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New York Times, Monday, January 11, 1999

Author:
Randall J. Hartman
Editor:
Will Shortz
15-Across : Cards up one's sleeve?
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Randall J. Hartman

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 40 Missing: {JQZ} This is puzzle # 28 for Mr. Hartman. Monday freshness: 9%
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© 1999, The New York Times1/11/99 ( No. 17,961 )
Across
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Begin, as school : ENTER
6
St. Peter's Square figure : POPE
10
Broadway "Auntie" : MAME
14
Peter of "Casablanca" : LORRE
15
Cards up one's sleeve? : ACES
16
Muslim holy man : IMAM
17
Any one of God's creatures : BEING
18
Classic Bette Davis line from "Beyond the Forest" : WHATADUMP
20
Second-place finishers : ALSORANS
22
Call forth : ELICIT
23
WNW's opposite : ESE
24
DiCaprio, to fans : LEO
25
Lock opener : KEY
26
Proceeding easily, at last : OVERTHEHUMP
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Dallas's locale : TEXAS
32
Metal to be refined : ORE
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Res ___ loquitur : IPSA
37
Tempers : IRES
38
Flogged : CANED
40
Underground vegetable : BEET
41
Miss America wears one : SASH
42
___ de Janeiro : RIO
43
Word on mail from Spain : AEREO
44
Oscar-winning role for Tom Hanks : FORRESTGUMP
47
Greyhound, e.g. : BUS
50
Slalom curve : ESS
51
It's perpendicular to long. : LAT
52
Golden Delicious and others : APPLES
54
1966 Simon and Garfunkel hit : IAMAROCK
59
High school parking lot fixture : SPEEDBUMP
61
Religious law : CANON
62
Soho socials : TEAS
63
Responsibility : ONUS
64
Blackjack phrase : HITME
65
Flubs : ERRS
66
Sage : WISE
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Run off to the chapel : ELOPE
Down
1
Exile site for Napoleon : ELBA
2
Christmas : NOEL
3
Speaker of Cooperstown : TRIS
4
Cube inventor Rubik : ERNO
5
Brief turndown to an invitation : REGRETS
6
Oklahoma Indian : PAWNEE
7
Newspaperman Adolph : OCHS
8
Stew morsel : PEA
9
Highly regarded : ESTEEMED
10
Skirt style : MIDI
11
Frenzied: Var. : AMUCK
12
Mrs. Eisenhower : MAMIE
13
Running on ___ : EMPTY
19
Not straight : ALOP
21
Fire remnant : ASH
24
Tackle box item : LURE
26
Mayberry jail habitué : OTIS
27
Actress Miles : VERA
28
Alimony receivers : EXES
29
Poison ivy woe : RASH
30
Courtroom addressee, with "your" : HONOR
33
"___ to differ!" : IBEG
34
Lima's land : PERU
35
Appear : SEEM
36
Surmounting : ATOP
38
Medieval weapon : CROSSBOW
39
Broadcasts : AIRS
43
Diplomat's aide : ATTACHE
44
Corn, to chickens : FEED
45
Run out : ELAPSE
46
Uncle ___ : SAM
47
Sew with loose stitches : BASTE
48
Certain berth : UPPER
49
Weapon that's thrown : SPEAR
53
More or ___ : LESS
54
Radio man Don : IMUS
55
Train track : RAIL
56
Word after catch or hang : ONTO
57
Free ticket : COMP
58
Bouncing baby's seat : KNEE
60
Single: Prefix : UNI

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