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New York Times, Monday, October 18, 2004

Author:
Steve Kahn
Editor:
Will Shortz
20-Across : Hammed it up
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
77/22/200312/16/20072
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CircleScrabbleFresh
11.5326%
Steve Kahn

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 36 Missing: {JQX} Grid has both 90- and 180-degree symmetry. Puzzle has duplicate clues. This is puzzle # 4 for Mr. Kahn. Monday freshness: 43%
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© 2004, The New York Times10/18/4 ( No. 20,068 )
Across
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How ham may be served in a sandwich : ONRYE
6
Popular kitchen wrap : SARAN
11
Tiny bit, as of hair cream : DAB
14
Oscar Mayer product : BACON
15
Skip to the altar : ELOPE
16
Bill Joel's "___ to Extremes" : IGO
17
The Bard : SHAKESPEARE
19
Judges administer it : LAW
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Hammed it up : EMOTED
21
Thick urban air condition : SMAZE
23
City where "Ulysses" is set : DUBLIN
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Item carried by a dog walker : SCOOPER
28
Columbus sch. : OSU
29
"Mona Lisa" features that "follow" the viewer : EYES
32
Years, to Cicero : ANNI
33
Large bays : GULFS
35
PIN points : ATMS
37
Concept : IDEA
40
Shopping ___ : MALL
41
Theme of this puzzle : FRUIT
42
Shopping ___ : CART
43
___ Romeo (Italian car) : ALFA
44
G.M. car : OLDS
45
Birth-related : NATAL
46
Ancient South American : INCA
48
Meditative exercises : YOGA
50
Spanish "that" : ESA
51
Lions and tigers and bears : BIGGAME
54
Stage comments to the audience : ASIDES
56
Alternative : OTHER
57
Safes : VAULTS
60
Turncoat : RAT
61
Very scary : HAIRRAISING
66
Spanish cheer : OLE
67
Synthetic fiber : ORLON
68
Continental money : EUROS
69
Neither's partner : NOR
70
Mexican money : PESOS
71
Gaucho's rope : REATA
Down
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Delivery room docs, for short : OBS
2
"I don't think so" : NAH
3
Major TV brand : RCA
4
Bumpkin : YOKEL
5
Foes : ENEMIES
6
Equinox mo. : SEPT
7
Out of the wind, at sea : ALEE
8
All of them lead to Rome, they say : ROADS
9
Tax mo. : APR
10
Liam of "Schindler's List" : NEESON
11
Rundown : DILAPIDATED
12
Staring : AGAZE
13
Shady garden spot : BOWER
18
Major TV brand : SONY
22
One of the friends on "Friends" : MONICA
23
Bedrock belief : DOGMA
24
Commonplace : USUAL
25
Waver of a red cape : BULLFIGHTER
27
Throw, as dice : CAST
30
Count's counterpart : EARL
31
Pore over : STUDY
34
Projecting rim on a pipe : FLANGE
36
Japanese soup : MISO
38
Wipe out : ERASE
39
World book : ATLAS
41
Pillow filler : FOAM
45
Not as nice : NASTIER
47
Drive-in restaurant server : CARHOP
49
Grand party : GALA
51
Element with the symbol B : BORON
52
Author Calvino : ITALO
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Lesser of two ___ : EVILS
55
It's debatable : ISSUE
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Suffix with buck : AROO
59
Big coffee holders : URNS
62
With 64-Down, reply to "Am too!" : ARE
63
Tax adviser's recommendation, for short : IRA
64
See 62-Down : NOT
65
Fed. property overseer : GSA

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