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New York Times, Monday, May 28, 2007

Author:
John Underwood
Editor:
Will Shortz
Game suggested by the first words of 17-, 25- and 42-Across
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John Underwood

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 34 Missing: {JZ} Spans: 4 This is puzzle # 10 for Mr. Underwood. Monday freshness: 52%
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© 2007, The New York Times5/28/7 ( No. 21,020 )
Across
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Penny-pinch : SKIMP
6
Woes : ILLS
10
Oats, to Trigger : FEED
14
"Deck the Halls," e.g. : CAROL
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Belle's gent : BEAU
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Auto shaft : AXLE
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Sex appeal : ANIMALMAGNETISM
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___ judicata : RES
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Vintner's container : CASK
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Some coffee orders : LATTES
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Amateur radioer : HAM
24
Initiation, e.g. : RITE
25
Where to grow carrots and spinach : VEGETABLEGARDEN
33
Lycée, par exemple : ECOLE
34
Two cubed : EIGHT
35
Tool that's swung : AXE
36
It's typical : NORM
37
Anchor hoister : DAVIT
38
Scratch on a gem, e.g. : FLAW
39
Bullring cheer : OLE
40
"Don't let these guys escape!" : GETEM
41
Flinch or blink, say : REACT
42
Places to find some gems : MINERALDEPOSITS
45
"___ in China" : MADE
46
D-Day craft: Abbr. : LST
47
Briny : SALINE
50
With 52-Across, Thomas Gainsborough portrait, with "The" : BLUE
52
See 50-Across : BOY
55
Game suggested by the first words of 17-, 25- and 42-Across : TWENTYQUESTIONS
58
Super-duper : AONE
59
Continental coin : EURO
60
Go over, as lines : TRACE
61
Latch (onto) : GLOM
62
Aries or Libra : SIGN
63
Flower with rays : ASTER
Down
1
Memento of a knife fight : SCAR
2
"Citizen ___" : KANE
3
Rainbow goddess : IRIS
4
Soccer ___ : MOM
5
Appease : PLACATE
6
Some early PCs : IBMS
7
Unauthorized disclosure : LEAK
8
Not keep up : LAG
9
Source of vitamin D : SUNLIGHT
10
Not so slim : FATTER
11
Sartre's "No ___" : EXIT
12
If not : ELSE
13
Clinton followers, for short : DEMS
18
See 30-Down : LAMA
19
Really bug : EATAT
23
Place for a captain : HELM
24
Government in power : REGIME
25
What a fang ejects : VENOM
26
Worrisome food contamination : ECOLI
27
Charles who wrote "Winning Bridge Made Easy" : GOREN
28
John, Paul, George or Ringo : BEATLE
29
Resided : LIVED
30
With 18-Down, Tibetan V.I.P. : DALAI
31
Meticulous : EXACT
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Brilliantly colored salamanders : NEWTS
37
Sharpshooters : DEADEYES
38
Suffix with gab or song : FEST
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Research money : GRANT
41
___ Stone (hieroglyphic key) : ROSETTA
43
Rapper a k a Slim Shady : EMINEM
44
+ : PLUS
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Men-only : STAG
48
Way off base? : AWOL
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Jay who does "Jaywalking" : LENO
50
One-horse town : BURG
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Ponce de ___ : LEON
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Ferry or dinghy : BOAT
53
Back then : ONCE
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Nieuwpoort's river : YSER
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On the ___ vive : QUI
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Form 1040 org. : IRS

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