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New York Times, Wednesday, October 8, 2003

Author:
Peter Sarrett
Editor:
Will Shortz
23-Down : Suns' spot
TotalDebutLatest
310/21/200210/8/2003
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ScrabDebutFresh
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Peter Sarrett

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 34 Missing: {GQZ} Puzzle has duplicate clues. This is puzzle # 3 for Mr. Sarrett. Wednesday freshness: 42%
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R
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© 2003, The New York Times10/8/3 ( No. 19,692 )
Across
1
Wager in Russian roulette? : RUBLE
6
Swindle : SCAM
10
Pie perch : SILL
14
First name in TV talk : ELLEN
15
Secretary of Labor Elaine : CHAO
16
Plum or gum : TREE
17
Face the judge : STANDTRIAL
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Hindu deity : RAMA
20
Kind of welder : ARC
21
Like "O" : OVAL
22
Door pounder's demand : OPENUP
24
Hirsute Tibetans : YAKS
26
Nitpick : SPLITHAIRS
28
Diner music players, in brief : JUKES
30
Corner piece : ROOK
31
Revolutionary figure? : PLANET
33
Budge : MOVE
34
Up to, informally : TIL
37
Hardly classy : TACKY
38
One side of an issue : CON
39
"Forget it!" : NOWAY
41
"Shoot!" : ASK
42
Hammerlock, e.g. : HOLD
44
Dilates : WIDENS
45
Actress Skye : IONE
46
Confine : BOXIN
47
Contract, as in pain : DOUBLEOVER
51
Emperor's rebuke : ETTU
54
Delhi expenditure : RUPEES
55
It may be bleeped : OATH
57
Longing : YEN
58
The U.N.'s Kofi ___ Annan : ATTA
59
Beat it : HITTHEROAD
62
Gift tag word : FROM
63
Hurler Hershiser : OREL
64
Common thing? : SENSE
65
Till stack : TENS
66
Scale deduction : TARE
67
Beef on the hoof : STEER
Down
1
Mention again : RESAY
2
Extremist : ULTRA
3
Theme of this puzzle : BLACKJACK
4
Football Hall-of-Famer Ford : LEN
5
Prefix with skeleton : ENDO
6
Fido's fare, maybe : SCRAPS
7
"Cool it!" : CHILL
8
Jump-offering org. : AAA
9
___ cocktail : MOLOTOV
10
Ripken's record, e.g. : STREAK
11
Qom resident : IRANI
12
Ring-tailed primate : LEMUR
13
Abrupt transitions : LEAPS
18
Sports bar fixture : TVSET
23
Suns' spot : PHOENIX
25
Done for : SUNK
27
Pressing need : IRON
29
Peeper's place : KEYHOLE
31
School grp. : PTA
32
___ Cruces : LAS
33
Like the Who, in the 60's : MOD
34
Theme of this puzzle : TWENTYONE
35
Actor McKellen : IAN
36
Fleur-de-___ : LYS
38
1963 role for Liz : CLEO
40
Garfield's pal : ODIE
43
Nonrecurring : ONESHOT
44
Value : WORTH
45
Steel supports : IBEAMS
46
John or Paul : BEATLE
47
Object of a 1960's protest : DRAFT
48
Bizarre : OUTRE
49
Author Sinclair : UPTON
50
Person in a booth, maybe : VOTER
52
Flirt : TEASE
53
In a trance : UNDER
56
Shell competitor : HESS
60
"Science Friday" host Flatow : IRA
61
On Soc. Sec. : RET

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