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NY Times, Sat, Sep 13, 2008

Author: Will Nediger / Will Shortz
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Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 28, Avg Word Len: 5.47, Missing: { V X }, Scrabble score: 318 (avg 1.61)
Open squares: 100, Cheater squares: 0, Freshness Factor™: 69.0, New York Times Across Lite file
This is puzzle 6 of 7 for Mr. Nediger — solos: 7, collaborations: 0, Sundays: 3

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Notepad: TEEN PUZZLEMAKER WEEK
All the daily crosswords this week, Monday through Saturday, have been contributed by puzzlemakers under the age of 20. Today's crossword is by Will Nediger, 18, of London, Ontario. He is a second-year student at the University of Western Ontario. This is his sixth puzzle for The Times.
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© 2008, The New York Times
Across Down
1. Place to buy a smoothie : JUICEBAR
9. Electrum and others : ALLOYS
15. Author born Howard Allen O'Brien : ANNERICE
16. Little show-off's cry : LOOKMA
17. You shouldn't go through with it : REDLIGHT
18. "The Great Escape" setting : STALAG
19. Went belly up : FAILED
20. Subject of some amateur videos : UFO
22. World Wind developer : NASA
23. Plays for a fool : USES
24. Crams, maybe : PREPS
26. Symptom for a car mechanic : HUM
27. ___ Arcs, French ski resort : LES
28. Chicago-based magazine with one-million-plus circulation : EBONY
30. Trailer : PROMO
32. An inset might depict one : ISLET
33. 10-time Gold Glove winner of the 1990s and 2000s : ALOMAR
34. Film in which Olga Kurylenko plays the Bond girl : QUANTUMOFSOLACE
38. Person of great interest? : USURER
39. Suggest : RAISE
40. Girl's name that sounds like two letters of the French alphabet : ESTEE
41. Resting place : BERTH
42. Cooler : CAN
45. Genre of rock's Fall Out Boy : EMO
46. Jazz great seen in the 1967 film "Hotel" : MCRAE
48. Staff lines? : MEMO
49. Cuffs : NABS
51. @ follower, sometimes : AOL
52. Balzac's "___ Bette" : COUSIN
54. Cat calls : MIAOWS
56. Little music maker : IPODNANO
58. Loosen, as a bra : UNHOOK
59. Trunk item : TIREIRON
60. Candy brand : MENTOS
61. Beginning of time? : YEARZERO
 1. Peanut butter quantity : JARFUL
2. Fidgetiness : UNEASE
3. East or West area : INDIES
4. Biologists' study : CELLS
5. Lake ___, home of the Bass Islands : ERIE
6. Cowboys' home, informally : BIGD
7. "___ was!" (German exclamation) : ACH
8. Stop daydreaming : RETURNTOREALITY
9. Journalist Joseph : ALSOP
10. Studio part : LOT
11. Advance : LOAN
12. Musical that won a 1944 Pulitzer : OKLAHOMA
13. Singer famous for her wide vocal range : YMASUMAC
14. Long Island's ___ Hill National Historic Site : SAGAMORE
21. Elflike : FEY
24. Rhapsody, e.g. : POEM
25. Bathtub sound : SPLOSH
28. Treasure : ESTEEM
29. Result of a long exposure, often : BLUR
31. Iago, for one : ROLE
32. 48-Across starter : INRE
33. "___ happens ..." : ASIT
34. The late Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, familiarly : QUEENMUM
35. Ship with a memorial in New York City's Central Park : USSMAINE
36. Main route? : AUTOBAHN
37. Ride, maybe : FARE
41. Pal : BRO
42. Italian writer Pavese : CESARE
43. Key of Beethoven's "Für Elise" : AMINOR
44. "You're doing it all wrong!" : NONONO
47. Port containers : CASKS
48. Frankie of "Malcolm in the Middle" : MUNIZ
50. Symbol of blackness : SOOT
52. "The Last of the Mohicans" girl : CORA
53. Wroclaw's river : ODER
55. Try hard to win : WOO
57. Trivial Pursuit goal : PIE
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