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New York Times, Thursday, April 25, 2013

Author:
Jeffrey Wechsler
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
1-Down : Squirrel's nuts, maybe
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Jeffrey Wechsler

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 70, Blocks: 40 Missing: {JKQVZ} Spans: 1 This is puzzle # 6 for Mr. Wechsler. Grid flow: 46.1 Thursday freshness: 66%
Jeff Chen notes:

It took me ages to figure out what was going on here. PRESTO CHANGE O = "change PRESTO by anagramming those six letters." TSOPER in WHAT'S OPERA DOC, for instance.

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C
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© 2013, The New York Times4/25/13 ( No. 23,179 )
Across
1
It has everything : COSMOS
7
Troublemaker, perhaps : MISFIT
13
France : château :: Spain : ___ : CASTILLO
15
Individually : APIECE
16
Birthday, e.g. : OCCASION
17
Put on : DONNED
18
Classic cartoon in which "Kill da wabbit" is sung to a Wagner tune : WHATSOPERADOC
20
Dried out : SERE
21
Haw's partner : HEM
22
Hosp. adjunct : EMS
25
Onetime presidential candidate on the Forbes 400 list : HROSSPEROT
29
Yukon XL maker, for short : GMC
32
Compote ingredient : PEAR
33
Child actress Patten of "Song of the South" : LUANA
34
Travel hassle : AIRPORTSECURITY
38
Spills the beans : BLABS
39
Checkup : EXAM
40
Fleur-de-___ : LYS
41
Trap in Penobscot Bay : LOBSTERPOT
44
What's that to José? : ESA
45
Terra warmer : SOL
46
Hanukkah largesse : GELT
50
Magician's phrase ... or a hint to part of 18-, 25-, 34- and 41-Across : PRESTOCHANGEO
56
Springer on African grasslands : IMPALA
58
"So what?" : WHOCARES
59
Best way to defuse a bomb : CALMLY
60
Doesn't rush, say : SAUNTERS
61
Brunch dish : CREPES
62
Seizes : WRESTS
Down
1
Squirrel's nuts, maybe : CACHE
2
When said three times, frequent line on "The Odd Couple" : OSCAR
3
Condition : STATE
4
Be errant, say : MISS
5
Diverse grouping : OLIO
6
Haute cuisine by no means : SLOP
7
Ladies : MADAMS
8
___ Touch : IPOD
9
___-Japanese War : SINO
10
Product of Abe Lincoln's wood splitting : FENCERAIL
11
Put away : ICE
12
___ talks, offerers of "ideas worth spreading" : TED
13
Intimidates : COWS
14
Primitive farming equipment : ONEHORSEPLOWS
19
High-___ : RES
23
Hall of fame : MONTY
24
Some court orders : STAYS
25
"I'm with ___" (T-shirt phrase) : HER
26
Possible prey of a 37-Down : RAT
27
Desirable, as a job : PLUM
28
Lux.'s place : EUR
29
Exterior house feature : GABLE
30
Director Forman : MILOS
31
Small sour fruit : CRABAPPLE
32
Guarded place : POST
35
It has lots of pledges : PBS
36
Prefix with biology : EXO
37
Possible predator of a 26-Down : CAT
42
Some collegiate output : ESSAYS
43
Crazy talk : ROT
46
Annoying buzzers : GNATS
47
Wetland denizen : EGRET
48
Body scans? : LEERS
49
Pitch : TOSS
51
Intensify, with "up" : RAMP
52
25-Down, en français : ELLE
53
Something placed in the mouth of a pitcher? : CHAW
54
Time : HOUR
55
Some minor eruptions : ACNE
56
Org. meting out justice at The Hague : ICC
57
Chip, maybe : MAR

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