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New York Times, Tuesday, July 23, 1996

Author:
G. E. Paul
Editor:
Will Shortz
70-Across : Everything, to Ernst
TotalDebutLatest
1169/13/199410/17/2005
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ScrabDebutFresh
1.502306%
Gregory E. Paul

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 38 Missing: {JKQX} This is puzzle # 36 for Mr. Paul. Tuesday freshness: 34%
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© 1996, The New York Times7/23/96 ( No. 17,059 )
Across
1
Canvas : TARP
5
Moll Flanders, e.g. : THIEF
10
Defeat : LOSS
14
Like some medicines : ORAL
15
Esther of "Good Times" : ROLLE
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Colorful fish : OPAH
17
Singer Minnelli : LIZA
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Heavenly hunter : ORION
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Kill a bill : VETO
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Dinner table centerpiece : LAZYSUSAN
22
Cliffside home : AERIE
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Somme summer : ETE
24
"Easter Parade" star, 1948 : GARLAND
26
Yemen, once : SHEBA
30
Kind of town : SHANTY
32
They may be cultured : PEARLS
34
D.D.E.'s command : ETO
35
Fighter jet maneuver : ROLL
39
As well : ALSO
40
Loafed : IDLED
42
Think tank output : IDEA
43
Countless number : SLEW
44
Classical beginning : NEO
45
Singer John et al. : ELTONS
47
Cancel : NEGATE
50
___Day : EARTH
51
Drifted : RAMBLED
54
Flag Day grp. : VFW
56
Bay window : ORIEL
57
1969 Creedence Clearwater Revival song : PROUDMARY
63
Moldiness : MUST
64
Purifies, as water : BOILS
65
Gamete : OVUM
66
Help at a heist : ABET
67
Figure out : SOLVE
68
Part of D.J. : DISC
69
___a one : NARY
70
Everything, to Ernst : ALLES
71
"Como___usted?" : ESTA
Down
1
Turnpike fee : TOLL
2
"Un bel di," e.g. : ARIA
3
Tease : RAZZ
4
VCR button : PLAY
5
Speckled___ : TROUT
6
Derby entries : HORSES
7
Pelvis parts : ILIA
8
Extend : ELONGATE
9
Marsh : FEN
10
1967 Beatles song : LOVELYRITA
11
Donizetti work : OPERA
12
Used, as a chair : SATIN
13
Did a blacksmith's job : SHOED
21
Sea World attraction : SEAL
22
Biblical verb : ART
25
Battery terminal : ANODE
26
Baden and Bath, e.g. : SPAS
27
High water's partner : HELL
28
Life of Riley : EASE
29
Baked dessert : BROWNBETTY
31
Slave : HELOT
33
Lightly burn : SINGE
36
Dump problem : ODOR
37
Pre-Easter period : LENT
38
Eye protector : LASH
41
Clint Eastwood film, with "The" : DEADPOOL
46
Ribald : LEWD
48
Building annex : ELL
49
Develop : EVOLVE
51
Dweller on the Tiber : ROMAN
52
Caribbean island : ARUBA
53
Scrooge, e.g. : MISER
55
Electric circuit safeguards : FUSES
58
Small brook : RILL
59
Pop music's Depeche___ : MODE
60
Hertz rival : AVIS
61
Oxidize : RUST
62
Gym site : YMCA
64
"Be prepared" grp. : BSA

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