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New York Times, Monday, May 25, 2015

Author:
Jennifer Nutt
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
Subjects of a top-secret government cover-up, some believe
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Jennifer Nutt

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 38 Missing: {JWX} This is puzzle # 3 for Ms. Nutt. Monday freshness: 64%
Jennifer Nutt notes:
I am excited about my third NY Times crossword. This puzzle was inspired by a rather fabulous nail buffer that my friend Doris showed ... read more
Jeff Chen notes:
I NAILED IT is a great phrase, lively and colorful. Here, it's loosely interpreted to describe the process of manicuring one's nails: ... read more
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© 2015, The New York Times5/25/15 ( No. 23,939 )
Across
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Put up, as a painting : HANG
5
Little devils : IMPS
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Prejudiced person : BIGOT
14
Banned apple spray : ALAR
15
Horse with a foal : MARE
16
One end of a battery : ANODE
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Excerpt shown on TV : VIDEOCLIP
19
Put money up front to play poker : BUYIN
20
Kimono sash : OBI
21
Ballot : VOTE
22
Iron-fisted ruler : TYRANT
23
Wastebasket, jocularly : CIRCULARFILE
26
Like Mother Hubbard : OLD
27
One of the Big Five movie studios, once : RKO
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Status ___ : QUO
31
Partner of take : GIVE
33
Visitor at a railroad museum, say : TRAINBUFF
36
Ripped : TORE
37
Studies at the last minute : CRAMS
38
Laughfest : RIOT
39
Product of a backwoods still : MOONSHINE
41
Chunks of bread for stew, e.g. : SOPS
42
Holiday ___ : INN
43
Full complement of toes : TEN
44
Hit the slopes : SKI
45
What a boor sorely lacks : SOCIALPOLISH
51
Comment : REMARK
54
Writer Ephron : NORA
55
Prefix with liberal or conservative : NEO
56
Intestinal bug : ECOLI
57
Appropriate exclamation upon solving this puzzle? : INAILEDIT
59
Push may come to it : SHOVE
60
Peewee pup : RUNT
61
S, M, L or XL : SIZE
62
Schlepped : TOTED
63
"So what ___ is new?" : ELSE
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Skin treatment at a spa : PEEL
Down
1
Mayhem : HAVOC
2
Proof you weren't anywhere near the murder : ALIBI
3
Very bottom : NADIR
4
Coll. senior's test : GRE
5
"Brr-r-r!" : IMCOLD
6
Island nation for which a distinctive cat is named : MALTA
7
Nosy Parker : PRIER
8
Follower of Aug. : SEP
9
Ancient Hanging Gardens city : BABYLON
10
Become accustomed (to) : INURE
11
"The Naked Maja" painter : GOYA
12
Thor's father : ODIN
13
Protection for an outdoor wedding : TENT
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Small egg : OVULE
22
Polynesian carvings : TIKIS
24
Witches' gathering : COVEN
25
Building skeleton : FRAME
28
One-liner : QUIP
29
Subjects of a top-secret government cover-up, some believe : UFOS
30
Many a time, in poetry : OFT
31
"Continue ..." : GOON
32
Clothes presser : IRON
33
Lopez with the 1963 hit "If I Had a Hammer" : TRINI
34
Wasn't colorfast : RAN
35
Swelter : BROIL
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"I'd rather not know," in a text : TMI
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Not carry on, as bags : CHECK
40
Illustrious, as a past : STORIED
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"Bottoms up!" : SKOAL
44
Mountain Dew alternative : SPRITE
45
Soothing ointment : SALVE
46
Make void : ANNUL
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What banks always have interest in? : LOANS
48
Any movie at the Sundance Film Festival : INDIE
49
Grab : SEIZE
50
Four houses + 1 in Monopoly : HOTEL
51
The first "R" in R&R : REST
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Verbal comeback? : ECHO
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Purely academic : MOOT
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Wrath : IRE
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Psychic power, for short : ESP

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