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New York Times, Tuesday, May 7, 1996

Author:
K. Hodge
Editor:
Will Shortz
63-Across : Oral, maybe
TotalDebutLatest
1310/18/19822/22/2012
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ScrabDebutPre‑WSFresh
1.5974236%
Karen Young Bonin

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 38 Missing: {Q} This is puzzle # 3 for Ms. Bonin. Tuesday freshness: 52%
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S
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P
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I
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C
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B
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N
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O
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U
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C
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B
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M
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U
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T
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P
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C
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© 1996, The New York Times5/7/96 ( No. 16,982 )
Across
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Roasting rods : SPITS
6
Sunscreen ingredient : PABA
10
Hacks around the city : CABS
14
___Dame : NOTRE
15
Hot spot : OVEN
16
Brigham Young's destination : UTAH
17
Barbarian of pulp fiction : CONAN
18
Mennonites, e.g. : SECT
19
Make yawn : BORE
20
Elementary piano tune : CHOPSTICKS
22
Book before Nehemiah : EZRA
23
Spanish artist : SERT
24
Ogler : EYER
26
Boy king : TUT
29
Rationalistic believer : DEIST
31
Antiquated : MOSSY
35
Having zero rainfall : ARID
37
One of Frank's exes : AVA
38
More ideal? : UTOPIA
39
Southern France : MIDI
40
L.B.J., for one : TEXAN
42
Volunteer State: Abbr. : TENN
43
Fine as can be : PEACHY
45
Uneven : ODD
46
Ax : SACK
47
Tree-lined walk : ALLEE
48
Have fun with : ENJOY
50
Matter for a judge : RES
51
Lab weight : GRAM
53
Course for an M.D.-to-be : ANAT
55
Couch potato's place : SOFA
58
Not be frank : MINCEWORDS
63
Oral, maybe : EXAM
64
Tommie of 60's-70's baseball : AGEE
65
Singer Chris : ISAAK
66
"Sommersby" star, 1993 : GERE
67
Collar straightener : IRON
68
Inamorata of Valentino : NEGRI
69
Billfold stuffers : ONES
70
Robin's home : NEST
71
Fuels (up) : GASES
Down
1
60's Black Power grp. : SNCC
2
Pal of Piglet : POOH
3
Give___ thought : ITNO
4
Pitfalls : TRAPS
5
Had a feeling : SENSED
6
100% sure : POSITIVE
7
Opposite of sans : AVEC
8
Canterbury dignitary : BECKET
9
Impatient : ANTSY
10
Math extractions : CUBEROOTS
11
Full, as an index : ATOZ
12
Attorney General under Bush : BARR
13
Mets' home : SHEA
21
Versailles document : TREATY
25
Ambulance rider, briefly : EMT
26
St. Pete's neighbor : TAMPA
27
Milton's "Regent of the Sun" : URIEL
28
Kind of wave : TIDAL
30
Early Brit : SAXON
32
Use a harpoon : SPEAR
33
Subsequently : SINCE
34
Pershing's men : YANKS
36
Chuck-a-luck and craps : DICEGAMES
38
Ruined : UNDONE
41
Next-door : ADJACENT
44
That girl : HER
48
Refugee : EMIGRE
49
Slightly off course : YAWING
52
With all one's might : AMAIN
54
"Bobby Shaftoe's gone___" : TOSEA
55
Flower of 16-Across : SEGO
56
The yoke's on them : OXEN
57
What's for dinner? : FARE
59
Modernists : NEOS
60
Destitution : RAGS
61
Have the nerve : DARE
62
Rossignol gear : SKIS

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