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New York Times, Tuesday, May 21, 1996

Author:
J. Schmalzbach
Editor:
W. Shortz
64-Across : Pooped
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Jonathan Schmalzbach

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 38 Missing: {JQXZ} Spans: 2 This is puzzle # 17 for Mr. Schmalzbach. Tuesday freshness: 3%
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© 1996, The New York Times5/21/96 ( No. 16,996 )
Across
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Put on the burner : HEAT
5
Post-larval : PUPAL
10
Bullfight cries : OLES
14
Willa Cather's "One of___" : OURS
15
Wipe out : ERASE
16
Org. with a mission : NASA
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Dr. Seuss's diner order? : GREENEGGSANDHAM
20
Skipper's plea : SOS
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"___a Grecian Urn" : ODEON
22
Like TV's "Tales From the Crypt" : EERIE
23
"Roses___red..." : ARE
24
Certain computer, informally : MAC
25
"Here come de judge!" comic : PIGMEATMARKHAM
33
Reindeer driver : SANTA
34
Bounds : LEAPS
35
Coach Parseghian : ARA
36
Partner of kisses : HUGS
37
Categorizes : SORTS
38
Fortitude : GRIT
39
Bedbound : ILL
40
Champagne buckets : ICERS
41
Diminishes : BATES
42
Popular hors d'oeuvres : VIENNASAUSAGES
45
Play part : ACT
46
Carrier letters : USS
47
Island off Venezuela : ARUBA
50
Road hazard warning : FLARE
53
Moo goo gai pan pan : WOK
56
1676 Virginia uprising : BACONSREBELLION
59
Tulip's base : BULB
60
Jury : PANEL
61
Cartoonist Peter : ARNO
62
Woeful cry : ALAS
63
Impatient : ANTSY
64
Pooped : BEAT
Down
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Monopolizes : HOGS
2
Prefix with dollar or trash : EURO
3
Father of Deimos and Phobos : ARES
4
Mao___-tung : TSE
5
Carolina river : PEEDEE
6
Compulsion : URGE
7
When repeated, a Samoan port : PAGO
8
Professional grp. : ASSN
9
Grazing area : LEA
10
Up next : ONDECK
11
"The Wizard of Oz" actor : LAHR
12
Actor Morales : ESAI
13
Unvarying : SAME
18
Bellini opera : NORMA
19
Gets close : NEARS
23
C.I.A. types : AGTS
24
Hammond products : MAPS
25
Pope of A.D. 757 : PAULI
26
Fireside : INGLE
27
Fragrant East Indian wood : ALOES
28
___cotta : TERRA
29
Taiwan-controlled island : MATSU
30
"The Outcasts of Poker Flat" writer : HARTE
31
Strong and fierce-tempered one, supposedly : ARIES
32
Wrestling areas : MATS
33
Switchblade : SHIV
37
"Away with you!" : SCAT
38
Pranks : GAGS
40
Early Peruvian : INCAN
41
Swiss city : BASEL
43
Powerful persons : NABOBS
44
"Of course!" : SURELY
47
Father, in the Bible : ABBA
48
Actor Julia : RAUL
49
Abdul-Jabbar's alma mater : UCLA
50
Humorist Lebowitz : FRAN
51
Advanced : LENT
52
Lincoln and Burrows : ABES
53
Fence material : WIRE
54
One of the O'Neills : OONA
55
Half hitch, e.g. : KNOT
57
Health restorer : SPA
58
Rat-racing room, for short : LAB

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