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New York Times, Monday, September 12, 1994

Author:
Sidney L. Robbins
Editor:
Will Shortz
44-Across : Cylindrical
TotalDebutLatest
2033/27/19742/8/1999
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1.47891535%
Sidney L. Robbins

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 41 Missing: {FJQXZ} This is puzzle # 164 for Mr. Robbins. Monday freshness: 6%
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© 1994, The New York Times9/12/94 ( No. 16,379 )
Across
1
Hypothetical eccentricities in time : WARPS
6
Competition : RACE
10
Jail unit : CELL
14
"___ man with seven wives" : IMETA
15
Miss Cinders of old comics : ELLA
16
Singer Guthrie : ARLO
17
Brightly sunburned : REDASABEET
19
Leaning : BIAS
20
60's space chimp : ENOS
21
Heroic legends : SAGAS
22
Teen woe : ACNE
23
Beelzebub : SATAN
24
Aware of : ONTO
25
French painter Jean : COROT
29
Hesitation sounds : ERS
30
___ -di-dah : LAH
31
Sports sites : ARENAS
33
Mr. Whitney : ELI
35
Slippery one : EEL
38
Calms medically : SEDATES
40
Car gear : REVERSE
42
Mount St. Helens spew : ASH
43
"How dry ___" : IAM
44
Cylindrical : TERETE
45
Self : EGO
47
Pass receiver : END
50
"M*A*S*H" character : RADAR
51
Flake material : BRAN
52
Boors : LOUTS
54
Cordial : WARM
55
They get smashed : ATOMS
56
Clumsy ships : ARKS
60
One of five : ERIE
61
Oscar winner for "Sayonara" : REDBUTTONS
63
Lease : RENT
64
___ Stanley Gardner : ERLE
65
Boundary : AMBIT
66
Advantage : EDGE
67
Philosopher A.J. ___ : AYER
68
Versifiers : POETS
Down
1
Use Western Union : WIRE
2
Prayer's closing : AMEN
3
Effect a makeover : REDO
4
School orgs. : PTAS
5
Airline to Stockholm : SAS
6
Cash back : REBATE
7
Sour brew : ALEGAR
8
Under-the-sink item : CLEANSER
9
Sups : EATS
10
Poolside hut : CABANA
11
Greenland settler : ERICTHERED
12
Grassy plain : LLANO
13
Mislay : LOSE
18
Botanist Gray : ASA
23
Depot : STATION
24
Hardy and North : OLIVERS
25
Pedro's house : CASA
26
Silver holders : ORES
27
It misleads : REDHERRING
28
Broadway's "Three Men ___ Horse" : ONA
32
Ocean : SEA
34
Permit : LET
36
This, in Barcelona : ESTA
37
Amorous gaze : LEER
39
Place of refinement : SMELTERY
41
Baseball stat : ERA
46
Reproductive cell : GAMETE
48
Kind of soup : NOODLE
49
Not so clever : DUMBER
51
Exposed : BARED
53
Houston sch. : TSU
54
Had been : WERE
55
Length x width, for a rectangle : AREA
56
Prefix with sphere : ATMO
57
Judicial cover? : ROBE
58
Mend, as bones : KNIT
59
Speedy planes : SSTS
62
Spigot : TAP

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