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NY Times, Fri, Mar 01, 1996

Author: Will Shortz
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Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 31, Avg Word Len: 5.39, Missing: { F J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 320 (avg 1.65)
Open squares: 92, Cheater squares: 4, Freshness Factor™: 75.7
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© 1996, The New York Times
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1. Microwaveable meal : TVDINNER
9. Reach : GETAT
14. Card game also called schnautz : THIRTYONE
15. Nellie Forbush's "South Pacific" love : EMILE
16. Environmentalist's activity : RECYCLING
17. Continued : RANON
18. Pierre's soul : AME
19. Car engine part : HOSE
20. Something much watched : WEIGHT
21. Hoover Dam loc. : NEV
22. "___blue-bell or streamer" (Poe poem start) : NEATH
24. Ancestress of six tribes of Israel : LEAH
25. Does a dog trick : SPEAKS
28. Subject of a certain code : DRESS
30. Stick one's___ (meddle) : OARIN
31. "It's___thing!" : ASURE
32. Detroit inits. : GMC
35. 1939 Jimmy Stewart role : MRSMITH
37. Holiday decoration : MENORAH
39. Jamaican music : SKA
40. Win completely : SWEEP
42. 1970 World's Fair site : OSAKA
43. Flimflammer : CHEAT
44. Detective, often : TRACER
45. Wound : GASH
48. First name in dance : ADELE
50. Add-on : ELL
51. Slight improvement : UPTICK
53. Delaware Senator William : ROTH
55. Never, in Nurnberg : NIE
56. "If I Were___Man" ("Fiddler" tune) : ARICH
57. Collection of a sort : ANTHOLOGY
59. Home for Hadrian : VILLA
60. Lines at a stadium? : BASEPATHS
61. Take up, e.g. : ALTER
62. Jazz band part : CLARINET
 1. Disney venture : THEMEPARK
2. The opposite : VICEVERSA
3. Like Rioja wine : DRY
4. Yen : ITCH
5. These may run while you walk : NYLONS
6. Brattle : NOISE
7. Supreme Courts, e.g. : ENNEADS
8. Std. : REG
9. "Power" star, 1986 : GERE
10. Writes modern-style : EMAILS
11. Small amount : TINGE
12. Farewell : ALOHA
13. Tin anniversary : TENTH
14. Some windows : TRANSOMS
20. Invitation heading : WHERE
23. Surpass : TRUMP
26. Rifleman's second in command? : AIM
27. Deli delicacy : KNISH
29. ___Wences of "The Ed Sullivan Show" : SENOR
31. Onward : AHEAD
32. Musical embellishment : GRACENOTE
33. Belittle, with "of" : MAKELIGHT
34. Brandon Thomas play "___Aunt" : CHARLEYS
36. Pinch : TWEAK
38. ___Mayor (Spanish Big Dipper) : OSA
41. God, with "the" : ETERNAL
43. Chewing gum base : CHICLE
44. Restrain : TETHER
45. Fruit jelly source : GUAVA
46. Shower time : APRIL
47. Pink-legged bird : STILT
49. "___luck!" : LOTSA
52. Scorch : CHAR
54. Tribe whose name means "peaceful" : HOPI
57. Epitome of simplicity : ABC
58. The year, in Paris : LAN
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