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New York Times, Monday, September 25, 2000

Author:
Peter Gordon
Editor:
Will Shortz
21-Across : Winning tic-tac-toe row
TotalDebutLatest
1289/5/19894/8/2024
SunMonTueWedThuFriSatVariety
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RebusCircleScrabblePGramPre‑WSFresh
941.5961124%
Peter Gordon

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 40 Missing: {FJQVX} This is puzzle # 42 for Mr. Gordon. Monday freshness: 34%
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© 2000, The New York Times9/25/0 ( No. 18,584 )
Across
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Peanut, in the South : GOOBER
7
Kitten's plaything : YARN
11
Magazine with a fold-in back cover : MAD
14
Richly decorated : ORNATE
15
Eminently draftable : ONEA
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Intense anger : IRE
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TV room : DEN
20
Aweather's opposite : ALEE
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Winning tic-tac-toe row : OOO
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College application part : ESSAY
24
Piece next to a knight : ROOK
26
Core group : CADRE
28
Sound from a moving train : CLICKETYCLICK
32
Winter forecast : SLEET
33
On guard : WARY
34
Explosive stuff : TNT
36
Hardly neatniks : PIGS
37
Dress with a flared bottom : ALINE
39
Uncles, in Cuba : TIOS
40
Doctors' org. : AMA
41
Les États-___ : UNIS
42
Base stealer Lou : BROCK
43
Darned : BLANKETYBLANK
47
Novelists Ferber and O'Brien : EDNAS
48
Feedbag fill : OATS
49
Town square : PLAZA
51
Make a goof : ERR
52
Radio operators : HAMS
56
Captain's journal : LOG
57
Important person : MUCKETYMUCK
61
Bird that gives a hoot : OWL
62
French 101 verb : ETRE
63
Aviator Earhart : AMELIA
64
Driving range peg : TEE
65
Calendar units : DAYS
66
Stagecoach robber : BANDIT
Down
1
"Naked Maja" painter : GOYA
2
Spoken : ORAL
3
Give the ___-over : ONCE
4
Pastry shops : BAKERIES
5
When the French fry : ETE
6
Seized again : RETOOK
7
Toy that goes "around the world" : YOYO
8
Santa ___, Calif. : ANA
9
___ room (place to play games) : REC
10
In an unprotected manner : NAKEDLY
11
Torso : MIDSECTION
12
Zone : AREA
13
Contradict : DENY
18
Oxen connector : YOKE
23
___ Lanka : SRI
25
Halloween's mo. : OCT
26
Shade of blue : CYAN
27
Big garden size : ACRE
28
Ascend : CLIMB
29
Top-notch lawyer : LEGALEAGLE
30
Chubby Checker's dance : TWIST
31
Word repeated before "Who's there?" : KNOCK
32
Health resort : SPA
35
Sound of disappointment : TSK
37
"My Way" songwriter : ANKA
38
Commits perjury : LIES
39
Sanitation workers : TRASHMEN
41
Not specified : UNNAMED
42
Sandwich that usually contains mayo : BLT
44
Axlike tool : ADZ
45
Time past : YORE
46
It grows every time you get a shot : BARTAB
49
Parcel of land : PLOT
50
Actor Rob : LOWE
51
Meagerly maintains, with "out" : EKES
53
"___ Lang Syne" : AULD
54
Early 12th-century date : MCII
55
Three-person card game : SKAT
58
Actress Hagen : UTA
59
Weep : CRY
60
Singer Sumac : YMA

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 4 debuted here and reused later, 2 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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