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New York Times, Tuesday, December 7, 1999

Author:
Norman S. Wizer
Editor:
Will Shortz
News bit from a supermarket tabloid
TotalDebutLatest
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1.50631834%
Norman S. Wizer

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 74, Blocks: 36 Missing: {JQVZ} This is puzzle # 31 for Mr. Wizer. Tuesday freshness: 79%
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© 1999, The New York Times12/7/99 ( No. 18,291 )
Across
1
Give and take : SWAP
5
There are three in a tbs. : TSPS
9
Record player : PHONO
14
Rhine feeder : AARE
15
___ monde (high society) : HAUT
16
News bit from a supermarket tabloid : RUMOR
17
Boar : WILDSWINE
19
Boredom : ENNUI
20
Impassive : STOICAL
21
Ham comedian's ploy : MUGGING
23
Painter of the Barbizon School : COROT
25
Sigma follower : TAU
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English county : SHIRE
33
Spot for a sweat bead : PORE
34
Puzzle doer, apparently : YOU
35
Mah-jongg piece : TILE
36
Completely off drugs : CLEAN
38
Pillow filler : DOWN
39
It might help wash down a banger : ALE
40
Miscellanies : ANAS
41
___ a fiddle : FITAS
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Dead-on : APT
47
Belief : TENET
48
Requests for quiet : SHUSHES
52
Ordinarily : ASARULE
56
Main stream : AORTA
57
Boer : AFRIKANER
59
Cream cheese base : BAGEL
60
Velvet spread : PALL
61
"So long!" : CIAO
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Make, as an effort : EXERT
63
Eyelid swelling : STYE
64
Reproaches : TSKS
Down
1
They go back and forth in the woods : SAWS
2
"Hold on!" : WAIT
3
Guthrie with a guitar : ARLO
4
Treat for the feet : PEDICURE
5
Foil : THWART
6
Jack-tar : SAILOR
7
Wit's end? : PUN
8
Florist's unit : STEM
9
Like some sports programs : PREGAME
10
Put down the phone : HUNGUP
11
Prefix with present : OMNI
12
Sentence starter : NOUN
13
Not a copy: Abbr. : ORIG
18
Teatime treat : SCONE
22
180, so to speak : UTURN
24
Like the text on proof sheets : TYPESET
26
Kind of sauce : CHILI
27
Ship from Valdez : OILER
28
Jungle danger : BOA
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Former capital of Japan : KYOTO
30
Hawkeye : IOWAN
31
Women with vows : NUNS
32
Photo finish? : STAT
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$100 bill : CNOTE
37
Hasty escape : LAM
38
Preoccupy : DISTRACT
40
Garage surface : ASPHALT
41
Sideshow attraction : FREAK
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Egg rolling time : EASTER
44
Lustrously white : PEARLY
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Provide storage for forage : ENSILE
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Kemo ___ : SABE
49
Put-on : HOAX
50
Itch : URGE
51
Easy dupes : SAPS
53
Les États-___ : UNIS
54
Reporter's news source : LEAK
55
Love child : EROS
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Blubber : FAT

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

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