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New York Times, Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Author:
Tim Croce
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
9-Down : Run into unexpected trouble
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Tim Croce

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 38 Missing: {KWX} Spans: 2 This is puzzle # 11 for Mr. Croce. Wednesday freshness: 84%
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© 2011, The New York Times12/14/11 ( No. 22,681 )
Across
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Metrosexual's tote : MANBAG
7
"Doesn't thrill me" : MEH
10
Top awards at los Juegos Olímpicos : OROS
14
Cuneiform discovery site : AMARNA
15
Geisha's tie : OBI
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Backing strip : LATH
17
Transplants, in a way : REPOTS
18
Make note of, with "down" : JOT
19
Cornell of Cornell University : EZRA
20
Mesopotamia? : TRADITIONALIRAQ
23
Role in "Son of Frankenstein" : YGOR
24
Kind of fly, informally : SAC
25
___ Paese cheese : BEL
28
Inconsistent root beer brand? : UNEVENBARQS
34
Red wine of Spain : RIOJA
36
Santa ___, Calif. : ANA
37
Qaddafi's rise to power, e.g. : COUP
38
Vintners' prefix : OENO
39
Consumer products giant, briefly : PANDG
41
"Gotcha!" : ISEE
42
Close by, in poems : NIGH
43
"Yoo-hoo!" : HEY
44
___ Quested, woman in Forster's "A Passage to India" : ADELA
45
Local ascetic? : COUNTYFAQIR
49
Camera type, in brief : SLR
50
Barker and Kettle : MAS
51
Pizzeria chain, informally : UNOS
53
Some Mideast laptops? : QATARICOMPUTERS
61
Helen's city : TROY
62
"Proved!" letters : QED
63
Fish-eating raptor : OSPREY
64
Regarding, on memos : INRE
65
"Hänsel ___ Gretel" : UND
66
President who said "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!" : REAGAN
67
Like a D- : POOR
68
U.F.O. crew : ETS
69
Movie camera settings : TSTOPS
Down
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Trade center : MART
2
C.S.A. part: Abbr. : AMER
3
Vintners' valley : NAPA
4
Adrien of "The Pianist" : BRODY
5
Barbuda's island partner : ANTIGUA
6
Alphonse's comics partner : GASTON
7
Voodoo charm : MOJO
8
Black, to bards : EBON
9
Run into unexpected trouble : HITASNAG
10
Soapmaking compound : OLEICACID
11
Motorola cell phone brand : RAZR
12
___ vez (again: Sp.) : OTRA
13
Hoopster with six rap albums, for short : SHAQ
21
Ill temper : IRE
22
"Chocolate" dog : LAB
25
Horse to be broken : BRONC
26
Sequence sung by kids : EIEIO
27
"Rude" sound : LONGU
29
Chekhov uncle : VANYA
30
Put the kibosh on : END
31
Pasadena posies : ROSES
32
Put down, as a riot : QUELL
33
Hurled weapon : SPEAR
35
"No Such Thing" blues rocker : JOHNMAYER
39
Mr. America's pride : PHYSIQUE
40
W.W. I mil. group : AEF
44
Wakens : AROUSES
46
Sealer's stuff : TAR
47
Holy city of Iran : QUM
48
At a cruise stop, say : INPORT
52
Annual parade honoree, informally : STPAT
53
Popular swab : QTIP
54
The New Yorker cartoonist Peter : ARNO
55
Ring foe of Manolete : TORO
56
Euro fraction : CENT
57
They may be even, ironically : ODDS
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Descartes's "therefore" : ERGO
59
Get, as profits : REAP
60
"Cease" and "desist," e.g.: Abbr. : SYNS

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