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Andrea Carla Michaels 

NY Times, Mon, Mar 30, 2009

Author: Andrea Carla Michaels
Blog: NYT Wordplay | Analyze | Turn on Clue Tracker | Similar | | (XPF defined)
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.79, Missing: { F Z }, Scrabble score: 313 (avg 1.67)
Open squares: 63, Cheater squares: 2, FITB: 6, XRef: 0, Freshness Factor™: 48.8 (49.1 Mon. %-ile), NYT Across Lite file
This is puzzle 15 of 21 for Ms. Michaels — solos: 13, collaborations: 8, Sundays: 2

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© 2009, The New York Times
Across Down
1. Side of a doorway : JAMB
5. 1928 Oscar winner Jannings : EMIL
9. ___ and dangerous : ARMED
14. Actor Morales : ESAI
15. Western locale called the Biggest Little City in the World : RENO
16. Late hotel queen Helmsley : LEONA
17. Small hotel room specification : SINGLEOCCUPANCY
20. Modern workout system : TAEBO
21. Fan sound : WHIR
22. "Hel-l-lp!" : SOS
23. Capone and Pacino : ALS
25. Sticky stuff : GOO
27. 1944 thriller with Fred MacMurray and Barbara Stanwyck : DOUBLEINDEMNITY
36. ___-bitty : ITTY
37. Falco of "The Sopranos" : EDIE
38. Ad ___ per aspera (Kansas' motto) : ASTRA
39. Former AT&T rival : GTE
40. Princess Diana's family name : SPENCER
42. Suffix with president : IAL
43. Eagle's nest : AERIE
45. Trojan War hero : AJAX
46. Years, in Latin : ANNI
47. Baked dessert with lemon filling, maybe : TRIPLELAYERCAKE
50. Partner of long. in a G.P.S. location : LAT
51. Small pouch : SAC
52. "___ sells seashells by the seashore" (tongue twister) : SHE
54. Bulletin board fastener : TACK
58. Oliver's love in "As You Like It" : CELIA
62. Serious heart surgery : QUADRUPLEBYPASS
65. Brink : VERGE
66. Continental money : EURO
67. Author Morrison : TONI
68. Words to live by : CREED
69. TV's warrior princess : XENA
70. Former jets to J.F.K. : SSTS
 1. Words said in fun : JEST
2. Where India is : ASIA
3. Lion's hair : MANE
4. Chronic whiner : BIGBABY
5. Before, poetically : ERE
6. Cat's plaint : MEOW
7. 1/12 of a foot : INCH
8. Graph points : LOCI
9. Swiss peak : ALP
10. Deduces : REASONS
11. Not stereo : MONO
12. Letter attachments: Abbr. : ENCS
13. When the sun shines : DAY
18. Laze about : LOLL
19. Impulse : URGE
24. Ooze : SEEP
26. Poet Khayyám : OMAR
27. Probe persistently : DIGAT
28. Stream critter : OTTER
29. Wombs : UTERI
30. Like a score of 10 for 10 : IDEAL
31. Japanese fighter : NINJA
32. Go bad, as teeth : DECAY
33. Singer Turner's autobiography : ITINA
34. Drug that calms the nerves, slangily : TRANK
35. New Haven collegian : YALIE
40. Actress Ward : SELA
41. Old flames : EXES
44. Start of a daily school recital : IPLEDGE
46. Opposite of refuses : ACCEPTS
48. "___, Brute?" : ETTU
49. Bordering on pornographic : RACY
52. Litigant : SUER
53. Tortoise's race opponent : HARE
55. Peak : APEX
56. Word in many a Nancy Drew title : CLUE
57. "Show Boat" composer Jerome : KERN
59. Neighbor of Vietnam : LAOS
60. "Money ___ everything" : ISNT
61. Sale tag caution : ASIS
62. Shopping channel : QVC
63. Scarlet : RED
64. Feathered neckwear : BOA
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