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New York Times, Monday, June 16, 1997

Author:
Gene Newman
Editor:
Will Shortz
6-Across : King with a golden touch
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Gene Newman

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 36 Missing: {JQWXZ} This is puzzle # 3 for Mr. Newman. Monday freshness: 88%
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© 1997, The New York Times6/16/97 ( No. 17,387 )
Across
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Musicians' copyright grp. : ASCAP
6
King with a golden touch : MIDAS
11
Business fraud monitoring agcy. : FTC
14
TV exec Arledge : ROONE
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"Be ___..." : ADOLL
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Spanish gold : ORO
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Grant vs. Bragg, Nov. 1863 : CHATTANOOGA
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Tease : RIB
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Sandwich choice : HOTORCOLD
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Parkers feed it downtown : METER
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___-do-well : NEER
24
Black Sea port : ODESSA
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Wakeful watches : VIGILS
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Bush aide John : SUNUNU
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Neighborhood : AREA
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Idiot : MORON
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Chinese food additive : MSG
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On, as a lamp : LIT
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For fun : ASALARK
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Place for a hole in a sock : TOE
39
Winter clock setting in Vt. : EST
40
Union branch : LOCAL
41
Coal stratum : SEAM
42
"Old ___" (1957 Disney film) : YELLER
44
Lines of cliffs : SCARPS
46
Slugged : PASTED
48
Salon job : PERM
49
Perth ___, N.J. : AMBOY
50
Unlike Mr. Spock of "Star Trek" : EMOTIONAL
55
Brock or Costello : LOU
56
Rosecrans vs. Bragg, Sept. 1863 : CHICKAMAUGA
58
Continent north of Afr. : EUR
59
Eagle's nest : AERIE
60
Listlessness : ENNUI
61
It follows a dot in many on-line addresses : ORG
62
Not our : THEIR
63
Syria's Hafez al-___ : ASSAD
Down
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It may have fallen on a foot : ARCH
2
Manhattan locale : SOHO
3
Jacket : COAT
4
Cather novel "My ___" : ANTONIA
5
Small sea bird : PETREL
6
Millionaire's home : MANOR
7
Elvis Presley, in the 50's and 60's : IDOL
8
"I ___ it!" (cry of success) : DOOD
9
H.S. math : ALG
10
Patrick Ewing specialty : SLAMDUNK
11
Anderson vs. Beauregard, Apr. 1861 : FORTSUMTER
12
Attempts : TRIES
13
Striking snake : COBRA
18
Good blackjack holdings : ACES
22
Poet's dusk : EEN
24
___ about (lawyer's phrase) : ONOR
25
Caesar's farewell : VALE
26
Spring bloom : IRIS
27
Meade vs. Lee, July 1863 : GETTYSBURG
28
Kind of energy or flare : SOLAR
29
___ Mountains (edge of Asia) : URAL
31
Riot queller : MACE
33
Ivory, e.g. : SOAP
34
Onyxes and opals : GEMS
36
Night prowler : ALLEYCAT
37
Auctioneer's last word : SOLD
41
Pago Pago residents : SAMOANS
43
D.D.E.'s command : ETO
44
___ poor example : SETA
45
Sevastopol locale : CRIMEA
46
Ancient: Prefix : PALEO
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Love affair : AMOUR
48
Fireplace rod : POKER
50
Dublin's land : EIRE
51
1102, in dates : MCII
52
Women in habits : NUNS
53
Tijuana water : AGUA
54
Deposited : LAID
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Sneaky laugh sound : HEH

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1 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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