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New York Times, Monday, May 6, 1996

Author:
N. Steinberg
Editor:
W. Shortz
46-Down : Catches red-handed
TotalDebutLatest
5212/7/19824/11/2005
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ScrabblePGramPre‑WSFresh
1.5713513%
Norma Steinberg

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 40 Missing: {JQVZ} This is puzzle # 46 for Ms. Steinberg. Monday freshness: 52%
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© 1996, The New York Times5/6/96 ( No. 16,981 )
Across
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Garden tools : HOES
5
Famous cookie maker : AMOS
9
Where to hang a hat : PEG
12
It's west of Ark. : OKLA
13
Nominates : NAMES
15
Wahine's dance : HULA
16
Financial district : WALLSTREET
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Award for a sitcom : EMMY
19
Old cleaning substance : LYE
20
In tatters : TORN
21
Slip by : ELAPSE
23
Overly thin : BONY
24
Impish kid : BRAT
25
Yellow bird : CANARY
28
Snubbed : SLIGHTED
32
By oneself : ALONE
33
Announcer's cry at a soccer match : GOAL
34
Burn : CHAR
35
Item on a to-do list : TASK
36
Kind of juice : PRUNE
37
Minstrel's accompaniment : LUTE
38
Give off : EMIT
39
Split : REND
40
Mosaic components : TILES
41
Grudge carrier : SOREHEAD
43
Errand runners : GOFERS
44
Needing directions : LOST
45
Explore, as the Internet : SURF
46
Cell centers : NUCLEI
49
Lhasa___ (dog) : APSO
50
Actress Dawber : PAM
53
Plowing unit : ACRE
54
She said "Mmmmmwah" at the end of her shows : DINAHSHORE
57
Smear : BLUR
58
Comic Kovacs : ERNIE
59
Fitzgerald who sang "A-Tisket, A-Tasket" : ELLA
60
Wailing horn : SAX
61
Castle material : SAND
62
Irrelevant : MOOT
Down
1
Sound from a coyote : HOWL
2
"You bet!" : OKAY
3
Model Macpherson : ELLE
4
Actor Mineo : SAL
5
Cleopatra's love : ANTONY
6
Get hitched : MARRY
7
Augury : OMEN
8
"___you later!" : SEE
9
Ship's engine part : PUMP
10
Street shaders : ELMS
11
Singer Marvin : GAYE
14
Free of germs : STERILE
15
Bronte hero : HEATHCLIFF
17
Warehouse : STORE
22
Fall behind : LAG
23
One with many bills : BANKTELLER
24
Insipid : BLAND
25
Actress Phoebe : CATES
26
Crockett's last stand, with "the" : ALAMO
27
Plebe's answer : NOSIR
28
In good condition : SOUND
29
Greenland military base : THULE
30
Restaurant patron : EATER
31
Gown : DRESS
33
Like some grandparents : GREAT
36
Have the chair : PRESIDE
40
Bullring bulls : TOROS
42
Weed eliminator : HOE
43
Spoke effusively : GUSHED
45
Toledo's location : SPAIN
46
Catches red-handed : NABS
47
Bruins of the N.C.A.A. : UCLA
48
Pivotal point : CRUX
49
"___Karenina" : ANNA
50
Informal shirt : POLO
51
Guthrie the younger : ARLO
52
Butcher's stock : MEAT
55
Tax people, for short : IRS
56
Haw's partner : HEM

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