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New York Times, Thursday, September 21, 2000

Author:
Elizabeth C. Gorski
Editor:
Will Shortz
48-Across : Prime-time hrs.
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Elizabeth C. Gorski

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 74, Blocks: 36 Missing: {JXZ} Spans: 2 This is puzzle # 61 for Ms. Gorski. Thursday freshness: 26%
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© 2000, The New York Times9/21/0 ( No. 18,580 )
Across
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Rapscallions : IMPS
5
Kind of car : SQUAD
10
Squabble : SPAT
14
Society news : GALA
15
Weird : OUTRE
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Slip (into) : EASE
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Zing : ELAN
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Instruction for murder? : DIALM
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Part of the Walt Disney Co. : ESPN
20
Beginning of a quip : TACTISTHEUNSAID
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Bean sprouts? : IDEAS
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Sign of success : SRO
25
Some Harvard grads: Abbr. : DRS
26
Baseball's Cobb and others : TYS
27
Stumblebum : LOUT
31
Bread choice : WHEAT
33
Phrase on a party invitation : BETHERE
36
Part of A.D. : ANNO
37
More of the quip : PORTIONOFWHAT
40
French film : CINE
41
"Backroads" singer Ricky Van ___ : SHELTON
42
Actress Tatum : ONEAL
44
Dry run : TEST
45
New Deal org. : WPA
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Prime-time hrs. : PMS
49
One of the Gabors : EVA
52
Chalk-colored : ASHEN
54
End of the quip : YOUWERETHINKING
59
Actress Swenson : INGA
60
"The Silence of the Lambs" releaser : ORION
61
Brahms's "___ Rhapsody" : ALTO
62
Do a caulking job : SEAL
63
Seeing pink elephants : OILED
64
Shed item : TEAR
65
Phoenician trading center : TYRE
66
Paris underground : METRO
67
Old Icelandic literary work : EDDA
Down
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Words said with a nod : IGETIT
2
Food poisoning, e.g. : MALADY
3
Cry to actors on a set : PLACES
4
Man in a red-and-white suit : SANTA
5
Poor blokes : SODS
6
Throw in the towel : QUIT
7
Area code 801 locale : UTAH
8
City on the Rhone : ARLES
9
Take exception : DEMUR
10
Eyeballs : SEES
11
Place for a bowl : PASADENA
12
Wannabe : ASPIRANT
13
Takes care of : TENDSTO
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Spot in the ocean : ISLET
22
Parent's order : NOW
28
Singer Redding : OTIS
29
"Oops..." : UHOH
30
Dogma : TENET
32
Chemistry Nobelist Otto : HAHN
33
La ___ tar pits : BREA
34
Rocky, for Stallone : ROLE
35
Newts : EFTS
37
Amount for film tickets and such : PINMONEY
38
Coffee order : ONESUGAR
39
Teutonic war god : WOTAN
40
Scribe : COPYIST
43
Sheltered side : LEE
45
Frittered (away) : WHILED
46
Half a decade : PENTAD
47
Wool type : ANGORA
50
Indy 500 sound : VROOM
51
Where to live the high life? : AERIE
53
Play for the Bruins, say : SKATE
55
Whip mark : WALE
56
Sudden game ending : TILT
57
One with ground strokes? : HOER
58
Prefix with European : INDO

Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later.

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