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New York Times, Thursday, September 28, 2000

Author:
Frances Hansen
Editor:
Will Shortz
68-Across : Doesn't eat politely
TotalDebutLatest
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Frances Hansen

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 36 Missing: {Q} Spans: 2 This is puzzle # 111 for Ms. Hansen. Thursday freshness: 30%
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© 2000, The New York Times9/28/0 ( No. 18,587 )
Across
1
Secure with rope : LASH
5
Cassandra's father : PRIAM
10
Arnold Schwarzenegger's Austrian birthplace : GRAZ
14
Corp. monitor : OSHA
15
Andrew Wyeth's "___ Pictures" : HELGA
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Zhivago's love : LARA
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Blacken : CHAR
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Copycats : APERS
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___ uproar : INAN
20
With 53-Across, a comment on British P.M. William Gladstone : HEHASNOTASINGLE
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"Santa Baby" hitmaker, 1953 : KITT
24
Sign : INK
25
Barrio resident : LATINO
28
With 47-Across, maker of the comment : BENJAMIN
33
Route for Ben-Hur : ITER
34
The sphere one moves in : MILIEU
36
1969 movie starring Omar Sharif : CHE
37
Long skirts : MAXIS
39
Conversation stopper? : DIN
40
Conrad of early films : NAGEL
42
Group of periods : ERA
43
Twins : CLONES
46
"Get ___!" : REAL
47
See 28-Across : DISRAELI
49
Traffic site : ARTERY
51
Kind of bark : ELM
52
Not for : ANTI
53
See 20-Across : REDEEMINGDEFECT
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Uncontrolled : AMOK
62
Poetic name for Ireland : IRENA
63
Stiff in the joints : ACHY
64
World chess org. : FIDE
65
Unprecedented : NOVEL
66
Bloke : CHAP
67
Padded : TROD
68
Doesn't eat politely : GNAWS
69
Emerald City visitor : TOTO
Down
1
Place to summer in Scotland : LOCH
2
1968 U.S. Open champion : ASHE
3
Onetime Islamic leader : SHAH
4
Cio-Cio-San's way out : HARAKIRI
5
Not really there : PHANTOM
6
Move, in a way : REPOT
7
"Before ___ you go..." : ILET
8
Taj Mahal site : AGRA
9
Ballet Russe dancer Léonide : MASSINE
10
The Father of Russian Music : GLINKA
11
Tried to contact : RANG
12
Asia's ___ Sea : ARAL
13
Author Grey : ZANE
21
Wrong : SIN
22
Twain's ___ Joe : INJUN
25
Did a lawn job : LIMED
26
Game company founded in 1972 : ATARI
27
Where bluebonnets bloom : TEXAS
28
Pancakes served with sour cream : BLINI
29
Strauss's "___ Alpensinfonie" : EINE
30
1985 N.L. M.V.P. : MCGEE
31
"Do ___ a Waltz?" : IHEAR
32
Nice-___ : NELLY
35
It might be surrounded by bows : IDOL
38
Music practice : SCALE
41
Caveman's tool, e.g. : ARTIFACT
44
Victim of herd mentality : LEMMING
45
Mercury wore winged ones : SANDALS
48
Smelled : REEKED
50
Way: Abbr. : RTE
52
1973 resignee : AGNEW
53
Lot : RAFT
54
Arabian bigwig : EMIR
55
Old fogy : DODO
56
Unwavering : IRON
57
St. Petersburg's river : NEVA
58
Backtalk? : ECHO
59
Talk : CHAT
60
Tit for tat, e.g.? : TYPO

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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