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New York Times, Monday, April 29, 1996

Author:
S. L. Robbins
Editor:
Will Shortz
3-Down : Blackmailed
TotalDebutLatest
2033/27/19742/8/1999
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01413675122
ScrabDebutPre‑WSFresh
1.47891535%
Sidney L. Robbins

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 38 Missing: {JQZ} Spans: 1 This is puzzle # 194 for Mr. Robbins. Monday freshness: 21%
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© 1996, The New York Times4/29/96 ( No. 16,974 )
Across
1
Tale with a point : FABLE
6
Dutch portraitist Frans : HALS
10
Slightly wet : DAMP
14
Wing it, speechwise : ADLIB
15
Rock's Clapton or Carmen : ERIC
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Theater award : OBIE
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Diver's inspiration? : DEEPBREATH
19
Facilitate : EASE
20
Extremities : ENDS
21
"The Zoo Story" playwright : ALBEE
22
Escalator segment : STEP
23
"___ De-Lovely" : ITS
24
Restaurant patrons : DINERS
26
Hijacker's destination, once : HAVANA
30
Mock : TAUNT
32
Hebrew "A" : ALEPH
33
Bride's route : AISLE
34
Arab name part : IBN
37
1995 Whitney Houston movie : WAITINGTOEXHALE
40
Zero : NIL
41
___bourguignon : BOEUF
42
Debate (with) : ARGUE
43
Bees' homes : HIVES
44
Bounced back : ECHOED
45
Make calm : SEDATE
48
Squeal (on) : RAT
49
"You said it!" : AMEN
50
Lads and dads, e.g. : MALES
53
Three-player card game : SKAT
57
Gale : WIND
58
In suspense : BREATHLESS
60
Otherwise : ELSE
61
"Yikes!" : EGAD
62
Central artery : AORTA
63
Like Easter eggs : DYED
64
Surveyor's measures : RODS
65
Quartet member : TENOR
Down
1
Lose brightness : FADE
2
Yemeni port : ADEN
3
Blackmailed : BLED
4
Revlon targets : LIPS
5
Flow back : EBB
6
Dressy shoes : HEELS
7
Yemeni, e.g. : ARAB
8
Miller beer brand : LITE
9
Timetable : SCHEDULE
10
"___scratch" (old cleanser slogan) : DOESNT
11
Lessen : ABATE
12
Super-skinflint : MISER
13
Chicks' sounds : PEEPS
18
___-tat-tat : RATA
23
Repress : INHIBIT
25
Not precise : INEXACT
26
Actress Goldie : HAWN
27
Jai___ : ALAI
28
Bit of wedding garb : VEIL
29
Prone : APT
30
Shakespeare's "___ Andronicus" : TITUS
31
From : ASOF
33
"Let Us Now Praise Famous Men" writer : AGEE
34
Othello's ensign : IAGO
35
Like robbins' eggs : BLUE
36
Penury : NEED
38
Election time : NOVEMBER
39
Royal initials : HRH
43
Personally gave : HANDED
44
Bridge seat : EAST
45
Was a cutup? : SAWED
46
Etiquette arbiter Post : EMILY
47
Thick : DENSE
48
Is a bookhound : READS
51
Jason's ship : ARGO
52
Conduct : LEAD
53
Blackthorn fruit : SLOE
54
Composer Jerome : KERN
55
Concerning : ASTO
56
Romanov V.I.P. : TSAR
59
Derby, e.g. : HAT

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