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New York Times, Monday, February 15, 1999

Author:
Randall J. Hartman
Editor:
Will Shortz
10-Down : Kind of acid
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Randall J. Hartman

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 36 Missing: {QZ} This is puzzle # 29 for Mr. Hartman. Monday freshness: 75%
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O
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C
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© 1999, The New York Times2/15/99 ( No. 17,996 )
Across
1
Pedicurists work on them : TOES
5
Ship's front : PROW
9
Old Venetian magistrates : DOGES
14
Cutlass or 98, for short : OLDS
15
Architect Saarinen : EERO
16
Give the slip : ELUDE
17
Sarcastic remark : WISECRACK
19
Neighbor of Nigeria : BENIN
20
New Year's ___ : EVE
21
Mystique : AURA
22
Devastated : RUINED
23
Backslide, medically : RELAPSE
25
Imagination : FANCY
26
Questionnaire response : FEEDBACK
28
Soak (up) : SOP
31
Bid : OFFER
34
Falsehoods : LIES
35
Lawyers' org. : ABA
36
Select a winner in a sweepstakes : DRAW
37
Base before home : THIRD
39
Person whose name begins "Mc-," often : SCOT
40
___ Moines : DES
41
Elvis's middle name : ARON
42
"Land ___!" : SAKES
43
Word between ready and go : SET
44
Hike : BACKPACK
47
Pickup, e.g. : TRUCK
49
Stockpiled : AMASSED
53
Equality : PARITY
55
Epithet : SLUR
56
Actor Wallach : ELI
57
Precise : EXACT
58
Title character in 1970's cult films : BILLYJACK
60
Corner : NICHE
61
Skin softener : ALOE
62
End in ___ : ATIE
63
Propositioned : ASKED
64
Civil wrong : TORT
65
Mount Olympus dwellers : GODS
Down
1
Radio station facility : TOWER
2
Martini item : OLIVE
3
Ford flop : EDSEL
4
Opposite NNW : SSE
5
Leaf through : PERUSE
6
Brought up : REARED
7
Killer whale : ORCA
8
Moo goo gai pan pan : WOK
9
Exposes, as a false claim : DEBUNKS
10
Kind of acid : OLEIC
11
Grain holder on a farm : GUNNYSACK
12
Chanteuse Adams : EDIE
13
Dispatch : SEND
18
Prank : CAPER
22
Competed at Daytona : RACED
24
Not many : AFEW
25
Blond : FAIR
27
Go on and off, as a light : BLINK
29
Hand-held musical instrument : OBOE
30
Butter servings : PATS
31
"What are the ___...?" : ODDS
32
Gratis : FREE
33
Accelerated path to success : FASTTRACK
37
"Dick ___" : TRACY
38
Leave at a pawnshop : HOCK
39
___ Fifth Avenue : SAKS
41
Bordered on : ABUTTED
42
Creepy : SCARY
45
Whiteness : PALLOR
46
Lucky charm : AMULET
48
Nouveau ___ : RICHE
50
Old defense pact : SEATO
51
Spanish hero played on film by Charlton Heston : ELCID
52
Dutch sights : DIKES
53
Ex-Secretary Federico : PENA
54
Allies' foe : AXIS
55
Farm building : SILO
58
Stand at the plate : BAT
59
Binge : JAG

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