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New York Times, Tuesday, June 8, 1999

Author:
Fred Piscop
Editor:
Will Shortz
53-Across : Base for cheese
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Fred Piscop

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 36 Missing: {FJKQWYZ} This is puzzle # 60 for Mr. Piscop. Tuesday freshness: 15%
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© 1999, The New York Times6/8/99 ( No. 18,109 )
Across
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Torcher's misdeed : ARSON
6
Means of secret knowledge? : ESP
9
Fuzzbuster's detection : RADAR
14
Art print, for short : LITHO
15
Bossy utterance? : MOO
16
Draw out : EDUCE
17
Genesis weaponry? : ADAMBOMBS
19
Prepared to fire : AIMED
20
Crown jewels and such : REGALIA
21
Transport to Oz : TORNADO
23
Toothpaste type : GEL
24
Toothpaste unit : TUBE
25
Get the pot going : ANTE
28
Genesis actor? : EVEMONTAND
34
Three Musketeers unit : BAR
35
La ___ Tar Pits : BREA
36
Tabloid worker : EDITOR
37
Taper off : ABATE
39
J.F.K. posting : ETA
41
Novelist Zola : EMILE
42
Individuals, so to speak : BODIES
44
Fictional hunchback : IGOR
46
Family heads : MAS
47
Genesis military force? : ABELSEAMEN
49
Book-lined rooms : DENS
50
Unlikely to bite : TAME
51
Serpent's tail? : INE
53
Base for cheese : SALTINE
57
Most imperturbable : COOLEST
61
Sci-fi visitor : ALIEN
62
Genesis agricultural product? : CAINSUGAR
64
Mark up or mark down : RETAG
65
Gold-record earner : HIT
66
Deposed leader, perhaps : EXILE
67
Leaps for Lipinski : AXELS
68
Poet's preposition : ERE
69
Neuter : DESEX
Down
1
Banned apple spray : ALAR
2
Hitchhiker's quest : RIDE
3
For men only : STAG
4
Electrical resistance : OHMAGE
5
Barnes's partner : NOBLE
6
Austen heroine : EMMA
7
Melodramatic cartoon word : SOB
8
Coffee substitute : POSTUM
9
Freeway mishap : REARENDER
10
Score after deuce : ADIN
11
Russian parliament : DUMA
12
Got 100 on : ACED
13
Decorate anew : REDO
18
Persian Gulf ship : OILER
22
Long, slender instrument : OBOE
24
Londoner's break : TEATIME
25
Addis ___ : ABABA
26
Wealthy one : NABOB
27
Sports deal : TRADE
29
Neckline shape : VEE
30
Crippled Cratchit : TIM
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"One Day at ___" : ATIME
32
Strikeout king Ryan : NOLAN
33
Get decked out : DRESS
35
Occupational hazards for apiarists : BEESTINGS
38
"Shop ___ you drop" : TIL
40
Improve, as beef : AGE
43
Penn or Connery : SEAN
45
Pungent bulb : ONION
48
Don of "Cocoon" : AMECHE
49
Top-shelf : DELUXE
52
Snooped (about) : NOSED
53
Poet Teasdale : SARA
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Author Haley : ALEX
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Dietary, in ads : LITE
56
Mallard's cousin : TEAL
57
Give a ticket to : CITE
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Auspices: Var. : EGIS
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Marketer's aim : SALE
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Fearsome dinosaur, for short : TREX
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Go public with : AIR

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