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New York Times, Thursday, January 20, 2005

Author:
Manny Nosowsky
Editor:
Will Shortz
17-Across : "Not true!"
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611.571,613877%
Manny Nosowsky

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 42 Missing: {JMQVXY} This is puzzle # 210 for Mr. Nosowsky. Thursday freshness: 47%
Jim Horne notes:

This grid has only 63 vowels, the fewest of any 15 by 15 puzzle in my database.

1
A
2
C
3
T
4
S
5
A
6
S
7
S
8
O
9
W
10
R
O
W
11
G
12
O
U
L
A
13
S
14
H
15
C
P
A
16
T
U
E
17
I
T
S
A
L
I
E
18
R
E
N
19
S
P
L
20
O
T
C
H
21
S
C
H
22
W
I
N
N
23
A
L
F
A
S
24
I
25
S
A
K
26
A
P
S
E
27
L
E
T
T
28
A
B
C
S
29
W
I
P
E
S
30
E
T
H
S
31
R
A
H
32
E
A
T
S
A
T
33
S
C
R
U
34
N
C
H
35
P
36
O
37
S
38
S
E
S
39
L
O
T
40
P
41
S
42
I
43
S
44
I
N
C
A
N
45
A
T
N
O
46
O
T
R
O
47
C
A
R
L
48
I
T
Z
A
49
C
O
R
E
S
50
K
L
A
T
51
S
C
H
52
S
53
C
H
L
E
P
P
54
S
E
T
55
P
O
E
56
T
I
C
A
57
T
E
A
58
O
R
C
59
A
N
N
E
A
L
S
60
C
A
D
61
N
T
H
62
A
N
N
63
H
T
S
© 2005, The New York Times1/20/5 ( No. 20,162 )
Across
1
Appear : ACT
4
KLM competitor : SAS
7
Promulgate : SOW
10
Help the crew : ROW
11
Paprika-powdered serving : GOULASH
15
One doing checks and balances? : CPA
16
Election day: Abbr. : TUE
17
"Not true!" : ITSALIE
18
TV cartoon dog : REN
19
Stain : SPLOTCH
21
Bicycle maker since 1895 : SCHWINN
23
Some sports cars, for short : ALFAS
24
"Out of Africa" novelist Dinesen : ISAK
26
Niche at Notre Dame : APSE
27
Baltic Sea viewer, maybe : LETT
28
Rudiments : ABCS
29
Cleaning cloths : WIPES
30
Letters in Icelandic : ETHS
31
"Yay, team!" : RAH
32
Patronizes, as a restaurant : EATSAT
33
Make compact, with "up" : SCRUNCH
35
Groups on horseback : POSSES
39
Parking place : LOT
40
Particle flux density symbols : PSIS
44
Quechua-speaking : INCAN
45
79 for gold, e.g.: Abbr. : ATNO
46
Neither this nor that, in Peru : OTRO
47
Rob Reiner's father : CARL
48
Chichén ___ (Mayan city) : ITZA
49
Hearts : CORES
50
Gossipy group : KLATSCH
52
Lug : SCHLEPP
54
In place : SET
55
Horace's "Ars ___" : POETICA
57
What's brewing, perhaps : TEA
58
Tolkien monster : ORC
59
Tempers : ANNEALS
60
Knave : CAD
61
___ degree : NTH
62
Lily Tomlin character Edith ___ : ANN
63
Shaker ___, O. : HTS
Down
1
Gallery event : ARTSALE
2
Terse verse : COUPLET
3
Like L, alphabetically : TWELFTH
4
Where to order tekka maki : SUSHIBAR
5
Like : ALA
6
Some dips : SALSAS
7
Newspaper publisher who founded the United Press : SCRIPPS
8
Briny expanse : OPENSEA
9
Most pale : WANNEST
11
Beats it, out of the city : GITS
12
Not needing a prescription: Abbr. : OTC
13
Twisted : SICK
14
Restrained laugh : HEH
20
Some are wild : OATS
22
"You're going too fast for me!" : WAIT
25
"Hogan's Heroes" sergeant : SCHULTZ
28
Meteor paths : ARCS
29
"Do ___ Diddy Diddy" (1964 #1 hit) : WAH
32
Opposite of endo- : ECTO
33
Upper body: Abbr. : SEN
34
Occidental, e.g. : NONASIAN
35
Harasses : PICKSON
36
Ready for anything : ONALERT
37
No-go at the track : SCRATCH
38
A dash, maybe : SALT
40
Kitty : POOL
41
Time for one doing time : STRETCH
42
Words of emphasis : IREPEAT
43
Some pot scrubbers : SOSPADS
45
Acropolis figure : ATHENA
48
Pointer's target : ICON
49
The New Yorker cartoonist Addams : CHAS
51
Marienbad, for one : SPA
53
D with 50% off : CCL
56
Number of one-voweled, seven-letter words in this puzzle : TEN

Answer summary:
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