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New York Times, Thursday, June 13, 2002

Author:
David J. Kahn
Editor:
Will Shortz
36-Down : Not boldly
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1893/15/19944/22/20245
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16241.551,23753%
David J. Kahn

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 40 Missing: {KXZ} This is puzzle # 86 for Mr. Kahn. Thursday freshness: 11%
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© 2002, The New York Times6/13/2 ( No. 19,210 )
Across
1
Dr. Seuss character : CAT
4
Class-conscious grps.? : PTAS
8
Stops on ___ : ADIME
13
Fruity coolers : ADES
15
Kind of hour : RUSH
16
Electrician, at times : WIRER
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It dissolves in H2O : NACL
18
Novel ending? : ETTE
19
Town in a war novel : ADANO
20
Muslim honorific : AGHA
21
Compensation (+) : QUIDPROQUO
23
City in eastern China, onetime Nationalist headquarters : PENGPU
25
Sullivan and O'Neill : EDS
26
That, in Tijuana : ESO
27
Eliminate the potholes in, say : REPAVE
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Chipper : GAY
34
Spicy dish (-) : CHILICONCARNE
38
James ___ Garfield : ABRAM
40
Co. in a big 2001 merger : AOL
41
Harbingers : OMENS
42
Cast Stallone as a doctor, say (-) : GOAGAINSTTYPE
45
Nosh : EAT
46
Feature of a manx cat : NOTAIL
47
Pinch : NIP
50
Perched : SAT
52
Go-getter : DYNAMO
54
Show elation (+) : JUMPFORJOY
60
Advil target : ACHE
61
"Middlemarch" novelist : ELIOT
62
Arizona snake dancers : HOPI
63
Brisk movement : TROT
64
___ nous : ENTRE
65
Cooker : OVEN
66
Rig : SEMI
67
Film board member : RATER
68
Rat : SING
69
Not sweet : SEC
Down
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Party offering : CANAPE
2
Truisms : ADAGES
3
Managerial type : TECHNOCRAT
4
"The Godfather, Part II," e.g. : PREQUEL
5
1984 Peace Nobelist : TUTU
6
Italian province next to Torino : ASTI
7
Got rid of : SHED
8
Peabody or Polk : AWARD
9
Antics : DIDOS
10
Home of some Kurds : IRAQ
11
Children's ___ : MENU
12
Suffix with sock : EROO
14
Smelting waste : SLAG
22
Hammer part : PEEN
24
Bandleader Louis : PRIMA
28
Word with roll or bar : PIANO
29
At ___ (with repercussions) : ACOST
30
Inventor of the electric battery : VOLTA
31
Popular 1960's sitcom : GREENACRES
32
Miller of Hollywood : ANN
33
"Sounds good to me" : YES
35
One who might crack a mirror : HAG
36
Not boldly : COYLY
37
Sound carrier : AMP
38
Bronze ___ : AGE
39
Fancy wrap : BOA
43
Studying closely : INTO
44
Spiffing (up) : TIDYING
48
Returnee's cry : IMHOME
49
Kind of license : POETIC
50
Germ : SPORE
51
Following : AFTER
53
Writer Hentoff and others : NATS
54
Catcall : JEER
55
It runs down the arm : ULNA
56
Hand holder : MITT
57
Fraternity letters : RHOS
58
Rock's Bon ___ : JOVI
59
Uncap : OPEN

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