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New York Times, Wednesday, June 21, 2000

Author:
Greg Staples
Editor:
Will Shortz
65-Across : Exasperates
TotalDebutLatest
257/4/19997/22/2004
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ScrabDebutFresh
1.5210227%
Greg Staples

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 38 Missing: {FJKQXYZ} Spans: 4 This is puzzle # 10 for Mr. Staples. Wednesday freshness: 1%
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© 2000, The New York Times6/21/0 ( No. 18,488 )
Across
1
Verbal assault : SLAM
5
Verbal break-in : AHEM
9
Way around Paris : METRO
14
Offer as proof : CITE
15
Stuff to be crunched : DATA
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Hatch on the Hill : ORRIN
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Book after Joel : AMOS
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Old Dodge : OMNI
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Plain speaking : PROSE
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Himalayan aviation board? : NEPALPLANEPANEL
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Filled the bill, perhaps : ATE
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November honoree : VET
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Freshest stories? : LEASTSTALETALES
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Bert's buddy : ERNIE
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Third-smallest of nine : MARS
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Maker or breaker lead-in : LAW
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Tour dates : GIGS
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Bugs Bunny and others : TOONS
40
Merlin, e.g. : MAGE
41
Whiz : ACE
42
On toast, at a diner : DOWN
43
Readied the bow : AIMED
44
Closeup of royal displeasure? : LARGEREGALGLARE
48
Sch. in Troy, N.Y. : RPI
49
"Is that so!" : GEE
50
Indiana team hijinks summary? : PACERCAPERRECAP
59
Storming : IRATE
60
Beethoven's birthplace : BONN
61
RC, e.g. : COLA
62
Frasier's brother : NILES
63
Be an omen of : BODE
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Homeboy's place : HOOD
65
Exasperates : GALLS
66
Apple color enhancer : ALAR
67
Numbered work : OPUS
Down
1
Digitize, in a way : SCAN
2
Lawn application : LIME
3
Resting on : ATOP
4
___ Verde National Park : MESA
5
Takes on : ADOPTS
6
Dogpatch, for one : HAMLET
7
Sicilian peak : ETNA
8
It may be bounding : MAIN
9
Rug rats : MOPPETS
10
Slips : ERRATA
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Suffix in nuclear physics : TRON
12
Court order? : RISE
13
Scott Turow's first book : ONEL
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Eleventh-hour : LATE
22
Middle of a noted Cubs trio : EVERS
25
Over 21, perhaps : LEGAL
26
Writer Jong : ERICA
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Reason for the silent treatment : ANGER
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Family girl : SIS
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In with : AMONG
30
PC linkup : LAN
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Andean wool source : LLAMA
32
Hot to trot : EAGER
33
Bjorn Borg, for one : SWEDE
38
Like inner tubes : TORIC
39
Be in the red : OWE
40
N.L. Central team, on scoreboards : MIL
42
Lower : DEPRESS
43
Golden finish? : AGER
45
Grimm heroine : GRETEL
46
Chairman's paper : AGENDA
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"My Fair Lady" lyricist : LERNER
50
Engine sound : PING
51
Part of a score, maybe : ARIA
52
"Tails," e.g. : CALL
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"SOS" pop group : ABBA
54
Summer hangout : POOL
55
Sonar's principle : ECHO
56
Group enterprise : COOP
57
Baseball family name : ALOU
58
Pew parts : PADS

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2 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later.

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