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NY TIMES, WED, JAN 14, 1998

January 14, 1998•Wednesday

Creator

William Bernhardt

Editor

Will Shortz

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1Lose freshness, as lettuce
5Scenery chewers
9Necklace securer
14Confess
15"Napoleon" director Gance
16Dutch government seat, with "The"
17Amos or Spelling
18Instrument shaped like a 69-Across
19Undisguised
20Cereal secrets?
23It may be beaten or bucked
24Billy was one
25Santa ___
28Beach robe
33Tylenol target
37Yours and mine
39Razz
40Cereal principle of government?
43Doughnut-shaped
44Helpless?
45Three-handed card game
46Bit of fabric
48Kind of admiral
50Legendary sleeper
52Be a dilettante
57Celebrates with cereal?
62Novelist Lagerlöf
6324-year-old British P.M.
64Wistful word
65The Little Mermaid
66Forearm bone
67Cost of a minute call, maybe
68Part of T.W.A.
69Anjou or Seckel
70"Up" side

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1Light bulb units
2Creamy white
3Slow-moving lemur
4Between, to bards
5Henry Hudson's ship
6Bump up against
7John Wesley's denom.
8Streamlined
9Phylum humans belong to
10Volcanologist's concern
11Like fine wine
12"Yeah, right"
13Stroke
21Not 'neath
22Twitch
26Beer, slangily
27Place for vines
29Swampy spots
30Equestrian gear
31Off land
32Nutcracker suite
33New Testament book
34Eats
35Greek queen of heaven
36Sartre's "No ___"
38Shopper's delight
41Savings account gains
42Guiding light: Var.
47With it
49Halftime holler
51High ball
53Like some eyes
54Contradict
55Andean grazer
56Twisting turns
57"The King and I" co-star
58Pelvic bones
59Marvel superheroes
60World's longest river
61Sicilian smoker
62Emulated Jack Horner
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