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New York Times, Friday, September 25, 1998

Author:
Mark Blakeburn
Editor:
Will Shortz
12-Down : Well
TotalDebutLatest
58/6/19919/25/1998
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ScrabDebutPre‑WSFresh
1.548472%
Mark Blakeburn

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 70, Blocks: 38 Missing: {FJWXZ} This is puzzle # 5 for Mr. Blakeburn. Friday freshness: 34%
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© 1998, The New York Times9/25/98 ( No. 17,853 )
Across
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Did a Little bit : APED
5
Streamliner segment : BAGGAGECAR
15
Rex's sleuth : NERO
16
Beryl variety : AQUAMARINE
17
Kit Carson's home : TAOS
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They may have designs on you : TATTOOISTS
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Little on the end? : ETTE
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23-Across ingredient : BEER
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E.R. A.S.A.P. : STAT
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___ sunt (poetic motif) : UBI
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Pub quaff : SHANDY
25
Word used before now : ERE
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Pennsylvania's ___ Mountains : POCONO
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Like farmland : ACRED
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Social butterfly : GADABOUT
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Movers' inventory : VANS
35
The Virginia and the Monitor, e.g. : IRONSIDES
37
Irate reaction : RISE
39
Opens, e.g. : TOURNEYS
42
Breeds : SORTS
43
"Another Time" poet and family : AUDENS
45
Journal addendum? : ESE
46
STP target : SLUDGE
50
Conciliatory gift : SOP
51
Precipitate : RASH
53
Portrayer of WKRP's Jennifer : LONI
54
Part of P.R. : RICO
55
Turning away : ALIENATING
58
AOL logo, e.g. : ICON
59
Having a foot fault? : PIGEONTOED
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Tattled : SANG
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They may be done on a beam : HANDSTANDS
62
Scrape site : KNEE
Down
1
Dealer's directive : ANTEUP
2
Fertilizer source : PEATBOG
3
A nice word for dirt? : EROTICA
4
Capsule contents : DOSE
5
Swinger's club : BAT
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Mideast's Gulf of ___ : AQABA
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"___ Tag!" : GUTEN
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Like heaven's entrance : GATED
9
"The Cat and the Curmudgeon" author : AMORY
10
Auditing agcy. : GAO
11
Discordia's Greek counterpart : ERIS
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Well : CISTERN
13
Southern Hemisphere supergiant : ANTARES
14
Ready to play again : RESTED
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Gets game : SNARES
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"Rolling stone" : HOBO
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Wordsworth, for one : ODIST
28
Way to go : AVENUE
29
Sized up : CASED
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N.Y. neighbor : ONT
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Private club, for short? : USO
33
English war god : TIU
36
Aerodynamic force : DRAG
37
Patron saint of Palermo : ROSALIA
38
Defeatist declaration : IRESIGN
40
Non-defeatist declaration : YESICAN
41
Italian ice alternative : SNOCONE
42
Part of an angelic host : SERAPH
44
Kind of cake : SPONGE
46
Way of looking at things : SLANT
47
"Little" girl of old comics : LOTTA
48
Student ___ : UNION
49
Made it through crunch time? : DINED
52
Observe : HEED
54
Underwriter's concern : RISK
56
Our, in Orléans : NOS
57
Mdse. : GDS

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