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New York Times, Wednesday, January 2, 2008

Author:
Patrick Blindauer
Editor:
Will Shortz
17-Across : Unending pain
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RebusCircleScrabDebutFresh
261.5930243%
Patrick Blindauer

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 36 Missing: {JKQZ} Spans: 1 This is puzzle # 13 for Mr. Blindauer. Wednesday freshness: 49%
Jim Horne notes:

When you connect the Os you get a bow tie. So what's the clarinet relative? Ellen Ripstein had to tell me: "It's an O-bow (bow of O's, pronounced like the instrument oboe.)"

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I
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G
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Y
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R
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N
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T
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D
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H
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O
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T
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N
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E
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O
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N
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B
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V
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D
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L
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X
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© 2008, The New York Times1/2/8 ( No. 21,239 )
Across
1
Rivera of the original "Chicago" : CHITA
6
"Dragnet" force, in brief : LAPD
10
Org. for which a D.V.M. might work : SPCA
14
Southwestern sheepherders : HOPIS
15
Mythical king of the Huns : ATLI
16
Press : IRON
17
Unending pain : AGONY
18
Ayatollah's land : IRAN
19
N.Y. neighbor : CONN
20
With 59-Across, hint to this puzzle's secret : CLARINET
23
Grp. that conducts many tests : FDA
24
Honeymoon suite feature : HOTTUB
27
Souvenir from a bad trip? : ABRASION
29
Le Figaro article : UNE
30
Epigram : MOT
32
See 65-Down : OCAT
33
"Come here often?," e.g. : LINE
35
Chewy candy : ROLO
38
River to the Rhone : ISERE
41
What to do after completing this puzzle, with four straight lines : CONNECTALLTHEOS
44
Children's author Blyton and others : ENIDS
45
Chief Whitehorse, e.g. : OTOE
46
Subject of illicit trade : ARMS
47
Japanese leader of the 1960s : SATO
49
"The Gift of the Magi" gift : FOB
51
Ample shoe width : EEE
52
Promoted : FOSTERED
56
Gwen of the original "Chicago" : VERDON
58
Berlin cry : ACH
59
See 20-Across : RELATIVE
61
"Yikes!" : UHOH
63
Like some hands : IDLE
64
___ Gay (W.W. II plane) : ENOLA
68
Some votes : NOES
69
Cain of "Lois & Clark" : DEAN
70
China company : LENOX
71
Secy. : ASST
72
Dry : ARID
73
Jim-dandy : SWELL
Down
1
Half a dance : CHA
2
Keep all to oneself : HOG
3
New issue on Wall St. : IPO
4
Color faintly : TINCT
5
Sanctuary : ASYLUM
6
Dragon's ___ (early video game) : LAIR
7
Central courts : ATRIA
8
Alternative if things go wrong : PLANB
9
Bread for burritos? : DINERO
10
Order to attack, with "on" : SIC
11
Made a killing, say : PROFITEERED
12
Individually owned apartment : CONDO
13
Former U.N. chief Kofi : ANNAN
21
Multiple-choice choices : ABORC
22
Kind of approval : TACIT
24
Actor Tom of "Amadeus" : HULCE
25
Bialy flavorer : ONION
26
Some court attire : TENNISSHOES
28
Violinist Schneider, informally : SASHA
31
Curtain puller of film : TOTO
34
Wrap up by : ENDAT
36
50 degs., maybe : LAT
37
Former Swedish P.M. Palme : OLOF
39
Beau : ROMEO
40
City north of Cologne : ESSEN
42
Any acetate, chemically : ESTER
43
Pope after John X : LEOVI
48
___ Foods, Inc. : OREIDA
50
Instruments for drawing angles : BEVELS
52
Animals : FAUNA
53
Spanish skating figures : OCHOS
54
Cain vis-à-vis Abel : ELDER
55
___ Lama : DALAI
57
Freshen : RENEW
60
Be inclined : TEND
62
Post W.W. II pres. : HST
65
With 32-Across, a ball game : ONE
66
Response to a joke in an I.M. : LOL
67
Rocker ___ Rose : AXL

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