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New York Times, Thursday, May 21, 2009

Author:
Patrick Blindauer
Editor:
Will Shortz
10-Across : What a loose thread might be
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Patrick Blindauer

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 36 Missing: {JQVXZ} This is puzzle # 26 for Mr. Blindauer. Thursday freshness: 26%
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© 2009, The New York Times5/21/9 ( No. 21,744 )
Across
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1970 hit for the Jackson 5 : ABC
4
"Deal!" : AGREED
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What a loose thread might be : CLUE
14
Friendly term of address : BRO
15
Río crosser : PUENTE
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Nest egg protectors : HENS
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Name of Lord Rubble's feudal estate? : BARNEYFIEF
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Slurs, in music : ARCS
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English princess : ANNE
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Sender of monthly checks: Abbr. : SSA
22
Fix, as a pump : RESOLE
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Present addition : BOW
26
Air in a sooty shaft? : COALMIEN
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Removed roughly : TORNOUT
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Big Apple sch. : NYU
33
Sly little dog? : SNEAKPEKE
35
One stuck in the can : LIFER
40
Third in a Latin series : AMAT
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Carefully search : SCOUR
43
Short evening? : NITE
44
Charles ___, "Brideshead Revisited" protagonist : RYDER
46
Celebration for a Disney dwarf? : HAPPYFETE
48
"The Mikado" wardrobe item : OBI
50
Like words? : SIMILES
51
Bamboozle a "Fargo" director? : SNOWCOEN
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Do sum work : ADD
57
Picasso/Braque movement : CUBISM
58
___ Lingus : AER
61
Title heroine described in the first sentence of her novel as "handsome, clever and rich" : EMMA
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It's shrinking in Asia : ARAL
65
Property claim along the Rio Grande? : BORDERLIEN
68
Realty ad abbr. : BSMT
69
Alchemic knowledge : ARCANA
70
Mungojerrie or Skimbleshanks, in a musical : CAT
71
Wet septet : SEAS
72
Toadies : YESMEN
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P.G.A. Tour Rookie of the Year after Singh : ELS
Down
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"Money, Money, Money" band : ABBA
2
Muffin composition, maybe : BRAN
3
Hot dog coating at a county fair : CORNBREAD
4
Mirror : APE
5
"___ and Dolls" : GUYS
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Judges : REFS
7
Pioneer computer : ENIAC
8
Beach time in Bordeaux : ETE
9
Offset, as expenses : DEFRAY
10
Gorge : CHASM
11
Choisy-___ (Paris suburb) : LEROI
12
Pawnbroker, in slang : UNCLE
13
Ruhr industrial hub : ESSEN
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Recent arrival : NEONATE
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Month before Tishri : ELUL
25
Convex cooker : WOK
27
Betters : ONEUPS
28
Romanov ruler : TSAR
29
"___ Own" (song from "Les Miz") : ONMY
30
DHL competitor : UPS
31
Sysop, for one : TECHIE
34
Place to overnight in an R.V. : KOA
36
Unbeliever : INFIDEL
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Meadow voles : FIELDMICE
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Major conclusion? : ETTE
39
Roger of "Cheers" : REES
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Sch. that's about 150 mi. north of 32-Across : RPI
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Enormous birds of myth : ROCS
47
Sumac from Peru : YMA
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City visited in "Around the World in 80 Days" : BOMBAY
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Union foes : SCABS
52
White-cap wearer : NURSE
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"The Audacity of Hope" author : OBAMA
54
Slumps : WILTS
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Pusher pursuers : NARCS
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Cheese choice : EDAM
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___ Dubos, Pulitzer winner for "So Human an Animal" : RENE
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Seder, e.g. : MEAL
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Creatures with tunnel vision? : ANTS
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Prospector's prize : ORE
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Fled : RAN

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