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New York Times, Monday, February 16, 2015

Author:
David J. Kahn
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
40-Down : Shook hands with, say
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David J. Kahn

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 36 Missing: {QVZ} This is puzzle # 159 for Mr. Kahn. Grid flow: 7.6 Monday freshness: 92%
Notepad: The last names of eight U.S. presidents are hidden in this puzzle's completed grid, reading across, back, up, down and diagonally, word-search style. Can you find them all?
David J. Kahn notes:
I've written a number of crosswords for The Times about U.S. presidents, including a Sunday puzzle in 2004 to celebrate the opening of ... read more
Jeff Chen notes:
I get such a feeling of satisfaction when I fill in the last box of a crossword and get "Mr. Happy Pencil." Finishing a word search is ... read more
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© 2015, The New York Times2/16/15 ( No. 23,841 )
Across
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Fudd of cartoondom : ELMER
6
Site of the 1968 Democratic convention, informally : CHI
9
Foster of "Taxi Driver" : JODIE
14
"That's cool!" : NEATO
15
Campaigned : RAN
16
Nobles above viscounts : EARLS
17
Imprint on a dirt road : TIRETRACK
19
Nearly vertical, as a cliff : STEEP
20
Instrument for Bill Clinton, informally : SAX
21
Lacking taste : TACKY
22
___ Party (modern political group) : TEA
23
Pig cries : OINKS
24
Skin-related : DERMAL
27
Quantity : AMOUNT
30
Veal ___ : MARSALA
31
French market town : BOURG
32
Poet William Butler ___ : YEATS
34
___-ray Disc : BLU
35
National Medal of ___ (honor bestowed by the president) : ARTS
36
Many a Lawrence Welk dance tune : POLKA
37
Cleared, as a garden : HOED
38
N.F.L.'s Manti ___ : TEO
39
Jack who played Napaloni in "The Great Dictator" : OAKIE
40
Way overcharge : GOUGE
41
Compel observance of, as laws : ENFORCE
43
Like "All the President's Men," originally, per the M.P.A.A. : RRATED
44
Idle drawing in a margin : DOODLE
45
Lip-puckering, as kraut : SAUER
47
Sushi eggs : ROE
48
Japanese cartoon art : ANIME
49
Many an Israeli : JEW
52
Six-time Tony winner McDonald : AUDRA
54
Flirt with disaster : TEMPTFATE
56
Primp : PREEN
57
___ kwon do : TAE
58
1%-ers : ELITE
59
Eagles and such : BIRDS
60
Subtract's opposite : ADD
61
Apportioned, with "out" : DOLED
Down
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Docs with little flashlights : ENTS
2
"Star Wars" princess : LEIA
3
Harpo, Zeppo or Groucho : MARX
4
Summer in Somme : ETE
5
Going bad, as fruit : ROTTING
6
Solve, as a code : CRACK
7
Political ___ (partisan sorts) : HACKS
8
Jet-black : INKY
9
Entertainers for kings : JESTERS
10
Westerns, in old lingo : OATERS
11
Have fantasies of : DREAMABOUT
12
Suffix with percent : ILE
13
Mind-reading skill, for short : ESP
18
Tirade : RANT
23
Opposite of theirs : OURS
24
Polling figures, e.g. : DATA
25
State without proof : ALLEGE
26
Eulogized : LAUDED
27
Quieted down : ABATED
28
Oscar-winning Rita : MORENO
29
Not working : OUTOFORDER
30
Concoct : MAKE
32
Oxen connector : YOKE
33
___ Lilly & Co. : ELI
36
Tempo : PACE
37
Winter frost : HOAR
39
New ___, site of the 1988 Republican convention : ORLEANS
40
Shook hands with, say : GREETED
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Scented : ODORED
43
Where a horse's tail is : RUMP
45
Golf's Sam : SNEAD
46
Pointed, as a gun : AIMED
48
Lead-in to boy or girl : ATTA
49
Monopoly space that says "Just Visiting" : JAIL
50
Suffix with disk : ETTE
51
Unwanted garden growth : WEED
52
Urgent police message, for short : APB
53
Pseudopsychic Geller : URI
55
Rapper ___ Rida : FLO

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