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NY Times, Fri, Apr 06, 2007

Author: Will Nediger / Will Shortz
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Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 27, Avg Word Len: 5.50, Missing: { B }, Scrabble score: 365 (avg 1.84)
Open squares: 96, Cheater squares: 0, Freshness Factor™: 80.9, New York Times Across Lite file
This is puzzle 2 of 7 for Mr. Nediger — solos: 7, collaborations: 0, Sundays: 3

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© 2007, The New York Times
Across Down
1. Recently : OFLATE
7. Data recorders : ALMANACS
15. Loud warning signal : KLAXON
16. One of the Zappas : MOONUNIT
17. Really regret : LAMENT
18. Like some damages : PUNITIVE
19. Without skimping : AMPLY
20. What a resignee calls it : QUITS
21. Russian peace : MIR
22. One of a matched set : HERS
23. W can be a vowel in it : WELSH
24. Color close to cranberry : PUCE
25. Be outstanding? : OWE
26. Book of Kells, e.g. : CODEX
27. Something to wrangle with : LASSO
28. Perchance : MAYHAP
30. Sub : SITIN
32. Store : ARSENAL
34. Reeling feeling : VERTIGO
38. Interior decorator's concern : MOTIF
40. Choose not to take : PASSON
41. Molly of classic radio : MCGEE
44. Parts of 24-Down : FLIES
46. Bird with giant talons : ROC
47. Bring in : EARN
48. Not go on : CEASE
49. Chinese export : JADE
50. Super Bowl played at Dolphin Stadium : XLI
51. Can't refuse : HASTO
52. Work of Passion : PIETA
53. "This is the last straw!" : IVEHADIT
55. Lacking liveliness : PALLID
56. School in culture : CIVILIZE
57. Best degrees : OPTIMA
58. Order of roses : ONEDOZEN
59. Player of Lincoln in "Abe Lincoln in Illinois," 1940 : MASSEY
 1. "People Will Say We're in Love" musical : OKLAHOMA
2. Result of provocative posters? : FLAMEWAR
3. Marine suckers : LAMPREYS
4. They're more than full turns : AXELS
5. Annual prize since 1947 : TONY
6. Creature in "The Two Towers" : ENT
7. Hospital containers : AMPULES
8. Ruler for 72 years : LOUISXIV
9. The 4 in 4/6, e.g. : MONTH
10. León liqueur : ANIS
11. Fiend : NUT
12. Bad blood : ANIMUS
13. High school course : CIVICS
14. Like some recordings : STEREO
20. Letters seen by a proof reader? : QED
23. Schneider's "The Dukes of Hazzard" co-star : WOPAT
24. They cover the bottom : PANTS
26. Olympics craft : CANOE
27. Turkish bread : LIRAS
29. Atlas and others : HEMEN
31. Mobile home : TEPEE
33. Not enlarged or shrunken : LIFESIZE
35. Side in a 1967 war : ISRAELIS
36. Blast : GOODTIME
37. Quotidianly : ONCEADAY
39. Level : FLATTEN
41. 1970 and 1986 World Cup host : MEXICO
42. Hoops Hall-of-Famer Murphy : CALVIN
43. Sorrow : GRIEVE
45. Initially the same? : ISO
48. European port founded by the Phoenicians : CADIZ
49. Dumps, so to speak : JILTS
51. Sign of virtue : HALO
52. Sobriquet for singer John Phillips : PAPA
54. Shaded : HID
55. Petite pooch, for short : POM
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