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New York Times, Wednesday, July 12, 2000

Author:
William A. Ballard
Editor:
Will Shortz
5-Across : Vast extents
TotalDebutLatest
102/24/19984/13/2004
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
0342100
ScrabDebutFresh
1.573620%
Bill Ballard

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 37 Missing: {JKQX} This is puzzle # 7 for Mr. Ballard. Wednesday freshness: 48%
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© 2000, The New York Times7/12/0 ( No. 18,509 )
Across
1
Ready : RIPE
5
Vast extents : DEEPS
10
Break in relations : RIFT
14
Cassowary cousins : EMUS
15
Look for : AWAIT
16
Sneaking suspicion : IDEA
17
Humor in its verse possible form? : PUNTAMETER
19
Showy flower, for short : GLAD
20
Basket twigs : OSIERS
21
Poetic palindrome : ERE
22
Wife of Zeus : HERA
23
Dernier ___ : CRI
24
Prerevolutionary state : UNREST
26
Parts of geometry calculations : PIS
27
Edit comedy scripts? : BLUEPUNCIL
31
Scale member : SOL
32
Summon, in a way : BEEP
33
City ESE of Bombay : POONA
34
Plowed land : TILLAGE
36
It creates drafts : BREWPUB
38
Disney's middle name : ELIAS
39
Plummet's opposite : SOAR
40
___ Missouri : USS
41
Comedy writing? : PUNMANSHIP
44
"___ China" policy : ONE
45
Full-service components? : PLATES
46
Gaelic "Gee!" : OCH
47
Petit four finisher : ICER
50
When it's broken, that's good : PAR
51
Wedding sites : ALTARS
54
Move like molasses : OOZE
55
Joke postscripts? : APPUNDAGES
57
Lean and sinewy : WIRY
58
Wool source : LLAMA
59
Blow off steam : VENT
60
Word for Yorick : ALAS
61
Badlands formations : MESAS
62
Son of Seth : ENOS
Down
1
Defaulter's loss : REPO
2
Stern competitor : IMUS
3
Cure for sick jokes? : PUNICILLIN
4
Fragrant compounds : ESTERS
5
Farm mothers : DAMS
6
Farm mother : EWE
7
Totally gone : EATENUP
8
Coyote State capital : PIERRE
9
"Sophie's Choice" Oscar winner : STREEP
10
"Stat!" : RIGHTNOW
11
Like some rumors : IDLE
12
Four Freedoms subject : FEAR
13
"Behold!" : TADA
18
Uris hero : ARI
24
1997 Fonda role : ULEE
25
Fab : SUPER
26
W.W. I French soldier : POILU
27
Seek spare change : BEG
28
Witticism capital? : COPUNHAGEN
29
"Ocupado" : INUSE
30
Where cures are discovered : LABS
31
Stage : STEP
32
___ metabolism : BASAL
35
Eel look-alikes : LAMPREYS
36
___ de Bologne (park west of Paris) : BOIS
37
Grammy category : RAP
39
Hillary supporters : SHERPAS
42
Flamethrower fuel : NAPALM
43
Bread or butter : STAPLE
44
Pianist's span : OCTAVE
46
Getting on : OLD
47
Caucus state : IOWA
48
Slinky, basically : COIL
49
Browning's "Rabbi Ben ___" : EZRA
51
Literary collections : ANAS
52
City near Sparks : RENO
53
Tu-144 and others : SSTS
56
Actress Thurman : UMA

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6 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later.

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