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New York Times, Monday, April 1, 1996

Author:
F. Piscop
Editor:
Will Shortz
62-Down : Stretch the truth
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RebusScrabDebutFresh
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Fred Piscop

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 40 Missing: {JQXYZ} Spans: 1 This is puzzle # 16 for Mr. Piscop. Monday freshness: 8%
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© 1996, The New York Times4/1/96 ( No. 16,946 )
Across
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___d' oeuvres : HORS
5
"Without delay" : ASAP
9
Gardener's tool : SPADE
14
Came to ground : ALIT
15
Boxer's garb : ROBE
16
Sheik's bevy : HAREM
17
"___Zapata!" : VIVA
18
Hint : CLUE
19
Man and Wight, e.g. : ISLES
20
Unsolicited, as manuscripts : OVERTHETRANSOM
23
Prefix with meter : CENTI
24
"Watch your___!" : STEP
25
Informal language : SLANG
29
Loves to death : ADORES
33
Who's Who entry : BIO
36
Fencing blades : EPEES
38
Enthusiastic review : RAVE
39
43
Maps rds. : RTES
44
Newton of gravity fame : ISAAC
45
Spanish Mrs. : SRA
46
Cosa___ : NOSTRA
49
Come in : ENTER
51
Gossipy Barrett : RONA
53
Goes hither and thither : ROVES
57
Stroll path, perhaps : AROUNDTHEBLOCK
62
Aristophanes comedy, with "The" : FROGS
63
Savings' partner : LOAN
64
1953 Leslie Caron film : LILI
65
Corner map : INSET
66
"Leave___Beaver" : ITTO
67
Vigor : ELAN
68
Petty officers : BOSNS
69
Hive denizens : BEES
70
"Peanuts" expletive : RATS
Down
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Utter devastation : HAVOC
2
Popeye's gal : OLIVE
3
Torn apart : RIVEN
4
Begins : STARTS
5
Curved gateway : ARCH
6
___proprietorship : SOLE
7
Border on : ABUT
8
Jury members : PEERS
9
Spruced up, as shoes : SHINED
10
Globe-trotter's need : PASSPORT
11
Singer Guthrie : ARLO
12
Consider : DEEM
13
Printer's widths : EMS
21
Mosaic maker : TILER
22
___loss for words : ATA
26
Fitting : APT
27
Royal Crown Cola brand : NEHI
28
Silly birds : GEESE
30
Stadium cheers : RAHS
31
"Did you___!" : EVER
32
Blood fluids : SERA
33
Beachgoer's worry : BURN
34
Look___ (probe) : INTO
35
Pindaric verses : ODES
37
Ugly duckling, ultimately : SWAN
40
Female hormone : ESTROGEN
41
Chow down : EAT
42
Bitter : ACERB
47
Drags out of bed : ROUSTS
48
___Arbor, Mich. : ANN
50
Word with high or holy : ROLLER
52
Ignore the script : ADLIB
54
"There!" : VOILA
55
Acclaim : ECLAT
56
Injures slightly : SKINS
57
Florence's river : ARNO
58
Seamstress Betsy : ROSS
59
Shopper's bag : TOTE
60
Detest : HATE
61
Baseball's Slaughter : ENOS
62
Stretch the truth : FIB

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