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New York Times, Tuesday, July 13, 1999

Author:
Brendan Emmett Quigley
Editor:
Will Shortz
2-Down : Beehive
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531.631,16472%
Brendan Emmett Quigley

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 36 Missing: {QXZ} Spans: 1 This is puzzle # 31 for Mr. Quigley. Tuesday freshness: 36%
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© 1999, The New York Times7/13/99 ( No. 18,144 )
Across
1
Slender-waisted insect : WASP
5
Pilot's spot : HELM
9
River of central Germany : EDER
13
"...baked in ___" : APIE
14
Plane measure : AREA
15
Soprano Tetrazzini : LUISA
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Rub the wrong way : RILE
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Party pooper : DRAG
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Torcher's misdeed : ARSON
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Natural antidepressant : SAINTJOHNSWORT
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Compass doodle : ARC
23
Driveway blotch : OIL
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Hold title to : OWN
25
Atmospheric prefix : AER
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Lawman Earp : WYATT
29
Diplomat Deane : SILAS
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Before, to bards : ERE
32
Sleazy paper : RAG
34
Douglas ___ : FIR
35
Smooth-talking : GLIB
36
Tony Kushner play of 1993 : ANGELSINAMERICA
41
"Listen!" : HARK
42
Popular card game : UNO
43
___-Cat : SNO
44
Gift-wrapping time, for some : EVE
45
Ancient Britons : PICTS
47
"Whistle While You Work" singer : DWARF
51
Time div. : MIN
52
___ glance : ATA
53
Big bird : EMU
55
"That's incredible!" : GEE
56
Raymond Massey film of 1945 : GODISMYCOPILOT
60
Sword : SABER
61
Biblical birthright seller : ESAU
62
Wholly absorbed : RAPT
63
Oversized library volume : ATLAS
64
Actor Auberjonois : RENE
65
Baseball's Hershiser : OREL
66
Rind : PEEL
67
Liberal pursuits : ARTS
68
Hawaii's state bird : NENE
Down
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1955 pact city : WARSAW
2
Beehive : APIARY
3
Quartz material : SILICA
4
Hammer part : PEEN
5
Pilgrim to Mecca : HADJI
6
Flynn and others : ERROLS
7
Jacob's first wife : LEAH
8
Plantation bloom : MAGNOLIA
9
Prefix with centric : EURO
10
P.M. before Gladstone : DISRAELI
11
Abstruse : ESOTERIC
12
Campaigned : RAN
15
Landscapers' concerns : LAWNS
20
General Mills brand : TOTAL
21
Groups of bees : SWARMS
26
Singer McEntire : REBA
28
Boer migration : TREK
30
"Otherwise..." : IFNOT
33
NASA outfits : GSUITS
35
Cultivate : GROW
36
"Excuse me" : AHEM
37
Handle the maps : NAVIGATE
38
1968 Winter Olympics site : GRENOBLE
39
Privately : INCAMERA
40
Eventually become : ENDUP
45
Skating event : PAIRS
46
Trigonometry ratio : SECANT
48
Staring fiercely : AGLARE
49
Go back into business : REOPEN
50
In fine ___ (fit) : FETTLE
54
Pouts : MOUES
57
"Agreed!" : DEAL
58
River of Flanders : YSER
59
Much of the earth's core : IRON
60
Easy dupe : SAP

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