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New York Times, Monday, June 16, 2003

Author:
Norma Johnson
Editor:
Will Shortz
47-Down : Gets rid of dust bunnies
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79/2/20027/3/20073
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Norma Johnson

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 38 Missing: {FQVXZ} This is puzzle # 3 for Ms. Johnson. Monday freshness: 43%
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© 2003, The New York Times6/16/3 ( No. 19,578 )
Across
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Hollywood snooper Hopper : HEDDA
6
Brought to bay : TREED
11
Winter hrs. in St. Louis : CST
14
French cinema star Delon : ALAIN
15
Therefore : HENCE
16
Confederate soldier, for short : REB
17
Get on board : JOINTHECLUB
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Mentalist Geller : URI
20
Pub perch : STOOL
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Early ___ (one up at 6 a.m., say) : RISER
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Nevada town : ELY
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"Sweet Caroline" singer : NEILDIAMOND
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"___ Like It Hot" : SOME
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Soup eater's need : SPOON
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Vegetables that roll : PEAS
33
Teacher's charges : CLASS
35
Designer ___ de la Renta : OSCAR
37
Game show originally hosted by Monty Hall : LETSMAKEADEAL
42
Opposite of fronts : REARS
43
From east of the Urals : ASIAN
45
Pet protectors' org. : SPCA
48
Bloodhound's clue : SCENT
51
Spanish girl: Abbr. : SRTA
52
1990 road film starring Nicolas Cage and Laura Dern : WILDATHEART
55
With it, 50's-style : HEP
56
N.B.A.'s Shaq : ONEAL
57
Bullwinkle, for one : MOOSE
59
Genetic info dispenser : RNA
60
Planter's tool : GARDENSPADE
66
Room with an easy chair : DEN
67
Online letter : EMAIL
68
West Pointer : CADET
69
Radical 60's campus grp. : SDS
70
Slender and long-limbed : RANGY
71
Befuddled : ATSEA
Down
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Muslim pilgrimage : HAJ
2
"Xanadu" rock grp. : ELO
3
Li'l Abner's love : DAISYMAE
4
Force : DINT
5
Writer Chekhov : ANTON
6
Nickname for Leo Durocher : THELIP
7
___ room (site for a Ping-Pong table) : REC
8
Photo blow-up: Abbr. : ENL
9
Antique French coin : ECU
10
Actress Winger : DEBRA
11
Literary castaway : CRUSOE
12
Venus's sister on the courts : SERENA
13
Sporty Fords, informally : TBIRDS
18
Weed whackers : HOES
22
Awe : IMPRESS
23
Computer key: Abbr. : ESC
24
Laze : LOLL
26
Peek : LOOKSEE
27
Amount of medicine : DOSE
28
Peruvian Indian : INCA
30
Erik who played Ponch on TV : ESTRADA
34
NNW's opposite : SSE
36
Nabokov novel : ADA
38
A crow's-nest is atop it : MAST
39
Keystone site : ARCH
40
Bubblebrains : AIRHEADS
41
Missing a deadline : LATE
44
Quick shuteye : NAP
45
Musketeers' weapons : SWORDS
46
Fastened (down) : PINNED
47
Gets rid of dust bunnies : CLEANS
49
To wit : NAMELY
50
1982 Jeff Bridges film : TRON
53
Author Horatio : ALGER
54
Raven-haired Puccini heroine : TOSCA
58
Lover's quarrel : SPAT
61
Doctors' org. : AMA
62
Did a marathon : RAN
63
Unkind remark : DIG
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Fiddle-de-___ : DEE
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Airport posting: Abbr. : ETA

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