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New York Times, Wednesday, March 11, 1998

Author:
Bette Sue Cohen
Editor:
Will Shortz
9-Across : Moola
TotalDebutLatest
473/30/19784/4/2007
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109712612
RebusScrabblePre‑WSFresh
31.524128%
Bette Sue Cohen

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 38 Missing: {JKQ} Spans: 4 This is puzzle # 45 for Ms. Cohen. Wednesday freshness: 23%
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F
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© 1998, The New York Times3/11/98 ( No. 17,655 )
Across
1
King Tut's favorite card game? : FARO
5
Bilko and York: Abbr. : SGTS
9
Moola : BREAD
14
Visa rival : AMEX
15
Cow's flyswatter : TAIL
16
Split, old-style : REAVE
17
Gimlet garnish : LIME
18
As to : INRE
19
___-ski : APRES
20
"St. John the Baptist" painter : LEONARDODAVINCI
23
"Come again?" : HUH
24
Outlaw : BAN
25
"Six Characters in Search of an Author" dramatist : LUIGIPIRANDELLO
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Dole out : ALLOT
35
Toast topper : OLEO
36
River islet : AIT
37
Pac 10 team : UCLA
38
Rising star : COMER
40
Stimulate : WHET
41
"The Crying Game" star : REA
42
Collagist's need : GLUE
43
"Ditto" : METOO
44
NBC Symphony conductor, 1937-54 : ARTUROTOSCANINI
48
Basilica bench : PEW
49
Winner of 10/30/74 : ALI
50
"Norma" composer : VINCENZOBELLINI
59
"What ___!" : ADEAL
60
Director Kazan : ELIA
61
Bumped off : ICED
62
Thornburgh's predecessor as Attorney General : MEESE
63
Sound off : RANT
64
Long skirt : MAXI
65
Where to find favors : PARTY
66
People : ONES
67
Not fooled by : ONTO
Down
1
Take a spill : FALL
2
Friend of François : AMIE
3
San ___, Italy : REMO
4
The yoke's on them : OXEN
5
Rouse : STIRUP
6
Best Picture of 1982 : GANDHI
7
Novice: Var. : TIRO
8
Take to the hills? : SLED
9
Swagger : BRAVADO
10
Complain : REPINE
11
Be a breadwinner : EARN
12
Tours with? : AVEC
13
Lucie's dad : DESI
21
Make ___ with (please) : AHIT
22
Daisy Mae's mate : ABNER
25
Gene Tierney title role : LAURA
26
Tummy trouble : ULCER
27
___ ease : ILLAT
28
___ few rounds : GOA
29
Shakespearean eloper : ROMEO
30
Stout relative : ALE
31
"Funny About Love" star Christine : LAHTI
32
Use, as a cot : LIEON
33
10th-century Holy Roman emperor : OTTOI
38
Make faces, say : CLOWN
39
Like Ellen, now : OUT
40
Cyst : WEN
42
New York Tribune founder : GREELEY
43
Camelot coat : MAIL
45
Tossed skyward : UPCAST
46
Texas-Louisiana border river : SABINE
47
Traction enhancers : CLEATS
50
Theda Bara, e.g. : VAMP
51
Think tank product : IDEA
52
___-do-well : NEER
53
Round number : ZERO
54
"The Good Earth" heroine : OLAN
55
Car with a bar : LIMO
56
Self-confident words : ICAN
57
Cry to the queue : NEXT
58
Peculiar: Prefix : IDIO

Answer summary:
2 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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