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New York Times, Thursday, September 14, 2000

Author:
Joe DiPietro
Editor:
Will Shortz
9-Down : Gear with a small number of teeth
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331.591,23673%
Joe DiPietro

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 72, Blocks: 36 Missing: {FJQXZ} Spans: 1 This is puzzle # 38 for Mr. DiPietro. Thursday freshness: 23%
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© 2000, The New York Times9/14/0 ( No. 18,573 )
Across
1
Stupido : INANE
6
Per : APOP
10
Mountain ___ : BIKE
14
Big band? : NONET
15
California's ___ Valley : SIMI
16
City on the Oka : OREL
17
Head, jocularly : ATTIC
18
They have whiplike tails : STINGRAYS
20
Truck stop : WEIGHSTATION
22
Forgo : ESCHEW
23
"Moonlight" and "Farewell" : SONATAS
27
Very distant, as space : DEEP
30
Prove wrong : NEGATE
31
Snow showers? : TVS
34
Bullets, to bettors : ACES
36
Mideast port : BASRA
37
"C'est la vie" : THATSTHEWAYITIS
40
Secret language : ARGOT
41
Orbital path, usually : OVAL
42
2.4-mil. member union : NEA
43
Got back together : REUNED
45
Silents star Jannings : EMIL
47
Child of the cartoons : SWEEPEA
49
Put under : GASSED
54
Nursery rhyme meal : CURDSANDWHEY
57
Heading maintainer : AUTOPILOT
60
Pick up : LEARN
61
Word with black or fire : OPAL
62
Queen abandoned by Aeneas : DIDO
63
"Frasier" dog : EDDIE
64
Sort : KIND
65
"Voice of Israel" author : EBAN
66
California's Point ___ : REYES
Down
1
Very impressed : INAWE
2
Speaker's 3 x 5 cards, e.g. : NOTES
3
Caper : ANTIC
4
Ask for hay, say? : NEIGH
5
Deeply embedded : ETCHED
6
Like some coaches: Abbr. : ASST
7
Hummus holder, maybe : PITA
8
Leaves undone : OMITS
9
Gear with a small number of teeth : PINION
10
Renewed : BORNAGAIN
11
Portfolio part, for short : IRA
12
E or G, e.g. : KEY
13
Golfer Ernie : ELS
19
Passed : GONEBY
21
Exertion : SWEAT
24
Enough to wet one's lips : TASTE
25
Some hotel lobbies : ATRIA
26
Limitless quantities : SEAS
28
Repeat : ECHO
29
Something to complain about : PEEVE
31
Confused, informally : THREW
32
Hard to pin down : VAGUE
33
No longer warm : STONECOLD
35
Stroked : SWAM
37
Swabbies : TARS
38
Promotion : STEPUP
39
Adjust : ALIGN
44
Mock : DERIDE
46
Soup kitchen worker : LADLER
48
Impromptu : ADLIB
50
Person from Malmö : SWEDE
51
Like a con artist's business : SHADY
52
Mysterious : EERIE
53
Force units : DYNES
55
Pop : SODA
56
Immensely : ATON
57
Perfect : AOK
58
News letters : UPI
59
Acquisition for some vacationers : TAN

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