. Paul. Monday freshness: 2%
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© 1998, The New York Times5/11/98 ( No. 17,716 )
Across
1
Opening for a coin : SLOT
5
Baby buggy : PRAM
9
Sell illegally, as tickets : SCALP
14
Learn's partner : LIVE
15
Hard to come by : RARE
16
No-no : TABOO
17
Church response : AMEN
18
Auction caution : ASIS
19
More than plump : OBESE
20
Kirstie Alley sitcom : VERONICASCLOSET
23
Parks who wouldn't sit still for injustice : ROSA
24
Ignited : LIT
25
Slangy turndown : NAW
28
On the same family tree : RELATED
31
Once around the track : LAP
34
Drawings that deceive : OPART
36
Gun grp. : NRA
37
Ten: Prefix : DECA
38
New England resort : MARTHASVINEYARD
42
Very top : ACME
43
China's Chou En-___ : LAI
44
"When pigs fly!" : NEVER
45
___ Moines : DES
46
Kind of greens : COLLARD
49
Suffix with legal : ESE
50
Foe of the Luftwaffe: Abbr. : RAF
51
Carrot or turnip, e.g. : ROOT
53
Andrew Wyeth painting : CHRISTINASWORLD
61
Sunday supper : ROAST
62
Credit's opposite : DEBT
63
___ de force : TOUR
64
Halo wearer : ANGEL
65
New York Indian : ERIE
66
The "A" of Thomas A. Edison : ALVA
67
Fliers in V's : GEESE
68
Skyrocket : SOAR
69
In case : LEST
Down
1
Eastern European : SLAV
2
Margarita fruit : LIME
3
Walkie-talkie word : OVER
4
Pavarotti, e.g. : TENOR
5
Tout : PRAISE
6
Mischievous one : RASCAL
7
"Tosca" tune : ARIA
8
Clutter : MESS
9
Unemotional : STOLID
10
___ Cove ("Murder, She Wrote" setting) : CABOT
11
Beame and Burrows : ABES
12
Misplace : LOSE
13
Gwendolyn Brooks, e.g. : POET
21
What's up at Rand McNally? : NORTH
22
Fresh from the shower : CLEAN
25
Bedouin : NOMAD
26
Quickly : APACE
27
Bathes in sunlight : WARMS
29
Smithy's device : ANVIL
30
Prefix with lateral or lingual : TRI
31
Bid adieu : LEAVE
32
Realtors' units : ACRES
33
Priest : PADRE
35
Hwy. : RTE
37
Recolor : DYE
39
Skyward : ALOFT
40
Mule on the 65-Across Canal : SAL
41
Provide with a permanent fund : ENDOW
46
Windsor, for one : CASTLE
47
Mecca's land : ARABIA
48
Scorecard lineup : ROSTER
50
Moves skyward : RISES
52
All-out : TOTAL
53
Rugged rock : CRAG
54
Sharpen : HONE
55
Mania : RAGE
56
One day in March : IDES
57
Detective Wolfe : NERO
58
Part to play : ROLE
59
Brand at the bottom? : LUVS
60
"Oh, fudge!" : DRAT

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1 unique to this puzzle, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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