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New York Times, Monday, March 1, 1999

Author:
Ed Early
Editor:
Will Shortz
Game in which players famously cheat
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
557/7/19947/14/20081
SunMonTueWedThuFriSatVariety
1917117442
ScrabDebutFresh
1.5419532%
Ed Early

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 40 Missing: {VZ} Spans: 1 Puzzle has duplicate clues. This is puzzle # 12 for Mr. Early. Monday freshness: 17%
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© 1999, The New York Times3/1/99 ( No. 18,010 )
Across
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Places to pitch tents : CAMPS
6
BMW rival : AUDI
10
Dr. Pepper, for one : SODA
14
Dress fold : PLEAT
15
Restaurateur Toots : SHOR
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Golf or tennis championship : OPEN
17
Designer Oscar de la ___ : RENTA
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Slugger Sammy : SOSA
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For fear that : LEST
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Deeply hurt : CUTTOTHEQUICK
23
Nope's counterpart : YUP
24
Force : DINT
25
D.D.E.'s 1952 and '56 opponent : AES
28
Award for a good student : STAR
31
Scorch : SCATHE
35
Blunder : FLUB
37
Neighbor of Pakistan : IRAN
39
Buenos ___ : AIRES
40
Visa alternative : AMERICANEXPRESS
43
Skylark, for one : SEDAN
44
___ fide : BONA
45
Simplicity : EASE
46
What the fashion-savvy watch for : TRENDS
48
Cry at the doctor's office : NEXT
50
Home for cubs : DEN
51
Goes out, as a fire : DIES
53
"Am ___ time?" : ION
55
Gulliver's creator : JONATHANSWIFT
61
Russian parliament : DUMA
62
Scarlett's home : TARA
63
Pungent : ACRID
65
Man with a spare rib? : ADAM
66
Prepare for publication : EDIT
67
River through Lyons : RHONE
68
Exhausted, with "in" : DONE
69
Not bogus : REAL
70
"The Rehearsal" painter : DEGAS
Down
1
Paramedic's work, in brief : CPR
2
One of the Baldwins : ALEC
3
Computer's option list : MENU
4
Raw quarter-pounder : PATTY
5
Word with symbol or seeker : STATUS
6
Mgr.'s aide : ASST
7
Apprehension expression : UHOH
8
Administered medicine to : DOSED
9
Invaders of Kuwait, 1990 : IRAQIS
10
Game in which players famously cheat : SOLITAIRE
11
Oil cartel : OPEC
12
Work space : DESK
13
Hill resident : ANT
21
Some nerve : OPTIC
22
Flip one's lid? : UNCAP
25
Make ___ buck : AFAST
26
Fictional Gantry : ELMER
27
Soft leather : SUEDE
29
Spirited horse : ARAB
30
Talked and talked and talked : RANON
32
Auto tire necessity : TREAD
33
Novelist Hermann : HESSE
34
Ruhr industrial center : ESSEN
36
Subject of a trademark : BRANDNAME
38
Hawaiian goose : NENE
41
Neighbor of Pakistan : INDIA
42
Horizontal line on a graph : XAXIS
47
Hunting dog : SETTER
49
Facing : TOWARD
52
Sun protection : SHADE
54
Recess for a statuette : NICHE
55
Black belt's activity : JUDO
56
Muscat is its capital : OMAN
57
Diva's song : ARIA
58
Part of N.F.L.: Abbr. : NATL
59
Budweiser ad creature : FROG
60
Actress Louise : TINA
61
June honoree : DAD
64
___ Plaines, Ill. : DES

Answer summary:
1 debuted here and reused later.

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