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New York Times, Thursday, January 14, 1999

Author:
Rand H. Burns
Editor:
Will Shortz
6-Down : Out of plumb
TotalDebutLatest
276/3/19937/17/1999
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
00016317
RebusScrabDebutPre‑WSFresh
11.54113675%
Rand H. Burns

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 74, Blocks: 34 Missing: {KQXZ} Spans: 2 This is puzzle # 25 for Mr. Burns. Thursday freshness: 34%
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© 1999, The New York Times1/14/99 ( No. 17,964 )
Across
1
Turned on the waterworks : WEPT
5
Former East German secret police : STASI
10
Hot tub inlets : JETS
14
In charge of : OVER
15
Range feature : TIMER
16
Half of dieciseis : OCHO
17
CBS reporter Braver : RITA
18
You must remember this : ALAMO
19
Tartan representation : CLAN
20
Snake in the grass, literally : MARIPYTHONJUANA
23
Take potshots (at) : SNIPE
24
Wren's wing : ELL
25
Let down, say : ALTER
26
Scooted : SPED
28
"The Mystery of ___ Vep" (Charles Ludlam play) : IRMA
30
Arm muscle : BICEPS
33
Villains, at times : SNEERERS
37
Awarder of badges: Abbr. : BSA
38
Swaddles : ENWRAPS
40
Stay flat : LIE
41
Mariachi topper : SOMBRERO
43
Cossack chief : ATAMAN
45
Parks on a bus : ROSA
46
Where the Saône and Rhône meet : LYON
47
___ High Dam : ASWAN
50
Big Board's Can. equivalent : TSE
52
Midsection : WAIST
56
Flash in the pan, literally : SPILIGHTNINGDER
59
Needle dropper : PINE
60
Underway : AFOOT
61
Road ___ : RAGE
62
Work units : ERGS
63
"The Unbearable Bassington" writer : MUNRO
64
Attention-getter at sea : AHOY
65
Untouchables chief : NESS
66
More devious : SLYER
67
Symbol of inactivity : MOSS
Down
1
Diet site : WORMS
2
Lake Geneva spa : EVIAN
3
Kind of dish : PETRI
4
Gallivant : TRAIPSE
5
Sojourn : STAY
6
Out of plumb : TILTED
7
Menotti title role : AMAHL
8
Pasta ingredient : SEMOLINA
9
Unyielding : IRON
10
Waggish : JOCULAR
11
Showiness : ECLAT
12
Anglo-Saxon aristocrat : THANE
13
Whale finder : SONAR
21
Alternative to mushrooms : PEPPERONI
22
Where John Rolfe married Pocahontas : JAMESTOWN
27
Anglo-Saxon laborers : ESNES
29
Indemnify : REPAY
30
Small shot : BBS
31
Prefix with diametric : ISO
32
Picture taker, in combinations : CAM
33
Sign of a big crowd : SRO
34
Hackberry's kin : ELM
35
Estuary : RIA
36
Hill person: Abbr. : SEN
39
Hardly kindly : WRATHFUL
42
Not in one's cups? : BRALESS
44
8-Down, to Sal Mineo : ANAGRAM
46
Poe poem : LENORE
47
Quaker? : ASPEN
48
Cathedral topper : SPIRE
49
Waiting area, with "the" : WINGS
51
Unsentimental : STONY
53
Sun Valley locale : IDAHO
54
Bell-shaped flowers : SEGOS
55
Low poker pair : TREYS
57
Schools of whales : GAMS
58
"...like ___ not!" : ITOR

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