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NY Times, Thu, Mar 28, 1996

Author: G. Petgrave / Will Shortz
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Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 29, Avg Word Len: 5.44, Missing: { B J K Q X Y Z }, Scrabble score: 268 (avg 1.37)
Open squares: 82, Cheater squares: 2, Freshness Factor™: 69.4
This is puzzle 4 of 8 for Mr. Petgrave — solos: 8, collaborations: 0, Sundays: 0

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© 1996, The New York Times
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1. Charitable one : SPONSOR
8. Aloof : OFFISH
14. Fish whose male hatches the eggs : SEAHORSE
15. Tree-held shelter : LEANTO
16. Heaven : PARADISE
17. Hard to move : LEADEN
18. In the know : AWARE
19. Work of Homer : ILIAD
21. Ill temper : IRE
22. Sugar source : CANE
23. Chief : MAIN
24. Intellectuals : SAGES
26. "Am___believe...?" : ITO
27. Confession maker : SINNER
29. Arguable : MOOT
30. Horses' sounds : NEIGHS
32. Sourball : GRUMP
34. Breakfast cereal : GRANOLA
36. 1948 Literature Nobelist : TSELIOT
40. Old hand : ADEPT
42. Crayola color : SIENNA
43. C.I.S. predecessor : USSR
46. Furtive one : DARTER
48. Take captive : NET
49. Domain : REALM
51. Winter need : COAT
52. Price : COST
53. Hair-styling stuff : GEL
54. Oil, pharmaceutically : OLEUM
56. Scoundrel : DEVIL
57. Large lizard : IGUANA
59. Protective fence : PALISADE
61. Down below : NETHER
62. Prominent : ELEVATED
63. Hall of Fame members : GREATS
64. Put on a pedestal : REVERED
 1. Nonpotable : SEAWATER
2. Irrational distrust : PARANOIA
3. Alternative to Midway : OHARE
4. Bump : NODE
5. ___Lanka : SRI
6. Legendary Gaelic hero : OSSIAN
7. Not steady on the feet : REELING
8. Jar : OLLA
9. Gives special nursing care : FEEDS
10. Airline watchdog grp. : FAA
11. Blue shade : INDIGO
12. Car option : STEREO
13. Fair and square : HONEST
14. Typist's concern : SPACING
20. Sluggish : INERT
23. Duped : MISLED
25. Roomy : AMPLE
27. Supplied with footwear : SHOD
28. Reddish-brown winter apple : RUSSET
31. Contort : GNARL
33. Israel's Golda : MEIR
35. Fast : APACE
37. Produce new technology : INNOVATE
38. Partial : ONESIDED
39. Was a snitch : TATTLED
41. Veteran actor : TROUPER
43. Insistence : URGING
44. "If I Had a Hammer" singer : SEEGER
45. Bow to : SALUTE
47. "Hot" dish : TAMALE
50. Water lilies painter : MONET
52. Labor organizer Chavez : CESAR
55. Swedish author Gustafsson : LARS
56. Belly flop, e.g. : DIVE
58. "There you are!" : AHA
60. Soviet Physics Nobelist___Landau : LEV
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