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NY Times, Mon, Aug 11, 2008

Author: Thomas Heilman / Will Shortz
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Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.79, Missing: { Q V Z }, Scrabble score: 293 (avg 1.57)
Open squares: 63, Cheater squares: 2, Freshness Factor™: 47.3, New York Times Across Lite file
This is puzzle 2 of 2 for Mr. Heilman — solos: 2, collaborations: 0, Sundays: 0

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© 2008, The New York Times
Across Down
1. Feeling bloated : GASSY
6. Eyeliner boo-boo : SMEAR
11. "Don't tase me, ___!" : BRO
14. Make amends (for) : ATONE
15. Bizarre : OUTRE
16. Experiment site : LAB
17. Psychologically manipulated : BRAINWASHED
19. I : ONE
20. Lawman Wyatt : EARP
21. "The Andy Griffith Show" boy : OPIE
22. Cowboy's greeting : HOWDY
24. End of a student's e-mail address : EDU
26. Town shouters : CRIERS
28. Place to play twenty-one : CASINO
31. Jewish mystical doctrine : CABALA
34. Formulaic : CUTANDDRIED
37. "Long ago and ___ away ..." : FAR
38. Furnace output : HEAT
39. Western treaty grp. : OAS
40. Car with a logo of four rings : AUDI
41. Lubricate : OIL
42. Put-upon : HARDPRESSED
46. Out, as a library book : ONLOAN
48. Smooth and lustrous : SILKEN
49. At an angle : CANTED
52. Galas : DOS
53. Norwegian coastal feature : FJORD
55. Car that comes with a driver : LIMO
57. Opera set along the Nile : AIDA
61. ___ Vegas : LAS
62. Like players in pin-the-tail-on-the-donkey : BLINDFOLDED
65. Likely : APT
66. Helpers : AIDES
67. Rationed (out) : DOLED
68. Crosses out : XES
69. Silly birds : GEESE
70. Escalator parts : STEPS
 1. Comic Kaplan : GABE
2. Gillette razor : ATRA
3. Go out of sight, as gas prices : SOAR
4. Criticizes, perhaps unfairly : SNIPESAT
5. Craving : YEN
6. Ivory or Coast : SOAP
7. "If ___ be the food of love, play on": Shak. : MUSIC
8. Onetime dental anesthetic : ETHER
9. "___ you sleeping?" : ARE
10. Fiery-tempered sort, they say : REDHEAD
11. Loses it : BLOWSAFUSE
12. Ayn who wrote "Atlas Shrugged" : RAND
13. Follow orders : OBEY
18. Cause for stitches : WOUND
23. Globe : ORB
25. Racket : DIN
27. "Rocks" : ICE
28. Make aware : CUEIN
29. No matter what : ATALLCOSTS
30. Stench : ODOR
32. Weighed down : LADEN
33. Desertlike : ARID
34. When repeated, a toy train : CHOO
35. Way cool : RAD
36. AOL and others, in brief : ISPS
40. Demands much (of) : ASKSALOT
42. Pocketbook : HANDBAG
43. Termite look-alike : ANT
44. Free from : RIDOF
45. "Xanadu" grp. : ELO
47. Rower's need : OAR
50. Omit in pronunciation : ELIDE
51. Eats by candlelight, say : DINES
53. Source of linen : FLAX
54. Mock : JAPE
56. Retailer's goods: Abbr. : MDSE
58. Unemployed : IDLE
59. Bottomless : DEEP
60. Tosses in : ADDS
63. "This puzzle is really, really hard," e.g. : LIE
64. Takes too much, for short : ODS
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