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New York Times, Thursday, June 17, 1999

Author:
Richard Silvestri
Editor:
Will Shortz
13-Across : Mucks up
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Richard Silvestri

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 74, Blocks: 36 Missing: {FJQ} This is puzzle # 81 for Mr. Silvestri. Thursday freshness: 37%
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© 1999, The New York Times6/17/99 ( No. 18,118 )
Across
1
Breakfast choice : EGGS
5
Gorge : CHASM
10
Witty one : WAG
13
Mucks up : MIRES
15
Popular 90's beverage : LATTE
16
Hacker : AXE
17
Where pants cuffs usually fall? : OVERTHEHEEL
19
Connections : KIN
20
Idiot box : TEEVEE
21
Like some mountain guides : NEPALESE
23
Makes lovable : ENDEARS
25
___ moment : INA
26
Soporific rind? : SLEEPINGPEEL
32
Cry of contempt : BAH
35
Home extension : STEAD
36
Top scout : EAGLE
37
"One" on a one : UNUM
39
Blotto : OILED
41
Broadcast journalist Paula : ZAHN
42
Watch part : STRAP
44
Opposite of pulls away : NEARS
46
Morse minimum : DIT
47
Metal for chairs? : SITTINGSTEEL
50
Central truth : TAO
51
Clad : ENROBED
55
Rough : UNGENTLE
60
She won an Emmy playing Miss Jean : CICELY
61
Apron material : TAR
62
Barnacle location? : INATTHEKEEL
64
Collected quotes : ANA
65
___ voce : SOTTO
66
Medicinal plant : SENNA
67
Mudder's fodder : HAY
68
Sound from a nest : TWEET
69
Campus V.I.P. : DEAN
Down
1
Hardly underplay : EMOTE
2
Established fact : GIVEN
3
Midas's undoing : GREED
4
Starts court proceedings? : SERVES
5
Diminutive suffix : CLE
6
1944 Chemistry Nobelist : HAHN
7
To ___ (exactly) : ATEE
8
Intervene : STEPIN
9
Mixture : MELANGE
10
Boat trailer : WAKE
11
Central line : AXIS
12
Something to splice : GENE
14
Breaks a commandment : STEALS
18
Regarding this point : HERETO
22
World's highest capital : LAPAZ
24
Inasmuch (as) : SEEING
27
Loses luster : PALES
28
Make plans, maybe : IDEATE
29
Old-time oath : EGAD
30
Precollege : ELHI
31
Temporarily gone : LENT
32
Smack : BUSS
33
Non-pro? : ANTI
34
In pain : HURT
38
Photo finish : MATTE
40
Soak to the skin : DRENCH
43
Cafe booking : PIANIST
45
One thing after another : SERIES
48
Later : NOTNOW
49
Like some cells : LOCKED
52
Geoffrey of fashion : BEENE
53
"Maria ___" (1933 tune) : ELENA
54
Folk-rock pioneer : DYLAN
55
Jazz home : UTAH
56
"Peter Pan" pooch : NANA
57
Lee side? : GRAY
58
After curfew : LATE
59
Novel conclusion : ETTE
63
Wee one : TOT

Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later.

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