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New York Times, Tuesday, July 31, 2001

Author:
Sarah Keller
Editor:
Will Shortz
48-Down : Financial checks
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
5310/2/200012/21/20203
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021255200
RebusCircleScrabDebutFresh
111.5115617%
Sarah Keller

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 40 Missing: {JVXZ} This is puzzle # 5 for Ms. Keller. Tuesday freshness: 17%
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© 2001, The New York Times7/31/1 ( No. 18,893 )
Across
1
Jazz lick : RIFF
5
Item on a to-do list : TASK
9
Intriguing bunch : CABAL
14
Letters on a cross : INRI
15
Widemouthed jug : OLLA
16
Use a soapbox : ORATE
17
The big house : STIR
18
Churn : MOIL
19
Gets a lift : RIDES
20
Nickname for Leona Helmsley : QUEENOFMEAN
23
Keats praised one : URN
24
Harper's Bazaar illustrator : ERTE
25
Second shot : RETAKE
30
Make beloved : ENDEAR
32
Piled up : AMASSED
33
In no particular key : ATONAL
36
Take seriously : HEED
37
Interstate divider : HIGHWAYMEDIAN
41
Like some exhausts : DUAL
42
Trump Castle employee : DEALER
43
Neighbor of Georgia : ARMENIA
46
Lure into crime : ENTRAP
50
Dynamo part : STATOR
51
Empty spaces : GAPS
53
"___ Gang" : OUR
54
"People Are People" rock group : DEPECHEMODE
57
___ dish (lab vessel) : PETRI
61
This, in Tijuana : ESTA
62
"Jake's Thing" author : AMIS
63
Doughnut-shaped : TORIC
64
Kind of collar : ETON
65
Riga resident : LETT
66
Take potshots (at) : SNIPE
67
Fresh-mouthed : PERT
68
Guesstimate phrase : ORSO
Down
1
Suggestive : RISQUE
2
Sequentially : INTURN
3
Quaker : FRIEND
4
Send packing : FIRE
5
It's another day : TOMORROW
6
In flight : ALOFT
7
Gunk : SLIME
8
Curly cabbage : KALE
9
Eye bank donation : CORNEA
10
Meyers of "Kate & Allie" : ARI
11
Good, in the 'hood : BAD
12
Broke a fast : ATE
13
Brown of renown : LES
21
Poet's "below" : NEATH
22
It stays by your side : ARM
26
Summer top : TSHIRT
27
Out of port : ASEA
28
Wail like a banshee : KEEN
29
Announcer Hall : EDD
31
Aerie hatchling : EAGLET
32
Soprano Gluck : ALMA
34
Nothin' : NADA
35
Yeoman's yes : AYE
37
On the disabled list : HURT
38
"___ Camera" : IAMA
39
Seuss's Horton, for one : ELEPHANT
40
Not the brightest bulb on the tree : DENSE
41
Courtroom V.I.P.'s : DAS
44
"Ixnay!" : NODICE
45
Spleen : IRE
47
B & B patron : ROOMER
48
Financial checks : AUDITS
49
Magic word : PRESTO
51
"Beau ___" : GESTE
52
Oscar contender : ACTOR
55
"Don't make a ___!" : PEEP
56
Saint-___ (French seaport) : MALO
57
Quart divs. : PTS
58
Seemingly forever : EON
59
Part of TNT : TRI
60
Dead letters? : RIP

Answer summary:
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