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New York Times, Saturday, June 6, 1998

Author:
Rich Norris
Editor:
Will Shortz
67-Across : Open swath in a forest
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Rich Norris

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 72, Blocks: 31 Missing: {BJQVX} This is puzzle # 83 for Mr. Norris. Saturday freshness: 47%
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© 1998, The New York Times6/6/98 ( No. 17,742 )
Across
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Loses data, in a way : MISFILES
9
Relief : SUCCOR
15
Describing the Viper rocket : ANTITANK
16
Natural gas component : ETHANE
17
When shadows disappear : NOONTIDE
18
Gained : REAPED
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Like "see," in grammar: Abbr. : IRR
20
"Sonnets to Orpheus" poet : RILKE
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Chip maker : WISE
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"Watership Down" novelist Richard : ADAMS
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Swindled : STUNG
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Diversion : TOY
29
Smooth connections : SEGUES
31
Most eligible : ONEA
32
Two can take this : ACE
33
Fix, as a bow : RESTRING
35
Passes (out) : ZONKS
37
"This ___" (1979 Loggins hit) : ISIT
38
Experience : FEEL
40
Thumb : HITCH
43
Totally out of it : CLUELESS
47
___ whim : ONA
48
Regulatory grp. since 1970 : OSHA
50
Gentle slope : GLACIS
52
"Bad!" : TSK
53
Bridge opponents : THEYS
55
Son of Cain : ENOCH
56
Park near Flushing Bay : SHEA
58
Vote to accept : ADOPT
60
One of Hollywood's "big five," once : RKO
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Inspired a lot? : PANTED
63
Zapper predecessor : FLYPAPER
66
Chloral hydrate, e.g. : OPIATE
67
Open swath in a forest : FIRELINE
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Looked out for : TENDED
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Kind of order to a broker : STOPLOSS
Down
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Rages : MANIAS
2
Called for : INORDER
3
Memory, in a manner of speaking : STORAGE
4
Bygone auto ornament : FIN
5
Defense and electronics giant : ITT
6
Animal house : LAIR
7
"The ___ near" : ENDIS
8
Sheriff Deadeye creator : SKELTON
9
Peaceful : SERENE
10
Southwestern native : UTE
11
Plug : CHAW
12
El ___ (Western peak) : CAPITAN
13
Frequent laundry leftover : ONESOCK
14
Signs of insomnia, maybe : REDEYES
21
Chinese for "skill" : KUNGFU
24
Scores, e.g. : MUSIC
25
Obsolete court tactic : SETSHOT
27
Graceful beast : GAZELLE
30
Title of respect : SRI
34
Was irritating, in a way : ITCHED
36
City on the Allegheny : OLEAN
39
Neurologist's tool, for short : EEG
40
Popular club : HOTSPOT
41
Fit : INSHAPE
42
Duped : TAKENIN
44
Reactions to losses, maybe : LAYOFFS
45
Aggressive type, supposedly : SCORPIO
46
Repulses : SICKENS
49
Hidden from view : SHADED
51
Coasts : SHORES
54
Kind of ticket : SPLIT
57
Not much : ATAD
59
Rookie : TYRO
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Verano, across the Pyrénées : ETE
64
Vigor : PEP
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Solely : ALL

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