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Mel Taub
Mel Taub

NY Times, Sun, Apr 02, 2000 PUNS AND ANAGRAMS

55-Across : A mass of land in India

Author:
Mel Taub
Editor:
Will Shortz
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 70, Blocks: 34
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© 2000, The New York Times
Across
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They're served at spas : PASTAS
7
One switching from milk to hot dog, say : WEANER
13
Oust cat : CASTOUT
14
Like a furious grandee : ENRAGED
16
Enhances impulse? Swell! : UPSURGE
17
Like milk in a closet : LACTOSE
18
Moose, oddly : MOE
19
Land on a high plane : NEPAL
21
Begin with Stein : SETIN
22
Like Derek, with nurse, on 11/20/56 : BORN
24
Cuff ___ (sreeve fastener) : RINK
25
Infamous name of one princess : IDI
26
How to deter poets : ESTOP
28
She wrote of the middle innings : NIN
29
Its use is as a publication : ISSUE
31
Newspaper columnist with toners : RESTON
33
How much Russian planes cost? : MIGRATES
35
Though solo, I ain't in seclusion : ISOLATION
37
Band appearing in Berle act : BRACELET
40
Is ESPN critic known for these? : SNIPES
44
High prices for them give car owners the blues : LUBES
45
Folk of Virginia : NOR
47
Something hidden about succotash : STASH
48
Yak follower : IMA
49
Talking horse that's an M.D.? : DRED
51
Where Macy plays basketball : YMCA
52
1,000 cheers : MOLES
55
A mass of land in India : ASSAM
57
What baby trees call Lars : POP
58
Axiom in R.V. probe : PROVERB
60
Shelving made from a tree, e.g. : ETAGERE
62
It's a long way from Los Angeles : SENEGAL
63
Where 500 steers get thirsty : DESERTS
64
De musical sign : DENOTE
65
Female donkey? : ASSESS
Down
1
Oppose a child : PAPOOSE
2
Tries to stress a point : ASSERTS
3
He's stuck without Casey : STU
4
How to begin a do : TORN
5
It's boring to argue : AUGER
6
Enter 10 + pi + 1/3 of 6 : STEPIN
7
Kent will be connected : WELLKNIT
8
She'll go from Genoa : ENA
9
Curved scar lines : ARCS
10
Give him a 10 : NATE
11
His aim is to get recognition : EGOTIST
12
Leftovers that are used, i.e. : RESIDUE
13
Curb me : CUMBER
15
Repudiates, as one needs : DENIES
20
It's a Roman Disney team : ANIMATORS
23
Like H20 above 32 degrees : NOTICE
27
Earns a few pesos from Dali : POSES
29
Clubs? No, sir! : IRONS
30
It's any sound condition : SANITY
32
Lon is up in Cambodia : NOL
34
Soldiers sending up a short signal : GIS
36
Like Edna Bell, in the opinion of a loan officer : LENDABLE
37
B has a bad leg : BLIMPS
38
Bruited about tales o' murder : RUMORED
39
41
Theses about 1,000 diapers : PAMPERS
42
They accompany Ross, etc. : ESCORTS
43
Corporeal phases : SHAPES
46
Erased a suburb of L.A. : RESEDA
50
Sated with fruit : DATES
53
Adam 'n' ___ Cain 'n' Abel : EVEN
54
It goes with a lily : SEGO
56
Sam's near Vt. : MASS
59
Chet's beginning : RAT
61
Put this on a bun : GEE
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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