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New York Times, Monday, January 26, 2009

Author:
Timothy Powell and Nancy Salomon
Editor:
Will Shortz
63-Across : "You're something ___!"
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Timothy Powell
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1521.58132%
Nancy Salomon

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 74, Blocks: 36 Missing: {Q} Spans: 1 Puzzle has duplicate clues. This is puzzle # 6 for Mr. Powell. This is puzzle # 183 for Ms. Salomon. Monday freshness: 74%
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© 2009, The New York Times1/26/9 ( No. 21,629 )
Across
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Bother persistently : NAGAT
6
Airing : ONTV
10
Zilch : NADA
14
Lots of screaming and shouting : FUROR
15
Gleeful giggle : HEHE
16
Plow team : OXEN
17
Distrustful : LEERY
18
Loretta of "M*A*S*H" : SWIT
19
Alda of "M*A*S*H" : ALAN
20
"Bad idea!" : LETSNOTGOTHERE
23
Archibald or Thurmond of the N.B.A. : NATE
24
His and ___ : HERS
25
6-1, 3-6 and 7-5, in tennis : SETS
27
Race, as an engine : REV
30
Sunken ship's locale : SEABED
34
"Oh!" in Österreich : ACH
35
Steps between floors : STAIR
37
"My sweetie" in a 1957 hit for the Bobbettes : MRLEE
38
"Bad idea!" : YOUMUSTBEJOKING
41
"___ River" (song from "Show Boat") : OLMAN
42
Passover meal : SEDER
43
Hush-hush org. : NSA
44
Offer advice from around a card table : KIBITZ
46
Barfly : SOT
47
Ice cream brand : EDYS
48
Babe in the woods : NAIF
50
Cornerstone abbr. : ESTD
52
"Bad idea!" : IDIDNTHEARTHAT
58
Couturier Christian : DIOR
59
Elaborate April fool : HOAX
60
Hall's singing partner : OATES
62
Are, in Argentina : ESTA
63
"You're something ___!" : ELSE
64
Center Shaquille : ONEAL
65
Kind of carpet : SHAG
66
Woodwind item : REED
67
Bothersome : PESKY
Down
1
Org. for Patriots and Packers : NFL
2
Jean who wrote "The Clan of the Cave Bear" : AUEL
3
Gardener's gift : GREENTHUMB
4
Arterial trunks : AORTAS
5
Romantic rendezvous : TRYST
6
Very : OHSO
7
Small salamander : NEWT
8
Chicken piece : THIGH
9
Presidential noes : VETOES
10
Two-by-two vessel : NOAHSARK
11
Car bar : AXLE
12
Letter starter : DEAR
13
One of the Brontë sisters : ANNE
21
"Phooey!" : NERTS
22
Cause of a low Richter reading : TREMOR
25
Give the go-ahead : SAYOK
26
Undercooked meat danger : ECOLI
28
Has dinner : EATS
29
Aura, informally : VIBES
31
Social arrangements that don't always work out : BLINDDATES
32
___-weensy : EENSY
33
Edgar who painted ballerinas : DEGAS
35
Beachgoer's acquisition : SUNTAN
36
Work over : REDO
39
Central street : MAINDRAG
40
Shortstop Derek : JETER
45
Instrument with 30+ strings : ZITHER
47
Flammable gas : ETHANE
49
Cello feature : FHOLE
51
Bend to go through a doorway, say ... or what may be in front of the door : STOOP
52
Fateful day in March : IDES
53
Satellite signal receiver : DISH
54
Letter after theta : IOTA
55
Lighten, as a burden : EASE
56
Pink-slipped : AXED
57
Wood for shipbuilding : TEAK
61
Wily : SLY

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