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New York Times, Wednesday, January 12, 2000

Author:
Greg Staples
Editor:
Will Shortz
50-Down : Woodland critter
TotalDebutLatest
257/4/19997/22/2004
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42111700
ScrabDebutFresh
1.5210227%
Greg Staples

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 36 Missing: {JQVXYZ} This is puzzle # 5 for Mr. Staples. Wednesday freshness: 8%
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© 2000, The New York Times1/12/0 ( No. 18,327 )
Across
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Sign language communicator, maybe : CHIMP
6
Myanmar, once : BURMA
11
Muscles used in situps : ABS
14
Winter warmer-upper : COCOA
15
Pisces' follower : ARIES
16
Not even half-baked : RAW
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Evidence of a royal thief? : CROWNPRINTS
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___-Wan of "Star Wars" : OBI
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Harsh review : PAN
21
Pub stock : ALES
22
Wing-footed one : HERMES
24
LAX guesstimates : ETAS
25
Handbooks : MANUALS
26
Birthday camping gear? : PRESENTTENTS
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Stand for something : EASEL
31
Classic card game : UNO
32
Times past : ERAS
36
Dadaism founder : ARP
37
In general : ASARULE
41
Baseball bat material : ASH
42
Gambling game : KENO
44
Sink : EBB
45
Signal interference : NOISE
47
Recreation for Gregorian monks? : GAMEOFCHANTS
51
Like a beautiful night sky : STARLIT
54
Kick back : LOAF
55
Response to a knock, maybe : COMEIN
56
Tough : GOON
57
Montgomery sch. : ASU
60
Nile slitherer : ASP
61
Pennies made in the 1990's? : COMMONCENTS
64
Start of a Brewers line score : MIL
65
Tale of the Trojan War : ILIAD
66
Bud Grace comic strip : ERNIE
67
Season opener? : PRE
68
How long it takes mountains to form : AEONS
69
Loved ones : DEARS
Down
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Letters on old Soviet rockets : CCCP
2
Circle dance : HORA
3
Trash can, for one : ICON
4
Fell with a blade : MOW
5
Popular cigar : PANATELA
6
Slightest : BAREST
7
"QB VII" author : URIS
8
___ Tin Tin : RIN
9
Antifreeze additive : METHANOL
10
What a stamp may indicate : ASSENT
11
Bouquet : AROMA
12
Gibberish : BABEL
13
Watch word? : SWISS
18
Work out : PLAN
23
Subterfuge : RUSE
24
Hamburg-to-Berlin dir. : ESE
25
Children's ___ : MENU
26
Point on a graph : PEAK
27
Like a no-hitter : RARE
28
Locker room shower? : ESPN
29
Powerful engine : TURBO
33
Reason for postponement : RAIN
34
Mgr.'s aide : ASST
35
Tom Jones's "___ a Lady" : SHES
38
Florida State athlete : SEMINOLE
39
Aid's partner : ABET
40
Like some digital pictures : ENHANCED
43
Fiend : OGRE
46
Klutz : OAF
48
Actress Silverstone : ALICIA
49
Annual Nile events : FLOODS
50
Woodland critter : COON
51
Rogue : SCAMP
52
"___, With Love" : TOSIR
53
Good-sized : AMPLE
56
Pulp novel hero : GMAN
57
"The King and I" role : ANNA
58
Flap : STIR
59
"Has 1,001 ___" : USES
62
"O Sole ___" : MIO
63
Earlier than : ERE

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

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