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New York Times, Thursday, August 18, 2005

Author:
Paula Gamache
Editor:
Will Shortz
39-Across : Signs of fluster
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
1085/21/20021/14/20184
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RebusCircleScrabDebutFresh
431.5850462%
Paula Gamache

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 39 Missing: {JQXY} This is puzzle # 10 for Ms. Gamache. Thursday freshness: 26%
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© 2005, The New York Times8/18/5 ( No. 20,372 )
Across
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Costco quantity : CASE
5
Small bag : POKE
9
Passover dinner : SEDER
14
Jump over : OMIT
15
Big tournament : OPEN
16
___ Gay (W.W. II plane) : ENOLA
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Part of a hockey line : RIGHTWING
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Field Marshal Rommel : ERWIN
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Resident : DENIZEN
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Really enjoys : ISINTO
22
Panacea : CUREALL
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Normandy city : CAEN
26
Drugs, briefly : MEDS
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Wrestling hold : NELSON
31
Fuss : ADO
32
With 43-Across, what this puzzle is doing : GOINGIN
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Tag issuer: Abbr. : DMV
38
Long ___ : AGO
39
Signs of fluster : ERS
40
Business letter abbr. : ENC
41
Western treaty grp. : OAS
42
Modern storage unit, informally : MEG
43
See 32-Across : SELCRIC
45
A, in Acapulco : UNO
46
Current source : OUTLET
48
'Vette design detail : TTOP
49
Botanical beards : AWNS
51
Hidden conditions : STRINGS
55
Saturn satellite : PHOEBE
57
"___ You Love" (Nat King Cole hit) : SOMEONE
61
Prefix with dollars : PETRO
62
Washington to California : TSAOCTFEL
64
Blue stone : LAPIS
65
Fleece : SOAK
66
Boohoos : SOBS
67
Exercise : ETUDE
68
Snaps : PICS
69
Book that details the reign of Cyrus : EZRA
Down
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Parachute part : CORD
2
Guy's girl : AMIE
3
Not just initial : SIGN
4
Branch of philosophy : ETHICS
5
___ lunch : POWER
6
Offer one's two cents : OPINE
7
Neighbor of Ind. : KEN
8
Coll. major : ENG
9
Dates : SEES
10
Baritone in Donizetti's "Lucia di Lammermoor" : ENRICO
11
On the skids : DOWNANDOUT
12
Chosen ones : ELITE
13
Was a motor-mouth : RANON
18
Lao-___ : TZU
21
Big Ten team : ILLINI
23
Massachusetts' Cape ___ : ANN
24
Cubist Fernand : LEGER
26
Hat-tipper's word : MAAM
27
Advantage : EDGE
28
Looking for trouble : DOOGONOTPU
30
1960's civil rights org. : SNCC
32
Exploit : GEST
33
Ultimatum ender : ORELSE
34
Spot of land : ISLET
36
Word before and after "a" : MANO
37
Cognac bottle initials : VSOP
44
Geom. point : CTR
47
Cyberhandle : USERID
48
African menace : TSETSE
49
Bobber's quest : APPLE
50
It may be cracked : WHEAT
52
Publisher Funk of Funk and Wagnalls : ISAAC
53
Recesses : NOOKS
54
Yukon producer, for short : GMC
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Big maker of audio equipment : BOSE
58
"The Wizard ___" : OFOZ
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Lincoln's home: Abbr. : NEBR
60
Jewelry designer Peretti : ELSA
62
Cooking meas. : TSP
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"___ says..." : SOI

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