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New York Times, Monday, June 29, 1998

Author:
Gregory E. Paul
Editor:
Will Shortz
5-Across : Silents actress Normand
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Gregory E. Paul

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 42 Missing: {JQXZ} Spans: 1 This is puzzle # 60 for Mr. Paul. Monday freshness: 5%
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© 1998, The New York Times6/29/98 ( No. 17,765 )
Across
1
Polish's partner : SPIT
5
Silents actress Normand : MABEL
10
Disappearing phone feature : DIAL
14
Busy person's list heading : TODO
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"The Barber of Seville," e.g. : OPERA
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Loafing : IDLE
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Dreadful end : DOOM
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Hornswoggle : CHEAT
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Butcher's stock : MEAT
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Short-lived success : FLASHINTHEPAN
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Skull : HEAD
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Building wing : ELL
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Skirt fold : PLEAT
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Second-stringer : SUB
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Command to Bowser : FETCH
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Windpipe, e.g. : AIRWAY
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Spigot : TAP
39
Not worth a ___ : SOU
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Backstabber : SNAKEINTHEGRASS
44
6-3, in tennis : SET
45
Letter before "cue" : PEE
46
Forewarns : ALERTS
47
Crumble, as support : ERODE
50
Any planet : ORB
52
Analyze : ASSAY
53
"Independence Day" invaders : ETS
55
Farm fraction : ACRE
57
Old fogy : STICKINTHEMUD
63
Trendy : CHIC
64
Die down : ABATE
65
Sombrero feature : BRIM
67
One of six for a hexagon : SIDE
68
x, mathwise : TIMES
69
Liquid rock : LAVA
70
Profess : AVER
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Perfect places : EDENS
72
Enthusiasm : ELAN
Down
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The usual: Abbr. : STD
2
[It's gone!] : POOF
3
False god : IDOL
4
Hiawatha's weapon : TOMAHAWK
5
Coffee shop order : MOCHA
6
Plant pests : APHIDS
7
Existed : BEEN
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The "E" in Q.E.D. : ERAT
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Carpenter's machine : LATHE
10
Feature of a baby face : DIMPLE
11
The very notion : IDEA
12
TV's Thicke : ALAN
13
"___ Me Call You Sweetheart" : LET
21
Caterpillar hairs : SETAE
22
North Pole toymaker : ELF
25
Old hat : PASSE
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The Titanic, e.g. : LINER
27
Muse of poetry : ERATO
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Out-and-out : UTTER
30
Old-fashioned "Phooey!" : BAH
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Russian royals : TSARS
33
___ Rica : COSTA
34
Impudent girl : HUSSY
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Kennel sound : YIP
38
Black-eyed ___ : PEA
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Prefix with colonial : NEO
42
Blinding light : GLARE
43
Look like : RESEMBLE
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Salt, e.g. : DEICER
49
And so on, for short : ETC
51
Close securely, with "down" : BATTEN
54
Rollerblade : SKATE
56
Deep Blue's game : CHESS
57
Switchblade : SHIV
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Ocean motion : TIDE
59
Footnote abbr. : IBID
60
Christen : NAME
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Russia's ___ Mountains : URAL
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Beverly Sills, e.g. : DIVA
63
Civil War letters : CSA
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Million ___ March : MAN

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