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New York Times, Thursday, June 29, 2000

Author:
Robert H. Wolfe
Editor:
Will Shortz
20-Across : "Primary Colors" author
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Robert H. Wolfe

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 39 Missing: {GJQXYZ} This is puzzle # 42 for Mr. Wolfe. Thursday freshness: 33%
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© 2000, The New York Times6/29/0 ( No. 18,496 )
Across
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Tree with a gourdlike fruit : BAOBAB
7
Nail site : PAW
10
Hangup : RUB
13
Lackadaisical response : MANANA
14
Hungarian patriot Nagy : IMRE
16
Suffix with glass : INE
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Hits newsprint? : WHACKSPAPER
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Bugs : VWS
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"Primary Colors" author : KLEIN
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"De amicitia" writer : CICERO
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Bring down : ABASE
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Paste : SOCK
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"Sicut ___ in principio" (church lyric) : ERAT
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Blubber : SOB
30
Talks gangster-style : RASPS
31
Rx amts. : TSPS
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Add as a bonus : THROWIN
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Decree of a sovereign : ARRET
37
Like many Rod Serling works : IRONIC
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More like Rod Serling works : EERIER
41
Spanish babies, informally : NENES
43
In reality : DEFACTO
44
Emulate Rembrandt, e.g. : ETCH
46
C-D-G, e.g. : CHORD
48
"Krazy" one : KAT
49
Emphatic aprobación : SISI
50
Jealous wife of myth : HERA
51
Rolls : LISTS
53
Parlor item : SETTEE
55
Hotfoot it : SCOOT
57
Air tester: Abbr. : EPA
58
Items holding up teacher notices? : SCHOOLTACKS
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Naught : NIL
64
Defraud, slangily : SKIN
65
"It's about time!" : ATLAST
66
Memphis-to-Nashville dir. : ENE
67
1960's march organizer: Abbr. : SDS
68
Go out of business : FOLDUP
Down
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325i maker : BMW
2
Sound at a spa : AAH
3
Put ___ show : ONA
4
Subsidizes : BACKS
5
Achilles reflex site : ANKLE
6
Pedestal : BASE
7
Bench sites : PIANOS
8
One coulomb/ second : AMP
9
Ruins an oboe? : WRECKSREED
10
Flotsam on the Mississippi? : RIVERSTICKS
11
Open : UNWRAP
12
Stupefies : BESOTS
15
"___ tu" (song sung by Renato) : ERI
18
Galileo, notably : PISAN
22
Et ___ : CETERA
23
Wine region : ASTI
24
___ theory, in physics : BOHR
25
Rodeo yarn? : ABRONCSTALE
27
Book checker, for short : CPA
30
Grain inspections? : RICECHECKS
33
Kind of wonder : ONEHIT
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Carry the day : WIN
36
Foul caller : REF
39
"L'___, c'est moi" : ETAT
40
Turns : ROTS
42
1887 romance novel : SHE
43
Athenian lawgiver : DRACO
44
Sect member around the time of Christ : ESSENE
45
Haberdashery item : TIEPIN
47
Bean and others : ORSONS
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People are picky about this : LOTTO
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"Darn ___!" : ITALL
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Bend in a river : ESS
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King in an Elgar work : OLAF
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Eclipsed : HID
60
Low one : CAD
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Wildcats of the Big 12 Conf. : KSU
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Big Nascar advertiser : STP

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