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New York Times, Tuesday, February 6, 2001

Author:
Sherry O. Blackard
Editor:
Will Shortz
41-Down : K-O connection
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
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ScrabDebutFresh
1.5221680%
Sherry O. Blackard

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 38 Missing: {QZ} Spans: 1 This is puzzle # 5 for Ms. Blackard. Tuesday freshness: 23%
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© 2001, The New York Times2/6/1 ( No. 18,718 )
Across
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Wedding entertainers : BAND
5
Wine containers : CASKS
10
Like fine wine : AGED
14
"Your turn," to a 5-Down : OVER
15
Cheerless : BLEAK
16
Trout's home : LAKE
17
Leon Uris's "___ 18" : MILA
18
On "E" : EMPTY
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"You got that right!" : AMEN
20
Sherlock Holmes in "The Woman in Green" : BASILRATHBONE
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When to return from lunch, maybe : ATONE
24
"___-hoo!" : YOO
25
___ Beta Kappa : PHI
28
Hankering : YEN
29
Place holders : TABS
33
Alien landings, telepaths, etc. : XFILES
35
Computer key : DELETE
37
Italian dearie : CARA
38
Betty Haynes in "White Christmas" : ROSEMARYCLOONEY
43
First czar of Russia : IVAN
44
Like sauerkraut and strudel : GERMAN
45
Ingredient : FACTOR
48
Bankrupt : SUNK
49
Great respect : AWE
52
Antlered animal : ELK
53
Batman and Robin, e.g. : DUO
55
Old-timer : ELDER
57
Blanche Devereaux in TV's "The Golden Girls" : RUEMCCLANAHAN
62
Close to closed : AJAR
64
Gentleman callers : BEAUX
65
Small dog, informally : PEKE
66
Isinglass : MICA
67
Egg size : LARGE
68
Makes angry : IRES
69
Labor leader I. W. ___ : ABEL
70
Ceased : ENDED
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Mailed : SENT
Down
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Its port is known as the Gateway to India : BOMBAY
2
Pilot : AVIATE
3
Ozzie or Harriet : NELSON
4
Sink feature : DRAIN
5
Many a trucker : CBER
6
___ mater : ALMA
7
Back-to-school time: Abbr. : SEPT
8
Oscar winner Bates : KATHY
9
V.I.P.'s seating locale : SKYBOX
10
Fed chairman Greenspan : ALAN
11
Coach's strategy : GAMEPLAN
12
Squeeze (out) : EKE
13
Cub's home : DEN
21
Gershwin's "___ Eat Cake" : LETEM
22
Response to a punch in the stomach : OOF
26
Roll call response : HERE
27
Mary Higgins Clark's "Before ___ Good-Bye" : ISAY
30
In the manner of : ALA
31
Chunk in the Arctic Ocean : BERG
32
Eye sores : STYES
34
James Dean or Marilyn Monroe : ICON
35
Job for a body shop : DENT
36
Beige : ECRU
38
Widespread : RIFE
39
White House office shape : OVAL
40
Company picnic activity : SACKRACE
41
K-O connection : LMN
42
Like some old buckets : OAKEN
46
Flowery verse : ODE
47
Gang fight : RUMBLE
49
Stick (to) : ADHERE
50
Undermine : WEAKEN
51
Frank's partner in the comics : ERNEST
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"Wavy waste," to Thomas Hood : OCEAN
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___ lazuli : LAPIS
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Russia's ___ Mountains : URAL
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Cutup : CARD
60
Downhill racer : LUGE
61
Canned : AXED
62
G.P.'s grp. : AMA
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Sloop's sail : JIB

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