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New York Times, Tuesday, December 3, 2002

Author:
Tyler Hinman
Editor:
Will Shortz
51-Down : Meeting of leaders
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
227/4/20003/31/20115
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
2163334
CircleScrabDebutFresh
11.6013148%
Tyler Hinman

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 37 Missing: {J} This is puzzle # 5 for Mr. Hinman. Tuesday freshness: 26%
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© 2002, The New York Times12/3/2 ( No. 19,383 )
Across
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What rodeo horses do : BUCK
5
Campus building : HALL
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Barfly's perch : STOOL
14
Workout aftereffect : ACHE
15
Bread spread : OLEO
16
Antilles resort : ARUBA
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Not aweather : ALEE
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Exclude : OMIT
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Smelly : FETID
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What a judo master uses to break lights? : LAMPCHOPS
22
Be a ham : EMOTE
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Writer Kafka : FRANZ
24
Item in a bag : IRON
25
Texas A & M athlete : AGGIE
28
There are seven in a semana : DIAS
30
Emulates Eminem : RAPS
33
Summit : VERTEX
35
Work like a beaver : GNAW
37
Jean-___ Picard (Patrick Stewart character) : LUC
38
I : ONE
39
Paid player : PRO
41
"I don't think so" : NAH
42
Wrath : IRE
43
Suffering : WOE
44
Hindu wrap : SARI
46
Opera set in Seville : CARMEN
48
Blabbed to the feds, say : SANG
50
Longings : YENS
52
Conical home : TEPEE
53
Little piggies : TOES
55
Shrink with fear : QUAIL
57
"Oh, stop your joshin'!" : PSHAW
59
Headline about a newly discovered refuse site? : DUMPFOUND
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Paper deliverer's plan : ROUTE
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Eyes a bull's-eye, say : AIMS
65
Territory : AREA
66
Playwright Rice : ELMER
67
White cheese : BRIE
68
Bull's-eye hitter : DART
69
John, Paul and John Paul : POPES
70
7-6, 3-6 and 6-4, e.g. : SETS
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Blackthorn : SLOE
Down
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False god : BAAL
2
Bruins' sch. : UCLA
3
H.S. class : CHEM
4
Stay in shape : KEEPFIT
5
Whoop-de-do : HOOHA
6
Morsel in many a chocolate bar : ALMOND
7
German city famous for fairs : LEIPZIG
8
A whole bunch : LOTS
9
Morley of "60 Minutes" : SAFER
10
Slight quake : TREMOR
11
Walking despite being injured? : OUTONALIMP
12
Words in passing? : OBIT
13
Put on, as cargo : LADE
21
Willies : CREEPS
24
Asimov or Stern : ISAAC
25
Swears : AVOWS
26
Where Columbus was born : GENOA
27
Sound of a golf ball landing near a hole? : GREENTHUMP
29
Late advice columnist Landers : ANN
31
Blender button : PUREE
32
Part of a play : SCENE
34
Looks inside? : XRAYS
36
"Supposing ..." : WHATIF
40
Excavation find : ORE
45
Ask : INQUIRE
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Prepares to fire again : RELOADS
49
Col. Sanders feature : GOATEE
51
Meeting of leaders : SUMMIT
54
Pitchers : EWERS
56
Basilica parts : APSES
57
Get ready for an exam : PREP
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Without help : SOLO
59
Touches : DABS
60
Russia's ___ Mountains : URAL
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Fiddling emperor, they say : NERO
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"It's a ___!" : DATE

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