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New York Times, Tuesday, October 23, 2007
Author:
Alan Arbesfeld
Editor:
Will Shortz
8-Down : "Read Across America" grp.
This puzzle:
Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 38 Missing: {QV} This is puzzle # 75 for Mr. Arbesfeld. Tuesday freshness: 66%
1 S | 2 T | 3 A | 4 G | 5 E | 6 T | 7 A | 8 N | 9 G | 10 O | 11 H | 12 I | 13 T |
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14 A | R | I | E | S | 15 I | C | E | A | X | 16 U | F | O |
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17 C | U | R | T | A | 18 I | N | C | A | L | L | 19 M | O | P |
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20 B | U | S | H | 21 I | 22 N | A | R | T |
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23 B | 24 A | 25 B | Y | 26 B | A | 27 T | 28 H | 29 S | P | O | N | G | E |
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30 U | N | O | 31 A | N | T | E | U | P | 32 D | C | O | N |
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33 G | O | B | 34 A | D | 35 A | N | A | 36 S | O | T | S |
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37 B | L | O | 38 O | 39 D | S | T | R | 40 E | A | M | ||||
41 J | 42 A | Y | E | 43 M | I | I | 44 S | T | E | 45 R | 46 N |
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47 I | L | K | A | 48 N | O | N | 49 F | 50 A | T | 51 D | A | B |
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52 G | U | N | S | 53 L | I | N | G | E | R | 54 S | Y | N | C |
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55 S | M | I | T | E | 56 I | M | 57 A | C | ||||||
58 A | N | G | 59 T | 60 H | 61 I | 62 N | G | S | D | R | 63 A | 64 W | 65 N |
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66 W | A | H | 67 B | A | C | O | N | 68 Z | A | I | R | E |
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69 S | E | T | 70 E | D | I | T | S | 71 E | M | M | Y | S |
© 2007, The New York Times10/23/7 ( No. 21,168 )
Across
1
Play place : STAGE
6
Ballroom dance : TANGO
11
Chart-topper : HIT
14
Sign of spring : ARIES
15
Mountaineer's tool : ICEAX
16
ET's ride : UFO
17
Play follower, usually : CURTAINCALL
19
Unruly do : MOP
20
Amateurish : BUSH
21
"___ economy is always beauty": Henry James : INART
23
Buggy rider : BABY
26
Loofah, e.g. : BATHSPONGE
30
108-card game : UNO
31
Start the pot : ANTEUP
32
Pest control brand : DCON
33
Spoil : GOBAD
35
Bibliophile's suffix : ANA
36
Tipplers : SOTS
37
Circulatory system flow : BLOODSTREAM
41
Singer ___ P. Morgan : JAYE
43
Early 11th-century year : MII
44
Back at sea? : STERN
47
Actress Chase of "Now, Voyager" : ILKA
48
For dieters : NONFAT
51
Smidgen : DAB
52
Shoot-'em-up figure : GUNSLINGER
54
Harmony, briefly : SYNC
55
Clobber, biblically : SMITE
56
Computer that uses OS X : IMAC
58
Director Lee : ANG
59
What the starts of 17-, 26-, 37- and 52-Across are : THINGSDRAWN
66
Crib cry : WAH
67
Burger topper, maybe : BACON
68
Site of Ali's Rumble in the Jungle : ZAIRE
69
Salon job : SET
70
Cuts and pastes : EDITS
71
TV awards : EMMYS
Down
1
Amniotic ___ : SAC
2
Play about Capote : TRU
3
Put on TV : AIR
4
Manage, barely : GETBY
5
Jacob's twin : ESAU
6
G.I.'s helmet, slangily : TINHAT
7
Duke's sports org. : ACC
8
"Read Across America" grp. : NEA
9
Guy's partner : GAL
10
Primrose family member : OXLIP
11
Saroyan novel, with "The" : HUMANCOMEDY
12
"It slipped my mind!" : IFORGOT
13
Letterman lists : TOPTENS
18
ID on a dust jacket : ISBN
22
Acknowledges nonverbally : NODSAT
23
PC glitch : BUG
24
"Wheel of Fortune" buy : ANO
25
Hoops coach with the most N.C.A.A. Division I wins : BOBBYKNIGHT
27
Playful mockery : TEASING
28
Rural event on horseback : HUNT
29
Work out in the ring : SPAR
31
Commotion : ADO
34
Red Sox div. : ALEAST
38
Old Dodge : OMNI
39
Singer of the 1962 hit "The Wanderer" : DION
40
Guinness Book suffix : EST
41
Tools for making twisty cuts : JIGSAWS
42
Barnard grads : ALUMNAE
45
Bled, like dyes : RAN
46
"Deal or No Deal" network : NBC
49
Fakes, as an injury : FEIGNS
50
Weaponry : ARMS
53
Leave alone : LETBE
54
"Beat it!" : SCRAM
57
Wood-shaping tool : ADZE
60
Suffered from : HAD
61
Here, in Paris : ICI
62
"I'm kidding!" : NOT
63
Deadeye's asset : AIM
64
Dryly amusing : WRY
65
Nintendo's Super ___ : NES
Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.
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