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New York Times, Monday, February 26, 1996

Author:
N. Steinberg
Editor:
Will Shortz
51-Down : Justice White
TotalDebutLatest
5212/7/19824/11/2005
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
7141210351
ScrabDebutPre‑WSFresh
1.57473513%
Norma Steinberg

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 38 Missing: {JQXZ} This is puzzle # 44 for Ms. Steinberg. Monday freshness: 36%
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© 1996, The New York Times2/26/96 ( No. 16,911 )
Across
1
Zilch : NADA
5
Stored, as papers : FILED
10
60's-70's hairdo : AFRO
14
Second hand : USED
15
___fell swoop : INONE
16
Beat soundly : DRUB
17
Film for which Daniel Day-Lewis won an Oscar : MYLEFTFOOT
19
Ascended : ROSE
20
Congresswoman Abzug : BELLA
21
A single time : ONCE
22
Like printers' fingers : INKY
23
Elevator alternative : STAIRS
25
Short___ : SHRIFT
27
Trawler's equipment : NETS
29
Panache : STYLE
32
Apex : ACME
35
Olympics ceremony music : ANTHEM
39
Goal : AIM
40
___Guevara : CHE
41
"Off-limits" : PRIVATE
42
Sleep phenomenon: Abbr. : REM
43
Spicy : HOT
44
Append : ATTACH
45
___St. Vincent Millay : EDNA
46
Actor Tom of "The Seven Year Itch" : EWELL
48
New Yorker writer E.J.___ : KAHN
50
Go on and on : RAMBLE
54
Comstock Lode site : NEVADA
58
"Desire Under the___" : ELMS
60
Fox's shrill cry : YELP
62
Tree exudation : RESIN
63
Stock exchange position : SEAT
64
"Night Gallery" host : RODSERLING
66
Follow : TAIL
67
Ryan or Tatum : ONEAL
68
Keats works : ODES
69
Rooney of "60 Minutes" : ANDY
70
"Phooey!" : NERTS
71
Saucy : PERT
Down
1
Desensitizes : NUMBS
2
To date : ASYET
3
Perry's secretary : DELLA
4
Sweet girl of song : ADELINE
5
Suit : FIT
6
Data : INFO
7
"On Golden Pond" birds : LOONS
8
Tennyson's "___Arden" : ENOCH
9
Impede, as an attack : DETER
10
Unanchored : ADRIFT
11
Place for a lawn : FRONTYARD
12
J.F.K.'s Secretary of State : RUSK
13
Follow orders : OBEY
18
$1.50 for the first 1/5 mile, e.g. : FARE
24
Onset : START
26
"Woe___!" : ISME
28
Tantrum : SNIT
30
Mortgage : LIEN
31
Poet Lazarus : EMMA
32
Symptom for a dentist : ACHE
33
Grub : CHOW
34
Municipal employee in a Beatles song : METERMAID
36
New Deal proj. : TVA
37
Chop none too carefully : HACK
38
Patriot Allen : ETHAN
41
Tree in Miami : PALM
45
Wrap : ENVELOP
47
"As the final point..." : LASTLY
49
German mister : HERR
51
Justice White : BYRON
52
Sierra___ : LEONE
53
Kind of statesman : ELDER
55
All kidding___ : ASIDE
56
Informal eatery : DINER
57
High anxiety : ANGST
58
"Como___usted?" : ESTA
59
Like Jack Sprat's diet : LEAN
61
11th graders' exam: Abbr. : PSAT
65
Raised railways : ELS

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