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New York Times, Friday, March 13, 1998

Author:
Shannon Burns
Editor:
Will Shortz
7-Down : Like railroad tracks
TotalDebutLatest
102/10/19972/9/2008
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Shannon Burns

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 72, Blocks: 38 Missing: none – this is a pangram. Spans: 1 This is puzzle # 7 for Ms. Burns. Friday freshness: 15%
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© 1998, The New York Times3/13/98 ( No. 17,657 )
Across
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Kind of rug : NAVAJO
7
___ annum : PER
10
Bow wood : YEW
13
Compadres : AMIGOS
14
Relative of a buttercup : ANEMONE
16
Clothed, so to speak : DECENT
17
Highbrow cinema : ARTHOUSE
18
Cut : AXE
19
Stored, as wine : CELLARED
21
Agitprop : TROUBLEMAKER
25
Dobbin might pull it : SHAY
27
___-de-sac : CUL
28
Drudge : SLAVE
29
High : STONED
31
End of a demonstration? : QED
33
Last in a line : ZEE
34
Hallmark store section : CONGRATULATIONS
38
Sgt.'s address : APO
39
It's spotted in casinos : DIE
40
Designer Miller : NICOLE
41
Beginning : BIRTH
44
Physics unit : ERG
46
Pink : ROSY
47
"The Getaway" star, 1972 : STEVEMCQUEEN
50
Needles : STYLUSES
51
Sch. course concentration : SCI
54
About 9,900 square miles of water : LAKEERIE
57
Consider : LOOKAT
59
Caught : INATRAP
60
Computer contacts : EMAILS
61
Be worthwhile : PAY
62
1946 Alan Ladd film : OSS
63
With great skill : DEFTLY
Down
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Zilch : NADA
2
Stock page heading : AMEX
3
Number 2 : VICE
4
Obsolesce : AGE
5
"Hot Shots!" actor, 1991 : JONCRYER
6
Prefix with arthritis : OSTEO
7
Like railroad tracks : PARALLEL
8
___ nous : ENTRE
9
Fixes a dress : REHEMS
10
Crossword fan, presumably : YOU
11
Wearer of a half-inch gold bar: Abbr. : ENS
12
Teensy : WEE
15
Relating to form : MODAL
17
America's hot-air balloon capital : ALBUQUERQUE
20
Hockey's Robitaille : LUC
21
Slight trace : TANG
22
They create a buzz in the music world : KAZOOS
23
Without variations : EVENLY
24
Candy manufacturer Harry : REESE
25
"Quit fighting!" : STOPIT
26
French painter Daumier : HONORE
29
Unpopular workers : SCABS
30
Family man : DAD
32
Judo level : DAN
35
Haberdashery accessories : TIECLIPS
36
Wearing thin : TIRESOME
37
Menu symbol : ICON
42
Tube : TVSET
43
Sexual classification : HETERO
45
NASA's Grissom : GUS
48
Hess and Breckinridge : MYRAS
49
Moved sinuously : EELED
51
Blackout : SKIT
52
Poker action : CALL
53
Tiny, for short : ITSY
54
Edge : LIP
55
Anecdotes : ANA
56
Dash-dot-dash, in Morse code : KAY
58
Dunce : OAF

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