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New York Times, Thursday, January 24, 2013

Author:
Michael Shteyman
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
16-Across : Gathers on the surface, as a layer of molecules
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Michael Shteyman

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 72, Blocks: 32 Missing: {JQ} This is puzzle # 49 for Mr. Shteyman. Thursday freshness: 84%
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© 2013, The New York Times1/24/13 ( No. 23,088 )
Across
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Chiquita import : BANANAS
8
Sailor's heavy jacket : PEACOAT
15
1968 to the present, in tennis : OPENERA
16
Gathers on the surface, as a layer of molecules : ADSORBS
17
Small image displayed in a browser's address bar : FAVICON
18
Quick break : PITSTOP
19
Subject of a 2010 biography subtitled "The Voice" : FRANKSINATRA
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Marie Antoinette's loss : TETE
22
Title boy in a Humperdinck opera : HANSEL
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Forearm bones : RADII
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Word before and after "yeah" : YOU
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"Whoa, baby!" : YOWZA
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It may have one or two sides : ENTREE
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Part of a baby's daily schedule : NAP
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Port ___ : SAID
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City that's home to three Unesco World Heritage Sites : AGRA
39
Tabloid TV show co-hosted by Mario Lopez : EXTRA
41
Atomic : TINY
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"Broccoli again?," e.g. : MOAN
43
Tale : LIE
44
Put on guard : WARNED
46
Hollywood's Roberts and others : ERICS
48
Part of P.S.T.: Abbr. : STD
50
Several "Boris Godunov" parts : BASSI
51
Lapsed : RANOUT
53
Back : REAR
55
Compact since 1982 : NISSANSENTRA
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Bordering state : ABUTTAL
64
Two : APAIROF
65
Line of Porsches whose name is Spanish for "race" : CARRERA
66
Decorative melody added above a simple musical theme : DESCANT
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With 47-Down, popular hotel chain : EMBASSY
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Goddess with a golden chariot : ARTEMIS
Down
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Sockeroo : BOFF
2
On ___ with : APAR
3
Gulf of Finland feeder : NEVA
4
Have ___ with : ANIN
5
Unimaginative gift, maybe : NECKTIE
6
Sprang : AROSE
7
"Madness put to good uses," per George Santayana : SANITY
8
Nickname for Haydn : PAPA
9
First lady of the 1910s : EDITH
10
Off course : ASTRAY
11
Dangerous family : COSANOSTRA
12
Meal morsel : ORT
13
Type letters : ABO
14
Medicine amt. : TSP
20
Colorful fish : NEONTETRA
23
Country lads : SWAINS
24
Newsweek and others : EZINES
25
She was on the cover of back-to-back issues of Time in September 1997 : LADYDI
26
Metalworker's tool : REAMER
27
Sweater material : ANGORA
28
It stops at Manhattan's Washington Square and Rockefeller Center : DTRAIN
29
Affair of the 1980s : IRANCONTRA
31
Bygone political inits. : UAR
34
Sushi fish : EEL
36
Part of the Iams logo : PAW
40
Fraternity letters : XIS
45
Side by side : ABREAST
47
See 67-Across : SUITES
49
"You're welcome, amigo" : DENADA
52
Line that ended in 1917 : TSARS
54
Consistent with : ASPER
56
Leave rolling in the aisles : SLAY
57
"Good job!" : NICE
58
Ride in London : TRAM
59
Rice-A-___ : RONI
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Talk show times: Abbr. : AFTS
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Pal : ACE
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"Kapow!" : BAM
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City community, informally : URB

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