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New York Times, Wednesday, July 18, 2001

Author:
Elizabeth C. Gorski
Editor:
Will Shortz
46-Down : Scare ___
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Elizabeth C. Gorski

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 74, Blocks: 38 Missing: {JV} This is puzzle # 76 for Ms. Gorski. Wednesday freshness: 40%
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© 2001, The New York Times7/18/1 ( No. 18,880 )
Across
1
C : FAIR
5
Desensitizes : NUMBS
10
"The Alienist" author : CARR
14
One-named supermodel : EMME
15
Rameau work : OPERA
16
Similar (to) : AKIN
17
Hitchcock classic : ROPE
18
Old Testament collection : TORAH
19
Doll's word : MAMA
20
Charades, e.g. : GUESSINGGAME
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Fjord : INLET
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Cases for otologists : EARACHES
28
UFO passengers : ETS
29
Wood cutter : ADZ
32
Shining brightly : AGLARE
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Butt of jokes : STOOGE
36
Welcome words for a buyer : NOTAX
37
Studio order : QUIETONTHESET
40
They're taken in chess : TURNS
41
Fairy : SPRITE
42
Improvise : WINGIT
44
Prefix with center : EPI
45
Bread line locale? : ATM
48
"You're on!" : ITSADEAL
51
Nozzle choice : SPRAY
53
DNA lab result : PERFECTMATCH
56
Olympic Stadium player : EXPO
59
Sport in which competitors dig in their heels : RODEO
60
Location : SITE
61
Big name in perfumes : DIOR
62
NASA gasket : ORING
63
Name in a will : HEIR
64
"The ___ stayeth for no man": William Camden : TIDE
65
Income in Monopoly : RENTS
66
Cellist's direction : ARCO
Down
1
Tabloid duchess : FERGIE
2
Sum : AMOUNT
3
Forces forward : IMPELS
4
Poet Lizette Woodworth ___ : REESE
5
Words of denial : NOTI
6
"___ the Roof" (Drifters hit) : UPON
7
Get together : MERGE
8
"Moon Over Parador" actress : BRAGA
9
Much of Chad : SAHARA
10
Almost made it : CAMECLOSE
11
Rap sheet shorthand : AKA
12
Edge : RIM
13
Genetic info carrier : RNA
21
Like California, to a Hawaiian : STATESIDE
22
Attraction : MAGNETISM
25
Odium : HATE
26
Ezra Pound's "___ Hora" : ERAT
27
Application datum : SEX
30
Semi-colon? : DOT
31
Places for petting : ZOOS
33
Port on the Strait of Malacca : SINGAPORE
34
Econ. figure : GNP
35
To be, at the Sorbonne : ETRE
37
Pack it in : QUIT
38
Pottery class projects : URNS
39
With it : HIP
40
___-night doubleheader : TWI
43
Holy person? : TERROR
45
More creative, perhaps : ARTIER
46
Scare ___ : TACTIC
47
Rescuee's declaration : MYHERO
49
Ere : AFORE
50
Brought (to) : LEDIN
52
Turkish bigwig : PASHA
54
Copper : CENT
55
Duds : TOGS
56
Summer Conn. clock setting : EDT
57
Hour on a clock : XII
58
Bean holder : POD

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