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New York Times, Tuesday, September 22, 1998

Author:
Nancy Salomon
Editor:
Will Shortz
51-Across : Like Joe Average
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
1868/13/199511/7/2012116
SunMonTueWedThuFriSatVariety
3633533719611
RebusCircleScrabDebutFresh
1521.5890833%
Nancy Salomon

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 36 Missing: {FQZ} This is puzzle # 14 for Ms. Salomon. Tuesday freshness: 49%
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A
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D
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P
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M
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G
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O
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P
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B
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M
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C
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© 1998, The New York Times9/22/98 ( No. 17,850 )
Across
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Part of P.T.A.: Abbr. : ASSN
5
Make sense : ADDUP
10
St. Thomas or St. Martin : ISLE
14
It's hard for some people to carry : TUNE
15
Dough : MOOLA
16
N.Y. Met or L.A. Dodger, e.g. : NLER
17
White's dessert? : BROWNBETTY
19
Fly high : SOAR
20
Ho hello : ALOHA
21
Dried up : SERE
22
There's no free ride on these hwys. : TPKS
23
Key task? : TYPING
25
Fable fellow : AESOP
27
"Row, Row, Row Your Boat" and others : ROUNDS
30
Check for fit : TRYON
33
Prepare for a rainy day : SAVE
36
Bud's buddy : LOU
37
Disco spinner : DEEJAY
38
Prop in slapstick : PIE
39
Carrey's snack food? : SLIMJIM
41
Mine find : ORE
42
Shows flexibility, in a way : ADAPTS
44
Hit like Holyfield : BOX
45
Numero uno : BEST
46
Free-for-all : MELEE
47
Western howler : COYOTE
49
Blender maker : OSTER
51
Like Joe Average : NORMAL
55
From pillar to ___ : POST
57
Televises : AIRS
60
Bid the bed adieu : ARISE
61
___ in a blue moon : ONCE
62
Sawyer's beef? : STEAKDIANE
64
Sharif of "Doctor Zhivago" : OMAR
65
Leg bone : TIBIA
66
Life-or-death matter: Abbr. : EMER
67
The lady's : HERS
68
Like snakeskin : SCALY
69
Madams' men : SIRS
Down
1
Trip to the plate : ATBAT
2
Rude and sullen : SURLY
3
Be a busybody : SNOOP
4
Recently employed worker : NEWHIRE
5
Diplomat: Abbr. : AMB
6
Bucks' mates : DOES
7
Fuss over, with "on" : DOTE
8
Extremists : ULTRAS
9
Check casher : PAYEE
10
Coming up : INSTORE
11
Pesci's sandwich? : SLOPPYJOE
12
Faucet failure : LEAK
13
Screws up : ERRS
18
Billionth: Prefix : NANO
24
Patsies : GULLS
26
Stern's opposite : STEM
28
"___ won't be afraid" ("Stand by Me" lyric) : NOI
29
Flying elephant : DUMBO
31
They fit in locks : OARS
32
Nikita's "no" : NYET
33
Junk E-mail : SPAM
34
Glorified gofer : AIDE
35
Wilde's entree? : VEALOSCAR
37
Popular pencil brand : DIXON
39
Let it be, editorially : STET
40
Newborn child, for one : JOY
43
Bothers à la baby brother : PESTERS
45
They may be black and blue : BERRIES
47
Siskel or Ebert : CRITIC
48
Warty-skinned critter : TOAD
50
Bridge positions : EASTS
52
Home of the N.B.A. Heat : MIAMI
53
"Lou Grant" star : ASNER
54
Salacious looks : LEERS
55
Christopher Robin's pal : POOH
56
Treater's words : ONME
58
Singer McEntire : REBA
59
Go yachting : SAIL
63
Mary ___ of cosmetics : KAY

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