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New York Times, Tuesday, March 24, 1998

Author:
Fred Piscop
Editor:
Will Shortz
44-Across : Seaweed-wrapped fare
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Fred Piscop

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 38 Missing: {GJQVZ} Spans: 1 This is puzzle # 43 for Mr. Piscop. Tuesday freshness: 30%
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© 1998, The New York Times3/24/98 ( No. 17,668 )
Across
1
Hemmed, but didn't haw : SEWED
6
Israel's Dayan : MOSHE
11
Tout's offering : TIP
14
Tickle pink : ELATE
15
Expressed joy : OOHED
16
The self-proclaimed "Greatest" : ALI
17
Trifling amount : CHICKENFEED
19
Singer Zadora : PIA
20
10% cuts : TITHES
21
___ fields (mythological afterworld) : ELYSIAN
23
Spot for a Band-Aid : SCRAPE
26
Take apart : UNDO
27
School zone sign : SLOW
31
Pirate's potable : RUM
32
Korean soldier : ROK
34
New Zealander : KIWI
35
Black cat, maybe : OMEN
37
Stallone role : RAMBO
41
Dorothy followed it : YELLOWBRICKROAD
44
Seaweed-wrapped fare : SUSHI
45
Rights org. : ACLU
46
Agnew's plea, for short : NOLO
47
New Haven collegian : ELI
49
Racket or rocket add-on : EER
50
Breslau's river : ODER
51
Scold, with "out" : BAWL
54
Scottish "sighting" : NESSIE
57
Cracker shapes : ANIMALS
59
Bring to light : EXHUME
64
Ancient lang. : LAT
65
"Coal Miner's Daughter" actress : SISSYSPACEK
68
Order to attack, with "on" : SIC
69
Cynic's look : SNEER
70
"Dallas" matriarch : ELLIE
71
Volcanic spew : ASH
72
They're pitched at jamborees : TENTS
73
Is cockeyed : LEANS
Down
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The Amish, e.g. : SECT
2
K-12, scholastically speaking : ELHI
3
Restaurant annoyance : WAIT
4
Produce art on copper, e.g. : ETCH
5
Rink fakeouts : DEKES
6
Presidents' Day, e.g.: Abbr. : MON
7
Punch-in-the-stomach reaction : OOF
8
Followers : SHEEP
9
Ward ___ (local politico) : HEELER
10
Water whirled : EDDY
11
Gimme on the green : TAPIN
12
Trojan War epic : ILIAD
13
"Eighty-eight" : PIANO
18
Third-party account : ESCROW
22
Indonesia's first president : SUKARNO
24
Cuban dance : RUMBA
25
Slaps a fine on : AMERCES
27
"The ___ the limit!" : SKYS
28
Place : LIEU
29
Temple footballers : OWLS
30
Knuckleballer Hoyt : WILHELM
33
Sitcom planet : ORK
36
Frasier's TV brother : NILES
38
General feeling : MOOD
39
Hoedown seat : BALE
40
Wavy lines, in the comics : ODOR
42
Fix a squeak : OIL
43
Radioactivity units : CURIES
48
Kind of skates : INLINE
51
Glider wood : BALSA
52
Diarist Nin : ANAIS
53
Broom Hilda, e.g. : WITCH
55
Krupp works city : ESSEN
56
Boot out : EXPEL
58
Helper: Abbr. : ASST
60
Robust : HALE
61
Pac 10 sch. : UCLA
62
"Deal ___!" : MEIN
63
___ out (manages) : EKES
66
Ready : SET
67
Jr. and sr. : YRS

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