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New York Times, Wednesday, August 3, 2011

Author:
Paul Guttormsson
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
Tucker with the #1 country hit "Here's Some Love"
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Paul Guttormsson

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 38 Missing: {BCJKQWXZ} Spans: 3 This is puzzle # 3 for Mr. Guttormsson. Wednesday freshness: 2%
Jim Horne notes:

Let's call these 51 Ts the official record for most in a 15x puzzle, although Manny Nosowsky used an artificial April Fool's gimmick in 2000 to squeeze in 54.

Note that every answer here contains a T and every clue begins with T.

1
E
2
T
3
A
4
I
5
L
6
T
7
E
8
S
9
H
10
N
11
A
12
T
13
O
14
A
E
T
N
A
15
A
N
T
E
16
A
L
I
T
17
S
L
E
E
T
18
P
T
A
S
19
F
O
N
T
20
T
E
M
P
O
21
R
A
R
Y
T
22
A
T
T
O
O
23
T
Y
E
24
I
O
T
A
25
A
26
L
27
T
28
A
N
29
T
30
E
N
N
A
31
S
32
T
33
A
34
R
I
O
35
T
36
T
O
V
37
R
38
I
T
A
S
39
T
E
N
N
40
E
S
S
E
41
E
42
T
I
T
A
N
S
43
S
U
E
T
S
44
N
T
H
45
S
T
Y
E
46
Y
T
D
47
T
48
E
49
E
T
H
E
50
S
51
S
A
T
52
S
E
T
A
53
F
T
54
D
55
T
56
E
57
E
T
E
R
T
58
O
59
T
T
E
R
60
I
61
N
62
G
63
H
T
T
P
64
A
S
T
O
65
P
O
S
I
T
66
A
T
T
A
67
D
A
R
T
68
P
I
N
T
O
69
T
A
U
T
70
E
T
A
S
71
E
T
T
E
S
© 2011, The New York Times8/3/11 ( No. 22,548 )
Across
1
Transact business on the Internet : ETAIL
6
TV/radio host John : TESH
10
Turkey club? : NATO
14
Travelers alternative : AETNA
15
Toss in a chip : ANTE
16
Touched down : ALIT
17
Tricky driving condition : SLEET
18
Tax-exempt educ. groups : PTAS
19
Times Roman, for one : FONT
20
Traditional use for henna : TEMPORARYTATTOO
23
Tackle-to-mast rope on a ship : TYE
24
Tiny bit : IOTA
25
Typist's key: Abbr. : ALT
28
Transmitter of waves : ANTENNA
31
Train stop: Abbr. : STA
34
Tear-gassing cause : RIOT
36
Tevye's "good" : TOV
37
The Beatles' meter maid and others : RITAS
39
Team in the A.F.C. South : TENNESSEETITANS
43
Tallow sources : SUETS
44
To the ___ degree : NTH
45
Trouble with a lid? : STYE
46
Time period on a financial stmt. : YTD
47
Takes a step toward biting? : TEETHES
51
Took a chair : SAT
52
Trap or record preceder : SETA
53
Teleflora competitor : FTD
55
Tilt-boarding : TEETERTOTTERING
63
Techie's address starter? : HTTP
64
Topic lead-in : ASTO
65
Take as a given : POSIT
66
The U.N.'s Kofi ___ Annan : ATTA
67
Tranquilizer gun projectile : DART
68
Two-color horse : PINTO
69
Tensed : TAUT
70
Terminal approximations: Abbr. : ETAS
71
Towel ends? : ETTES
Down
1
Toward sunrise : EAST
2
The "T" of TV : TELE
3
"Time to rise!" ("Up and ___!") : ATEM
4
Tending to bungle things : INEPT
5
Tito Jackson's sister : LATOYA
6
Toledo tidbit : TAPA
7
Theater's ___'acte : ENTR
8
Take the night off from partying, say : STAYIN
9
"The Ten Commandments" star : HESTON
10
Three-country agreement of '94 : NAFTA
11
Tons : ALOT
12
Two-time All-Star Martinez : TINO
13
"The Touch of Your Hand" lyricist Harbach : OTTO
21
Tears : RENTS
22
Tempest game maker : ATARI
25
Trying to look cultured : ARTSY
26
Title for Sulu on "Star Trek": Abbr. : LIEUT
27
Tempered, with "down" : TONED
29
Talking-___ (scoldings) : TOS
30
Track meet component : EVENT
31
TDs and interceptions : STATS
32
Tucker with the #1 country hit "Here's Some Love" : TANYA
33
Thing of value : ASSET
35
"The Closer" airer : TNT
38
T.G.I.F. part : ITS
40
"Terminal Bliss" actress Chandler : ESTEE
41
Third-person ending of old : ETH
42
Thug's crime, often : THEFT
48
TD Waterhouse online competitor : ETRADE
49
Torments : EATSAT
50
Treeless tract : STEPPE
52
Time-honored Irish cleric, for short : STPAT
54
Tout ___ (straight ahead: Fr.) : DROIT
55
To the extent ___ : THAT
56
"Tell Mama" singer James : ETTA
57
Traitor's rebuke : ETTU
58
Tomás's "other" : OTRA
59
Tykes : TOTS
60
"This ___ what I expected" : ISNT
61
TV's Nick at ___ : NITE
62
"Three deuces and a four-speed" cars of old : GTOS

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