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NY Times, Thu, Jun 12, 2008

Author: Alex Boisvert / Will Shortz
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Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.92, Missing: { none — this is a pangram }, Scrabble score: 309 (avg 1.65)
Open squares: 71, Cheater squares: 0, Freshness Factor™: 56.3, New York Times Across Lite file
This is puzzle 4 of 6 for Mr. Boisvert — solos: 5, collaborations: 1, Sundays: 0

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© 2008, The New York Times
Across Down
1. Give a majority of the vote : ELECT
6. "Semper Fidelis" composer : SOUSA
11. Feature of a peacock's tail : EYE
14. Instrument often played while sitting on the floor : SITAR
15. "The uncertain glory of an ___ day": Shakespeare : APRIL
16. ___ Perce tribe : NEZ
17. Precious moments : QUALITYTIME
19. Filch : COP
20. Drunkard : SOUSE
21. Arizona county or river : GILA
22. Seemingly endless : VAST
25. Phrase from which the exclamation "Zounds!" comes : GODSWOUNDS
29. Notes in C minor chords : EFLATS
31. Goes quietly : TIPTOES
32. Red in the face, maybe : IRATE
33. Like ___ in the head : AHOLE
35. Motto derived from Virgil : LOVECONQUERSALL
41. Lift : HOIST
42. French menu phrase : AUJUS
43. Some neighborhoods : BARRIOS
47. Neighbor of Francia : ESPANA
48. Dominatrix's wear : SPIKEHEELS
51. Form of the Latin "esse" : ERAT
52. ___ facto : IPSO
53. Peninsular nation : QATAR
55. Actor Billy ___ Williams : DEE
56. Speaker of the quip revealed by the ends of the answers to 17-, 25-, 35- and 48-Across : GROUCHOMARX
62. Inner ___ : EAR
63. Murphy of "The Red Badge of Courage" : AUDIE
64. End of a railing : NEWEL
65. Some yearbook signers: Abbr. : SRS
66. Arthur Murray instruction : STEPS
67. China's Zhou : ENLAI
 1. Atty.'s title : ESQ
2. Sch. in Brooklyn : LIU
3. Cockpit guess, for short : ETA
4. Fullerton campus : CALSTATE
5. ZZ Top, e.g. : TRIO
6. Unsupported statement : SAYSO
7. Chose : OPTED
8. Canton bordering Valais : URI
9. Computer family member : SIM
10. Bar choice : ALE
11. San Fernando Valley community : ENCINO
12. Start of many an English inn's name : YEOLDE
13. Thruway convenience : EZPASS
18. Yanks : TUGS
21. Kind of instinct : GUT
22. Maugham's "The Painted ___" : VEIL
23. ___-American : AFRO
24. Dweller along the Danube : SLAV
26. Bar choice : STOUT
27. Chicanery : WILE
28. Met expectations? : OPERAS
30. Geek Squad member : TECHIE
33. Flavoring for pfeffernüsse : ANISE
34. Command centers: Abbr. : HQS
36. "How exciting!" : OOOH
37. George Reeves and Christopher Reeve : SUPERMEN
38. Admitting just a little light, maybe : AJAR
39. ___ moth : LUNA
40. Its max. score is 180 : LSAT
43. They're opposite hits : BSIDES
44. Materialize : APPEAR
45. Choral platforms : RISERS
46. Studio of "Notorious" and "Suspicion" : RKO
47. Book before Job: Abbr. : ESTH
49. Rig out : EQUIP
50. They're found above tongues : LACES
54. Dynamite : AONE
56. Rightmost pedal : GAS
57. Sticking point : RUT
58. W. H. Auden wrote one to his pupils : ODE
59. It has a sticking point : AWL
60. New Deal inits. : REA
61. Year Claudius I became emperor : XLI
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