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New York Times, Thursday, July 20, 2000

Author:
Bonnie S. Prystowsky
Editor:
Will Shortz
10-Down : Winner of two Triple Crowns
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
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Bonnie S. Prystowsky

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 36 Missing: {JQVXZ} Spans: 2 This is puzzle # 2 for Ms. Prystowsky. Thursday freshness: 8%
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© 2000, The New York Times7/20/0 ( No. 18,517 )
Across
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Old Jewish scholars : ABBAS
6
Accelerator suffix : TRON
10
Like some museumgoers : ARTY
14
Low place : SWALE
15
Kosovo combatant : SERB
16
Knock around : ROAM
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Travels with Sinbad, in a way : SAILSTHECCCCCCC
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Certain colonist : ANT
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Shadow : TAIL
22
It may precede "mañana" : HASTA
23
Knead-y one? : MASSEUR
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Become disenchanted : SOUR
27
The Beatles and the Dave Clark Five, in a way : TTTTTTGROUPS
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Like a slug : BOGUS
35
Place for portraits : HALL
36
8 pts. : GAL
37
Sign to read : OMEN
38
Chopping firewood, e.g. : CHORE
40
___ breve : ALLA
41
Like Bruckner's Symphony No. 7 : INE
42
Increase sharply : SOAR
43
Super Bowl sight : BLIMP
44
Identical, in a way : LIKEPPINAPOD
48
Bore : DRAG
49
Duchamp's mustachioed Mona Lisa, e.g. : DADAISM
53
Inverted "e" : SCHWA
56
Statistics calculation : MODE
57
Glaswegian's refusal : NAE
58
Gold, frankincense and myrrh, in a way : THEYYYMENSGIFTS
62
Pull down : EARN
63
Fighting : ANTI
64
___ the hole : ACEIN
65
St. Paul's architect : WREN
66
Tree growth : MOSS
67
Yes or no follower : SIREE
Down
1
Black tea source : ASSAM
2
Safari boss : BWANA
3
Prepares to cast : BAITS
4
Word before and after "in" : ALL
5
Sonnet parts : SESTETS
6
Vacation memento, maybe : TSHIRT
7
Tape recorder part : REEL
8
Tolkien beast : ORC
9
"ER" network : NBC
10
Winner of two Triple Crowns : ARCARO
11
Mythical fliers : ROCS
12
Mediator's skill : TACT
13
Disco standard : YMCA
18
Lacking play : TAUT
19
Boorish sort : CHURL
24
Leave slack-jawed : STUN
25
Old phone's lack : STAR
26
Look like a wolf : OGLE
28
Cause of side discomfort? : THORN
29
Wrinkly fruit : UGLI
30
Pilot's place? : PALM
31
Prelude to a duel : SLAP
32
Be het up : BOIL
33
Hawks' former home : OMNI
34
Carnival weirdo : GEEK
38
Nightclub of song : COPA
39
Reagan Cabinet member : HAIG
40
"A New Life" director : ALDA
42
Floral display : SPRAY
43
Barrio businesses : BODEGAS
45
The Perfect Fool : EDWYNN
46
Mythical dreamboat : ADONIS
47
Stationery store purchases : PADS
50
Conclude : INFER
51
"Mercure" composer : SATIE
52
Intervening, in law : MESNE
53
Lather : STEW
54
Blacken : CHAR
55
Epitaph starter : HERE
56
Miracle workers of '69 : METS
59
Verb for Popeye : YAM
60
Telephone trio : MNO
61
French 55-Down : ICI

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