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New York Times, Wednesday, May 14, 2003

Author:
Harvey Estes and Nancy Salomon
Editor:
Will Shortz
17-Across : Don't mess with him!
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
11612/29/199311/26/200845
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2015151219278
RebusScrabDebutFresh
71.5252247%
Harvey Estes
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
1868/13/199511/7/2012116
SunMonTueWedThuFriSatVariety
3633533719611
RebusCircleScrabDebutFresh
1521.5890833%
Nancy Salomon

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 36 Missing: {JQXZ} Spans: 2 Puzzle has duplicate clues. This is puzzle # 76 for Mr. Estes. This is puzzle # 105 for Ms. Salomon. Wednesday freshness: 18%
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© 2003, The New York Times5/14/3 ( No. 19,545 )
Across
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Mute Marx : HARPO
6
"Hop ___!" : TOIT
10
Tempest in a teapot : FUSS
14
The bounding main : OCEAN
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"I see," facetiously : AHSO
16
Charles barker : ASTA
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Don't mess with him! : MISTERINBETWEEN
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D.C. summer setting : EDT
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Conversant with : UPON
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Done : ENDED
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Secret store : CACHE
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Title locale in a Cheech Marin movie : EASTLA
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Don't burn them! : YOURBRIDGES
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Olive with a little salt? : OYL
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Ones foaling : MARES
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Ticked off : IRKED
35
Out of port : ASEA
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Don't make them! : WAVES
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Flat floater : RAFT
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It helps you see plays : SLOMO
44
"Sexy" lady of a Beatles song : SADIE
45
Oberhausen "oh" : ACH
48
Don't say this! : ANOTHERWORD
51
Believer : THEIST
53
___ Gay (W.W. II plane) : ENOLA
54
Fountain favorites : MALTS
55
Introduction to science? : OMNI
57
Kindergarten break : NAP
60
Don't give me that! : OLDSONGANDDANCE
64
Read rapidly : SKIM
65
"That's right" : TRUE
66
Line to the audience : ASIDE
67
Newcastle's river : TYNE
68
Next in line? : HEIR
69
Smidgen : SPECK
Down
1
Part of HBO : HOME
2
Etcher's fluid : ACID
3
Burnout treatment : RESTCURE
4
Butter portion : PAT
5
Low digit : ONE
6
Chiang Kai-shek's capital : TAIPEI
7
"This can't be!" : OHNO
8
Copyright page info: Abbr. : ISBN
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Low digit : TOE
10
Flatters, with "over" : FAWNS
11
Familiar with : USEDTO
12
Hard : STEELY
13
Biblical footwear : SANDAL
18
Essen basin : RUHR
19
Rib : TEASE
24
Fields : AREAS
25
"Survivor" network : CBS
26
Comics cries : EEKS
27
Singer Sumac : YMA
28
New World grp. : OAS
29
Result of a bad shot, maybe : DIVOT
30
Coll. senior's test : GRE
34
Say "y'all," say : DRAWL
36
Refuses to : WONT
37
Te-___ cigars : AMO
39
"Oklahoma!" gal : ADOANNIE
40
Needle holder : FIR
41
Danson of "Becker" : TED
43
Cow catcher : LASSO
44
B'way sign : SRO
45
Maximally : ATMOST
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Like a blackboard eraser : CHALKY
47
Repressed : HELDIN
49
Marilu of "Evening Shade" : HENNER
50
Lady of "Idylls of the King" : ENID
52
"C'est moi" to us : ITSME
55
Grimm villain : OGRE
56
Haleakala's locale : MAUI
58
Current choice : ACDC
59
Cheat, in a way : PEEK
61
Like a certain power : NTH
62
Perp prosecutors, briefly : DAS
63
Venom source : ASP

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