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New York Times, Tuesday, July 7, 2015

Author:
Daniel Raymon
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
22-Down : Cry of contempt
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Daniel Raymon

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 36 Missing: {JQ} Spans: 2 This is puzzle # 15 for Mr. Raymon. Grid flow: 26.3 Tuesday freshness: 82%
Jeff Chen notes:
Sometimes people ask me why alternating vowel-consonant patterns are so prized among crossword constructors, and that upper left ... read more
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© 2015, The New York Times7/7/15 ( No. 23,982 )
Across
1
Indiana basketball player : PACER
6
Cigarette purchase : PACK
10
The year 906 : CMVI
14
Striped gemstone : AGATE
15
Feverish fit : AGUE
16
Goes fast : HIES
17
"The Kiss" sculptor : RODIN
18
Account from Scheherazade : TALE
19
Inter ___ : ALIA
20
Split second : TRICE
21
Hayseed : HILLBILLY
23
Penalized move in baseball : BALK
24
Brought home the gold : WON
25
___ crossroads : ATA
26
Comedian Black : LEWIS
28
Musical piece whose name is Italian for "joke" : SCHERZO
32
Exactly : TOATEE
34
Card that may be up one's sleeve : ACE
35
Condition for the easily distracted, for short : ADHD
36
"The Walking Dead" network : AMC
37
Hostility : ILLWILL
40
Rock's ___ Fighters : FOO
41
Misplace : LOSE
43
Repeated cry when stabbing a vampire : DIE
44
Monotony : TEDIUM
46
Live in harmony : COEXIST
48
Screen unit : PIXEL
49
Anatomical tube : VAS
50
Anatomical case : SAC
51
Exerciser's target : FLAB
54
What a stressed-out person may need to take : CHILLPILL
58
Dumbbell : BIMBO
59
Asteroid ___ : BELT
60
Scott of "Parks and Recreation" : ADAM
61
Low-cost, in ads : ECONO
62
50-mile-an-hour wind, e.g. : GALE
63
Roused : WOKE
64
Obstacle for Odysseus : SIREN
65
Engendered : BRED
66
Transport for Calvin and Hobbes : SLED
67
Cubic meter : STERE
Down
1
Medicare section that covers flu shots : PARTB
2
Lead-in to phobia : AGORA
3
Luxury wheels until 2004 : CADILLACSEVILLE
4
Convenience at the airport : ETICKET
5
Artist Magritte : RENE
6
Sympathy : PATHOS
7
"Didn't this happen already?" : AGAIN
8
Gather : CULL
9
What's even on a ship? : KEEL
10
Beverage often flavored with cardamom : CHAITEA
11
Last Whig president : MILLARDFILLMORE
12
Cloak : VEIL
13
Cry of surprise : ISAY
22
Cry of contempt : BAH
24
Exerts : WIELDS
27
Third-century Chinese dynasty : WEI
28
Grade school subj. : SCI
29
TD Garden player : CELTIC
30
First premier of the People's Republic of China : ZHOU
31
Lamar who married a Kardashian : ODOM
32
Soothing powder : TALC
33
Melville's sequel to "Typee" : OMOO
34
Partner of shock : AWE
38
Kindled : LIT
39
Latin law : LEX
42
Grand ___ Ruler (Elks pooh-bah) : EXALTED
45
One of the D's in 35-Across : DEFICIT
47
Key, e.g.: Abbr. : ISL
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Hid, as a coin in a magic act : PALMED
50
Satisfy, as thirst : SLAKE
52
Civil War general Doubleday : ABNER
53
Pat who co-starred in "Journey to the Center of the Earth" : BOONE
54
Classic N.Y.C. venue for punk rock : CBGB
55
Get wind of : HEAR
56
Things that big nails stick out of : PAWS
57
One with devotees : IDOL
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Gershwin title heroine : BESS

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