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New York Times, Monday, July 2, 2012

Author:
Bernice Gordon
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
Parties that might have glow-in-the-dark freebies
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Bernice Gordon

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 46Missing: none – this is a pangram.
Jim Horne notes:

Bernice Gordon was 38 when she had her first crossword published in the NYT. That's probably older than average. It was also 60 years ago, in 1952, and that's something to celebrate! Ms. Gordon constructed this one at age 98.

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© 2012, The New York Times7/2/12 ( No. 22,882 )
Across
1
Lighted sign over a doorway : EXIT
5
Dam on the Nile : ASWAN
10
Back of the neck : NAPE
14
Famous ___ cookies : AMOS
15
Stiller's partner in comedy : MEARA
16
Plow pullers : OXEN
17
"Bye for now" : TATA
18
Like George W. vis-à-vis Jeb Bush : OLDER
19
Backside : HIND
20
French writer's apprehension by the police? : SARTRESARREST
23
1970s TV's "___ Ramsey" : HEC
24
Tech company spun off from Time Warner : AOL
25
French writer's state of drunkenness? : PROUSTSSTUPOR
32
Leafy vegetable : CHARD
33
"That's clear" : ISEE
34
Offering from Lil Jon or Fat Joe : RAP
36
Pig sound : OINK
37
Abuses, as a fraternity pledge : HAZES
39
Rain gutter site : EAVE
40
Sack : BAG
41
Run a towel over : WIPE
42
Adjust, as a hem : ALTER
43
French writer's two-under-par holes? : LESAGESEAGLES
47
Burnt part : ASH
48
LeBron James's org. : NBA
49
French writer's boardwalk booth operator? : RACINESCARNIE
56
Actor Bridges of "The Big Lebowski" : JEFF
57
Creme-filled cookies : OREOS
58
Prefix with disestablishmentarianism : ANTI
60
___ of Sandwich : EARL
61
Swap : TRADE
62
Saddam Hussein's land : IRAQ
63
"Iliad" locale : TROY
64
Double curves : ESSES
65
"___ is more" : LESS
Down
1
Have a meal : EAT
2
Dec. 25 : XMAS
3
Tiniest bit of the Greek alphabet? : IOTA
4
Former St. Petersburg royal : TSAR
5
Ovid's book of love poetry : AMORES
6
Choose : SELECT
7
Hunks of chewing tobacco : WADS
8
Locale : AREA
9
Gives an account : NARRATES
10
Useless : NOHELP
11
Germany, Italy and Japan, in W.W. II : AXIS
12
Cooped (up) : PENT
13
Conclusion : END
21
Sound of a heavy fall : THUD
22
Womanizer : ROUE
25
Small lab container : PHIAL
26
Where cowboys once sang "Oh, give me a home" : RANGE
27
Mork's birthplace, on TV : ORK
28
Small, medium and large : SIZES
29
NNW's opposite : SSE
30
Speechify : ORATE
31
Parties that might have glow-in-the-dark freebies : RAVES
32
Corn on the ___ : COB
35
The "p" in r.p.m. : PER
37
It may be hit by a soprano : HIGHNOTE
38
Zoo animal that beats its chest : APE
39
90° turn : ELL
41
"What ___ thinking?!" : WASI
42
Actor John of "Sands of Iwo Jima" : AGAR
44
Run-scoring hit that puts the batter out : SACFLY
45
Put in a secret language : ENCODE
46
Humiliates : ABASES
49
Backside : REAR
50
Jackson 5 hairdo : AFRO
51
Blunders : ERRS
52
Caribbean and Mediterranean : SEAS
53
Finger's tip : NAIL
54
Concerning, on a memo : INRE
55
Flight board postings, for short : ETAS
56
MetLife Stadium footballer : JET
59
Figs. for geniuses : IQS

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