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New York Times, Thursday, May 21, 1998

Author:
Cathy Millhauser
Editor:
Will Shortz
10-Down : Esthetic
TotalDebutLatest
881/26/19925/15/2011
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RebusCircleScrabDebutPre‑WSFresh
211.58657442%
Cathy Allis

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 36 Missing: none – this is a pangram. Spans: 2 This is puzzle # 43 for Ms. Allis. Thursday freshness: 13%
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© 1998, The New York Times5/21/98 ( No. 17,726 )
Across
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Bas-relief medium : GESSO
6
Big name in plastic : VISA
10
Lean : THIN
14
Sea shades : AQUAS
15
Minds' I's? : EGOS
16
Home health worker : AIDE
17
Chewy olios? : RUBBERGOULASHES
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Carry on : RAVE
21
English estate owner, maybe : EARL
22
Weasel in brown : STOAT
23
Olin and Horne : LENAS
25
Tommy who sang "Dizzy," 1969 : ROE
26
Bakery olios? : RAGOUTMUFFINS
33
It's the law : ACT
35
In reverie : ADREAM
36
Word on a U.S. coin : UNUM
37
Make smocking, e.g. : SHIRR
39
Hump-shouldered animal : GNU
40
Noted cow name : ELSIE
41
Rake part : TINE
42
Rolls filler : PETROL
44
Relative of -ian : ITE
45
Olios for actress Cartwright? : ANGELASHASHES
48
Veto : NIX
49
Jousting bouts : TILTS
51
Turn on the dramatics : EMOTE
54
Prescription particular : DOSE
57
Resound : PEAL
59
Bring an olio to a dance? : TAKESTEWTOTANGO
62
Winter Palace dweller : CZAR
63
Org. in rights fights : ACLU
64
Baseball Hall-of-Famer Charleston : OSCAR
65
Slangy greetings : HEYS
66
Chinese idol : JOSS
67
Extremely : NOEND
Down
1
Teri of "Dumb & Dumber" : GARR
2
Full partner : EQUAL
3
Overthrowing : SUBVERTING
4
Belgian airline : SABENA
5
Sugar suffix : OSE
6
Star of Lyra : VEGA
7
Dr. Frankenstein's assistant : IGOR
8
Popular music category : SOUL
9
Communication for the deaf: Abbr. : ASL
10
Esthetic : TASTEFUL
11
Ritz rival : HIHO
12
Fancy : IDEA
13
Home tweet home? : NEST
18
Do a lawn job : RESOD
19
Starting : ASOF
24
"The People's Choice" historian Herbert : AGAR
25
Grog ingredient : RUM
27
Prods : URGES
28
State's rights amendment to the Constitution : TENTH
29
Spanish actress Carmen ___ : MAURA
30
Assertiveness : INSISTENCE
31
Soir follower : NUIT
32
Bob Hoskins's role in "Hook" : SMEE
33
Hammett hound : ASTA
34
Gym exercise : CHIN
38
Inputs anew : REENTERS
40
For all grades, as textbooks : ELHI
42
Bellum antithesis : PAX
43
Bone: Prefix : OSTEO
46
Inventions, so to speak : LIES
47
Fort Bliss site : ELPASO
50
"Cosmos" creator : SAGAN
51
Write permanently : ETCH
52
Daedalian creation : MAZE
53
Go-ahead : OKAY
54
Erté's forte : DECO
55
Wise ones : OWLS
56
Apt male names for this puzzle : STUS
58
Baron's title : LORD
60
___ Mahal : TAJ
61
Style, Elle-style : TON

Answer summary:
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