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New York Times, Thursday, March 11, 1999

Author:
Manny Nosowsky
Editor:
Will Shortz
26-Down : Tropical toppers
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Manny Nosowsky

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 72, Blocks: 33 Grid has supersymmetry. This is puzzle # 85 for Mr. Nosowsky. Thursday freshness: 92%
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© 1999, The New York Times3/11/99 ( No. 18,020 )
Across
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Coffee get-together : KLATCH
7
V.I.P.'s : NABOBS
13
Low-fat meat : BEEFALO
14
Stumped : UPATREE
16
Relaxing : RESTFUL
17
Affectedly dainty : MINCING
18
Photo ___ : OPS
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It's strapped around the head : FEEDBAG
21
Predatory fish : GAR
22
Hotsy-___ : TOTSY
24
Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 5 ___ minor : INE
25
Outpouring : SPATE
27
Communist-hunting grp. of the 50's : HUAC
28
Setup : SNARE
30
Stirs : ADOS
31
First call, perhaps : STRIKEONE
33
Zingers : ONELINERS
35
Suffix with acetyl : ENE
36
$$$ for old age : IRA
37
Gambling game : TWENTYONE
41
Some : ONEORMORE
45
W.W. II org. : WAAC
46
Not give ___ : AHOOT
48
Top parts of suits : ACES
49
___ in the right direction : ASTEP
51
Business magazine : INC
52
Opera singer Simon ___ : ESTES
53
Mathematician's ordinal : NTH
54
Tell accidentally : LETSLIP
57
Overseas article : UNA
58
Most dreary : GREYEST
60
Risky way to run : ONEMPTY
62
Arranged in order : SERIATE
63
Some West Indians : CREOLES
64
Borrower's quest : LENDER
65
Mug : KISSER
Down
1
Unwelcome sign? : KEEPOUT
2
Cigarette ad claim : LESSTAR
3
Back on board : AFT
4
It's pulled at a carnival : TAFFY
5
This, for example : CLUE
6
Stroke of excellence : HOLEINONE
7
Most people look out for it : NUMBERONE
8
Samoan capital : APIA
9
Mamie's hairdo : BANGS
10
Stock page heading: Abbr. : OTC
11
Fighting force : BRIGADE
12
Forum participant : SENATOR
13
Servings for the sick : BROTHS
15
Way out : EGRESS
20
Modern means of identification : DNA
23
It "is nothing but perception," wrote Plato : SCIENCE
26
Tropical toppers : PANAMAS
28
"Ta-ta!" : SEEYA
29
"The Sacred Wood" writer : ELIOT
32
Old Eng. title : KNT
34
Letters on seconds : IRR
37
Sounds in archery : TWANGS
38
Spendthrift : WASTREL
39
Diner sign : EATHERE
40
Pitcher's triumph : ONEHITTER
41
Wee hour : ONEOCLOCK
42
Like an amazing return on an investment : OCTUPLE
43
Type in again : REENTER
44
Features of The New York Review of Books : ESSAYS
47
Switch positions : ONS
50
Make a case : PLEAD
52
They're guarded in competition : EPEES
55
Italian art patron : ESTE
56
Christian inscription : INRI
59
Negative side : YIN
61
Criminal patterns, for short : MOS

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