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New York Times, Monday, May 31, 1999

Author:
Joey Crumley
Editor:
Will Shortz
49-Down : Player
TotalDebutLatest
25/31/199910/4/1999
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
0200000
ScrabDebutFresh
1.5128%
Joey Crumley

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 37 Missing: {QXZ} This is the debut puzzle for Mr. Crumley. Monday freshness: 40%
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F
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D
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© 1999, The New York Times5/31/99 ( No. 18,101 )
Across
1
Spigot : TAP
4
Last in the class : DUNCE
9
Rug fiber : SISAL
14
Hosp. area for emergency cases : ICU
15
Big name in video arcades : ATARI
16
Singer Bryant : ANITA
17
Sci-fi villains, for short : ETS
18
Supposed aid for finding water : DIVININGROD
20
The "D" of C.D. : DISC
22
Not so believable, as an excuse : LAMER
23
Descartes, who said, "I think, therefore I am" : RENE
24
Rubes : YOKELS
26
Thinks : OPINES
28
M-16, e.g. : RIFLE
30
Had : OWNED
32
German sub : UBOAT
33
Negatively charged particle : ANION
34
Devotee : FAN
37
Résumé, of a sort : BIO
38
That special touch, briefly : TLC
40
Print measures : ENS
41
Fish eggs : ROE
42
Concorde, notably : SST
43
Auto seen way too much in an auto shop : LEMON
45
Graphic symbols : ICONS
47
Dissuade : DETER
48
Barn toppers : VANES
49
Overly showy : GARISH
52
Newspaper advertising piece : INSERT
55
Gain ___ (get ahead in a race) : ALAP
56
Prefix with -plasty or -gram : ANGIO
58
Tinted : DYED
61
Big-time : MAJORLEAGUE
64
Copy : APE
65
Boxer Griffith : EMILE
66
Make ___ (befoul) : AMESS
67
Sleep phenomenon : REM
68
Exercised one's wanderlust : ROVED
69
Runs out of energy : TIRES
70
In excelsis ___ : DEO
Down
1
Like a 4-4 score : TIED
2
It follows a curtain-raising : ACTI
3
Move cautiously : PUSSYFOOT
4
Scoutmaster, often : DAD
5
Serviceable : UTILE
6
Like engagements at sea : NAVAL
7
Harvard color : CRIMSON
8
"___ kleine Nachtmusik" : EINE
9
___ Quentin : SAN
10
Actress Bergman : INGRID
11
Woman with a come-hither look : SIREN
12
Joined (with) : ATONE
13
Puts on cargo : LADES
19
Like patches or decals : IRONON
21
7-Up alternative : COLA
25
Brewing sites : KETTLES
27
Quietly thinking : PENSIVE
28
Burnishes : RUBS
29
Cousin of a heron : IBIS
31
Austria's capital, to the locals : WIEN
33
High point : ACME
34
Visible play area : FRONTYARD
35
Super-duper : AONE
36
Monster's loch : NESS
39
Deadly : LETHAL
44
It might be gotten from a folder : ORIGAMI
46
Cutup : CARD
47
Two-rod antenna : DIPOLE
49
Player : GAMER
50
Memorable 1836 battle site : ALAMO
51
One of the Gandhis : RAJIV
53
Africa's third-longest river : NIGER
54
Drunkard : SOUSE
57
Spiffy : NEAT
59
Sporting blade : EPEE
60
Test-driver's car : DEMO
62
7-Down, basically : RED
63
Squiggly letter : ESS

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