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New York Times, Wednesday, September 27, 2000

Author:
Fred Piscop
Editor:
Will Shortz
Russian regulars on the Lawrence Welk Show?
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This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 42 Missing: none – this is a pangram. Spans: 1 This is puzzle # 75 for Mr. Piscop.
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© 2000, The New York Times9/27/00 ( No. 18,586 )
Across
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Music whose name is Sanskrit for "color" : RAGA
5
___ Bear : PAPA
9
Commandment word : SHALT
14
Border on : ABUT
15
Fiendishness : EVIL
16
Room on board : CABIN
17
Lion's share : MOST
18
"And ___ bed": Pepys : SOTO
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Ain't right? : ARENT
20
Russian Irving Berlin classic? : PUTINONTHERITZ
23
Opera house attire : STOLE
24
Pendulum's path : ARC
25
Shoptalk : ARGOT
29
Do a second hitch with : REJOIN
34
Tread the boards : ACT
37
Kind of game : VIDEO
39
Writer Sarah ___ Jewett : ORNE
40
Russian regulars on the Lawrence Welk Show? : THELENINSISTERS
44
Part of a western landscape : MESA
45
Fireballer Ryan : NOLAN
46
Place for quiet, at times : SET
47
Give a pep talk : EXHORT
50
They're taboo : NONOS
52
Surgery sites, briefly : ORS
54
Score marks : RESTS
58
Request to a Russian procrastinator? : QUITYOURSTALIN
64
Stick with a pin : BURST
65
Scratch : FLAW
66
Priest of the East : LAMA
67
"Mule Train" singer : LAINE
68
Tutor of Siamese royalty : ANNA
69
Anon's partner : EVER
70
He caught Holyfield's ear : TYSON
71
Gobi rarity : RAIN
72
Newsroom fixture : DESK
Down
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Hospital egresses : RAMPS
2
Here or there : ABOUT
3
Zest : GUSTO
4
Fifth-century scourge : ATTILA
5
Cancún coin : PESO
6
Bristol's county, in England : AVON
7
Name of two British P.M.'s : PITT
8
Greeting or farewell : ALOHA
9
Numismatist's description : SCARCE
10
Mata ___ : HARI
11
Act as lookout, say : ABET
12
Austrian city on the Danube : LINZ
13
Demolition stuff : TNT
21
Chutzpah : NERVE
22
Misquote, say : ERR
26
Card game cry : GIN
27
Valhalla V.I.P. : ODIN
28
Dovetail part : TENON
30
Scribble : JOT
31
They could use refinement : ORES
32
Concerning : INRE
33
Kite's home : NEST
34
"Don't look ___!" : ATME
35
Food that's part of a square meal? : CHEX
36
Musician John : TESH
38
1952 Winter Olympics site : OSLO
41
Southeast Asian : LAO
42
Golfer Woosnam : IAN
43
Bullpen sound : SNORT
48
Way past ripe : ROTTEN
49
Take a whack at : TRY
51
S.W.A.K. part : SEALED
53
To date : SOFAR
55
Amistad passenger : SLAVE
56
Marathon data : TIMES
57
Lewis Carroll critter : SNARK
58
Wharf : QUAY
59
"The Haj" writer : URIS
60
"Money ___ object!" : ISNO
61
Radius neighbor : ULNA
62
Rajah's wife : RANI
63
Ugly Duckling, eventually : SWAN
64
Nonkosher lunch : BLT

Answer summary: 3 unique to this puzzle.

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