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New York Times, Thursday, March 9, 1995

Author:
Alex Vaughn
Editor:
Will Shortz
45-Down : Propositions
TotalDebutLatest
33/9/19951/10/2002
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ScrabDebutFresh
1.621441%
Alex Vaughn

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 74, Blocks: 38 Missing: {JQX} Spans: 1 This is the debut puzzle for Mr. Vaughn. Thursday freshness: 7%
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© 1995, The New York Times3/9/95 ( No. 16,557 )
Across
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Declined : SLID
5
Trapdoor : HATCH
10
Lose pep : FLAG
14
Whopper : TALE
15
Creighton University site : OMAHA
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Smooth the flower bed : RAKE
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Certain Ivy Leaguers : ELIS
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Not as common : RARER
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Miami of ___ : OHIO
20
Veer 120º : MAKEASHARPTURN
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Veer : SWERVE
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Mouth part : ROOF
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Without causing much excitement : TAMELY
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Correspond : WRITE
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Male delivery? : SON
35
Greek "H" : ETA
36
Name in small railroads : LIONEL
37
Don't do anything suspicious : TRYTOACTNATURAL
41
Voice a conviction : ASSERT
42
Foreman stat : KOS
43
___ out (add to) : EKE
44
Very much : NOEND
45
___ fugit : TEMPUS
48
"You talkin' to me?" : YEAH
50
Three-fifths of the world's people : ASIANS
54
Be evenhanded to clients : CHARGEAFLATFEE
58
"Farmer," in Dutch : BOER
59
Fahd's faith : ISLAM
60
Rio nitery, for short : COPA
61
Ensured : ICED
62
Popular camera : LEICA
63
Not injected : ORAL
64
Bypasses, as commercials : ZAPS
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___ Park, Colo. : ESTES
66
"Alice" diner : MELS
Down
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Slows, as the flow : STEMS
2
Steven Bochco TV series : LALAW
3
"___ your style" : ILIKE
4
Saguaro locale : DESERT
5
Ingredient of some pet foods : HORSEMEAT
6
Eastern nurse : AMAH
7
Georgia plantation : TARA
8
Sundae topper : CHERRY
9
"___ Speaks" (1962 autobiography) : HARPO
10
Overadornment : FROUFROU
11
Actor Bert : LAHR
12
Comparable : AKIN
13
Chevrolet division : GEO
21
Gardner of "The Naked Maja" : AVA
22
Namely : TOWIT
26
Time-saving abbr. : ETC
27
Potato pancake : LATKE
29
As to : INRE
30
Furniture wood : TEAK
31
Fashion magazine : ELLE
32
Cartoonist Drake : STAN
33
Approximately : ORSO
34
Wall St. workplace : NYSE
36
Canary Islands port : LASPALMAS
38
First-down requisite : TENYARDS
39
Gavel pounder's demand : ORDER
40
Charlemagne, e.g. : NOM
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Propositions : THESES
46
Cable network : USA
47
It's just for laughs : SITCOM
49
Nimble : AGILE
51
Ere : AFORE
52
Katmandu's kingdom : NEPAL
53
Navy unit : SEALS
54
Comic Imogene : COCA
55
Dickens villain : HEEP
56
Touched down : ALIT
57
Stand before : FACE
58
Industry, informally : BIZ

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