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New York Times, Thursday, August 8, 2002

Author:
Patrick Merrell
Editor:
Will Shortz
51-Across : Some cracks are full of it
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Patrick Merrell

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 74, Blocks: 38 Missing: {FJQXZ} This is puzzle # 5 for Mr. Merrell. Thursday freshness: 47%
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© 2002, The New York Times8/8/2 ( No. 19,266 )
Across
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Pop singer Lisa : LOEB
5
Yak : BLAB
9
When repeated, 1954 Eddie Fisher hit : AGIRL
14
Grayish yellow : ECRU
15
Guitar forerunner : LUTE
16
Vietnam site in 1969 news : MYLAI
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Child's toy : WHIRLIGIG
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Distasteful solution? : BRINE
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Cara and Castle : IRENES
21
Shuttle cargoes : PAYLOADS
23
Octave followers : SESTETS
25
Driving spots : TEES
26
Straight ones = 2.0 : CEES
28
Half a mountaineering expedition : ASCENT
32
Sermon recipients : BRETHREN
36
Transmission ender : OVER
37
Korean border river : YALU
38
What 17-Across, 62-Across, 10-Down or 35-Down does : SPINS
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Tidy sum : PILE
42
Mideast title : EMIR
43
Overeater's problem : POTBELLY
45
Hits the end? : SPANKS
48
"Why not!" : SURE
49
Blackens : TARS
51
Some cracks are full of it : SARCASM
56
Purge : CLEANOUT
60
River across Nebraska : PLATTE
61
Rosemary and others : HERBS
62
Thrust producer : PROPELLER
64
St. Teresa's birthplace : AVILA
65
Article in Berlin : EINE
66
Resort east of Glenwood Springs : VAIL
67
Prepares potatoes, in a way : RICES
68
Jam site : ROAD
69
Hireling, in history : ESNE
Down
1
Partner in exploring : LEWIS
2
Yellowish : OCHRE
3
Eastern Indians : ERIES
4
Like ashes : BURNT
5
Sore spots : BLISTERS
6
Galoot : LUG
7
Not having one's feet flat on the ground : ATIP
8
Produced : BEGAT
9
Moseys : AMBLES
10
Rocket part : GYROSCOPE
11
Pelvic bones : ILIA
12
South African gold discovery site, with "the" : RAND
13
Not just evasions : LIES
18
Parasite : LEECH
22
Legislator's cry : YEA
24
Ooze : SEEP
27
Disrespectful ones : SNIPS
29
Axis of ___ : EVIL
30
Dudley Do-Right's beloved : NELL
31
It doesn't take much : TREY
32
Some tourney draws : BYES
33
Way up or down : RAMP
34
Director Kazan : ELIA
35
Once popular player : TURNTABLE
39
Entre ___ : NOUS
40
Broke : STRAPPED
44
The Thief of Bad Gags : BERLE
46
"The Wizard of Oz" setting : KANSAS
47
Broadway sign : SRO
50
Terrif : SUPER
52
Have farm young : CALVE
53
Pathfinder? : ATLAS
54
It's held during Oktoberfest : STEIN
55
Cosmetician Norman : MERLE
56
Overcook : CHAR
57
Son of Jacob : LEVI
58
Philosopher Hoffer : ERIC
59
Cream, of 1960's rock : TRIO
63
___ par : ONA

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