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NY Times, Tue, Apr 14, 2009

Author: Barry Boone / Will Shortz
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Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.92, Missing: { F Q }, Scrabble score: 306 (avg 1.64)
Open squares: 71, Cheater squares: 2, Freshness Factor™: 64.2, New York Times Across Lite file
This is puzzle 3 of 4 for Mr. Boone — solos: 4, collaborations: 0, Sundays: 0

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© 2009, The New York Times
Across Down
1. Go 50 in a 30-m.p.h. zone, e.g. : SPEED
6. Joyful tune : LILT
10. Enthusiasm : ZEAL
14. Similar : ALIKE
15. "Are you ___ out?" : INOR
16. Utah ski resort : ALTA
17. 1985 Glenn Close/Jeff Bridges thriller : JAGGEDEDGE
19. Saint Barthélemy et d'autres : ILES
20. German's "Dear me!" : ACH
21. Mail service made obsolete by the transcontinental telegraph : PONYEXPRESS
23. Fish stew containers : KETTLES
25. Slowly, in music : LENTO
26. Most Little Leaguers : BOYS
27. Hay unit : BALE
30. Hardly a little angel : BRAT
32. Simple swimming stroke : DOGPADDLE
37. In a Kinks hit s/he "walked like a woman and talked like a man" : LOLA
38. Waiters' handouts : MENUS
39. Mob scene : RIOT
40. Widening in a highway, maybe : TOLLPLAZA
42. Lenin's "What ___ Be Done?" : ISTO
43. River of Spain : EBRO
44. Eisenhower and Turner : IKES
46. "When You Wish Upon ___" : ASTAR
50. Groveled : ATEDIRT
53. 1970s Robert Young TV role : MARCUSWELBY
57. "Gloria in excelsis ___" : DEO
58. Farm team : OXEN
59. What the long Across answers with circles have : HIDDENGEMS
61. Go here and there : ROVE
62. Actress Hathaway : ANNE
63. "Evil ___" (comics series) : ERNIE
64. Oklahoma city : ENID
65. Bat, ball, glove, etc. : GEAR
66. Number of hills in Roma : SETTE
 1. Pat of "Wheel of Fortune" : SAJAK
2. Come in second : PLACE
3. It's last to be sunk : EIGHTBALL
4. Heart test readout: Abbr. : EKG
5. Very much : DEEPLY
6. Property claims : LIENS
7. Four-time Harrison Ford film role : INDY
8. Second-level seating : LOGE
9. Fearsome display at a natural history museum : TREX
10. Congo's name before 1997 : ZAIRE
11. TV's DeGeneres : ELLEN
12. Mushroom producer, for short : ATEST
13. Rodeo rope : LASSO
18. Bucks' partners : DOES
22. Appeal : PLEA
24. General Mills brand : TOTAL
27. "Bedtime for ___" (Reagan film) : BONZO
28. Contents of the Spanish Main : AGUA
29. 8-track alternatives : LPS
30. Deli sandwich, for short : BLT
31. Kanga's baby : ROO
32. Honeybunch : DEAR
33. Like raisins vis-à-vis grapes : DRIED
34. Andrei Sakharov in the Soviet era, e.g. : DISSIDENT
35. Film studio locale : LOT
36. W.W. II command : ETO
38. World Series org. : MLB
41. Where Simón Bolívar was once president : PERU
44. The Beatles' "Let ___" : ITBE
45. Economist John Maynard ___ : KEYNES
46. Love, Italian-style : AMORE
47. The "S" in WASP : SAXON
48. Rome's ___ Fountain : TREVI
49. Pimply : ACNED
50. Tree with catkins : ALDER
51. Send, as payment : REMIT
52. "We're off ___ the Wizard ..." : TOSEE
54. Catch and throw back, as fly balls : SHAG
55. Burgundy or Bordeaux : WINE
56. "The Simpsons" teacher who was called Mrs. K : EDNA
60. Test for Ph.D. wannabes : GRE
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