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New York Times, Thursday, March 2, 2000

Author:
Frances Hansen
Editor:
Will Shortz
41-Down : Got all A's
TotalDebutLatest
12112/27/19643/29/2006
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RebusScrabDebutPre‑WSFresh
111.631958149%
Frances Hansen

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 34 Missing: {JQZ} Spans: 1 This is puzzle # 108 for Ms. Hansen. Thursday freshness: 20%
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C
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U
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B
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A
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A
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C
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M
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G
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Y
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L
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D
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X
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D
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R
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© 2000, The New York Times3/2/0 ( No. 18,377 )
Across
1
Embargoed country : CUBA
5
Medicinal side effect, maybe : ACHE
9
Hairpieces : FALLS
14
"Up and ___!" : ATEM
15
Keyboard instrument : MOOG
16
Like some swarms : APIAN
17
Operatic city created by Brecht and 64-Across : MAHAGONNY
19
Actress Lotte, wife of 64-Across : LENYA
20
Record player : PHONO
21
Records : TAPES
23
Mo. of the year : DEC
24
Musical comedy scored by 64-Across : LADYINTHEDARK
27
Mason's burden : HOD
29
Part of a yen : SEN
30
River boat: Abbr. : STR
31
The tops : ACES
33
Waikiki wingding : LUAU
36
Discrimination : TASTE
40
Brecht and 64-Across offering, with "The" : THREEPENNYOPERA
43
1920's auto : ESSEX
44
Ally (with) : SIDE
45
Piccadilly Circus statue : EROS
46
Hotel floor sign : ICE
48
Suffix with Caesar : EAN
50
Tiny forager : ANT
51
Hit by Maxwell Anderson and 64-Across : SEPTEMBERSONG
57
Fire truck item : AXE
58
Jungle vine : LIANA
59
Virginia colonist John : ROLFE
62
Like some illnesses : VIRAL
64
Composer born March 2, 1900 : KURTWEILL
66
Skip a syllable : ELIDE
67
Clever Bombeck : ERMA
68
Farm soil : LOAM
69
Excised : DELED
70
Musical interval : REST
71
Parts of the Air France fleet : SSTS
Down
1
Extravagantly theatrical : CAMP
2
Rainbow Bridge locale : UTAH
3
Eyewitnesses : BEHOLDERS
4
Appliance maker : AMANA
5
One of a Latin trio : AMO
6
Maintains course : CONTINUES
7
Chengchow's province : HONAN
8
Moses' birthplace : EGYPT
9
Something funny to sing in : FALSETTO
10
Copy : APE
11
Blair or Evans : LINDA
12
Stratum : LAYER
13
Potential diet-breaker : SNACK
18
Olympus residents : GODS
22
Interrogatives : EHS
25
Puppy's cry : YELP
26
Cover, in a way : DRAPE
27
"Unimaginable as ___ in Heav'n": Milton : HATE
28
Newspaperman Adolph : OCHS
32
"Now you ___..." : SEEIT
34
Black cuckoo : ANI
35
Places for crutches : UNDERARMS
37
Harems : SERAGLIOS
38
1982 Disney film : TRON
39
Whence the Magi, with "the" : EAST
41
Got all A's : EXCELLED
42
Some votes : YEAS
47
Big record inits. : EMI
49
Neighbor of Swed. : NORW
51
Redeemed : SAVED
52
Napoleon, twice : EXILE
53
Jeopardy : PERIL
54
One whose job is a piece of cake? : BAKER
55
Harden: Var. : ENURE
56
Holiday entertainments : NOELS
60
Fizzless : FLAT
61
Popular street liners : ELMS
63
Fruity drink : ADE
65
Tit for ___ : TAT

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 2 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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