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New York Times, Thursday, December 31, 1998

Author:
Harvey Estes and Nancy Salomon
Editor:
Will Shortz
34-Down : Wild boar features
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
11612/29/199311/26/200845
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
2015151219278
RebusScrabDebutFresh
71.5252247%
Harvey Estes
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
1868/13/199511/7/2012116
SunMonTueWedThuFriSatVariety
3633533719611
RebusCircleScrabDebutFresh
1521.5890833%
Nancy Salomon

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 36 Missing: {FJQX} This is puzzle # 37 for Mr. Estes. This is puzzle # 21 for Ms. Salomon. Thursday freshness: 17%
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© 1998, The New York Times12/31/98 ( No. 17,950 )
Across
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Actress Gaynor : MITZI
6
"___ la vista, baby!" : HASTA
11
Serpent's sound : SSS
14
Flareup of crime? : ARSON
15
Dizzying pictures : OPART
16
Goon : APE
17
Watch a shaky Japanese money market? : SEEYENWAVER
19
Passing assistance? : YEA
20
Lean and lovely : SVELTE
21
With 33-Down, 1978 Nobel Prize recipient : ANWAR
23
Cold war foe : SOVIETS
26
Contemptuous looks : SNEERS
27
Unblocks : CLEARS
28
Librarygoer : READER
30
___ d'oeuvre : HORS
31
Fictional hero first filmed in 1920 : ZORRO
32
N.Y. winter hrs. : EST
35
Not straight : WRY
36
What each of today's four long answers is vis-à-vis New Year's Eve : ANAGRAM
38
The Seine is full of it : EAU
39
Pitches : ADS
40
Words for actors : LINES
41
Briefs, briefly : BVDS
42
Band on a limb : ARMLET
44
Run in the raw : STREAK
46
Dessert not for the diet-conscious : SUNDAE
48
Popular magazine since 1926 : PARENTS
49
Off drugs : CLEAN
50
Jean of "Bombshell" : HARLOW
52
Get one past : ACE
53
This little poem or that? : ANYWEEVERSE
58
Kitten's cry : MEW
59
Lighthouse sites : CAPES
60
Fall away : ERODE
61
Prefix with Columbian : PRE
62
Forfeits fur : SHEDS
63
Actress Danning of "Hercules" : SYBIL
Down
1
Women with shavers : MAS
2
It makes one hot : IRE
3
Mao ___-tung : TSE
4
Asian grasses popular on lawns : ZOYSIAS
5
"Well!" : INEVER
6
Bays : HOWLS
7
Pit-___ (heart sound) : APAT
8
Reliever's triumph : SAVE
9
Three for Sophia : TRE
10
Haphazardly : ATRANDOM
11
Call off the debt? : SAYWEREEVEN
12
Headhunter's equipment : SPEAR
13
J. C. Penney rival : SEARS
18
Takes home : NETS
22
Wedding notice word : NEE
23
Pronunciation symbol : SCHWA
24
Prayer opening : OLORD
25
Sheep with all its marbles? : VERYSANEEWE
26
She played Darlene on "Roseanne" : SARA
28
Writer's reference : ROGET
29
Does the wrong thing : ERRS
31
Author Grey : ZANE
33
See 20-Across : SADAT
34
Wild boar features : TUSKS
36
Astronomical data providers : ALMANACS
37
Bank-washer in Cairo : NILE
41
Suds source : BREWERY
43
Cereal box info : RDA
44
Shopaholic's delight : SALE
45
Pirates' stashes : TROVES
46
Rogue : SCAMP
47
Cause of a nasty gut feeling? : ULCER
48
Basketball tactic : PRESS
50
Hoopla : HYPE
51
Starstruck : AWED
54
Down-home turndown : NAH
55
Rip off : ROB
56
Star Wars letters : SDI
57
Electrifying swimmer : EEL

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

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