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New York Times, Friday, September 3, 2004

Author:
Edgar R. Fontaine
Editor:
Will Shortz
5-Across : One up
TotalDebutLatest
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Edgar R. Fontaine

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 72, Blocks: 30 Missing: {JKQX} This is puzzle # 3 for Mr. Fontaine. Friday freshness: 35%
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© 2004, The New York Times9/3/4 ( No. 20,023 )
Across
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Playfully roguish : ARCH
5
One up : BATTER
11
Mountain pass : GAP
14
Owner of the Y? : MALE
15
Saint said to have been martyred by Huns : URSULA
16
Ex of Mickey : AVA
17
Ready to get drunk, perhaps : AGED
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Sports film that was a 2003 Best Picture nominee : SEABISCUIT
20
Like a smoker : STAG
21
Pollute, say : HARM
22
Winner of nine golf majors : HOGAN
23
Tough : SINEWY
25
Fox's relative : SAC
27
Remote choice : MUTE
28
Like retirees : EMERITI
30
Nottingham nursery needs : NAPPIES
32
Article written by Kant : DER
33
Running things in a bar : TABS
35
In things : TRENDS
36
Oddball : WHIMSICAL
38
Ward of the screen : RACHEL
41
Like many hearths : ASHY
42
Court people, for short : DAS
45
Is faithful (to) : ADHERES
47
Life saver : MAEWEST
49
Twin : DUAL
50
Code word : DAH
52
Shake, to some : FRAPPE
53
It's divided into 24 books : ILIAD
55
Mend : TAPE
57
Berth place : SLIP
58
Novel featuring the madam Dora Flood : CANNERYROW
60
A famous Amos : TORI
61
Took the cake, say : ATE
62
Richard's "On Your Toes" collaborator : LORENZ
63
Sister on "The Waltons" : ERIN
64
Marshaled : LED
65
Unfortunate things to have to count : LOSSES
66
Homes in the woods : DENS
Down
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Rolled up : AMASSED
2
Old bar material : RAGTIME
3
One working on the spot? : CLEANER
4
Person who won't commit : HEDGER
5
Like a fox : BUSHYTAILED
6
Country statistic : AREA
7
Bygone leaders : TSARS
8
Abolitionist Harriet : TUBMAN
9
Certain Ivy Leaguer : ELI
10
Dermal development : RASH
11
"Ia Orana Maria" painter : GAUGUIN
12
Kept one's nose in the air? : AVIATED
13
Glib quality : PATNESS
19
Drive : COMPEL
24
Lose the freshness of youth : WITHER
26
Be out briefly? : CATCHAFEWZS
29
Corporate inits. since 1924 : IBM
31
Talking up? : PRAYER
34
Retiree server: Abbr. : SSA
36
"Riverdance" composer Bill : WHELAN
37
Something to believe in : ISM
38
Extreme : RADICAL
39
Admire to a fault : ADULATE
40
Like Prometheus : CHAINED
42
Really regret : DEPLORE
43
Heart protector : ASPIRIN
44
Short panties : STEPINS
46
Don Juans : SATYRS
48
Stewed : WASTED
51
Lagomorphic leapers : HARES
54
29-Down competitor : DELL
56
Corn ___ : PONE
59
Outback critter : ROO

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