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New York Times, Wednesday, April 3, 2002

Author:
Fred Piscop
Editor:
Will Shortz
29-Down : Handle skillfully
TotalDebutLatest
15411/22/19939/1/2024
SunMonTueWedThuFriSatVariety
1425262552948
RebusScrabDebutFresh
11.5550233%
Fred Piscop

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 36 Missing: {JQZ} Spans: 1 This is puzzle # 85 for Mr. Piscop. Wednesday freshness: 49%
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© 2002, The New York Times4/3/2 ( No. 19,139 )
Across
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___ C. Dobbs, noted Humphrey Bogart role : FRED
5
Hearty cheers : OLES
9
More cheerful : GAYER
14
Letterhead graphic : LOGO
15
Turkish dough : LIRA
16
"The Canterbury Tales" pilgrim : REEVE
17
Brother of Little Joe : ADAM
18
Dubya and classmates : ELIS
19
Reo contemporary : ESSEX
20
Marxist patronage of the far left? : RADICALCHICO
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Trap : ENSNARE
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Apartment prohibition, maybe : NOPETS
28
Wrigley Field flora : IVY
29
Prohibitionist's foe : WET
31
Quick trip : SPIN
32
Dove's goal : PEACE
35
Begot : SIRED
37
"Am ___ believe ...?" : ITO
38
Marxist Muppet? : OSCARTHEGROUCHO
41
Sport ___ (modern vehicle) : UTE
42
They "all" have a day : SOULS
43
Get-go : ONSET
44
Snitched : TOLD
46
McCarthy target : RED
47
Much spam : ADS
48
Radioman's nickname : SPARKS
50
It may prove paternity : DNATEST
54
Marxist wind instrument? : AEOLIANHARPO
57
Sound of an empty stomach : GROWL
60
Sister of Charles and Andrew : ANNE
61
Born's partner : BRED
62
"Jurassic Park" star Sam : NEILL
63
Machu Picchu native : INCA
64
"Damn Yankees" vamp : LOLA
65
___-walsy : PALSY
66
Season of giving : NOEL
67
60's TV's ___ May Clampett : ELLY
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Boater's S O S : FLARE
2
Tokyo trasher, in a 1956 film : RODAN
3
"Good grief!" : EGADS
4
West Indian nation : DOMINICA
5
Fabled cow owner : OLEARY
6
De Gaulle's birthplace : LILLE
7
Writer Hoffer : ERIC
8
Merit badge spot : SASH
9
___-Roman : GRECO
10
"___ Fables" : AESOPS
11
"You bet!" : YES
12
Early evictee : EVE
13
Mardi Gras figure : REX
21
Spelunkers : CAVERS
22
Part of ICBM : INTER
25
"Cast-of- thousands" films : EPICS
26
Tenth part : TITHE
27
Uppity sort : SNOOT
29
Handle skillfully : WIELD
30
Joule fractions : ERGS
32
Broods : POUTS
33
Bar, at the bar : ESTOP
34
Amtrak's bullet train : ACELA
35
"Leaving Las Vegas" actress : SHUE
36
Part of "De Camptown Races" refrain : DOODAH
39
Bit of statuary : TORSO
40
Like nitroglycerin : UNSTABLE
45
Talks Dixie-style : DRAWLS
47
Temper, as metal : ANNEAL
49
Clown Emmett : KELLY
50
Cut a rug : DANCE
51
Flynn who played Robin Hood : ERROL
52
Magic effect : SPELL
53
Now : TODAY
55
Reclined : LAIN
56
___ uncertain terms : INNO
57
Econ. measure : GNP
58
"Citizen X" actor, 1995 : REA
59
Wildcatter's find : OIL

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