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New York Times, Wednesday, July 3, 2002

Author:
Peter Gordon
Editor:
Will Shortz
36-Across : It's nothing, really
TotalDebutLatest
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941.5961124%
Peter Gordon

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 36 Missing: {WZ} Spans: 3 This is puzzle # 87 for Mr. Gordon. Wednesday freshness: 3%
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© 2002, The New York Times7/3/2 ( No. 19,230 )
Across
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Currency substitute : SCRIP
6
Big party : BASH
10
The Beatles' "___ Madonna" : LADY
14
Japanese verse : HAIKU
15
Part of A.M. : ANTE
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Yellow spread : OLEO
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When many people have cookouts : INDEPENDENCEDAY
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Formerly : NEE
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They average 100 : IQS
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Free : PROBONO
23
Bug : FLU
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Enter : GOIN
25
Spanish snack : TAPA
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Monopoly game token : IRON
30
Novelist Rona : JAFFE
35
Flamenco cries : OLES
36
It's nothing, really : NIL
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Big name in beauty products : LOREAL
38
Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi creation : STATUEOFLIBERTY
41
People in People : CELEBS
42
Energy : PEP
43
Uno y dos : TRES
44
Pittsburgh's Mellon ___ : ARENA
45
Speaker in the Baseball Hall of Fame : TRIS
46
Henry of the House Judiciary Committee : HYDE
47
Emperor who poisoned Britannicus : NERO
49
Singer Sumac : YMA
51
Feeling pins and needles : ATINGLE
55
Santa ___ : ANA
56
Unagi, at a sushi bar : EEL
59
Tablet inscription on 38-Across that commemorates 17-Across : JULYIVMDCCLXXVI
62
Up to snuff : ABLE
63
Actress Skye : IONE
64
Home on the range : TEPEE
65
Take a breather : REST
66
Mmes., in Madrid : SRAS
67
Embellish : ADORN
Down
1
Painful place to be kicked : SHIN
2
Sugar source : CANE
3
Fairgrounds attraction : RIDE
4
War-hero president : IKE
5
Iris's center : PUPIL
6
Makes verboten : BANS
7
What's more : AND
8
Walk over : STEPON
9
Artist Toulouse-Lautrec : HENRI
10
"Stay" singer Lisa : LOEB
11
Designer Gucci : ALDO
12
Person with a list : DEAN
13
Go up and down rapidly : YOYO
18
Zebras, e.g. : EQUINES
19
Grifter's ploy : CONJOB
23
Buckle : FASTEN
24
One who works on a swing : GOLFPRO
25
Puccini opera : TOSCA
26
Adjust : ALTER
27
"The Power of Positive Thinking" writer : PEALE
29
Carnival city : RIO
31
1986 self-titled soul album : ARETHA
32
Boat to Staten Island : FERRY
33
In the cards : FATED
34
"Family Ties" mom : ELYSE
37
Not really sing : LIPSYNC
39
Congo border river : UBANGI
40
Aloha shirt accessory : LEI
45
Aftershock : TREMOR
48
Graceland name : ELVIS
50
Island south of Sicily : MALTA
51
Open slightly : AJAR
52
Part of an IV : TUBE
53
Troubles : ILLS
54
Da's opposite : NYET
55
Pair in a dead man's hand : ACES
56
Montreal player : EXPO
57
Penultimate fairy tale word : EVER
58
Bank holding : LIEN
60
Modern courtroom evidence : DNA
61
Marked, as a ballot : XED

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