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New York Times, Tuesday, November 23, 2004

Author:
Kurt Mengel
Editor:
Will Shortz
30-Down : Dateless, say
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
101/12/20048/1/20167
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
0541000
ScrabDebutFresh
1.48326%
Kurt Mengel

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 38 Missing: {FHJQVX} This is puzzle # 3 for Mr. Mengel. Tuesday freshness: 9%
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© 2004, The New York Times11/23/4 ( No. 20,104 )
Across
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Thin-waisted flier : WASP
5
Lad's partner : LASS
9
Game player's cry : BINGO
14
Teen People cover subject : IDOL
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Ashe Stadium org. : USTA
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Congested, say : URBAN
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"___ Lisa" : MONA
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Genesis brother : CAIN
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Bobby of the Black Panthers : SEALE
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Posters of a pop music icon? : PRINCEPRINTS
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Pie chart piece : SECTOR
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Eastern "way" : TAO
25
Supermodel Carol : ALT
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Weekend ice cream treat? : SUNDAYSUNDAE
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Shooter ammo : PEA
35
Ring : PEAL
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Relaxed : ATEASE
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Baby in wool? : LAMB
39
Pug or boxer : DOG
41
Ready for business : OPEN
42
View : ASPECT
45
Tide type : NEAP
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Give it a shot : TRY
49
Vintner? : CELLARSELLER
52
England's Isle of ___ : ELY
53
J.F.K. Library architect : PEI
54
Greets the dawn : ARISES
58
What makes a bivalve move? : MUSSELMUSCLE
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Of the Vatican : PAPAL
64
Small combo : TRIO
65
Moolah : KALE
66
Staring intently : AGAZE
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"Zounds!" : EGAD
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Actor Estrada : ERIK
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Apartment sign : TOLET
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Trevi Fountain locale : ROME
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Crummy grades : DEES
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Wusses : WIMPS
2
Be nuts about : ADORE
3
___ boom : SONIC
4
Botanists' concerns : PLANTS
5
Swiss tourist destination : LUCERNE
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"Rush!" : ASAP
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To-do : STIR
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Sensibleness : SANITY
9
Stage a prison break : BUSTOUT
10
Ticks off : IRES
11
Hoops grp. : NBA
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"My ___ Sal" : GAL
13
Word on a dollar : ONE
21
Quite a feat : COUP
22
Inits. on Mars : NASA
25
Trim to fit, perhaps : ADAPT
26
Light-show light : LASER
27
Itsy-bitsy : TEENY
29
The old man : DAD
30
Dateless, say : ALONE
31
Prefix with classical : NEO
32
Take second : PLACE
33
Flow chart site : EASEL
34
Sufficiently : AMPLY
38
___ Paese cheese : BEL
40
Hair goo : GEL
43
Montague rival : CAPULET
44
Uno + dos : TRES
46
Apple pie order? : ALAMODE
47
Llama land : PERU
50
Sob ___ : SISTER
51
Put on the line : RISKED
55
Close shave : SCARE
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"Dallas" matriarch : ELLIE
57
Goes after : SEEKS
58
Rat's challenge : MAZE
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By logic, then ... : ERGO
60
Neeson of "Kinsey" : LIAM
61
Soft touch : PAT
62
Going back in time : AGO
63
Buddy : PAL

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