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New York Times, Monday, November 26, 2001

Author:
Bette Sue Cohen
Editor:
Will Shortz
50-Down : Obtuse one
TotalDebutLatest
473/30/19784/4/2007
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109712612
RebusScrabDebutPre‑WSFresh
31.52174129%
Bette Sue Cohen

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 36 Missing: {JQ} This is puzzle # 46 for Ms. Cohen. Monday freshness: 32%
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© 2001, The New York Times11/26/1 ( No. 19,011 )
Across
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Oregon's capital : SALEM
6
Sounds worked on by speech therapists : LISPS
11
With 69-Across, a film with 27- and 64-Across : TOP
14
Appliance maker : AMANA
15
Immobile : INERT
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Wire service inits. : UPI
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27- and 64-Across film, with "The" : GAYDIVORCEE
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Wager : BET
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W.W. II area: Abbr. : ETO
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Principles : TENETS
22
Risqué : RACY
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A nonmusician may have one : TINEAR
25
Exude : OOZE
27
Half a famous Hollywood duo : GINGERROGERS
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Place for a breath of fresh air? : LUNG
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Wriggly fish : EEL
37
Precisely : TOATEE
38
Give ___ time : AHARD
40
Mo. with Columbus Day : OCT
42
Giant : TITAN
43
Dummies : DODOES
45
Rankle : IRK
47
Unhip person : NERD
48
27- and 64-Across film : SHALLWEDANCE
51
Certain legal protection : LIEN
52
Difficult experience : ORDEAL
56
Outlaws : BANS
59
"___ Fideles" : ADESTE
62
Untruth : LIE
63
"Who ___ we kidding?" : ARE
64
Other half of the Hollywood duo : FREDASTAIRE
66
Half a dozen : SIX
67
Go out with ___ : ABANG
68
Bury : INTER
69
See 11-Across : HAT
70
Pianist Hess and others : MYRAS
71
Poor : NEEDY
Down
1
TV comic Bob : SAGET
2
Celebrated Italian violinmaker : AMATI
3
Apply, as a coat of wax : LAYON
4
Epilogue : END
5
Rum cocktail : MAITAI
6
MGM symbol : LION
7
Regarding : INRE
8
Pie chart part : SECTOR
9
Arrange by ZIP code, e.g. : PRESORT
10
Fr. holy woman : STE
11
Oompah instrument : TUBA
12
Assn. with many Gulf members : OPEC
13
Feel sorry for : PITY
18
"From the Earth to the Moon" writer : VERNE
22
Put on again, as weight : REGAINED
24
Appetizers with sweet-and-sour sauce : EGGROLLS
26
Kind of suit : ZOOT
28
1980's-90's car name : GEO
29
Spanish hero who died in 1099 : ELCID
30
Suffix with cigar : ETTE
31
Behind : REAR
32
Transmit : SEND
33
Boys : LADS
34
"This looks bad" : UHOH
35
Nothin' : NADA
39
Meat slicer site : DELI
41
___-la-la : TRA
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Believe in wholeheartedly : SWEARBY
46
Ship speed units : KNOTS
49
Make beloved : ENDEAR
50
Obtuse one : CRETIN
53
A-list types : ELITE
54
Broadcast : AIRED
55
Apprehensive : LEERY
56
Big party : BASH
57
Opera excerpt : ARIA
58
Cashier's cry : NEXT
60
Dame ___, Barry Humphries character : EDNA
61
Droops : SAGS
64
Mom, dad and the kids: Abbr. : FAM
65
Gas suffix : ANE

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