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New York Times, Wednesday, January 10, 2007

Author:
Curtis Yee
Editor:
Will Shortz
55-Across : Writer Santha Rama ___
TotalDebutLatest
36/12/20066/13/2007
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ScrabDebutFresh
1.581230%
Curtis Yee

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 40 Missing: {QV} This is puzzle # 2 for Mr. Yee. Wednesday freshness: 43%
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© 2007, The New York Times1/10/7 ( No. 20,882 )
Across
1
Plotting : UPTO
5
Some hospital procedures : SCANS
10
1993 standoff site : WACO
14
Gung-ho feeling : ZEAL
15
Pull on : TUGAT
16
Skater Michelle : KWAN
17
Product with earbuds : IPOD
18
Put down : ABASE
19
Hindu royal : RANI
20
Speaker of the quip starting at 27-Across : HOMERSIMPSON
23
Choreographer Twyla : THARP
25
Suffix with meth- : ANE
26
Tee follower? : HEE
27
Quip, part 1 : JUSTBECAUSEI
31
Parisian pal : AMI
32
Mount Rushmore's state: Abbr. : SDAK
33
Beer blast garb, maybe : TOGAS
37
Quip, part 2 : DONT
39
"The Fog of War" director ___ Morris : ERROL
42
Quip, part 3 : CARE
43
Grain bane : ERGOT
45
Speaking freely : OPEN
47
Versatile wheels, for short : UTE
48
Quip, part 4 : DOESNTMEANIM
52
Metric wts. : KGS
55
Writer Santha Rama ___ : RAU
56
Hustler's game : MONTE
57
End of the quip : NOTLISTENING
61
Common spread : OLEO
62
Shroud locale : TURIN
63
It has a warp : LOOM
67
Some palmtops, for short : PDAS
68
Circular seal : ORING
69
Reason for an all-nighter : EXAM
70
Like a flea-market Gucci, probably : FAKE
71
Barcelona babes : NENES
72
Largest lake in Australia : EYRE
Down
1
AK-47 relative : UZI
2
Zip : PEP
3
"Way," literally : TAO
4
Behind the times : OLDHAT
5
Run wild : STAMPEDE
6
Die, for example : CUBE
7
Food thickener : AGAR
8
West Indies capital : NASSAU
9
Bud holders? : STEINS
10
Sitcom station : WKRP
11
Inundated : AWASH
12
Vacationer's rental : CANOE
13
Cat-___-tails : ONINE
21
Sun, moon, etc. : ORBS
22
Hook up : MEET
23
Surgeon's target : TUMOR
24
When doubled, a former National Zoo panda : HSING
27
Green stone : JADE
28
Compact, e.g. : CAR
29
Home of the Rubber Bowl : AKRON
30
Summer Games org. : IOC
34
Ill-fed : GAUNT
35
"The Sopranos" restaurateur : ARTIE
36
Appear to be : SEEM
38
Director Browning : TOD
40
Not req. : OPT
41
Symbols of crowd psychology : LEMMINGS
44
Famous Amos : TORI
46
Noble element : NEON
49
Home of Lafayette College : EASTON
50
Put in stitches : SUTURE
51
"Sense and Sensibility" director : ANGLEE
52
Random House imprint : KNOPF
53
Ingrid Bergman's last film "A Woman Called ___" : GOLDA
54
The turf in "surf and turf" : STEAK
58
Get checkmated : LOSE
59
One of the Waltons : ERIN
60
A round of golf, informally : NINE
64
Acne treatment brand : OXY
65
Charon's tool : OAR
66
Tussaud's title: Abbr. : MME

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