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New York Times, Monday, December 8, 1997

Author:
Mary E. Brindamour
Editor:
Will Shortz
53-Down : Stuff to the gills
TotalDebutLatest
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Mary E. Brindamour

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 36 Missing: {JQXZ} Puzzle has duplicate clues. This is puzzle # 4 for Ms. Brindamour. Monday freshness: 33%
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U
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© 1997, The New York Times12/8/97 ( No. 17,562 )
Across
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"I give up!" : UNCLE
6
Does and bucks : DEER
10
Writer Hunter : EVAN
14
Environment-friendly energy choice : SOLAR
15
Gather leaves : RAKE
16
It's full of shafts : MINE
17
French love affair : AMOUR
18
Products of a 16-Across : ORES
19
Customer : USER
20
Hatfield-McCoy affair : FEUD
21
Place of bliss : WONDERLAND
23
Stick-on : DECAL
25
"Here's to you!" and others : TOASTS
26
Hotelier Hilton : CONRAD
28
Make drunk : BESOT
30
Prefix with cycle : UNI
31
Cut into cubes : DICED
33
Electrical pioneer Nikola : TESLA
37
Billions of years : EONS
39
House of the Seven Gables site : SALEM
41
Exhibition : SHOW
42
Gloomy, in poetry : DREAR
44
"All sales ___" : FINAL
46
Playwright Burrows : ABE
47
Flood embankment : LEVEE
49
Displayed ennui : YAWNED
51
Entertain, as with stories : REGALE
54
1924 Ferber novel : SOBIG
55
Place of bliss : IVORYTOWER
58
Irish offshoot : ERSE
61
___-mutuel : PARI
62
Worker protection org. : OSHA
63
From Mars, say : ALIEN
64
Margin : EDGE
65
Airline to Tel Aviv : ELAL
66
Sat and did nothing : IDLED
67
Requisite : NEED
68
Specks : DOTS
69
Pre-1917 Russian rulers : TSARS
Down
1
It has its academy in Colo. Spr. : USAF
2
Alaskan outpost : NOME
3
Place of bliss : CLOUDNINE
4
Cosmetician Estee : LAUDER
5
Flub : ERR
6
Openly salivate : DROOL
7
Make, as money : EARN
8
Managed, with "out" : EKED
9
Adjusts, as a clock : RESETS
10
Copies : EMULATES
11
Travel papers : VISAS
12
Regarding : ANENT
13
Hardly hipsters : NERDS
21
African waterbeds : WADIS
22
Plant anchorer : ROOT
24
No-goodnik : CAD
26
Prompted : CUED
27
___ about (circa) : ONOR
28
Contradict : BELIE
29
Paradise : EDEN
32
Eatery : CAFE
34
Place of bliss : SHANGRILA
35
Earring site : LOBE
36
In wonderment : AWED
38
On the payroll : SALARIED
40
Giuliani, e.g. : MAYOR
43
Depend (on) : RELY
45
Inventor's workplace : LAB
48
Said no to : VETOED
50
Exercises, as authority : WIELDS
51
Come of age : RIPEN
52
Get around : EVADE
53
Stuff to the gills : GORGE
54
Flippered animals : SEALS
56
Nobel Peace Prize city : OSLO
57
One of the five W's : WHAT
59
Séance holder : SEER
60
Quashes : ENDS
63
River islet : AIT

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