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New York Times, Tuesday, December 14, 1999

Author:
Richard Chisholm
Editor:
Will Shortz
49-Down : Eye parts
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Richard Chisholm

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 36 Missing: {JKQX} This is puzzle # 3 for Mr. Chisholm. Tuesday freshness: 21%
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© 1999, The New York Times12/14/99 ( No. 18,298 )
Across
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Georgia ___ : TECH
5
Seven-time A.L. batting champ Rod : CAREW
10
Architect of St. Paul's Cathedral : WREN
14
Monster : OGRE
15
Plus end : ANODE
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Mortgage consideration : RATE
17
Christo, notably : WRAPARTIST
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Concerning : INRE
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___ Percé (Western tribe) : NEZ
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Postal workers have them: Abbr. : RTES
22
Very uneven : RAGGED
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Shipboard functionary : STEWARD
26
Part of beauty pageant attire : SASH
27
Stat for 5-Across : RBI
28
Certain sneakers : HIGHTOPS
32
Interstate hauler : SEMI
35
It sometimes thickens : PLOT
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Impede legally : ESTOP
38
Factory : PLANT
40
"What Kind of Fool ___" (1962 hit) : AMI
41
Part of a subway entrance : STILE
42
Friend in a sombrero : AMIGO
43
Kind of room : MENS
45
Pre-owned : USED
46
I.R.A. renewal : ROLLOVER
48
Little toymaker : ELF
50
New Haven collegians : ELIS
51
Cold symptom : SNIFFLE
55
Result of ironing : CREASE
58
Couple : DUAD
59
___ Alamos : LOS
60
It's rounded up in a roundup : HERD
61
Take train stations by force? : WRESTSTOPS
64
"Picnic" playwright : INGE
65
Giving goosebumps : EERIE
66
Carpet layer's calculation : AREA
67
"D" : POOR
68
Hans Christian Andersen and others : DANES
69
Slothful : LAZY
Down
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Villages : TOWNS
2
Protected bird : EGRET
3
Beanie Babies, e.g. : CRAZE
4
With it, in the 50's : HEP
5
Travel on a road : CARTRIP
6
Chipped in : ANTED
7
18 Louises : ROIS
8
CBS's Bradley and others : EDS
9
Symbol of limpness : WETRAG
10
Airplane wings, propellers, etc. : WRIGHTSTUFF
11
Phoned : RANG
12
To be, in Toulouse : ETRE
13
Penury : NEED
18
___-Israeli relations : ARAB
23
"Angela's ___" : ASHES
25
Laundry cycle supervisor? : WRINGLEADER
26
Protester's ploy : SITIN
28
Quite a hit : HOMER
29
Inventor Elisha : OTIS
30
Tent support : POLE
31
Went 80, say : SPED
32
Box : SPAR
33
Ticklish fellow : ELMO
34
Armor of interlinked rings : MAIL
36
Disables : LAMES
39
Factory things : TOOLS
44
Deliberative bodies : SENATES
47
Watched : VIEWED
49
Eye parts : LIDS
51
"If You Knew ___" (Eddie Cantor favorite) : SUSIE
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Fauna's partner : FLORA
53
Golf pro Nancy : LOPEZ
54
Emerson work : ESSAY
55
Golf shot : CHIP
56
It's NE of Tahoe : RENO
57
Therefore : ERGO
58
Hollywood's Bruce or Laura : DERN
62
Actor Stephen : REA
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Jazz guitarist ___ Farlow : TAL

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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