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New York Times, Wednesday, January 7, 2009

Author:
William Frank Macreery
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
20-Across : Stumped solver's desire
TotalDebut
11/7/2009
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ScrabDebutFresh
1.49533%
William Frank Macreery

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 38 Missing: {JQXZ} This is the debut puzzle for Mr. Macreery. Wednesday freshness: 51%
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© 2009, The New York Times1/7/9 ( No. 21,610 )
Across
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Garden bloom, informally : GLAD
5
Removes, in a way : DOFFS
10
"Down with," at the Bastille : ABAS
14
White coat : RIME
15
Husband of Bathsheba : URIAH
16
Pioneer Boone, familiarly : DANL
17
Genesis victim : ABEL
18
Host city of golf's Memorial Tournament : DUBLINOHIO
20
Stumped solver's desire : HINTS
22
Headline in a circular : SALE
23
Apt. ad abbr. : RMS
24
Write, as a P.S. : ADD
25
Component of bronze : TIN
28
Scand. land : NOR
29
Sound from a masseur's client : AAH
30
Hometown to college football's Vandals : MOSCOWIDAHO
33
Project conclusion? : ILE
34
O'Connor's successor on the Supreme Court : ALITO
35
Geraint's lady : ENID
36
Where rock's R.E.M. was formed : ATHENSGEORGIA
41
Think ahead : PLAN
42
Clearance rack abbr. : IRREG
43
___-rock (music genre) : ALT
44
Paul Revere founded a brass and copper works here : ROMENEWYORK
50
Raise a stink? : ROT
51
St. Louis-to-Indianapolis dir. : ENE
52
Language suffix : ESE
53
Rough position? : LIE
54
It has two values in blackjack : ACE
55
Blow off some hot air : VENT
57
Do a soccer mom's chore : DRIVE
59
Birthplace of Vice President Hannibal Hamlin : PARISMAINE
63
Place to use Easy-Off : OVEN
64
Summers on the Seine : ETES
65
Back 40 units : ACRES
66
Boggy stuff : MIRE
67
Turner and Williams : TEDS
68
Food and water, for two : NEEDS
69
Host who said "I kid you not" : PAAR
Down
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Made of whole-wheat flour : GRAHAM
2
Sexual instinct : LIBIDO
3
Compensation for loss : AMENDS
4
Shoulder muscle, briefly : DELT
5
Turkey : DUD
6
Tulsa sch. : ORU
7
Bits of baloney : FIBS
8
Lola of "Golden Boy" : FALANA
9
1862 battle site : SHILOH
10
Hoo-ha : ADO
11
Native of one of the Gulf States : BAHRAINI
12
Lion's kingdom : ANIMALIA
13
Pie-eyed : SLOSHED
19
"Quo Vadis" role : NERO
21
Fancy wrap : STOLE
26
"Heads ___, tails ..." : IWIN
27
Things to pick : NITS
31
"High Hopes" lyricist : CAHN
32
Herd orphan : DOGIE
35
Like a flan : EGGY
36
Set aside : ALLOCATE
37
In shreds : TATTERED
38
Fish-eating raptor : ERNE
39
Assayers' samples : ORES
40
Exchange new vows : REWED
41
Protective wall : PARAPET
44
Tach figure, informally : REVS
45
Words before band or army : ONEMAN
46
Growl at, say : MENACE
47
"Twelfth Night" countess : OLIVIA
48
Muralist Diego : RIVERA
49
More astute : KEENER
56
Pit stop change : TIRE
58
49-0 game, e.g. : ROMP
60
Magazine output: Abbr. : ISS
61
Homer's neighbor : NED
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Start of summer? : ESS

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