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New York Times, Saturday, June 5, 1999

Author:
Rich Norris
Editor:
Will Shortz
54-Down : Editor's mark
TotalDebutLatest
1894/27/19948/3/2024
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RebusScrabDebutFresh
31.571,11574%
Rich Norris

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 70, Blocks: 29 Missing: {GWZ} This is puzzle # 104 for Mr. Norris. Saturday freshness: 30%
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© 1999, The New York Times6/5/99 ( No. 18,106 )
Across
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Prepare to fight : SQUAREOFF
10
Compensate : ATONE
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Arch : CURVATURE
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Big house : MANOR
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Steals, slangily : LIBERATES
18
Circus site : ARENA
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Actress Le Gallienne : EVA
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Chevets : APSES
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Jewelry pieces : STUDS
22
Ripped : RENT
24
Where to get down : EIDER
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Hit with unwanted messages : SPAM
27
Departments : AREAS
29
Guys : DUDES
31
More, in music : PIU
32
Antibiotic target : STREP
34
Three-time A.B.A. champs : PACERS
36
More active : BUSIER
38
Strain : MELODY
39
State bordering Arizona : SONORA
40
Blows : JOLTS
41
Experienced, as a pro : OLD
42
It may be saved at the bar : STOOL
44
Protective garment : SMOCK
48
Print, maybe : CLUE
50
Son of Jacob : ASHER
52
City captured by Allied forces, November 1942 : ORAN
53
Douses : KILLS
55
Chimu destroyers : INCAS
57
In advance of : ERE
58
Ennoble : EXALT
59
Scholastic : EDUCATIVE
61
Eliza Doolittle, for one : TUTEE
62
Ideal, ideally : ROLEMODEL
63
Drained : SPENT
64
Is dizzy : SEESSTARS
Down
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Eye piece? : SCLERA
2
Where to pick up some pointers? : QUIVER
3
Debonair : URBANE
4
Fifth, e.g.: Abbr. : AVE
5
Extraordinary, in a phrase : RARA
6
Military camp : ETAPE
7
Nonmember : OUTSIDER
8
Disentangled : FREEDUP
9
Owned (up) : FESSED
10
Conjugation lesson word : AMAS
11
Hardly prim sorts : TARTS
12
Outdid : ONEUPPED
13
Like some diets : NONDAIRY
14
"Colloquia" author : ERASMUS
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Liszt symphonic poem : TASSO
25
Keep off : REPEL
28
Uproars : STIRS
30
Sea dogs : SALTS
33
Lariat : REATA
35
Popular Hearst mag : COSMO
36
Ruin : BOLLIXUP
37
Make waves : UNDULATE
38
Tiny bit : MOLECULE
39
Places to make connections? : SOCKETS
40
Legal anonym : JOHNDOE
43
Wicker sources : OSIERS
45
Food company owned by H. J. Heinz : OREIDA
46
Thanksgiving V.I.P. : CARVER
47
Shows respect, in a way : KNEELS
49
Groundbreaking sitcom : ELLEN
51
Campaigns : RACES
54
Editor's mark : STET
56
Dangers to military planes : SAMS
60
Kid : TOT

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