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New York Times, Wednesday, March 12, 1997

Author:
Brendan Emmett Quigley
Editor:
Will Shortz
11-Down : Hoverer near God's throne
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
1938/7/199612/22/202321
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385152119522716
RebusCircleScrabDebutFresh
531.631,16472%
Brendan Emmett Quigley

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 38 Missing: {JQW} Spans: 3 This is puzzle # 4 for Mr. Quigley. Wednesday freshness: 16%
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© 1997, The New York Times3/12/97 ( No. 17,291 )
Across
1
Cookbook phrase : ALA
4
You can't control it : SPASM
9
Ramadan observance : FAST
13
Beaujolais, say : VIN
14
Rock band named for an inventor : TESLA
15
Mr. T group : ATEAM
17
Fraternity letter : ETA
18
Hunter of myth : ORION
19
A masked man : ZORRO
20
Looking through photo albums, perhaps? : RELIVINGTHEPAST
23
Baseball's Sandberg : RYNE
24
Reactor part : ROD
25
Posed : PUT
26
Place to lose oneself : MAZE
27
Emasculate : UNMAN
30
"Now I see!" : AHSO
31
Supped : ATE
32
Like some eligibles, once : ONEA
33
Eponymous physicist : OHM
35
Party item : BIRTHDAYPRESENT
41
Weed : HOE
42
Caps Lock neighbor, on a computer : AKEY
43
Something to shoot for : PAR
44
Zeppo, for one : MARX
47
Where the buffalo roam : RANGE
49
Label info : SIZE
50
___ pro nobis : ORA
51
Bilko's rank: Abbr. : SGT
52
57-Down measurement : PICA
53
#1 movie of 1985 : BACKTOTHEFUTURE
59
Singer Cara : IRENE
60
Composer Copland : AARON
61
"Interview With the Vampire" co-star : REA
62
Debussy work : LAMER
63
Post-toast sound : CLINK
64
"Independence Day" villains : ETS
65
High schooler : TEEN
66
Some cigarettes : KENTS
67
Like a wallflower : SHY
Down
1
Declare as fact : AVER
2
Highbrows : LITERATI
3
One critically examining : ANALYZER
4
Hot spot : STOVE
5
Prefix with scope or meter : PERI
6
"Q ___ queen" : ASIN
7
Work hard : SLOG
8
Repeated word : MANTRA
9
Disconcerted : FAZED
10
Over : ATOP
11
Hoverer near God's throne : SERAPH
12
Human ankle : TARSUS
16
Words on a coat of arms : MOTTO
21
Suffix with Alp : INE
22
Center of a roast : HONOREE
26
Queen described by Mercutio : MAB
27
Experience : UNDERGO
28
Cultural org. : NEA
29
Quetzalcoatl worshiper : MAYAN
30
Wake-up times: Abbr. : AMS
32
Surprised cry : OHO
34
"Just hold everything!" : HEY
36
"___ 1138" (1971 sci-fi film) : THX
37
U.P.S. cargo: Abbr. : PKG
38
Connoisseurs : EPICURES
39
Home of Mary and Joseph : NAZARETH
40
Italian numero : TRE
44
Shell competitor : MOBIL
45
Genesis mount : ARARAT
46
Flower part : RACEME
48
Go at : ATTACK
49
Wait : SIT
51
Unaccommodating : STERN
52
Street toughs : PUNKS
54
Baby-bouncing locale : KNEE
55
Vigorous : HALE
56
Land of poetry : ERIN
57
Printer's choice : FONT
58
Accommodating : EASY

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