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NY Times, Tue, Apr 24, 2007

Author: Brendan Emmett Quigley / Will Shortz
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Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 40, Avg Word Len: 4.74, Missing: { Q }, Scrabble score: 399 (avg 2.16)
Open squares: 68, Cheater squares: 0, Freshness Factor™: 63.7, New York Times Across Lite file
This is puzzle 105 of 123 for Mr. Quigley — solos: 117, collaborations: 6, Sundays: 23

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© 2007, The New York Times
Across Down
1. Rude sorts : BOORS
6. Play a kazoo : HUM
9. Fix, as a photocopier : UNJAM
14. Naval convoy menace : UBOAT
15. Prefix with metric : ISO
16. Supercool : NEATO
17. Pitcher of baseball's Gas House Gang : DIZZYDEAN
19. Speedpass-accepting gas company : EXXON
20. Old codger : GEEZER
21. Exactly : TOAT
23. Man of Steel's symbol : ESS
24. Says : UTTERS
27. Pass along, as an e-mail: Abbr. : FWD
30. Golf's 1984 U.S. Open winner : FUZZYZOELLER
33. Dines : HASAMEAL
36. Top-shelf : AONE
37. Signs to heed : OMENS
38. Sleep phase, for short : REM
40. Cottage cheese, essentially : CURDS
41. Ibuprofen target : PAIN
42. Lunchtimes, typically : NOONDAYS
44. Patriarch on an MTV reality show : OZZYOSBOURNE
48. Born, on the society page : NEE
49. Skier's lodging : CHALET
50. Draft org. : SSS
53. Like an eagle's vision : KEEN
54. "Same goes for me" : IDOTOO
57. With "cum" and 32-Down, a diploma phrase : MAGNA
60. The Fresh Prince's partner DJ : JAZZYJEFF
63. How the confident solve : INPEN
64. Eggs, in labs : OVA
65. Really bother : EATAT
66. Really bothers, with "at" : GNAWS
67. Equinox mo. : SEP
68. Girlie man : SISSY
 1. Move a bit : BUDGE
2. Theater awards since 1956 : OBIES
3. Moves like molasses : OOZES
4. Bronx cheer : RAZZ
5. Eyelid woe : STYE
6. Hotfoot it : HIE
7. ___ Today : USA
8. Exotic dancer Lola : MONTEZ
9. Fidgety feeling : UNEASE
10. Barber's call : NEXT
11. The Jaguars, on scoreboards : JAX
12. ___ Z (the gamut) : ATO
13. Start of the work wk., for many : MON
18. Syrian/Lebanese religious group : DRUZE
22. ___ y plata : ORO
25. Russian autocrat: Var. : TZAR
26. Popular reliever of aches : TYLENOL
27. Fauna's partner : FLORA
28. "Peter Pan" heroine : WENDY
29. Get decked out : DRESS
30. Keister : FANNY
31. Vocal stumbles : UMS
32. See 57-Across : LAUDE
33. Motorcyclist's invitation : HOPON
34. Knock the socks off : AMAZE
35. Take forcibly : SEIZE
39. Pouty look : MOUE
40. Anderson Cooper's channel : CNN
43. Baseball's David, nicknamed "Big Papi" : ORTIZ
45. Vast amounts : OCEANS
46. That ship : SHE
47. Dixieland instruments : BANJOS
50. "Keep it in" notations : STETS
51. Love seats, e.g. : SOFAS
52. Kindhearted sort : SOFTY
53. Had down pat : KNEW
55. Tattooist's supply : DYES
56. Town near Santa Barbara : OJAI
57. Russian fighter : MIG
58. Cape ___, Mass. : ANN
59. 4.0 is a great one : GPA
61. Forum greeting : AVE
62. Microwave : ZAP
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