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NY Times, Fri, Jan 23, 2009

Author: Barry C. Silk / Will Shortz
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Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 70, Blocks: 28, Avg Word Len: 5.63, Missing: { none — this is a pangram }, Scrabble score: 329 (avg 1.67)
Open squares: 86, Cheater squares: 0, Freshness Factor™: 69.8, New York Times Across Lite file
This is puzzle 33 of 44 for Mr. Silk — solos: 42, collaborations: 2, Sundays: 3

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© 2009, The New York Times
Across Down
1. Creek Confederacy tribe : ALABAMA
8. "The Appeal" novelist : GRISHAM
15. Two-time foreign minister of the U.S.S.R. : MOLOTOV
16. Clio maker : RENAULT
17. Film with the line "By the authority vested in me by Kaiser William II, I pronounce you man and wife. Proceed with the execution" : THEAFRICANQUEEN
19. Equipment for strokes : OARS
20. ___ lot (was telling) : SAIDA
21. Observing things : EYES
22. Home of Sault Ste. Marie: Abbr. : ONT
23. Recipient of a trade discount : RETAILER
25. Withdraw : SECEDE
26. Not be generous : SKIMP
30. King of Naples in "The Tempest" : ALONSO
33. One way to recoil : INHORROR
35. Sported : WORE
36. Ill-gotten : DIRTY
38. Prefix with marine : AERO
39. Jesus, Mary or Joseph : NAZARENE
41. Like some DVDs in DVD players : PAUSED
43. Burning evidence : SMOKE
44. Evidence that one is an alien : ACCENT
46. Opening for an anchor : TOPSTORY
48. Toy store inits. : FAO
51. Asian au pair : AMAH
54. Have ___ (not be trapped) : ANOUT
55. U.S. org. with over 39 million members : AARP
56. Fantastic flight : MAGICCARPETRIDE
59. Cheat : FLEECER
60. August : EXALTED
61. Ignition problem : MISFIRE
62. Big East team with six N.I.T. basketball championships : STJOHNS
 1. Childish comeback : AMTOO
2. "I Know Who Killed Me" actress, 2007 : LOHAN
3. Word often preceded by a color : ALERT
4. Givers of unfriendly hugs : BOAS
5. Justice Dept. division : ATF
6. A ham might use it : MORSECODE
7. Focus on one's approach, say : AVIATE
8. Inclination : GRADIENT
9. Kind of artery : RENAL
10. Govt. probe : INQ
11. Frank request : SAUERKRAUT
12. U.S. military chopper : HUEY
13. One way to turn a ship : ALEE
14. Chain links?: Abbr. : MTNS
18. George H. W. Bush, once : CIADIRECTOR
23. Apt., e.g. : RES
24. Panamanian pronoun : ESO
25. Lifter : SNEAKTHIEF
27. Ticks off : IRES
28. Glutton's desire : MORE
29. Driving tool : PROD
30. Beards : AWNS
31. The good earth? : LOAM
32. Pasta eaten with a spoon : ORZO
34. Web connection means : HYPERTEXT
37. Trapped : INASNARE
40. Franklin contemporary : REO
42. Word with longer or minute : ANY
45. Body types : COUPES
47. Apparently anxious person : PACER
48. Hill in Nashville : FAITH
49. "As You Like It" setting : ARDEN
50. Subjective pieces : OPEDS
51. Switch letters : AMFM
52. Where Bambara is spoken : MALI
53. All ___ (words on a game box) : AGES
55. One of a comic-strip married couple : ARLO
57. Third-century year : CCI
58. Atlantic City hot spot, with "the" : TAJ
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