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New York Times, Wednesday, January 26, 2005

Author:
Stanley Newman
Editor:
Will Shortz
5-Across : Hammer part
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Stanley Newman

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 36 Missing: {FQV} Scrabble average: 1.89 This is puzzle # 12 for Mr. Newman. Wednesday freshness: 40%
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© 2005, The New York Times1/26/5 ( No. 20,168 )
Across
1
Evergreen trees : YEWS
5
Hammer part : CLAW
9
Fit for a king : REGAL
14
Massage target : ACHE
15
Inauguration highlight : OATH
16
Dress type : ALINE
17
Boo or yoo follower : WHATISHOO
19
Jazz singer Carmen : MCRAE
20
"I should say ___!" : NOT
21
Actress Gaynor : MITZI
22
Leaves high and dry : JILTS
23
Certain OPEC minister : IRANI
25
Gravity-powered vehicle : SLED
27
Lorraine's neighbor : ALSACE
29
Online activity : CHAT
30
Functioned as : WAS
33
Unwitting tools : PAWNS
34
Snowy locale in a Frost poem : WOODS
35
Currently "in" : HOT
36
Hightailed it : HIED
37
Manifests : SHOWS
38
Kind of package : CARE
39
B & B : INN
40
Up : AWAKE
41
"I ___ Right to Sing the Blues" : GOTTA
42
Wolf's home : DEN
43
After the whistle : LATE
44
Green eggs and ham profferer, in Dr. Seuss : SAMIAM
45
Rigatoni relative : ZITI
46
Puzzles solved with a pencil : MAZES
47
Circular dinner order : PIZZA
50
Actor's minimum : SCALE
52
Atomic : WEE
55
Lies against : ABUTS
56
Reagan's first interior secretary : WHOISWATT
58
Camp craft : CANOE
59
Tall story : YARN
60
Elvis's middle name : ARON
61
Steps lightly : TRIPS
62
New York county : ERIE
63
Lucy Lawless role : XENA
Down
1
Open wide : YAWN
2
Cavern feature : ECHO
3
Oldtime radio station in a 1990's AMC series : WHATISWENN
4
Prepared : SET
5
Trig function : COSINE
6
"Chicago Hope" actress : LAHTI
7
Completely : ATOZ
8
Inventor of the sewing machine : WHOISHOWE
9
Certain plane engines : RAMJETS
10
Charlton Heston title role : ELCID
11
Lass : GIRL
12
Art sch. class : ANAT
13
Venerable Virginia family : LEES
18
Some Apples : IMACS
24
Sperry's partner : RAND
26
Little shavers : LADS
27
Sap sucker : APHID
28
"Mule Train" singer, 1949 : LAINE
29
Onetime "Masterpiece Theatre" host : COOKE
30
Massachusetts birthplace of the 19th-century feminist Elizabeth Packard : WHATISWARE
31
Cardiology concern : AORTA
32
Robert Fulton power source : STEAM
34
English river, site of the ruins of Tintern Abbey : WHATISWYE
37
Big blow : SWAT
38
Rain or shine preceder : COME
40
Pen names : ALIASES
41
Stares : GAZES
44
Like some solutions : SALINE
45
Alphabetically last top 40 rock artist : ZZTOP
46
Polynesian language : MAORI
47
Warsaw ___ : PACT
48
Construction beam : IBAR
49
New Mexico Indian : ZUNI
51
Scorch : CHAR
53
George Orwell's alma mater : ETON
54
Sicilian peak : ETNA
57
Candle dripping : WAX

Answer summary:
6 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later.

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