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New York Times, Tuesday, August 12, 1997

Author:
Janet R. Bender
Editor:
Will Shortz
59-Across : Piercing tool
TotalDebutLatest
3111/30/199211/3/2014
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ScrabblePGramPre‑WSFresh
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Janet R. Bender

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 36 Missing: {JQXZ} Spans: 4 This is puzzle # 12 for Ms. Bender. Tuesday freshness: 4%
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© 1997, The New York Times8/12/97 ( No. 17,444 )
Across
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Poker holding : PAIR
5
Study for finals : CRAM
9
Shaping machine : LATHE
14
"Crimes & Misdemeanors" actor : ALDA
15
Wife of Zeus : HERA
16
Flynn of "Captain Blood" : ERROL
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Land, as a big one : REELIN
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Late Chairman : MAO
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Blood supplies : SERA
23
Long, long time : AGES
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Hall-of-Famer Drysdale : DON
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Didn't face the enemy : RAN
36
Chow down : EAT
37
Like a Jaguar or Miata : SPORTY
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Was in a play : ACTED
41
Ms. alternative : MRS
43
___ raving mad : STARK
44
Deutsch, here : GERMAN
46
Swiss peak : ALP
48
Society page word : NEE
49
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Fat farm : SPA
54
Pouting face : MOUE
55
"Dance On Little Girl" singer : ANKA
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Piercing tool : AWL
61
Opera house cries : BRAVOS
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Non-earthling : ALIEN
69
Otherwise : ELSE
70
___ Stanley Gardner : ERLE
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Old-fashioned : RETRO
72
Fate : DOOM
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Aussie hoppers : ROOS
Down
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Henry VIII's sixth : PARR
2
Not into the wind : ALEE
3
Not in use : IDLE
4
Criticize harshly : RAILAT
5
Hong Kong residents, now : CHINESE
6
___ Speedwagon : REO
7
Calla lily family : ARUM
8
Symbol of Jewish resistance : MASADA
9
Hawaiian garland : LEI
10
Fine or liberal follower : ARTS
11
"How ___!" : TRUE
12
Frost : HOAR
13
Singer Fitzgerald : ELLA
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Best Picture of 1958 : GIGI
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They may need coloring at a salon : ROOTS
24
Deception : SHAM
26
Small bites : NIPS
27
Fort ___, N.C. : BRAGG
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Indy entrant : RACER
29
Prelim : INTRO
30
Horse stall covering : STRAW
31
Go bad : ROT
32
Neighbor of an Afghani : IRANI
33
Sore throat cause, briefly : STREP
34
Little squirts, so to speak : TYKES
39
Big bird : EMU
40
Drops bait : DAPS
42
Brickbat : SLAM
45
Like some stocks : NOPAR
47
Bit of math homework : PROBLEM
50
Acted servilely : FAWNED
51
Hang ten or shoot the curl : SURF
52
Medicine man : HEALER
55
In the distance : AFAR
56
Aswan's river : NILE
57
Make an afghan : KNIT
58
"Hard Hearted Hannah" composer : AGER
60
Composer Schifrin : LALO
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___ Beach, Fla. : VERO
63
Norse capital : OSLO
64
Tom Jones's "___ a Lady" : SHES
66
Brian of rock music : ENO
67
Prefix with metric : ISO

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