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NY Times, Mon, Nov 24, 2003

Author: Nancy Kavanaugh / Will Shortz
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Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 42, Avg Word Len: 4.82, Missing: { none — this is a pangram }, Scrabble score: 290 (avg 1.58)
Open squares: 68, Cheater squares: 4, Freshness Factor™: 51.1, New York Times Across Lite file
This is puzzle 11 of 24 for Ms. Kavanaugh — solos: 24, collaborations: 0, Sundays: 0

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© 2003, The New York Times
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1. The "L" of A.F.L.-C.I.O. : LABOR
6. Merriment : GLEE
10. Baghdad's land : IRAQ
14. Popular pain reliever : ALEVE
15. Red gem : RUBY
16. Spiritual guide : GURU
17. Perfect : IDEAL
18. Musical instrument that's blown into : OBOE
19. Celebrity's wheels : LIMO
20. Public speaker's goal : RAPTATTENTION
23. Way out sign : EXIT
24. Musician Yoko : ONO
25. Ran into : MET
28. Useless : NOGOOD
31. English TV-radio inits. : BBC
34. Neighborhoods : AREAS
37. Polite words at an entrance : AFTERYOU
39. Knocked : RAPPEDONTHEDOOR
42. Beginning to awake : STIRRING
43. "The Divine Comedy" writer : DANTE
44. Brick carrier : HOD
45. Mistake remover : ERASER
48. Double curve : ESS
49. Industrious insect : ANT
50. Fishing aids : NETS
53. Like a sarong : WRAPPEDAROUND
59. Incarcerate : JAIL
61. Gooey stuff : OOZE
62. Impressive display : ARRAY
63. Helper : AIDE
64. Gumbo pods : OKRA
65. Shipping container : CRATE
66. Small songbird : WREN
67. Backside : REAR
68. Mary ___ Moore : TYLER
 1. Den : LAIR
2. Alan of "M*A*S*H" : ALDA
3. When repeated, the Road Runner's cry : BEEP
4. Egg-shaped : OVATE
5. Take it easy : RELAX
6. Cave : GROTTO
7. Garage job : LUBE
8. Black, to poets : EBON
9. Canine : EYETOOTH
10. Dome-shaped home : IGLOO
11. Destroy : RUIN
12. Elbow's site : ARM
13. Quid pro ___ : QUO
21. The ___ Man ("The Wizard of Oz" character) : TIN
22. Truly : INDEED
25. Reedy place : MARSH
26. Poetry Muse : ERATO
27. Lukewarm : TEPID
29. Groups of troublemakers : GANGS
30. Frequently, in verse : OFT
31. When an office worker may have to be back from lunch : BYONE
32. Galoshes : BOOTS
33. Remedies : CURES
35. Mar. follower : APR
36. Venus's tennis-playing sister : SERENA
38. Nutritional inits. : RDA
40. Poverty-stricken : DIRTPOOR
41. Swear ___ stack of Bibles : ONA
46. Be pleasing (to) : ENDEAR
47. Stephen of "The Crying Game" : REA
49. Sen. Specter : ARLEN
51. Piece of land : TRACT
52. Rueful : SORRY
53. Not narrow : WIDE
54. Jab : POKE
55. Poet Pound : EZRA
56. Russian river : URAL
57. Son on "Six Feet Under" : NATE
58. Textile worker : DYER
59. What the teeth are connected to : JAW
60. Breathable stuff : AIR
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