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New York Times, Wednesday, August 9, 2000

Author:
Kelly Clark
Editor:
Will Shortz
33-Down : Bambi et al.
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
1510/29/19978/12/20161
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1143510
ScrabDebutFresh
1.636530%
Kelly Clark

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 38 Missing: {Q} Spans: 2 This is puzzle # 8 for Ms. Clark. Wednesday freshness: 37%
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© 2000, The New York Times8/9/0 ( No. 18,537 )
Across
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Prefix with sailing : PARA
5
They're made of whole cloth : TALES
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Holiday music? : JAZZ
14
Toward the windless side : ALEE
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___ Island Sound : RHODE
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Blue Bonnet product : OLEO
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Drape holders : RODS
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Company once called Allegheny : USAIR
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Players wear masks for this : EPEE
20
Start of a silly question : IFYOUDONTPAY
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Treeless tract : STEPPE
24
Just enough to wet the lips : SIP
25
Frowning : SAD
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Coat with plaster, say : DAUB
31
Witch's laugh : CACKLE
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Question, part 2 : FORYOUREXORCISM
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Rose's husband, on Broadway : ABIE
39
Nonpareil : GEM
40
Study, and then some : CRAM
41
Question, part 3 : WILLTHERESULTBE
46
"Whoa, ___!" : NELLIE
47
Cozy : SNUG
48
Draft letters : SSS
49
"Yay!" : RAH
51
CNN's Rowland : RHONDA
56
End of the question : REPOSSESSION
59
1986 World Series site : SHEA
62
Indian head, once? : SAHIB
63
Indian head, once : CENT
64
Chicken ___ : KIEV
65
Pontificate : ORATE
66
Clearasil target : ACNE
67
Emerald ___ : ISLE
68
59-Across player, in brief : NYMET
69
Devour, in a way : READ
Down
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Home of L'Express : PARIS
2
Overhead : ALOFT
3
Cover the gray again : REDYE
4
"The Boy Who Cried Wolf" writer : AESOP
5
"Doonesbury" cartoonist : TRUDEAU
6
"I understand," facetiously : AHSO
7
Help during hard times : LOAN
8
Shortens a sentence, maybe : EDITS
9
1973 Pacino blockbuster : SERPICO
10
Funny Bishop : JOEY
11
Chalet site, perhaps : ALP
12
End of a series : ZEE
13
Pulitzer winner Akins : ZOE
21
French twist, e.g. : UPDO
22
On ___ with : APAR
25
Mini, midi or maxi : SKIRT
26
1942 Preakness winner : ALSAB
27
"The Silence of the Lambs" director : DEMME
29
Yen : URGE
30
They may be tossed back : BEERS
32
Multiple of XXXV : CCCL
33
Bambi et al. : FAWNS
34
Awards since 1956 : OBIES
35
Small brooks : RILLS
36
Vociferate : YELL
37
Marvel superheroes : XMEN
42
Poop out : TIRE
43
Loads, as a plate : HEAPSON
44
That the sun will rise in the East, e.g. : SUREBET
45
Terse pans : UGHS
50
Antediluvian : HOARY
52
Half of the Odd Couple : OSCAR
53
Dorothy, to Em : NIECE
54
Fashion's Karan : DONNA
55
Put a stake in a pool : ANTED
56
**** review : RAVE
57
Ersatz : SHAM
58
Yahoo.com, e.g. : SITE
59
Hit the slopes : SKI
60
___ Holiness the Pope : HIS
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It can be shocking : EEL

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