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New York Times, Wednesday, July 26, 2000

Author:
William I. Johnston
Editor:
Will Shortz
53-Across : Daily pastime for millions
TotalDebutLatest
151/7/19994/27/2011
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RebusCircleScrabDebutFresh
111.565550%
William I. Johnston

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 34 Missing: {JQXZ} This is puzzle # 2 for Mr. Johnston. Wednesday freshness: 54%
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© 2000, The New York Times7/26/0 ( No. 18,523 )
Across
1
"Air Music" composer : ROREM
6
Town near Arches National Park : MOAB
10
Answer the host : RSVP
14
Final word : ADIEU
15
Solo, of a sort : ARIA
16
Abbr. in a listing : ETAL
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Policy mates : COINSURERS
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Something to keep tabs on : FILE
20
Age abbr. : YRS
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Dumas's Musketeers, e.g. : TRIO
22
Was rude to : SAUCED
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It may turn on a rooster : VANE
25
Belarus's capital : MINSK
26
Olympic pool units : METERS
29
Argues an outcome : CONTESTS
32
Orchard item : APHID
33
Hindu queen : RANEE
34
Prevailed : WON
35
Carol : NOEL
36
With 29-Down, source of this puzzle's theme : TAROT
37
Vocalist Vannelli : GINO
38
"___ bin ein Berliner" : ICH
39
Air traffic controllers stare at them : GRIDS
40
Asked : PUTTO
41
Southern taste treat : CHITLINS
43
Drive-in employee : CARHOP
44
Big reptiles, informally : CROCS
45
Big coca producer : PERU
46
Take over : OCCUPY
48
Make reservations : BOOK
49
General Motors division : GEO
52
Pout : MOUE
53
Daily pastime for millions : CROSSWORDS
56
Concert equipment : AMPS
57
Thailand neighbor : LAOS
58
Diarist Nin : ANAIS
59
Condé ___ (publisher) : NAST
60
Brontë woman : EYRE
61
Gabber : YENTA
Down
1
Risqué : RACY
2
Emanation : ODOR
3
Reformer Jacob : RIIS
4
Poetic contraction : EEN
5
Kind of gas : MUSTARD
6
Donny's TV partner : MARIE
7
Three-layer snack : OREO
8
Space : AIR
9
Baby's bed : BASSINET
10
Trash : REFUSE
11
Keeps : STICKSWITH
12
Farewell, to Cicero : VALE
13
Argued : PLED
18
Garden decorations : URNS
23
Chip in : ANTE
24
Obscure : VEIL
25
Early recordings : MONOS
26
Excessively enthusiastic : MANIC
27
Age : EPOCH
28
What drinking may cure : THEHICCUPS
29
See 36-Across : CARDS
30
Loyal sidekick : TONTO
31
Pry : SNOOP
33
Spring events : RAINS
36
First set of wheels, maybe : TRICYCLE
37
Swami : GURU
39
Mush : GLOP
40
Treelined thoroughfare : PARKWAY
42
Most loyal : TRUEST
43
Corp. bigwigs : CEOS
45
Group on horseback, maybe : POSSE
46
Mideast's Gulf of ___ : OMAN
47
A person in it is out of it : COMA
48
Rude person : BOOR
49
1970's Plymouth ___ Fury : GRAN
50
Rephrase : EDIT
51
Bones, anatomically : OSSA
54
Bit of hope? : RAY
55
Long-distance call starter : ONE

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