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New York Times, Saturday, March 31, 2001

Author:
Rich Norris
Editor:
Will Shortz
44-Down : Subject to simultaneous opposing forces
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Rich Norris

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 72, Blocks: 31 Missing: {BJQXZ} This is puzzle # 141 for Mr. Norris. Saturday freshness: 15%
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K
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N
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© 2001, The New York Times3/31/1 ( No. 18,771 )
Across
1
Copy : KNOCKOFF
9
Prepare for dinner, say : WASHUP
15
Tenderfoot : NEWCOMER
16
Fight : OPPOSE
17
Comprehensive : ALLINONE
18
Big name in retail : NEIMAN
19
1995 and '97 A.L. champs, in scoreboards : CLE
20
Racer : GOCART
22
Realizes : NETS
23
Fly (around) : KITE
25
Squeezed : EKED
26
Kenyan president Daniel arap ___ : MOI
27
Oil source : SESAME
30
Compound with two carbon atoms : ENOL
32
Flap : ADO
33
Haitian monetary unit : GOURDE
35
Actor Quinn : AIDAN
37
Word after "I do" : DECLARE
40
Hospital supplies : GURNEYS
42
The other woman in "The Age of Innocence" : ELLEN
43
Try not to have an accident, say : SWERVE
45
Boise's county : ADA
46
Genesis son : SETH
48
Ran out : LAPSED
52
Handle overseas? : NOM
53
Ravel's "Gaspard de la ___" : NUIT
55
A runner may break it : TAPE
56
Some low-budget hotels, for short : SROS
58
Not hide : APPEAR
61
Kisser? : LIP
62
"Invisible Man" setting : HARLEM
64
Make excuses, maybe : SAVEFACE
66
Brainstorm : IDEATE
67
Without dissent : ASONEMAN
68
Yahoo, for one : PORTAL
69
Flipped : WENTWILD
Down
1
Gifts : KNACKS
2
"South Pacific" heroine : NELLIE
3
Ones involved in barn raisings? : OWLETS
4
Year in the papacy of St. Zephyrinus : CCI
5
King ___ : KONG
6
Literary sequel of 1847 : OMOO
7
Hardly an authorized dealer : FENCE
8
Lost one's cool : FREAKED
9
Is inadequate : WONTDO
10
Go ___ : APE
11
English : SPIN
12
Domestic : HOMEMADE
13
It may be found in a box on the street : USATODAY
14
Fixed payments : PENSIONS
21
Go back : RENEGE
24
Boston College athlete : EAGLE
28
Complaints : MOANS
29
English, e.g.: Abbr. : EUR
31
Grub : LARVA
34
Get renewed : RESTUP
36
Clueless : INEPT
37
Academic domain : DEANSHIP
38
1967 John Wayne film : ELDORADO
39
Dissatisfied type : CLAMORER
41
www destination : URL
44
Subject to simultaneous opposing forces : WHIPSAW
47
Crown covering : ENAMEL
49
Antipasto morsel : SALAMI
50
Long and impressive : EPICAL
51
Ride (on) : DEPEND
54
Needle : TEASE
57
Strip : SLAT
59
River through Wiltshire : AVON
60
Let : RENT
63
Sorority letter : ETA
65
"... let thy words be ___": Eccl. : FEW

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