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New York Times, Saturday, January 15, 2005

Author:
Ed Early
Editor:
Will Shortz
20-Across : Make understandable
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
557/7/19947/14/20081
SunMonTueWedThuFriSatVariety
1917117442
ScrabDebutFresh
1.5419532%
Ed Early

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 64, Blocks: 34 Missing: {BJQXZ} Spans: 1 This is puzzle # 39 for Mr. Early. Saturday freshness: 41%
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© 2005, The New York Times1/15/5 ( No. 20,157 )
Across
1
Flu symptom : AGUE
5
Spirited : GOGO
9
Things let out : ROOMS
14
1990 N.C.A.A. hoops champs : UNLV
15
Steamed : IRED
16
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame designer : IMPEI
17
Family term of endearment : NANA
18
___ fruit : UGLI
19
One noted for long drives : SNEAD
20
Make understandable : TRANSLATE
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Burton's 1977 miniseries role : KINTE
23
Catch 50 winks? : SLEEPIN
24
Join : WED
25
Western national forest : SHASTA
28
Promise : SWEAR
30
Out of whack : OFFCENTER
33
Cole Porter's "___ Men" : IHATE
34
They're behind some actions : ULTERIORMOTIVES
36
"Shampoo" screenwriter Robert : TOWNE
37
Advocates : PROMOTERS
38
Bats : SWATS
39
Pastoral : SERENE
40
No one in particular : ANY
41
Folded like a fan : PLICATE
45
Edna St. Vincent Millay's "Love ___ All" : ISNOT
48
Team leaders : MULETEERS
50
"Why Can't the English?" composer : LOEWE
51
All the things you are: Abbr. : ANAT
52
What's taken in : DIET
53
First name in architecture : ELIEL
54
Something sunk : PUTT
55
Primo : AONE
56
"The Bait" poet : DONNE
57
Fictional pirate : SMEE
58
Unfashioned : RUDE
Down
1
Some kin : AUNTS
2
Twist : GNARL
3
Skeleton parts : ULNAE
4
Fleeting : EVANESCENT
5
Time's 2001 Person of the Year : GIULIANI
6
They're often pulled out in church : ORGANSTOPS
7
Do-re-mi : GELT
8
Comic strip canine : ODIE
9
Uncertainty : RISK
10
Book in the Book of Mormon : OMNI
11
Scrim feature : OPENWEAVE
12
Human, by nature : MEATEATER
13
Place plant nutrients near the roots of a growing crop : SIDEDRESS
21
Purviews : SPHERES
26
Land, in another land : TERRE
27
Protection from enemy fire : ARMORPLATE
28
"Go fly a kite!" : SITONIT
29
Choice for durable wooden fencing : WHITECEDAR
30
Beat at sea : OUTSAILED
31
Performed helplessly? : FLOWNSOLO
32
Home of the Univ. of St. Francis : FTWAYNEIN
35
Brasserie dish : OMELETTE
42
Facetious group? : AEIOU
43
Economists' concern : TREND
44
Forename in fragrances : ESTEE
46
Glendower who revolted against Henry IV : OWEN
47
Marketing leader? : TELE
48
They have scales : MAPS
49
Ancient one : UNUM

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