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New York Times, Tuesday, October 17, 2000

Author:
Peter Gordon
Editor:
Will Shortz
33-Down : Cause for a head-slap?
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Peter Gordon

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 40 Missing: {KQXZ} Spans: 1 This is puzzle # 43 for Mr. Gordon. Tuesday freshness: 1%
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© 2000, The New York Times10/17/0 ( No. 18,606 )
Across
1
Concession stand purchase : SODA
5
Egyptian snakes : ASPS
9
Lox holder : BAGEL
14
Whaler of fiction : AHAB
15
Wing tip, e.g. : SHOE
16
Item in a Greek salad : OLIVE
17
River the Aswan Dam dams : NILE
18
Chimney residue : SOOT
19
Interlaced : WOVEN
20
One who's handy around the house : DOITYOURSELFER
23
Gallery display : ART
24
Deep black : JET
25
Highlight : ACCENT
29
Sly look : LEER
31
Run up the phone bill : GAB
34
[Oh, that's awful!] : GROAN
35
Painter Chagall : MARC
36
Florence's river : ARNO
37
2000 hit album by Britney Spears : OOPSIDIDITAGAIN
40
Fall color : RUST
41
Psychiatrist's response : ISEE
42
Thickheaded : DENSE
43
Orangutan, for one : APE
44
Abbr. on a business letter : ATTN
45
Learn completely : MASTER
46
One marching in a column : ANT
47
Bart, to Homer Simpson : SON
48
Comment to a klutz : NOWYOUVEDONEIT
56
Fleshy fruit : PAPAW
57
Quitting time, often : FIVE
58
Forest measure : ACRE
59
La Scala offering : OPERA
60
Change from a cashier : ONES
61
Tibia : SHIN
62
Pops : DADDY
63
Mailed : SENT
64
Party thrower : HOST
Down
1
Hourglass fill : SAND
2
Buckeye's home : OHIO
3
Mustachioed Surrealist : DALI
4
Help in a heist : ABET
5
Classify : ASSORT
6
Vociferate : SHOUT
7
Poverty-stricken : POOR
8
Match parts : SETS
9
One who hopes for strikes : BOWLER
10
In the air : ALOFT
11
Donate : GIVE
12
Penultimate fairy tale word : EVER
13
Novelist Deighton : LEN
21
New Age musician of note : YANNI
22
Oust : EJECT
25
Ancient Greek marketplace : AGORA
26
Infant's illness : CROUP
27
Small woods : COPSE
28
N.L. ___ : EAST
29
Burdened : LADEN
30
Buffalo's lake : ERIE
31
Scholar's wish, maybe : GRANT
32
Licoricelike flavor : ANISE
33
Cause for a head-slap? : BONER
35
Atomizer's output : MIST
36
Forever : AGES
38
"Hi & Lois" child : DITTO
39
"A Bell for ___" : ADANO
44
Nonetheless : ANYWAY
45
Not boastful : MODEST
46
Bestow : AWARD
47
Crapping-out throw : SEVEN
48
Auto parts brand : NAPA
49
Newspaper page for essayists : OPED
50
ET's transports : UFOS
51
Grape plant : VINE
52
"A bit of talcum / Is always walcum" poet : NASH
53
Comeback : ECHO
54
Part of the eye : IRIS
55
Camping gear : TENT
56
Pea holder : POD

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2 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later.

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