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New York Times, Monday, August 21, 2000

Author:
Dave and Diane Epperson
Editor:
Will Shortz
22-Across : Deodorant type
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
512/13/199910/31/20025
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
0300200
ScrabDebutFresh
1.541123%
Dave Epperson
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
512/13/199910/31/20025
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
0300200
ScrabDebutFresh
1.541123%
Diane Epperson

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 36 Missing: {JKQX} This is puzzle # 3 for Mr. Epperson. This is puzzle # 3 for Ms. Epperson. Monday freshness: 77%
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© 2000, The New York Times8/21/0 ( No. 18,549 )
Across
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A property may have one on it : LIEN
5
Sound of a fall : SPLAT
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Robed : CLAD
14
Singer Arnold : EDDY
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Piece of garlic : CLOVE
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Tiptop : AONE
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NATO's first supreme commander : EISENHOWER
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Bone parallel to the radius : ULNA
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Stage actress Caldwell : ZOE
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General Motors line, for short : OLDS
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Deodorant type : ROLLON
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They'll show you the world : ATLASES
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Done, in Dijon : FINI
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Dickens's orphan in "Great Expectations" : PIP
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Tropical plant with a trunklike stem : TREEFERN
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Military capability : FIREPOWER
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Stead : LIEU
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Polite turndown : NOSIR
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Russian orbiter : MIR
38
Ship navigation aid : LORAN
39
Uzbekistan's ___ Sea : ARAL
40
Leafy shelter : VINEBOWER
42
Massachusetts's nickname : BAYSTATE
44
H20 at 0° : ICE
45
Radio amateurs : HAMS
46
Stranger in a strange land? : TOURIST
50
Win back one's losses : RECOUP
53
Lions and tigers : CATS
54
Cause for sudden death : TIE
55
"There oughta be ___!" : ALAW
56
Academic enclave : IVORYTOWER
59
Not yours or theirs : MINE
60
Swab the deck again : REMOP
61
Old piano tunes : RAGS
62
Ibsen's "___ Gynt" : PEER
63
Tickle pink : ELATE
64
Fortuneteller's opening : ISEE
Down
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Host Gibbons : LEEZA
2
Numbskull : IDIOT
3
1950's Ford flop : EDSEL
4
Bill ___, the Science Guy : NYE
5
Lug around : SCHLEPP
6
Walks like a workhorse : PLODS
7
Areas on weather maps : LOWS
8
"___ Maria" : AVE
9
Wirehair, e.g. : TERRIER
10
It has a big head : CAULIFLOWER
11
Hang (around) : LOLL
12
___ Domini : ANNO
13
University V.I.P. : DEAN
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More meddlesome : NOSIER
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It's next to nothing : ONE
25
Spring event : APRILSHOWER
26
"___ Jacques" (children's song) : FRERE
28
Bale binder : TWINE
29
Yeats's land : EIRE
30
Kind of admiral : REAR
31
Woman of habit? : NUN
32
___ song (cheaply) : FORA
33
"___, old chap" : ISAY
34
Leaves out : OMITS
36
Catch in the act : NAB
38
Part of a biblical plague : LOCUST
40
Dracula, for one : VAMPIRE
41
Genetically related organisms : BIOTYPE
43
St. Anthony's cross : TAU
46
Diviner's deck : TAROT
47
"___ a dark and stormy night..." : ITWAS
48
Start of a long battle : SIEGE
49
Short-winded : TERSE
50
Wheelchair access : RAMP
51
Author Wiesel : ELIE
52
Sugar source : CANE
53
Film "sleeper" of 1978 : COMA
57
Speed: Abbr. : VEL
58
"Either you say it ___ will" : ORI

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 2 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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