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New York Times, Monday, January 5, 1998

Author:
Mark Moldowsky
Editor:
Will Shortz
13-Down : Witty sayings
TotalDebutLatest
21/5/19983/16/1998
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ScrabDebutFresh
1.4942%
Mark Moldowsky

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 80, Blocks: 34 Missing: {JQXZ} Spans: 4 This is the debut puzzle for Mr. Moldowsky. Monday freshness: 1%
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© 1998, The New York Times1/5/98 ( No. 17,590 )
Across
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Birthplace of Columbus : GENOA
6
Doesn't exist : ISNT
10
Dog-paddle, say : SWIM
14
Baking chambers : OVENS
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Headline : STAR
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"___ you don't!" : OHNO
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What the jury does after deliberating : REACHESAVERDICT
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Poker starter : ANTE
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Small and weak : PUNY
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Swearing to tell the truth, and others : OATHS
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The highest degree : NTH
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Perjured oneself : LIED
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Facility : EASE
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Sleuth, informally : TEC
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Not real : SHAM
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Michael Douglas, to Kirk : SON
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Heavenly hunter : ORION
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Passes easily : ACES
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Knight's wife, in olden times : DAME
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Legal reach, metaphorically : LONGARMOFTHELAW
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Actress Lanchester : ELSA
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"___ Misbehavin'" : AINT
42
Siskel's partner : EBERT
43
Wreak vengeance on : GET
44
Chicken style : KIEV
45
Big blast maker : TNT
46
Biblical garden : EDEN
48
Cash substitutes : IOUS
50
Test-___ treaty : BAN
53
A Beatle : STARR
55
It's clicked on a computer : ICON
56
Vigor : BRIO
57
Judge's cry : ORDERINTHECOURT
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Thirteen popes : LEOS
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Toward shelter, nautically : ALEE
62
Word with ear or peace : INNER
63
Dict. items : DEFS
64
Antidrinking org. : MADD
65
+ end : ANODE
Down
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Tennis star Ivanisevic : GORAN
2
News basis : EVENT
3
Under, in poetry : NEATH
4
A single time : ONCE
5
Baseball bat wood : ASH
6
Philately offering : ISSUE
7
Awaits sentencing : STANDSCONVICTED
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Dark blue : NAVY
9
Number of coins in an Italian fountain : TRE
10
Ice cream drinks : SODAS
11
January store happening : WHITESALE
12
Distance between belt notches, maybe : INCH
13
Witty sayings : MOTS
18
Like the "Iliad" and "Odyssey" : EPIC
19
Wander : ROAM
24
Songstress Horne : LENA
25
Sunrise direction : EAST
26
Ceremonial gown : TOGA
28
Bulk : HEFT
30
"Rubáiyát" poet : OMAR
31
Salamander : NEWT
32
Designer Cassini : OLEG
33
Part to play : ROLE
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Rather than : INSTEADOF
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Gallic girlfriend : AMIE
36
Money owed : DEBT
38
Reason for postponement : RAIN
39
Egg producers : HENS
44
Critic Walter : KERR
45
Composer's output : TUNE
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Chemise : DRESS
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Marveled aloud : OOHED
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Shoe designer Magli : BRUNO
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Broadcast : AIRED
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___ Dame : NOTRE
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Auctioned off : SOLD
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Shade giver : TREE
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"To Live and Die ___" ('85 film) : INLA
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West German capital : BONN
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"___ shocked!" : IAM
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Spy org. : CIA

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2 unique to this puzzle, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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