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New York Times, Wednesday, September 17, 1997

Author:
Karen Hodge
Editor:
Will Shortz
63-Down : TV breaks
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Karen Young Bonin

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 34 Missing: {JQXZ} This is puzzle # 7 for Ms. Bonin. Wednesday freshness: 87%
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D
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© 1997, The New York Times9/17/97 ( No. 17,480 )
Across
1
Grist for processors : DATA
5
Quizzes : ASKS
9
Hurt : ACHED
14
"L'___ c'est moi": Louis XIV : ETAT
15
Train transportation : RAIL
16
Word in a Yale song : BOOLA
17
Religious monster? : FAITHGILA
19
Sound louder than kerplop : SPLAT
20
Swimming pool problem : ALGAE
21
Athos, Porthos and Aramis, e.g. : NOMS
23
1944 Pulitzer journalist : PYLE
24
It's rolled out at parties : TEACART
26
Wooden shoe : SABOT
28
1940's Big-Band leader : KRUPA
30
Solidarnosc leader : WALESA
33
Chattering birds : DAWS
36
Not stiff : LIMP
38
Frothy : BARMY
39
Serpent's mark? : EVE
40
Popular men's magazine : DETAILS
42
Parisian way : RUE
43
"Mefistofele" composer : BOITO
45
Biology subj. : ANAT
46
Gets choked up : GAGS
47
Charles's "Gaslight" co-star, 1944 : INGRID
49
"___ to bed" : ANDSO
51
Solicit cash from : HITUP
53
Formation of bone : OSTOSIS
57
Spoils : SWAG
59
Cream of the crop : BEST
61
Junta's act : EDICT
62
Tigger's adopted mom : KANGA
64
Macho dance? : STUDPOLKA
66
Signed : INKED
67
Sound : TONE
68
December air : NOEL
69
Compote fruit : PEARS
70
Q-Tip : SWAB
71
In ___ (existing) : ESSE
Down
1
Make lean? : DEFAT
2
"I could ___ unfold...": "Hamlet" : ATALE
3
Northern evergreen forests : TAIGA
4
Jumps on : ATTACKS
5
S.A. republic : ARG
6
Patron of bread? : SAINTPITA
7
Narc's catch, maybe : KILO
8
Putdowns : SLAMS
9
Tummy muscles : ABS
10
"Apocalypse Now" director : COPPOLA
11
Jerusalem? : HOLYTERRA
12
One way to get to Jerusalem : ELAL
13
Anniversary, e.g. : DATE
18
Take, as oral arguments : HEAR
22
Cut : SAW
25
Wear the crown : RULE
27
Barbara, to friends : BABS
29
Popular appliance maker : AMANA
31
Overproud : SMUG
32
Words said in passing? : AYES
33
Skater Thomas : DEBI
34
Shakespeare, the Bard of ___ : AVON
35
Measure a pop singer? : WEIGHANKA
37
Musical fish? : PIANOTUNA
40
"Go ahead!" : DOIT
41
Some old Fords : LTDS
44
Set off : TRIGGER
46
"Nice going!" : GOODONE
48
Name : DUB
50
Kind of aerobics : STEP
52
Pains in the neck : PESTS
54
Farm towers : SILOS
55
F.D.R.'s Interior Secretary : ICKES
56
Several-days-old : STALE
57
Pass over : SKIP
58
Diminish : WANE
60
Pack away : STOW
63
TV breaks : ADS
65
Miss out? : DEB

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