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New York Times, Wednesday, May 8, 2002

Author:
Fred Piscop
Editor:
Will Shortz
29-Down : Island's source of revenue?
TotalDebutLatest
15411/22/19939/1/2024
SunMonTueWedThuFriSatVariety
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RebusScrabDebutFresh
11.5550233%
Fred Piscop

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 34 Missing: {JQ} This is puzzle # 86 for Mr. Piscop. Wednesday freshness: 52%
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© 2002, The New York Times5/8/2 ( No. 19,174 )
Across
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They may be jerked : SODAS
6
Leisurely time to arrive at work : TENAM
11
Sounds at a masseur's : AHS
14
Ten sawbucks : CNOTE
15
Deposed leader, perhaps : EXILE
16
Web search result : HIT
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Cereal for squirrels? : ACORNFLAKES
19
Ethyl ender : ENE
20
Distribute anew : REDEAL
21
Vicente Fox's country: Abbr. : MEX
22
Miami-___ County : DADE
23
See 34-Down : STAR
25
Evaluated : SIZEDUP
27
Like the lunar surface : CRATERED
31
Enrapture : SEND
32
Down for the count : OUT
33
Become established : SETIN
35
Jocks' antitheses : NERDS
38
Tuck away : STOW
40
Hunk of fairway : DIVOT
42
Shade of red : BEET
43
Sunni's belief : ISLAM
45
Expressed orally : PAROL
47
The Mustangs' sch. : SMU
48
Wasn't straight : LIED
50
Prepares for a rough ride : STRAPSIN
52
Olympics vehicle : BOBSLED
55
Clinton's birthplace : HOPE
56
Oodles : ALOT
57
"A jealous mistress": Emerson : ART
59
Tens, perhaps : IDEALS
63
Natural leader, in astrology : LEO
64
Perfumed actress? : AROMADOWNEY
66
One who can't pass the bar? : SOT
67
Penalized : FINED
68
Advance in age : GETON
69
Silvery-gray : ASH
70
Most mall rats : TEENS
71
Site of two famous banks : SEINE
Down
1
Lasting impression : SCAR
2
"___ bitten ..." : ONCE
3
"I ___ it!": Red Skelton : DOOD
4
Motionless : ATREST
5
Legislative houses : SENATES
6
Business card abbr. : TEL
7
Physical, e.g. : EXAM
8
Some sneaks : NIKES
9
Joan's "Dynasty" role : ALEXIS
10
___ amis : MES
11
Futuristic woman's chapeau? : AHEADDRESS
12
Yoga practitioner : HINDU
13
Hardly cheap : STEEP
18
Erupted suddenly : FLARED
22
Star in Cygnus : DENEB
24
Fix, as a pool cue : RETIP
26
Buddhist sect : ZEN
27
"___ fan tutte" : COSI
28
Where wheels roll : RUTS
29
Island's source of revenue? : ATOLLBOOTH
30
Temperamental types : DIVAS
34
With 23-Across, a guiding light : NORTH
36
Prefix with god : DEMI
37
Leave speechless : STUN
39
Place for a spare tire? : WAIST
41
Doughnut-shaped : TOROID
44
Sportscaster Allen : MEL
46
Mini-pooches : LAPDOGS
49
Snookums : DEARIE
51
Kind of league : PEEWEE
52
Corkwood : BALSA
53
Dinner substitutes : OLEOS
54
Hive member : DRONE
58
Some feds : TMEN
60
Opposed to : ANTI
61
Boxer Spinks : LEON
62
New Year's word : SYNE
64
Time in 65-Down : AFT
65
Want ___ : ADS

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