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New York Times, Monday, January 24, 1994

Author:
Janie Lyons
Editor:
Will Shortz
6-Down : Belly dancers
TotalDebutLatest
312/9/19931/24/1994
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
0110100
ScrabDebutFresh
1.531212%
Janie Lyons

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 34 Missing: {JXZ} Spans: 2 This is puzzle # 3 for Ms. Lyons. Monday freshness: 66%
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© 1994, The New York Times1/24/94 ( No. 16,148 )
Across
1
Child's getaway : CAMP
5
Nurse's stick : SWAB
9
Malpractice target : QUACK
14
Margarine : OLEO
15
Part of a cash register : TILL
16
Sam or Tom, e.g. : UNCLE
17
Businessperson's oxymoron : WORKINGVACATION
20
Crowbar : LEVER
21
Runner Devers : GAIL
22
Sums : ADDS
23
"Get ___!" : REAL
25
Cut up : SAWN
27
Vipers : ASPS
30
Indignant person's oxymoron : NEVERAGAIN
35
Actor Erwin : STU
36
Breezy : AIRY
37
Refer (to) : ALLUDE
38
Dinner bird : CAPON
40
Command to Fido : SIC
42
Jewish dinner : SEDER
43
Mideast language : ARABIC
45
Flood survivor : NOAH
47
W.W. II grp. : RAF
48
Oxymoron for a homely person : PRETTYUGLY
50
Cheek : SASS
51
Riches' opposite : RAGS
52
Took a powder : LEFT
54
Jacob's brother : ESAU
57
Bare : NUDE
59
Speechify : ORATE
63
Coffee drinker's oxymoron : NONDAIRYCREAMER
66
Passe : DATED
67
Within: Prefix : ENTO
68
Model married to David Bowie : IMAN
69
Steeple : SPIRE
70
Slumber : REST
71
Library item : TOME
Down
1
Monk's hood : COWL
2
Lotion ingredient : ALOE
3
Former talk-show host : MERV
4
Fireplace equipment : POKERS
5
Penn, e.g.: Abbr. : STN
6
Belly dancers : WIGGLERS
7
Edison's middle name : ALVA
8
Mathematician Pascal : BLAISE
9
Sine ___ non : QUA
10
Straighten out : UNTANGLE
11
Sarcasm : ACID
12
Dolt : CLOD
13
Barbies' mates : KENS
18
Enrage : IRE
19
Bow of silents : CLARA
24
Black bird : ANI
26
Three-time Super Bowl-winning coach : WALSH
27
Tin Pan Alley org. : ASCAP
28
One of the Beatles : STARR
29
Chrysalises : PUPAE
31
In competition : VYING
32
Lindley of "The Ropers" : AUDRA
33
Creativity : IDEAS
34
Indoor balls : NERFS
36
Writer Loos : ANITA
39
Busybody : OBTRUDER
41
Stashes : COLLECTS
44
Caesar's swans : CYGNI
46
Certain vote : AYE
49
Shylock : USURER
50
Magellan, e.g. : STRAIT
53
Lee to Grant : FOE
54
Concludes : ENDS
55
It's seen in bars : SOAP
56
Against : ANTI
58
Unit of force : DYNE
60
BB's : AMMO
61
Word after "go!" : TEAM
62
Sea eagle : ERNE
64
Humorist George : ADE
65
"Oh, darn!" : ROT

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