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New York Times, Tuesday, August 18, 1998

Author:
Nancy Salomon
Editor:
Will Shortz
30-Down : Challenge for a bowler
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Nancy Salomon

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 40 Missing: {BJKQZ} This is puzzle # 12 for Ms. Salomon. Tuesday freshness: 1%
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© 1998, The New York Times8/18/98 ( No. 17,815 )
Across
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Leave without paying : STIFF
6
Over the edge : GAGA
10
Not fooled by : ONTO
14
Group that has its own organ : CHOIR
15
"The Black Stallion" boy : ALEX
16
Denunciate, with "at" : RAIL
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1958 Rosalind Russell comedy : AUNTIEMAME
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As to : INRE
20
British sports cars : MGS
21
Utopias : EDENS
22
Dial sounds : TONES
23
Plus : AND
24
Like unwashed hair : OILY
25
1955 Fred Astaire/Leslie Caron musical : DADDYLONGLEGS
31
Gardens amidst the sands : OASES
32
Left, at sea : APORT
33
Photo ___ : OPS
35
Abbr. on an envelope : ATTN
36
Free, as knots : UNTIE
37
___ Alto, Calif. : PALO
38
Mink's coat : FUR
39
Hankerings : URGES
40
Arrived : GOTIN
41
1981 Joan Crawford exposé starring Faye Dunaway : MOMMIEDEAREST
44
Chops (off) : LOPS
45
"She loves me ___" : NOT
46
Clumps of earth : CLODS
48
Take care of : SEETO
51
Verse on a vase : ODE
54
Throw a tantrum : RAGE
55
1963 film of a Chekhov classic with Laurence Olivier : UNCLEVANYA
57
Word after "roger" : OVER
58
Wit Mort : SAHL
59
Animated Fudd : ELMER
60
Caution : WARN
61
"I" problems : EGOS
62
Title pages? : DEEDS
Down
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Rip-off : SCAM
2
Hood : THUG
3
They're charged : IONS
4
Like a fiddle? : FIT
5
Hit 1990's NBC sitcom : FRIENDS
6
Clue, for one : GAME
7
Money guru Greenspan : ALAN
8
Precious stones : GEMS
9
Woodsman's tool : AXE
10
Cal Ripken, for one : ORIOLE
11
Female butters : NANNYGOATS
12
Spare, maybe : TIRE
13
Bullfight bravos : OLES
18
Whirlpool : EDDY
22
Pinball foul : TILT
23
Yemeni city : ADEN
24
Very nasty sort : OGRE
25
It's a fact : DATUM
26
Reader of heavenly signs : ASTROLOGER
27
Hope of "Peyton Place" : LANGE
28
Made a choice : OPTED
29
Ping or zing : NOISE
30
Challenge for a bowler : SPLIT
31
Bumbling one : OAF
34
Junior : SON
36
"Exodus" author : URIS
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Dickinson or Frost, e.g. : POET
39
Ballpark figures : UMPS
40
Moved to the music, slangily : GROOVED
42
Contemporary : MODERN
43
Upfront money : ANTE
46
Meal for the humble? : CROW
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Volcanic flow : LAVA
48
Barely catch : SNAG
49
Kind of chamber : ECHO
50
Building extensions : ELLS
51
Treater's words : ONME
52
Changed colors : DYED
53
Pairs with drums : EARS
55
Take advantage of : USE
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Hearty brew : ALE

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