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New York Times, Monday, June 3, 2002

Author:
Gregory E. Paul
Editor:
Will Shortz
62-Across : "Incredible" one
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Gregory E. Paul

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 38 Missing: {QXZ} Spans: 3 This is puzzle # 98 for Mr. Paul. Monday freshness: 7%
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© 2002, The New York Times6/3/2 ( No. 19,200 )
Across
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Eye amorously : OGLE
5
No ifs, ___ or buts : ANDS
9
Partners : MATES
14
Place for seagulls to sit : PIER
15
Not shallow : DEEP
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Oven emanation : AROMA
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"What ___ is new?" : ELSE
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Dance in a grass skirt : HULA
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Neglected neighborhoods : SLUMS
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Classic Salinger novel, with "The" : CATCHERINTHERYE
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Poi root : TARO
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Yang's complement : YIN
25
Favorite project : PET
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Make, as a guess : VENTURE
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Land for a house : LOT
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Without help : ALONE
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Tijuana gold : ORO
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Celebration : FETE
38
Behave promiscuously : SOWONESWILDOATS
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Erupt : SPEW
43
Bemoan : RUE
44
Put back to zero, say : RESET
45
Electric fish : EEL
46
Goulash seasoning : PAPRIKA
49
Make an effort : TRY
50
1040 initials : IRS
51
Old-fashioned containers : TINS
53
Repeated lyric in a children's song : JIMMIECRACKCORN
61
Clay brick : ADOBE
62
"Incredible" one : HULK
63
Follow orders : OBEY
64
Neighbor of Earth : VENUS
65
Comedic actress McClurg : EDIE
66
Took a train, say : RODE
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Beauty, brawn or brains : ASSET
68
"I haven't a thing to ___!" : WEAR
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Egg holder : NEST
Down
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Letters from the Persian Gulf? : OPEC
2
Southwestern river : GILA
3
For fear that : LEST
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Put up : ERECT
5
Cling (to) : ADHERE
6
Brain cell : NEURON
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Supermarket part : DELI
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C-___ : SPAN
9
#5 iron : MASHIE
10
"Over the Rainbow" composer Harold : ARLEN
11
Studio visit : TOUR
12
TV honor : EMMY
13
Enclosure with a MS. : SASE
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Any port in a storm : HAVEN
22
Mountainous area of Austria : TYROL
25
No longer in fashion : PASSE
26
Secretly tie the knot : ELOPE
27
Dry (off) : TOWEL
29
___ of London : TOWER
30
Mentalist Geller : URI
31
Opposite of most : LEAST
32
Playful animal : OTTER
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Cantankerous : TESTY
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This instant : NOW
37
Goliath, to David, e.g. : FOE
39
Use the backspace key : ERASE
40
Break bread : SUP
41
Toped : DRANK
46
Mass figure : PRIEST
47
Firenze's land : ITALIA
48
Field goal specialist : KICKER
50
Fill (with) : IMBUE
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Heap ___ upon : SCORN
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Coffee, slangily : JAVA
54
Middle of March : IDES
55
Starts of workweeks: Abbr. : MONS
56
Not just swallow whole : CHEW
57
Ill-mannered : RUDE
58
Clarinet's kin : OBOE
59
Cincinnati nine : REDS
60
Russian rejection : NYET

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