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NY Times, Sat, Apr 26, 2008

Author: Brad Wilber / Will Shortz
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Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 30, Avg Word Len: 5.42, Missing: { J Q Y Z }, Scrabble score: 318 (avg 1.63)
Open squares: 97, Cheater squares: 0, FITB: 0, XRef: 0, Freshness Factor™: 69.3 (41.4 Sat. %-ile), NYT Across Lite file
This is puzzle 6 of 17 for Mr. Wilber — solos: 17, collaborations: 0, Sundays: 0

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© 2008, The New York Times
Across Down
1. Pound sign letters : SPCA
5. Play for which Julie Harris won the 1952 Tony for Best Actress : IAMACAMERA
15. Galley output : CHOW
16. Title housewife in an Oscar-winning film : MRSMINIVER
17. Burdens on some shoulders : HODS
18. Something damned with faint praise, in British lingo : CURATESEGG
19. Navigation abbreviation : ENE
20. Desktop accessory : LAMP
21. Married woman abroad : FRAU
22. Drones : MENIALS
24. Call : ENTITLE
27. Old-style call to arms : ALARUM
28. Kind of skeleton or symmetry : AXIAL
29. Like Olympic races : TIMED
30. Rhapsodize : WAXPOETIC
34. Ending like -like : INE
35. Torpedoes : HEROS
36. Syst. of unspoken words : ASL
37. Song title followed by the lyric "Lovers say that in France" : CESTSIBON
40. Gunsmith Remington : PHILO
42. Croaking flier : RAVEN
43. Cousin of the sandpiper : CURLEW
44. Titular author of two books of the Bible : STPETER
47. Swedish soprano noted for her Wagnerian roles : NILSSON
48. Rent : TORE
49. Synthetic : MADE
50. Crispy Twister sandwich offerer : KFC
51. Like King Kong in New York City : ONARAMPAGE
55. Gila River native : PIMA
56. Its currency unit is the ariary : MADAGASCAR
57. Time of Ta'anit Esther : ADAR
58. O. Henry specialty : PLOTTWISTS
59. Hyphenated figs. : SSNS
 1. Techie's drawing : SCHEMATIC
2. Cell's lack : PHONELINE
3. Indicators of intelligence? : CODENAMES
4. Sounds of feigned sympathy : AWS
5. Response to "Don't panic" : IMCALM
6. Green dragon and skunk cabbage : ARUMS
7. Letters on a new car sticker : MSRP
8. Overseer of some practices: Abbr. : AMA
9. Summons: Abbr. : CIT
10. Hydrocarbon suffix : ANE
11. "Lose" at the office : MISFILE
12. Winner of six U.S. Opens : EVERT
13. Splendid : REGAL
14. Get into it, so to speak : ARGUE
20. Give a glowing review : LAUD
23. More than upset : IRE
24. Replacer of the Humble brand in the early 1970s : EXXON
25. Defeats narrowly : NIPS
26. Process of nature by which all things change : TAO
28. One of a pair of biblical brothers : AARON
30. Max who wrote "Politics as a Vocation" : WEBER
31. Some airplane runners : TAILSKIDS
32. Douglas is its capital : ISLEOFMAN
33. High-occupancy vehicles? : CLOWNCARS
35. Center of industry : HIVE
38. Small, furry African climber : TREERAT
39. Gathered dust : SAT
40. Whimper : PULE
41. Timecard abbr. : HRS
43. Some like them hot : CIDERS
44. Jazz Age dance : STOMP
45. Like much music : TONAL
46. Home of "The Garden of Earthly Delights" : PRADO
47. Plague : NAGAT
49. Buds : MACS
52. Rep. : AGT
53. Cavernous opening : MAW
54. Telepathy, e.g. : PSI
55. Announcement carriers, for short : PAS
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