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New York Times, Saturday, September 8, 2007

Author:
Brendan Emmett Quigley
Editor:
Will Shortz
47-Across : One working for a flat fee?
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Brendan Emmett Quigley

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 62, Blocks: 32 Missing: {FJQXY} Spans: 7, (1 triple stack) Minimum word length: 4 This is puzzle # 119 for Mr. Quigley. Saturday freshness: 37%
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© 2007, The New York Times9/8/7 ( No. 21,123 )
Across
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African city with famed botanical gardens : ENTEBBE
8
Riddle ender : WHATAMI
15
Yosemite setting : SIERRAS
16
Still oblivious : NOWISER
17
It has a fast, easy gait : TENNESSEEWALKER
19
Things you enjoy doing : ACTIVEINTERESTS
20
Having new tournament rankings : RESEEDED
21
Marxist quality? : ZANINESS
29
Dish with tomato sauce : SPANISHOMELETTE
36
Area of W.W. II fighting : EUROPEANTHEATER
37
Like Dacron : CREASERESISTANT
38
Pros : OLDHANDS
39
Football helmet features : EARHOLES
47
One working for a flat fee? : REALESTATEAGENT
54
Has an accommodating spirit : ISEAGERTOPLEASE
55
Island just north of the Equator : SAOTOME
56
Advances : MOVESUP
57
Activity of an organism in response to light, e.g. : KINESIS
58
Puts away : STASHES
Down
1
Spanish 101 verb : ESTAR
2
Wedding invitee : NIECE
3
Wedding rentals : TENTS
4
___ Davis, first African-American to win the Heisman Trophy : ERNIE
5
Music symbol : BREVE
6
Set (in) : BASED
7
"Ah, Wilderness!" mother : ESSIE
8
PBS station behind Charlie Rose : WNET
9
British general in the American Revolution : HOWE
10
"I'll raise the preparation of ___": Mark Antony : AWAR
11
Square in a steam room : TILE
12
Bids : ASKS
13
A runner might enter it : MEET
14
Some flawed mdse. : IRRS
18
Spot from which you might see a bomb headed your way : ENDZONESEAT
22
Recipe details: Abbr. : AMTS
23
Cadbury Schweppes brand : NEHI
24
Composition of some French chains : ILES
25
Drink preference : NEAT
26
Editorial cartoonist Hulme : ETTA
27
Antique gun : STEN
28
Harvard Science Center architect José Luis ___ : SERT
29
Dry, in Durango : SECO
30
Reverse movement, of a sort : PURL
31
Cézanne's "Boy in ___ Vest" : ARED
32
Longtime "All Things Considered" host Adams : NOAH
33
Itself, in a Latin legal phrase : IPSA
34
Not secret : SEEN
35
Compact : HARD
40
Things hypothesized by Democritus : ATOMS
41
Move shoots, say : REPOT
42
Flaky Turkish confection : HALVA
43
Some moldings : OGEES
44
Canine line : LEASH
45
Follow : ENSUE
46
Way down : STEPS
47
Popular U.S. board game since 1959 : RISK
48
He played Bob in "La Bamba," 1987 : ESAI
49
It goes on and on and on : AEON
50
Former : LATE
51
They're big in Hollywood : EGOS
52
Rest stop sight : SEMI
53
"___ Hombres" (ZZ Top record) : TRES

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