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New York Times, Tuesday, February 15, 2000

Author:
Frances Hansen
Editor:
Will Shortz
39-Down : Attack like an eagle
TotalDebutLatest
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Frances Hansen

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 74, Blocks: 32 Missing: {FJQ} This is puzzle # 107 for Ms. Hansen. Tuesday freshness: 99%
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© 2000, The New York Times2/15/0 ( No. 18,361 )
Across
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G.I.'s lullaby? : TAPS
5
Forty-niner's filing : CLAIM
10
Visually dull : DRAB
14
Mate's shout : AHOY
15
Barbera's partner in cartooning : HANNA
16
Go backpacking : HIKE
17
Worrier's habit : NAILBITING
19
Hillside shelter : ABRI
20
Oscar winner Sophia : LOREN
21
Kramden's pal on "The Honeymooners" : NORTON
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Hot and dry : SAHARAN
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Sending to one's fate : DOOMING
27
Language of the Koran : ARABIC
28
French novelist Honoré de ___ : BALZAC
29
Salome's seven : VEILS
30
Aladdin's enabler : GENIE
31
Vladimir Putin's onetime org. : KGB
34
French 101 verb : ETRE
35
Redhead's dye : HENNA
36
Gin flavoring : SLOE
37
___ Bingle (Crosby moniker) : DER
38
Toss back and forth : BANDY
39
Begins to flutter the eyelids : STIRS
40
Shuttle plane : AIRBUS
42
Jolson's river of song : SWANEE
43
Noted Parthenon sculptor : PHIDIAS
45
In the middle of : AMONGST
46
Small wound : LESION
47
Drink for Dracula : BLOOD
48
Mélange : OLIO
49
Amazing to behold : EYEPOPPING
54
Small amount of milk : PINT
55
Rent out again : RELET
56
Met song : ARIA
57
Gets soaked : SOGS
58
Up to one's ears : AWASH
59
TelePrompTer display : TEXT
Down
1
"The Joy Luck Club" author : TAN
2
"Caught you!" : AHA
3
Taro dish : POI
4
One of 17 in a haiku : SYLLABLE
5
French president Jacques : CHIRAC
6
Head toward evening : LATEN
7
Have ___ (be connected) : ANIN
8
Quaint lodging : INN
9
Mississippi's state tree : MAGNOLIA
10
TV's "___ and Greg" : DHARMA
11
Highly amusing : RIBTICKLING
12
Ohio tire center : AKRON
13
Living thing : BEING
18
Mussorgsky's Godunov : BORIS
22
Move like molasses : OOZE
23
"___ by the bell!" : SAVED
24
Mountain ridge : ARETE
25
Like a horror movie : HAIRRAISING
26
Actor DeVito : DANNY
28
Diver's dread, with "the" : BENDS
30
Ranking above species : GENUS
32
Tennessee political family : GORES
33
Assailed on all sides : BESET
35
"Carmen" highlight : HABANERA
36
Hold one's ground : STANDPAT
38
Vivacity : BRIO
39
Attack like an eagle : SWOOP
41
Cementheads : IDIOTS
42
Not chunky, as peanut butter : SMOOTH
43
Raindrop sounds : PLOPS
44
Sun: Prefix : HELIO
45
Suisse range : ALPES
47
Horror icon Lugosi : BELA
50
Archery wood : YEW
51
High dudgeon : IRE
52
Put the kibosh on : NIX
53
Gangster's gun : GAT

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 3 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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