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New York Times, Saturday, July 22, 1995

Author:
Richard Thomas
Editor:
Will Shortz
39-Across : Popular kids' game
TotalDebutLatest
48/3/19949/4/1995
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ScrabDebutFresh
1.572142%
Richard Thomas

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 74, Blocks: 34 Missing: {QZ} This is puzzle # 3 for Mr. Thomas. Saturday freshness: 12%
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W
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F
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C
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A
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A
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K
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G
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B
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K
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C
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L
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Y
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J
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M
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C
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© 1995, The New York Times7/22/95 ( No. 16,692 )
Across
1
Kind of list : WISH
5
Noted Knick : EWING
10
Highfalutin manner : AIRS
14
Certain voice : ALTO
15
Less likely to quit : GAMER
16
Liver, in Lyon : FOIE
17
Campus offering : GEOLOGYIOI
19
Modern apartment : LOFT
20
Power symbol : EXPONENT
21
Legal claims : DROITS
23
"The Immoralist" author : GIDE
24
Artist John : SLOAN
25
Saladin's citadel site : CAIRO
28
6 Down's final film, with "The" : SHOOTIST
31
Like a shrike, e.g. : AVIAN
32
Not do ___ of work : ALICK
33
Cheerful, to Cheri : GAI
34
Compartment : ROOM
35
Shut out : BLANK
36
Sidekick : CHUM
37
Particularity : TIC
38
Interest group : LOBBY
39
Popular kids' game : JOTTO
40
Esau descendants : EDOMITES
42
Hall-of-Fame gridder Merlin : OLSEN
43
Salon job : RINSE
44
Durant's Muse : CLIO
46
Insect-eating plant : SUNDEW
48
Official access : CHANNELS
52
First name in fashion : OLEG
53
College basketball conference : ATLANTICIO
55
Make pots, in a way : ANTE
56
Rope loop : NOOSE
57
Newsman Bernard : SHAW
58
Historical : PAST
59
View in Peru : ANDES
60
Unable to choose : TORN
Down
1
Carry on : WAGE
2
Holly : ILEX
3
Tour part : STOP
4
Laser image : HOLOGRAM
5
Pushed, with "on" : EGGED
6
See 28 Across : WAYNE
7
Not an orig. : IMIT
8
Fresh start : NEO
9
Transportation woe : GRIDLOCK
10
Out of debt : AFLOAT
11
Times for tales : IOOINIGHTS
12
Split : RIFT
13
Match components : SETS
18
Kind of soup : ONION
22
Hornswoggle : ROOK
24
Bright : SHINY
25
Bill of fare : CARTE
26
Skirt : AVOID
27
"76 Trombones" group : IIOCORNETS
28
Sidewalk sections : SLABS
29
Use a wok, maybe : SAUTE
30
Bard's Athenian : TIMON
32
"Seascape" playwright : ALBEE
35
Neighbor of Namibia : BOTSWANA
36
Early immigrant : COLONIST
38
Come-on : LINE
39
Nexus : JOINT
41
Undersized : MIDGET
44
Go after : CHASE
45
Pool paths : LANES
46
Carver's medium : SOAP
47
Limb part : ULNA
48
Lummox : CLOD
49
Parrot : ECHO
50
False fellow : LIAR
51
Implanted : SOWN
54
Word with short or long : TON

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