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New York Times, Tuesday, February 29, 2000

Author:
Peter Gordon
Editor:
Will Shortz
50-Down : Practice in the ring
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Peter Gordon

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 36 Missing: {JQXZ} Spans: 1 This is puzzle # 33 for Mr. Gordon. Tuesday freshness: 20%
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© 2000, The New York Times2/29/0 ( No. 18,375 )
Across
1
Menachem's 1978 co-Nobelist : ANWAR
6
"Get out!" : SCRAM
11
___ de Triomphe : ARC
14
Hanging need : NOOSE
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Card game authority Edmond : HOYLE
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Dull card game : WAR
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Actress who was married to Dudley Moore : TUESDAYWELD
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Fuss : ADO
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Puts on a computer hard drive : INSTALLS
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Jeweled headpieces : TIARAS
23
Set down : LAY
24
Old Hartford hockey team : WHALERS
25
Rouse : AWAKEN
29
Singer Cara : IRENE
30
Hoops player : CAGER
31
Say confidently : AVER
32
"___ Boot" : DAS
35
California city by Joshua Tree National Park : TWENTYNINEPALMS
39
Blue : SAD
40
Sport ___ (popular vehicles) : UTES
41
"The Waste Land" poet : ELIOT
42
Summits : ACMES
44
Hand-dyes with wax : BATIKS
45
Pilgrims to Mecca : MOSLEMS
48
"Wait a ___!" : SEC
49
Acid neutralizer : ALKALI
50
Most sugary : SWEETEST
55
Compete : VIE
56
Trusting act : LEAPOFFAITH
58
Night before : EVE
59
Golden award : OSCAR
60
Arm bones : ULNAE
61
Court divider : NET
62
Rudder's place : STERN
63
Suspicious : LEERY
Down
1
Prefix with disestablishmentarianism : ANTI
2
Adjective follower : NOUN
3
Afflictions : WOES
4
Like some mgrs. : ASST
5
Warning on the Enterprise : REDALERT
6
In a demure manner : SHYLY
7
Cud chewers : COWS
8
Deli bread : RYE
9
Sane : ALLTHERE
10
Highway divider : MEDIAN
11
Not spaced-out : AWARE
12
What Fuzzbusters detect : RADAR
13
Angry : CROSS
18
Fed head Greenspan : ALAN
22
McSorley's product : ALE
24
Songbirds : WRENS
25
New Testament book : ACTS
26
Trumpet sound : WAWA
27
Getting on in years : AGED
28
Mattel doll : KEN
29
Harvard, Yale, Brown, etc. : IVIES
31
Poker starters : ANTES
32
Half of MCIV : DLII
33
Run ___ (go crazy) : AMOK
34
Fast jets, for short : SSTS
36
Most tasty : YUMMIEST
37
Tranquil : PEACEFUL
38
Hgt. : ALT
42
In the style of : ALA
43
Parts of string quartets : CELLOS
44
Complaint : BEEF
45
Whiz : MAVEN
46
Martini garnish : OLIVE
47
___ shooting : SKEET
48
Like court testimony : SWORN
50
Practice in the ring : SPAR
51
A fisherman may bring one home : TALE
52
"___ kleine Nachtmusik" : EINE
53
Restaurant review symbol : STAR
54
Those people : THEY
57
Good service? : ACE

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 3 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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