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NY Times, Sun, Feb 11, 2007  LOVE IS ALL AROUND

Author: Mark Feldman / Will Shortz
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Rows: 23, Columns: 23, Words: 166, Blocks: 103, Avg Word Len: 5.13, Missing: { none — this is a pangram }
Open squares: 136, Cheater squares: 18, Freshness Factor™: 74.9, New York Times Across Lite file
This is puzzle 3 of 5 for Mr. Feldman — solos: 5, collaborations: 0, Sundays: 3

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© 2007, The New York Times
Across Down
1. Shooting marble : AGATE
6. Cradle call : MAMA
10. What I will follow : EFGH
14. Mystery writers' awards : AGATHAS
21. Printing process, briefly : LITHO
22. North Sea feeder : YSER
23. Dramatic solo : ARIA
24. Observant Mormons, e.g. : TITHERS
25. Scottish hillsides : BRAES
26. With gusto : HEARTILY
27. Tendon injury : TEAR
28. Emotional traumas : HEARTBREAKS
29. Full of compassion : ALLHEART
30. Hit hard : SWAT
31. Pitchers' places : MOUNDS
33. From memory : BYHEART
34. Writer Gogol : NIKOLAI
36. Midwest and Plains states, e.g. : HEARTLAND
38. Old tar's shipmates : HEARTIES
40. Siberian river port : OMSK
44. No longer hungry : FULL
45. Where it's at : SITE
46. Endurance, informally : LEGS
47. Whitecap formation : FOAM
48. Maj.'s superior : LTCOL
49. French white wine : MUSCADET
51. Reddish-brown gems : SARDS
52. Relatively robust : HEARTIER
53. Magnanimous : GREATHEARTED
56. Washington's profile is on it : PURPLEHEART
58. Prevented : BOXEDOUT
60. Old Aegean region : IONIA
62. Get ___ (be rewarded at work) : ARAISE
63. Stumble upon : RUNACROSS
64. Enthusiast : NUT
65. Mary Hartman's TV hometown : FERNWOOD
67. Screened, as a patient : PRESEEN
68. Swing : BAT
69. "Gilligan's Island" castaway : MARYANN
70. "MADtv" alternative : SNL
71. Dirty : SOIL
73. "Mr. Mom" co-star : GARR
74. East Lansing sch. : MSU
77. 1972 #1 Neil Young hit : HEARTOFGOLD
81. Deli delicacy : LOX
82. Depresses : DISHEARTENS
86. Free : LETLOOSE
88. Break ground? : HOE
89. Grainy finishes : WOODTONES
91. Physicist Fermi : ENRICO
92. One can be educated : GUESS
94. Strong : POWERFUL
95. Pregnant woman, in obstetrics : GRAVIDA
97. Feminine fiend : SHEDEMON
99. Pulitzer-winning biographer Leon : EDEL
100. Pilotless plane : DRONE
101. 1938 #1 hit composed by Hoagy Carmichael : HEARTANDSOUL
103. Physical sound? : HEARTBEAT
105. Lee's men : REBS
106. Ending with ranch : ERIA
107. Crash-investigating org. : NTSB
109. ___'acte : ENTR
110. Versatile vehicle : JEEP
111. Work like ___ : ADOG
112. Dental damage : DECAY
113. White-collar work : DESKJOB
117. She married Dick twice : LIZ
119. Not yet showing signs of wear : NEWISH
121. Founder of analytic psychology : JUNG
123. "The Producers" extra : NAZI
124. On a par with : EQUALTO
128. Valentine symbol : REDHEART
129. Get shot in a studio? : POSE
130. Ply with drink : BESOT
131. Better at stand-up : FUNNIER
132. Still having a shot to win : INIT
133. Lead-in periods : EVES
134. Concertedly : ASONE
135. Haberdashery buy : TIETACK
136. 14 for Si or 102 for No: Abbr. : ATNO
137. Joins : WEDS
138. Player of Santa in "Elf," 2003 : ASNER
 1. Composer Berg : ALBAN
2. "The ___ Left Behind Me" (Civil War tune) : GIRLI
3. Have ___ with : ATALK
4. Where "sage in bloom is like perfume," in song : THEHEARTOFTEXAS
5. Dawn deity : EOS
6. Oscar-winning "Titanic" song by Celine Dion : MYHEARTWILLGOON
7. It touches three oceans : ASIA
8. Get to people emotionally : MELTHEARTS
9. Suffix with station : ARY
10. Be consumed with envy : EATONESHEARTOUT
11. Dream interpreter : FREUD
12. Composer ___ Carlo Menotti : GIAN
13. Lacking sympathy : HARDHEARTED
14. In essence : ATHEART
15. Bee Gees brothers : GIBBS
16. "It's worth ___" : ATRY
17. 1917 Frank Lloyd film : THEHEARTOFALION
18. "? made ___ woman": Genesis : HEA
19. Deluge refuge : ARK
20. Draft inits. : SSS
30. Eastern European pork fat dish : SALO
31. Of the morning : MATUTINAL
32. Coll. fraternity with a skull-and-crossbones symbol : SIGEP
35. Shakespeare's "The Rape of ___" : LUCRECE
37. Andean capital : LIMA
39. Río de la Plata, e.g. : ESTUARY
41. To a greater extent : MORESO
42. In the dumps : SADHEARTED
43. U.K. distance measures : KMS
46. ___-da (pretentious) : LADI
48. Well-trained company? : LIONEL
50. Minimal money : CENT
51. Give rise to : SPAWN
52. After-dinner development : HEARTBURN
54. Ukr. neighbor : RUS
55. Sci-fi figures : ETS
57. Cell stuff that fabricates protein, for short : RRNA
59. "Dr." with Grammys : DRE
61. Yonder : AFAR
63. Very quick rotation meas. : RPS
66. Flub : ERR
68. eBay entry : BID
69. Upper figure : MAX
71. "Help wanted" letters : SOS
72. Cosmonaut Makarov : OLEG
73. Pays for oneself : GOESDUTCH
74. Ravel's "___ Antique" : MENUET
75. Fishhook line : SNELL
76. Battleship inits. : USS
77. 1967 medical milestone : HEARTTRANSPLANT
78. Drab shade : OLIVE
79. Meeting points : FOCI
80. Like a mensch : GOODHEARTED
81. Become smitten with : LOSEONESHEARTTO
82. Blue state : DOWNHEARTEDNESS
83. Chemical suffix : IDE
84. Urban grid : STREETS
85. Joseph Conrad classic : HEARTOFDARKNESS
86. Stowe villain : LEGREE
87. Clothe : ENROBE
88. Sneaky laughs : HEHS
89. Typing speed stat. : WPM
90. Tic-tac-toe win : OOO
93. Meat stamp inits. : USDA
96. Golden calf crafter : AARON
98. Jewelry designer Peretti : ELSA
100. Sixers' #6 : DRJ
102. Where nairas are spent : NIGERIA
104. Blood type, briefly : BNEG
108. Quaint cry of surprise : BYJOVE
111. Tenochtitlán resident : AZTEC
112. Slew : DIDIN
114. 1980's screen slasher : JASON
115. Earth protector : OZONE
116. Pernicious pet : BITER
118. Hip parts : ILIA
120. Left : WENT
122. Like antiques : USED
124. Immature newt : EFT
125. On the ___ vive : QUI
126. Évreux article : UNE
127. Sitcom planet : ORK
129. Church perch : PEW
130. Sound heard while shearing : BAA
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