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New York Times, Monday, January 21, 2008

Author:
Andrea Carla Michaels
Editor:
Will Shortz
M&M's that were removed from 1976 to 1987 out of a health concern for a coloring dye
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Andrea Carla Michaels

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 36 Missing: {PQXZ} Spans: 1 This is puzzle # 8 for Ms. Michaels. Monday freshness: 46%
Andrea Carla Michaels notes:

Went back to a simple WIN/LOSE/DRAW ... but I was especially fond of DRAW A BLANK because I am a Scrabble enthusiast. And I love that it is such a good thing in Scrabble to draw a blank, but a bad thing in real life!

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© 2008, The New York Times1/21/08 ( No. 21,258 )
Across
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Lascivious : LEWD
5
Dopey or Doc : DWARF
10
Say jokingly : JEST
14
Zone : AREA
15
More unusual : RARER
16
Great Salt Lake's state : UTAH
17
Triumph, but just barely : WINBYANOSE
19
Hawaiian island : MAUI
20
Badminton court divider : NET
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Actor Ed of "Daniel Boone" : AMES
22
Declining in power : EBBING
24
False fronts : FACADES
27
God, to Muslims : ALLAH
28
Smug smiles : SMIRKS
30
TV, slangily, with "the" : TUBE
32
Legal wrong : TORT
33
Find a new purpose for : REUSE
35
Org. with admirals : USN
38
Fall off a beam, e.g. : LOSEONESBALANCE
42
Baseballer Mel : OTT
43
Ice cream holders : CONES
44
Fusses : ADOS
45
Politico Gingrich : NEWT
46
Marks that look like inverted v's : CARETS
48
Pago Pago's locale : SAMOA
51
Less drunk : SOBERER
54
Graduates : ALUMNI
56
Opposite of an intro, musically : CODA
57
Parisian yes : OUI
60
MasterCard rival : VISA
61
Momentarily forget (or get lucky in Scrabble?) : DRAWABLANK
64
Barely earned, with "out" : EKED
65
Ship from the Mideast : OILER
66
Suffix meaning "little" : ETTE
67
M&M's that were removed from 1976 to 1987 out of a health concern for a coloring dye : REDS
68
A ton : LOADS
69
Command to a steed : WHOA
Down
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Home turf? : LAWN
2
Shallowest Great Lake : ERIE
3
Led off : WENTFIRST
4
Amount of hair cream : DAB
5
All soap operas, basically : DRAMAS
6
Declined in power : WANED
7
Got up : AROSE
8
Thing, in legal briefs : RES
9
Unoccupied, as a theater seat : FREE
10
Popular newspaper puzzle subtitled "That Scrambled Word Game" : JUMBLE
11
Online commerce : ETAIL
12
Finnish bath : SAUNA
13
Chicken piece : THIGH
18
Talk idly : YACK
23
Biblical tower site : BABEL
25
Comic Johnson : ARTE
26
Cigar ends : STUBS
28
Capital of Manche, France : STLO
29
No longer worth debating : MOOT
31
"The Star-Spangled Banner" land : USA
33
Leases : RENTS
34
WNW's opposite : ESE
35
Sworn to tell the truth : UNDEROATH
36
Glaswegian, e.g. : SCOT
37
Loch ___ monster : NESS
39
Atlantic or Pacific : OCEAN
40
At this moment : NOW
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Swiss river : AARE
45
Wanderers : NOMADS
46
Trees whose wood is used for chests : CEDARS
47
United ___ Emirates : ARAB
48
Lifeguard, at times : SAVER
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Similar : ALIKE
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Meditated (on) : MUSED
52
City between Gainesville and Orlando : OCALA
53
Took a curtain call : BOWED
55
Fox hit "American ___" : IDOL
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"Render therefore ___ Caesar ..." : UNTO
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Scandinavian furniture giant : IKEA
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___ de Janeiro : RIO
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Actor Ayres : LEW

Answer summary: 1 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later.

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