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New York Times, Tuesday, May 9, 2000

Author:
Elizabeth C. Gorski
Editor:
Will Shortz
54-Across : Colors
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Elizabeth C. Gorski

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 36 Missing: {JQZ} Spans: 1 This is puzzle # 53 for Ms. Gorski. Tuesday freshness: 29%
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© 2000, The New York Times5/9/0 ( No. 18,445 )
Across
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Where the Seine flows : PARIS
6
Think hard : FOCUS
11
Highland topper : TAM
14
Give forth : EXUDE
15
Kind of coffee : IRISH
16
Rocks, to a bartender : ICE
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Strong effort in cleaning : ELBOWGREASE
19
Cover with graffiti, e.g. : MAR
20
Notch's shape : VEE
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Piano player in "Casablanca" : SAM
22
Ebb : RECEDE
24
Bygone brand on U.S. highways : ESSO
26
Medieval laborer : SERF
29
Lost color : PALED
30
Watering hole : TAPROOM
33
Food critic Sheraton : MIMI
34
Wading bird : IBIS
36
It has a creamy middle : OREO
38
Physicist's alma mater, maybe: Abbr. : MIT
39
Fist, so to speak : KNUCKLESANDWICH
43
Old telecommunications giant : ITT
44
Margarita need : SALT
45
Horse's fare : OATS
46
Circus safety features : NETS
48
Garden tools : WEEDERS
51
Say hi to : GREET
53
Swamp snapper : CROC
54
Colors : HUES
58
Bird and King : LARRYS
60
Super-long time : EON
62
Part of Pfc.: Abbr. : PVT
63
Yuletide worker : ELF
64
Really good one : KNEESLAPPER
68
Feel awful : AIL
69
Dine at home : EATIN
70
Ireland, personified : IRENA
71
Sunbeam : RAY
72
Plumb tuckered out : SPENT
73
Quota of winks : FORTY
Down
1
Toilet paper rolled the "wrong" way, e.g. : PEEVE
2
Wheel turners : AXLES
3
Unsophisticates : RUBES
4
Chapel vow : IDO
5
Uses a Singer : SEWS
6
Not so gentle : FIRMER
7
Seam contents : ORE
8
Spy's org. : CIA
9
Subj. of a 1991 breakup : USSR
10
Wool-ites? : SHEEP
11
"Final Jeopardy" feature : TIMELIMIT
12
Professors : ACADEMICS
13
New Hampshire town on a lake : MEREDITH
18
Fun house sound : GASP
23
Ending with video : CAM
25
Suffix with psych- : OTIC
27
Nature's alarm clock : ROOSTER
28
___ song : FORA
31
Entreats : ASKS
32
Fellows : MEN
34
Among others : INTERALIA
35
Swimming stroke : BUTTERFLY
37
Bouquet : ODOR
39
Father of three daughters : KINGLEAR
40
Police, with "the" : LAW
41
Certain util. : ELEC
42
Fab place? : WASH
47
Sun. talk : SER
49
Abstains, in brief : DOESNT
50
Earth Day subj. : ECOL
52
Furby fans : TYKES
55
Stimulant : UPPER
56
Happening : EVENT
57
Shelter adoptee : STRAY
59
Ginger cookie : SNAP
61
Babe in the woods : NAIF
65
Vacation time for Henri : ETE
66
A, on the Aare : EIN
67
U.S. Open entrant : PRO

Answer summary:
2 debuted here and reused later, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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