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New York Times, Thursday, April 15, 1999

Author:
Cathy Millhauser
Editor:
Will Shortz
One who dropped a pill on the floor?
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Cathy Allis

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 74, Blocks: 36 Missing: {JQZ} This is puzzle # 54 for Ms. Allis. Thursday freshness: 30%
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© 1999, The New York Times4/15/99 ( No. 18,055 )
Across
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They go into drives : DISCS
6
Waste : DROSS
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Rapscallion : IMP
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Outdo : ONEUP
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Station : DEPOT
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Postal creed word : NOR
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Embarrassed person's nickname? : SCARLETFACE
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John ___ : DOE
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Made some lace : TATTED
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Elusive : SLIPPERY
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Monogram ltr. : INIT
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High points : APEXES
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Well-fed baby in a multiple birth? : ROUNDTRIPLET
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"Shell and Head" sculptor Hans : ARP
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"Love ___ Around" (1968 Troggs hit) : ISALL
33
Action after a default : REPO
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Reprimand : SCOLD
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Air show formation : VEE
40
Vetoed : NIXED
41
French door part : PANE
42
Related on the mother's side : ENATE
44
Skater Midori : ITO
45
One who dropped a pill on the floor? : TABLETHUNTER
49
Cigar : STOGIE
52
Word with work or Web : SITE
53
Procrastinator's refrain : TOMORROW
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"Peer Gynt" composer et al. : GRIEGS
60
Actress Hagen : UTA
61
Shakespearean sunburn victim? : BAKEDHAMLET
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"Like, I get it" : DUH
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Heart chambers : ATRIA
65
Cleo or Frankie : LAINE
66
___ City (Saratoga Springs nickname) : SPA
67
Adjusts : GEARS
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Scoffing look : SNEER
Down
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Old-style auxiliary verb : DOST
2
Ancient terrace farmer : INCA
3
Pants part : SEAT
4
"Third Rock From the Sun" co-star : CURTIN
5
Magnificent : SPLENDID
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"Silent Spring" topic : DDT
7
Judges : REFS
8
Notorious '95 hurricane : OPAL
9
Like bees and ants : SOCIAL
10
Treeless plain : STEPPE
11
Kind of card : INDEX
12
Melba, for one : MOORE
13
Emulates raptors : PREYS
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Revamps, in a way : EDITS
22
Kind of dish : PETRI
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Tour : TRAVEL
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Woodworking tool : RASP
27
Cetacean killer : ORCA
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Atop : UPON
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Actress Graff : ILENE
30
Kilt features : PLEATS
34
Get away : EXIT
35
Tennis's Sampras : PETE
36
Radon lacks it : ODOR
38
"Unhand me!" : LETGO
40
Muted tones : NEUTRALS
43
Chicken cut : THIGH
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Lifesaver, at times : AIRBAG
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Dress down : BERATE
48
Marcus's retail partner : NEIMAN
49
Lath perpendiculars : STUDS
50
Tally : TOTUP
51
Brando's birthplace : OMAHA
54
Pod vegetable : OKRA
55
Milldam : WEIR
57
Composer Siegmeister : ELIE
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Item in a pool : GENE
59
Song ending : STER
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German article : DAS

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5 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later.

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