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New York Times, Monday, January 5, 2009

Author:
Andrea Carla Michaels
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
28-Across : Not written, as a test
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Andrea Carla Michaels

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 40 Missing: {KQZ} Spans: 1 This is puzzle # 14 for Ms. Michaels. Monday freshness: 13%
Andrea Carla Michaels notes:

I had had success with my 5 AIR homonyms, and there was a new film called MEETTHEPARENTS 13 which led to MEAT, METE, MEET. I like these types of themes, but when you have an odd word like METE you are pretty limited to what phrases that are "in the language" that you can use...so you have to get lucky that there will be a pairing. Whereas with MEET you have MEETTHEPRESS, MEETMEINSTLOUIS, MEETTHEPARENTS, MEETTHEFOCKERS, etc.

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© 2009, The New York Times1/5/9 ( No. 21,608 )
Across
1
Flexible, electrically : ACDC
5
Desert plants : CACTI
10
For fear that : LEST
14
Prisoner's knife : SHIV
15
Be ___ in the neck : APAIN
16
"Even ___ speak ..." : ASWE
17
Cab : TAXI
18
Window features : PANES
19
One at the computer : USER
20
Agent Gold of HBO's "Entourage" : ARI
21
Japanese sleuth Mr. ___ : MOTO
22
Primp : PREEN
23
2000 De Niro/Stiller comedy : MEETTHEPARENTS
27
"Mighty" man who struck out : CASEY
28
Not written, as a test : ORAL
29
Makes mistakes : ERRS
31
Pleased : GLAD
32
"___ Pinafore" : HMS
35
Basic, as issues : MEATANDPOTATOES
40
Toddler : TOT
41
Land west of Vietnam : LAOS
42
Chooses : OPTS
43
West Germany's capital : BONN
44
Alternative to singles, in figure skating : PAIRS
47
What judges do in court : METEOUTJUSTICE
52
First name in W.W. II infamy : ADOLF
53
Commedia dell'___ : ARTE
54
Gold, in Guadalajara : ORO
56
Color lightly : TINT
57
So yesterday : PASSE
59
Editing mark : STET
60
Suffix with kitchen : ETTE
61
Parisian love : AMOUR
62
No. on a bank statement : ACCT
63
Like show horses' feet : SHOD
64
Bedsheets, e.g. : LINEN
65
"___ be in England" : OHTO
Down
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"The Thin Man" dog : ASTA
2
The third time's said to be one : CHARM
3
Strom Thurmond follower of 1948 : DIXIECRAT
4
106, to Trajan : CVI
5
Truman who wrote "Breakfast at Tiffany's" : CAPOTE
6
Lack of interest : APATHY
7
Something to paddle : CANOE
8
Even score : TIE
9
Ones who are elected : INS
10
Winner's wreath : LAUREL
11
German steel city : ESSEN
12
Bonbon, e.g. : SWEET
13
Shorebirds : TERNS
21
The Appalachians, e.g.: Abbr. : MTS
22
"The Devil Wears ___" : PRADA
24
Sunrise direction : EAST
25
Explorer Marco : POLO
26
"I smell ___" : ARAT
29
Ambulance worker, for short : EMT
30
___ Speed Wagon (old vehicle) : REO
31
Auto gizmo that talks, in brief : GPS
32
Sidewalk game with chalk : HOPSCOTCH
33
Big Apple museum, with "the" : MET
34
Sizzling sound : SSS
36
Standoffish : ALOOF
37
Half of Mork's goodbye : NANU
38
Advice regarding touching a hot stove : DONT
39
Actress Spelling : TORI
43
Sang loudly, with "out" : BELTED
44
Chase : PURSUE
45
To the rear, on a ship : ASTERN
46
Suffix with Israel or Manhattan : ITE
47
Spouses : MATES
48
Singer Piaf : EDITH
49
The Lone Ranger's faithful friend : TONTO
50
Bourne of "The Bourne Identity" : JASON
51
Build : ERECT
55
Sgt. Snorkel's four-legged friend : OTTO
57
Friend : PAL
58
French friend : AMI
59
___ Paulo, Brazil : SAO

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