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New York Times, Friday, July 27, 2007

Author:
John R. Conrad
Editor:
Will Shortz
43-Across : Words to live by
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John R. Conrad

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 70, Blocks: 42 This is puzzle # 10 for Mr. Conrad. Friday freshness: 86%
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© 2007, The New York Times7/27/7 ( No. 21,080 )
Across
1
Breakers communicate with them : CBS
4
Medevacs, in military slang : DUSTOFFS
9
Shop coat? : SAWDUST
13
Gets a move on : HIES
15
Officer slain in the Old Testament : URIAH
16
Ear-relevant : OTIC
17
Sharply outline : ETCH
18
Prefix with -hedron : PENTA
19
Carpenter's groove : DADO
20
Avignon infinitive : ETRE
21
City of canals : OSAKA
23
Roseanne's mom on "Roseanne" : BEV
24
Things wheeled in supermarkets? : CHEESES
27
Kind of therapy : HORMONE
29
Cow : HECTOR
30
Judge, e.g. : TRIER
31
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee known as the White Lady of Soul : DUSTYSPRINGFIELD
36
Tactful : POLITIC
37
Nebulous stuff : INTERSTELLARDUST
43
Words to live by : CREED
44
People people : CELEBS
46
Billboard listing : HITTUNE
49
Puts together in a hurry : WHIPSUP
50
Wood smoother : ADZ
51
Food whose name is Italian for "feathers" : PENNE
53
Rip off : HOSE
54
Cry of vehement denial : LIES
56
Reservation dwelling : ADOBE
58
Aged Frankfurter? : ALTE
59
Maestro Masur : KURT
60
Make more interesting : LIVEN
61
Future shoot : SEED
62
Janitorial tool : DUSTMOP
63
Big band era standard : STARDUST
64
Kind of ice : DRY
Down
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Half of a 1970s-'80s comedy duo : CHEECH
2
Went kaput : BITTHEDUST
3
Opposite of openness : SECRECY
4
Quarrel : DUSTUP
5
Treats often taken apart : OREOS
6
Scuba gear : FINS
7
Palestinian group : FATAH
8
Cadet's topper : SHAKO
9
Plot thickener? : SOD
10
Very, very hot : ATABOIL
11
Like some highways after construction work : WIDENED
12
Furniture protector : DUSTCOVER
14
What rain might fall in : SHEETS
22
It contains the elastic clause : ARTICLEI
25
Absorbed : SOPPEDUP
26
Debugging discovery : ERROR
28
C ration replacer : MRE
32
They, in Marseille : ILS
33
Thing to be picked : NIT
34
Former telecom giant : GTE
35
Cop : FILCH
37
Metal in the points of gold pens : IRIDIUM
38
EarthLink alternative : NETZERO
39
It's celebrated in late January or early February : TET
40
Socially dominant ones : ALPHAS
41
Put a new bottom on, in a way : RESOLED
42
Black & Decker offering : DUSTBUSTER
43
Classroom sneeze elicitor : CHALKDUST
45
Express : SPEEDY
47
Country singer McCoy and others : NEALS
48
Get divorced : ENDIT
49
Grill brand : WEBER
52
Astronomer's study : NOVA
55
Motor Up alternative : STP
57
Cleaning product with the slogan "It's that fast" : ENDUST

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