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New York Times, Tuesday, August 25, 1998

Author:
Randy Sowell
Editor:
Will Shortz
65-Across : Sermon passage
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Randy Sowell

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 38 Missing: {WZ} Spans: 1 This is puzzle # 7 for Mr. Sowell. Tuesday freshness: 53%
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© 1998, The New York Times8/25/98 ( No. 17,822 )
Across
1
Web surfer's need : MODEM
6
Gulf war foe : IRAQ
10
Moola : GELT
14
Levi's "Christ Stopped at ___" : EBOLI
15
In ___ (undisturbed) : SITU
16
Iris's place : UVEA
17
"Eat hearty!" : DIGIN
18
Play opener : ACTI
19
Puppies' plaints : YIPS
20
Clotheshorses : FASHIONPLATES
23
106, to Caesar : CVI
25
Bit : TAD
26
Booby trap : SNARE
27
Harsh conditions : RIGORS
29
See 33-Across : FONDA
32
Earthy hue : OCHRE
33
With 29-Across, "Barbarella" star : JANE
34
___ Na Na : SHA
37
Signal receivers : SATELLITEDISHES
41
Soon-to-be grads: Abbr. : SRS
42
Noted lithographer : IVES
43
Finland, to the Finns : SUOMI
44
Rocky rival Apollo ___ : CREED
46
Tar pits locale : LABREA
47
Put on, as glue : APPLY
50
Tinker or Evers or Chance : CUB
51
C & W channel : TNN
52
Common tabloid topics : FLYINGSAUCERS
57
Artificial bait : LURE
58
Led Zeppelin's genre : ROCK
59
Grinned from ear to ear : LITUP
62
"Right on!" : AMEN
63
Shot, e.g. : AMMO
64
Relaxed : LOOSE
65
Sermon passage : TEXT
66
Suds : BEER
67
Colorado ski resort : ASPEN
Down
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Club ___ : MED
2
"Shogun" apparel : OBI
3
Sopwith Camel/Fokker clashes : DOGFIGHTS
4
Lamb's "Essays of ___" : ELIA
5
Old-time trouper : MINSTREL
6
"Why? Because ___ so!" : ISAID
7
"Little Caesar" role : RICO
8
Envelope abbr. : ATTN
9
Witty remark : QUIP
10
Neighbor of Suriname : GUYANA
11
Title role for Madonna : EVITA
12
Shunned one : LEPER
13
Café au lait holder : TASSE
21
Owns : HAS
22
"Acid" : LSD
23
Antivampire aid : CROSS
24
"The ___ of Wakefield" : VICAR
28
Change from a krone : ORE
29
Ill-___ (doomed) : FATED
30
Wallet wad : ONES
31
Beatty of "Deliverance" : NED
33
Nonsense talk : JIVE
34
Rizzuto or Reese : SHORTSTOP
35
Macho types : HEMEN
36
Like most Turks : ASIAN
38
"The check is in the mail," perhaps : LIE
39
Backer of Columbus : ISABELLA
40
Long sandwich : SUB
44
Grisham title, with "The" : CLIENT
45
Painter Rembrandt van ___ : RYN
46
Capt. Jean-___ Picard : LUC
47
Key above G : AFLAT
48
Old-fashioned pen : PLUME
49
Heat-resistant glass : PYREX
50
"My Fair Lady" director George : CUKOR
53
Snatch : GRAB
54
A few : SOME
55
Zenith : ACME
56
Guadalquivir et al. : RIOS
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Take advantage of : USE
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Parker or Waterman : PEN

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1 unique to this puzzle, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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