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New York Times, Tuesday, July 4, 2000

Author:
Tyler Hinman
Editor:
Will Shortz
42-Down : Drawers
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
227/4/20003/31/20115
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
2163334
CircleScrabDebutFresh
11.6013148%
Tyler Hinman

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 38 Missing: {JQV} This is the debut puzzle for Mr. Hinman. Tuesday freshness: 9%
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© 2000, The New York Times7/4/0 ( No. 18,501 )
Across
1
Bit of parsley : SPRIG
6
Go crazy, slangily : FLIP
10
"Woe is me!" : ALAS
14
Historical 1960 John Wayne film, with "The" : ALAMO
15
Bit : IOTA
16
Hardly the life of the party : BORE
17
Headline about lightning hitting a landfill? : DUMPSTRUCK
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1996 also-ran : DOLE
20
Psychic's claim : ESP
21
See 2-Down : SUM
22
Get, as an idea : HITUPON
24
Gets ore : MINES
26
Jiffy : SEC
27
Child punishment tool? : THEPARENTSTRAP
33
Afrikaners : BOERS
34
"Cool!" : NEAT
35
Noted 1964 convert to Islam : ALI
36
Character : ROLE
37
Offspring : SPAWN
39
Assist a writer : EDIT
40
The Braves, on scoreboards : ATL
41
Aberdeen native : SCOT
42
First sign of spring : ARIES
43
What the Little Engine That Could experienced? : CHOOCHOOSTRAIN
47
Leader in a 1972 summit meeting with Nixon : MAO
48
Scarlett's third : RHETT
49
Garden pavilions : GAZEBOS
53
Faulkner's "___ Lay Dying" : ASI
54
Pub quaff : ALE
57
Skating jump : AXEL
58
Student who plays hooky at noon? : LUNCHSTRAY
61
Pro or con : SIDE
62
Actor Estrada : ERIK
63
Bale binder : TWINE
64
"Hey!" : PSST
65
TV rooms : DENS
66
Ice cream drinks : SODAS
Down
1
Marquis de ___ : SADE
2
Sign used in a 21-Across : PLUS
3
Alternative to steps : RAMP
4
Mischief-maker : IMP
5
Spreads rumors : GOSSIPS
6
Less flexible : FIRMER
7
"Mambo No. 5" singer ___ Bega : LOU
8
Yen : ITCH
9
Islamabad's country : PAKISTAN
10
Take into a flying saucer, say : ABDUCT
11
Roller coaster part : LOOP
12
Folk singer Guthrie : ARLO
13
Viewed : SEEN
18
Bluefin, e.g. : TUNA
23
New driver's hurdle : TEST
24
Simple : MERE
25
Gramm or Grams : SENATOR
27
Wisdom ___ : TOOTH
28
"You there?" : HELLO
29
Right from the factory : NEW
30
r's, in geometry : RADII
31
Not of this world : ALIEN
32
They may be bottomless : PITS
33
Bric-a-___ : BRAC
37
Taught : SCHOOLED
38
Nanki-___ of "The Mikado" : POO
39
Part of Q.E.D. : ERAT
41
Wound cover : SCAB
42
Drawers : ARTISTS
44
Egg dish : OMELET
45
Not the finest homes : SHACKS
46
Musician John : TESH
49
[You don't mean THAT!] : GASP
50
Allies' foe : AXIS
51
Last letters, in England : ZEDS
52
Positive : SURE
54
Like a desert : ARID
55
Actress Turner : LANA
56
Snake ___ (60-Down) : EYES
59
Writer Anaïs : NIN
60
See 56-Down : TWO

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4 unique to this puzzle, 2 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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