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New York Times, Monday, August 19, 1996

Author:
E. C. Gorski
Editor:
Will Shortz
54-Across : Right off the stove
TotalDebutLatest
2197/31/19952/23/2016
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RebusCircleScrabDebutFresh
30221.541,51454%
Elizabeth C. Gorski

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 38 Missing: {QWX} This is puzzle # 7 for Ms. Gorski. Monday freshness: 50%
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© 1996, The New York Times8/19/96 ( No. 17,086 )
Across
1
Queen Latifah songs : RAPS
5
Less than 90 (degrees) : ACUTE
10
Mouth-to-mouth : ORAL
14
Director Kazan : ELIA
15
Andrews and Carvey : DANAS
16
Appoint : NAME
17
"Right on, brother!" : AMEN
18
Sheep-ish : OVINE
19
Use a Smith-Corona : TYPE
20
1972 U.S. Olympic hero : MARKSPITZ
22
"Get ___ of yourself!" : AHOLD
23
Dimwit's brain size : PEA
24
Francis and Dahl : ARLENES
26
Falsely incriminate : FRAME
30
Part two of an election : RUNOFF
32
Ebb : RECEDE
34
Diaper holder : PIN
35
Some VCR's : RCAS
39
Parroted : APED
40
In front : AHEAD
42
Breakfast restaurant chain, for short : IHOP
43
Actress Spelling : TORI
44
Catch some rays : TAN
45
Gas rating : OCTANE
47
Changes : AMENDS
50
Nahuatl language : AZTEC
51
Hitting with short punches : JABBING
54
Right off the stove : HOT
56
Grown-up : ADULT
57
Plum brandy : SLIVOVITZ
63
"The ___ Never Sleeps" (bank slogan) : CITI
64
Business exec T. ___ Pickens : BOONE
65
Farm: Prefix : AGRI
66
Etta of the funnies : KETT
67
"The Age of Anxiety" poet : AUDEN
68
Tavern light : NEON
69
Mideast canal : SUEZ
70
Uses a spoon, maybe : STIRS
71
Eye problem : STYE
Down
1
500 sheets : REAM
2
___ mater : ALMA
3
Ship's landing : PIER
4
Went under : SANK
5
Ali's "rope-___" : ADOPE
6
Champagne go-with : CAVIAR
7
Part of B.T.U. : UNIT
8
Neighbor of Kenya : TANZANIA
9
Suffix with Japan or Sudan : ESE
10
Broken : ONTHEFRITZ
11
Skirt material : RAYON
12
Copious : AMPLE
13
Yorkshire's largest city : LEEDS
21
Went 80 m.p.h. : SPED
22
80's TV alien : ALF
25
Sonata movement : RONDO
26
Toga party venue : FRAT
27
"___ Man" (1984 film) : REPO
28
Excellent server : ACER
29
Publicist's coup : MEDIABLITZ
31
Turn over : UPEND
33
Consumed : EATEN
36
Chew the fat : CHAT
37
Super-duper : AONE
38
On ___ (like some writers' assignments) : SPEC
41
Loiters with friends : HANGSOUT
46
Ancient Roman censor : CATO
48
Cambridge sch. : MIT
49
Black eye : SHINER
51
Raises, with "up" : JACKS
52
Goodbye : ADIEU
53
Montana city : BUTTE
55
Hot spots : OVENS
58
New Jersey city : LODI
59
U-Haul rentals : VANS
60
"___ a Kick Out of You" : IGET
61
Where Helen was abducted to : TROY
62
Amateur publication, informally : ZINE
64
Undergrad degrees : BAS

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