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New York Times, Thursday, September 16, 1999

Author:
Bill Ballard
Editor:
Will Shortz
39-Down : Is in a slump?
TotalDebutLatest
102/24/19984/13/2004
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ScrabDebutFresh
1.573620%
Bill Ballard

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 72, Blocks: 36 Missing: {JQX} Spans: 2 This is puzzle # 5 for Mr. Ballard. Thursday freshness: 68%
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© 1999, The New York Times9/16/99 ( No. 18,209 )
Across
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Sleeper's woe : APNEA
6
Cyrillic alphabet user : SERB
10
Hunky-dory : AOK
13
Rundown area : GHETTO
15
Fiber-yielding plant : ALOE
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Year in Nero's reign : LVI
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Corn and squash at a roadside farm stand? : ROUTEVEGETABLES
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Pollen producer : STAMEN
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Presidents, at times : VETOERS
22
Y.M.C.A. class : CPR
23
Norton Sound port : NOME
25
Eye rakishly : OGLE
26
Tyler and Taylor, for two : WHIGS
29
Like some Mass parts : SUNG
31
Custodian's collection : KEYS
32
"Bus Stop" star, 1956 : MONROE
34
Stiff-upper-lip type : STOIC
36
Prize-winning students of traffic patterns? : ROADSSCHOLARS
40
Like most horoscopes : NATAL
41
Make potable, in a way : DESALT
43
It may be revolving or sinking : FUND
46
Yellow spread : OLEO
48
Cervantes title : SENOR
49
Libido : EROS
50
"The jig ___!" : ISUP
52
Go a-courting? : SUE
53
Trunk part : ABDOMEN
56
Ram's or bull's place : ZODIAC
59
Kings who dropped from the heavens? : RAININGMONARCHS
62
Abbr. at the bottom of a business letter : ENC
63
Cinematographer Nykvist : SVEN
64
Twister : SNAKER
65
Low mark : DEE
66
Apprentice : TYRO
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Painter's plaster : GESSO
Down
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Cabinet Dept. : AGR
2
Computer screen coating : PHOSPHOR
3
Particle name coined by Enrico Fermi : NEUTRINO
4
Female name ending : ETTA
5
"Up and ___!" : ATEM
6
Have a swayback : SAG
7
Amendment construing judicial powers : ELEVENTH
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Some learning : ROTE
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Kerouac, e.g. : BEAT
10
Claim : ALLEGE
11
Too : OVERLY
12
Some chocolates : KISSES
14
Dutch ___ : OVEN
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Son of Seth : ENOS
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Atlas's locale : BOOKCASE
22
Welsh valley : CWM
24
Hamstrings and others : MUSCLES
27
III : GRANDSON
28
Kind of water : SODA
30
Philanthropy : GOOD
33
___ perpetua (Idaho's motto) : ESTO
35
St. Pierre et Miquelon : ILES
37
Caulfield's creator : SALINGER
38
Turns inside out : RANSACKS
39
Is in a slump? : SLOUCHES
42
Cremona crowd? : TRE
43
Like ogres : FEARED
44
Suave : URBANE
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"Fuhgeddaboudit!" : NODICE
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Greek liqueur : OUZO
51
Diva Lily : PONS
54
Waterfall phenomenon : MIST
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"___ slayeth the silly one": Job : ENVY
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"Shoot!" : DANG
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"Dies ___" : IRAE
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Telephone trio : MNO
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B'way posting : SRO

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 2 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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