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New York Times, Monday, September 18, 2000

Author:
Sherry O. Blackard and Lyell Rodieck
Editor:
Will Shortz
39-Across : Drying ovens
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This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 34 Missing: {JQXZ} This is puzzle # 4 for Ms. Blackard. This is puzzle # 2 for Ms. Rodieck. Monday freshness: 54%
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© 2000, The New York Times9/18/0 ( No. 18,577 )
Across
1
Hunter in the night sky : ORION
6
Gush : SPEW
10
"Get out!" : SCAT
14
AM/FM device : RADIO
15
Artificially jazz (up) : HOKE
16
___ vault : POLE
17
Where Elsie looks for a husband? : BULLMARKET
19
Water pitcher : EWER
20
Guileful : SLY
21
Actress Judith : IVEY
22
World Cup sport : SOCCER
24
"National Velvet" author Bagnold : ENID
25
Knickknack : CURIO
26
Like the word of God : SACRED
29
"No, it doesn't make you look fat," maybe : WHITELIE
32
747, e.g. : PLANE
33
Entices : BAITS
34
Cut off, as branches : LOP
35
Watch amorously : OGLE
36
Throws, as dice : CASTS
37
One-time divorce mecca : RENO
38
Clodhopper : OAF
39
Drying ovens : OASTS
40
Mr. Spock's forte : LOGIC
41
It's yellow and crusty : LEMONPIE
43
Full of modern gadgetry : HITECH
44
Complete change of course : UTURN
45
Superman accessory : CAPE
46
Birthplace of St. Francis : ASSISI
48
Kind of grapes : SOUR
49
Civil War inits. : CSA
52
Tetched in the head : LOCO
53
Phone message from Elsie's friends? : CATTLECALL
56
Buddies : PALS
57
Rework, as stories : EDIT
58
Quarrel : ARGUE
59
German battleship Graf ___ : SPEE
60
Poet Teasdale : SARA
61
Some blondes : DYERS
Down
1
Sun and moon, for example : ORBS
2
Julia of "The Addams Family" : RAUL
3
Without purpose : IDLY
4
Squeaky wheel's need : OIL
5
Convention V.I.P. : NOMINEE
6
Scrap paper? : SHRED
7
Dawdling : POKY
8
Squeeze (out) : EKE
9
Divers' wear : WETSUITS
10
Coined money : SPECIE
11
Where Elsie gets educated? : COWCOLLEGE
12
Not aweather : ALEE
13
Dakotas, once: Abbr. : TERR
18
Greedy : AVID
23
Table scraps : ORTS
24
White-tailed eagle : ERNE
25
Signed I.O.U.'s : CHITS
26
Thread holder : SPOOL
27
Low end of the food chain : ALGAE
28
What Elsie's child develops at the gym? : CALFMUSCLE
29
Trash : WASTE
30
Like some Greek columns : IONIC
31
Memorable time : EPOCH
33
Yacht club site : BASIN
36
Whims : CAPRICES
37
Mechanical learning : ROTE
39
Burden : ONUS
40
Take the words out of one's mouth? : LIPREAD
42
Idle : OTIOSE
43
Thieves' booty : HAUL
45
Terra ___ : COTTA
46
Peaks near Bern : ALPS
47
Camay, for one : SOAP
48
Ado : STIR
49
Zoo feature : CAGE
50
Ugly putdown : SLUR
51
Pub offerings : ALES
54
Nabokov novel : ADA
55
Hue's partner : CRY

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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