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New York Times, Friday, January 28, 2000

Author:
Manny Nosowsky and Martin Ashwood-Smith
Editor:
Will Shortz
31-Down : Puts forth with effort
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
2548/27/19928/13/20102
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
2947154312630
RebusCircleScrabDebutPre‑WSFresh
611.571,613877%
Manny Nosowsky
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
876/5/19919/24/202210
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
000246417
ScrabDebutPre‑WSFresh
1.52456766%
Martin Ashwood-Smith

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 70, Blocks: 30 Missing: {FQZ} Spans: 4, (1 triple stack) This is puzzle # 99 for Mr. Nosowsky. This is puzzle # 39 for Mr. Ashwood-Smith. Friday freshness: 13%
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© 2000, The New York Times1/28/0 ( No. 18,343 )
Across
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Early writer on algebra : OMAR
5
Honda product : ACURA
10
"Out!" : SCAT
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Noted 1989 media merger : TIMEWARNER
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Fast loser : HARE
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Repeatedly attacked : HAMMEREDAT
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On clippers? : ASEA
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It's opened without a letter opener : EMAIL
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Literary narrator : PERSONA
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"Oysters ___ season" : RIN
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Smokey detector : CBER
25
Maliciousness : VENOM
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Weed killer : HOE
29
___-Ball : SKEE
32
Oologists' studies : OVA
33
Historic stream in Virginia : APPOMATTOXRIVER
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Land to be developed : PRIMEREALESTATE
39
Workers in chalk : PAVEMENTARTISTS
40
W.W. II command : ETO
41
"De ___ Poetica" : ARTE
42
Storage unit : TON
43
"___ c'est moi" : LETAT
45
Common file name : MISC
47
"Uh-uh" : NAW
50
More impertinent : SASSIER
53
Retirement plan name : KEOGH
55
Head : JOHN
57
Lover in a "kingdom by the sea" : ANNABELLEE
59
Second book of Moses: Abbr. : EXOD
60
Contract part, often : DOTTEDLINE
61
Memory unit : BYTE
62
Adams who is exhibited at MOMA : ANSEL
63
Circus barker : SEAL
Down
1
Thomas Tryon best seller, with "The" : OTHER
2
The Hurricanes of the Big East Conference : MIAMI
3
Royal city taken by Joab : AMMAN
4
Do-___ (money) : REMI
5
Rhine tributary : AAR
6
Kind of paper : CREPE
7
"Einstein was smart" and "Bill Gates has money" : UNDERSTATEMENTS
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Back : REAR
9
Song and dance : ARTS
10
Western classic : SHANE
11
Ladies' men : CASANOVAS
12
A word with you : ARE
13
Leaves in the afternoon? : TEA
15
Shoe-brushing sites : WELCOMEMATS
21
Sign at a clearance sale : OVERSTOCKED
24
Check payee, maybe : BEARER
26
British runner Steve : OVETT
27
Stable mates : MARES
28
Order to a chauffeur : HOME
30
Kind of nut : KOLA
31
Puts forth with effort : EXERTS
33
Fencer's feint : APPEL
34
Rattle on : PRATE
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Court trial? : PIVOTSHOT
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Safari equipment : TENT
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"Put ___ writing" : ITIN
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Cable channel : AANDE
46
About to blow : IRATE
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"Honest" : NOLIE
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Gemini program rocket : AGENA
49
Revolutionary idea : WHEEL
51
Emmy-winning Thompson : SADA
52
Privy to : INON
54
Some pipe joints : ELLS
55
One of the Bushes : JEB
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Big oil company, informally : OXY
58
___-esprit (witty person) : BEL

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