Author: | Courtenay Crocker III |
Editor: | Will Shortz |
1 C | 2 H | 3 E | 4 S | 5 T | 6 E | 7 R | 8 J | 9 E | 10 T | 11 S | 12 K | 13 I | 14 S |
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15 R | E | D | T | I | D | E | 16 A | D | A | M | A | N | T |
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17 O | R | I | O | L | E | S | 18 M | I | L | I | T | I | A |
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19 U | N | S | P | E | N | T | 20 B | E | L | L | A | |||
21 C | I | O | 22 S | 23 H | O | 24 Y | E | R | 25 B | 26 A |
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27 H | A | N | 28 D | 29 L | 30 E | 31 O | R | 32 A | 33 S | I | M | I |
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34 L | I | M | 35 A | P | E | R | 36 U | 37 N | O | D |
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38 M | 39 A | 40 N | I | N | O | U | T | E | R | S | 41 P | A | C | E |
42 I | R | E | 43 A | R | G | O | S | I | E | S | ||||
44 S | L | A | 45 V | 46 Y | M | A | 47 D | R | A | 48 F | 49 T | 50 S |
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51 S | O | R | E | 52 R | 53 E | D | 54 E | 55 I | R | A |
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56 E | L | I | 57 A | N | 58 B | 59 E | 60 L | 61 A | R | U | S |
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62 S | 63 E | R | V | A | N | T | 64 E | Y | E | L | I | D | S |
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65 D | E | T | E | N | T | E | 66 R | E | V | E | N | G | E |
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67 S | L | O | T | T | E | D | 68 T | R | I | G | G | E | R |
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1. City in England : MANCHESTER 8. Motorized watercraft : JETSKIS 15. Dangerous ocean phenomenon : REDTIDE 16. Inflexible : ADAMANT 17. Maryland team : ORIOLES 18. Old musket carrier : MILITIAMAN 19. Like money in the bank : UNSPENT 20. Former Rep. Abzug : BELLA 21. Union inits. : CIO 22. HBO rival : SHO 24. ___ Buena (island in San Francisco Bay) : YERBA 27. Treat roughly : MANHANDLE 31. Anatomical mouths : ORA 33. ___ Valley, Calif. : SIMI 34. Capital originally called the City of the Kings : LIMAPERU 37. Go-ahead : NOD 38. Project Mercury objective (and a hint to 1-, 18-, 27-, 47-, 62- and 68-Across) : MANINOUTERSPACE 42. High dudgeon : IRE 43. Richly laden ships : ARGOSIES 44. Czech or Serb : SLAV 46. Singer Sumac : YMA 47. Architect's aide : DRAFTSMAN 51. Achier : SORER 53. Dutch city : EDE 55. Tax-deferring instrument: Abbr. : IRA 56. ___ González in 2000 news : ELIAN 58. Minsk's home : BELARUS 62. Maid's counterpart : MANSERVANT 64. They may get heavy at night : EYELIDS 65. Warming : DETENTE 66. Wronged person's cry : REVENGE 67. On the schedule : SLOTTED 68. Armed gang member : TRIGGERMAN |
1. What catchers do : CROUCH 2. Rupture : HERNIA 3. Famous lab director : EDISON 4. Pull over : STOP 5. Floor element : TILE 6. Heaven : EDEN 7. Last word for the defense : RESTS 8. Scouting blowouts : JAMBOREES 9. One of the housewives on "Desperate Housewives" : EDIE 10. Add up : TALLY 11. Prepares to be shot, maybe : SMILES 12. Women's tennis star Srebotnik : KATARINA 13. Magician's name ending : INI 14. Place to buy tkts. : STA 23. Critter with a sticky tongue : HOPTOAD 25. College V.I.P. : BMOC 26. Adjutant : AIDE 28. 551, once : DLI 29. Filmmaker Wertmuller : LINA 30. Georgia university : EMORY 32. Ban alternative : ARRID 35. Added value to : AUGMENTED 36. Addict : USER 38. Hit's alternative : MISS 39. Name on "Alice's Restaurant" : ARLO 40. Closer by : NEARERTO 41. Unpaid TV ad: Abbr. : PSA 45. Antler covering : VELVET 48. Step in ceramic making : FIRING 49. Plod : TRUDGE 50. Smart one : SASSER 52. Laughing : RIANT 54. Roeper's TV partner : EBERT 57. Help make a pot : ANTE 59. Ogler : EYER 60. Strauss of jeans fame : LEVI 61. "Shake ___!" : ALEG 62. 60's campus grp. : SDS 63. It was "boil'd in broo'," in the ballad "Lord Randal" : EEL |
Answer summary: 3 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 5 unique to Shortz Era but used previously.
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