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New York Times, Saturday, October 11, 2008

Author:
Pete Mitchell
Editor:
Will Shortz
44-Across : Two-time NOW president Eleanor
TotalDebutLatest
37/6/20071/21/2011
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Pete Mitchell

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 70, Blocks: 32 Missing: {FV} Spans: 1 This is puzzle # 2 for Mr. Mitchell. Saturday freshness: 44%
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© 2008, The New York Times10/11/8 ( No. 21,522 )
Across
1
Routines : SHTICKS
8
Who said "A man's kiss is his signature" : MAEWEST
15
End up : TURNOUT
16
Source of much talk : AMRADIO
17
Play or movie starring William H. Macy : OLEANNA
18
The Green City in the Sun : NAIROBI
19
Winner of eight consecutive M.V.P. awards : WAYNEGRETZKY
21
Outsides of sandwiches? : ESSES
22
See 49-Down : DRIES
23
It was made to fall in 2001 : MIR
26
Southwestern resort community : TAOS
27
Dr Pepper Museum locale : WACO
28
One of only two women on Rolling Stone's list of "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time" : JOANJETT
33
Salt baths : BRINES
35
Singer with the 2000 #1 hit "Be With You" : ENRIQUEIGLESIAS
37
Anne Rice's Brat Prince : LESTAT
38
Active Ecuadorean volcano : COTOPAXI
39
Where you might be among Hmong : LAOS
40
Swing-set set : KIDS
41
Every, to a pharmacist : OMN
42
Roll up : AMASS
44
Two-time NOW president Eleanor : SMEAL
49
Garlicky dish : SHRIMPSCAMPI
51
Bachelorette party attendees : GALPALS
54
Ago : EARLIER
55
"Don't you believe it!" : NOSIREE
56
Where Arabic and Tigrinya are spoken : ERITREA
57
Booty : PLUNDER
58
Reversible silk fabrics : DAMASKS
Down
1
19th-century abolitionist : STOWE
2
Shakes in the grass? : HULAS
3
Small diamonds, say : TREYS
4
Puerile : INANE
5
Ben & Jerry's stock : CONES
6
"___ Pow! Enter the Fist" (2002 spoof film) : KUNG
7
Detail in a captain's log : STARDATE
8
Cousin of a cockroach : MANTIS
9
Stagger : AMAZE
10
Ballet dancer Bruhn and others : ERIKS
11
Gun-shy : WARY
12
Old Far Eastern capital : EDO
13
Person in a tree, briefly : SIB
14
Parisian pronoun : TOI
20
Steaminess : EROTICISM
23
Rage : MANIA
24
Scaling tool : ICEAX
25
Martini's partner : ROSSI
26
German: Abbr. : TEUT
27
Thin fragment : WISP
28
It may still be moving when you eat it : JELLO
29
Late late hour : ONEAM
30
Bad ignition? : ARSON
31
Small carps : NITS
32
First three-letter White House monogram : JQA
33
They're made in short order : BLTS
34
Runabout or Royale : REO
36
Success : GODSPEED
40
Kind of roll : KAISER
42
Take ___ look at : AHARD
43
1957 hit for the Bobbettes : MRLEE
44
Drop on a stage : SCRIM
45
It's north of Libya : MALTA
46
Foreign dignitaries : EMIRS
47
Sneak ___ : APEEK
48
Former capital of Italy : LIRAS
49
With 22-Across, prepares to put on the line : SPIN
50
Old-time actress Haden : SARA
51
Country stat. : GNP
52
Choice for chat : AOL
53
Sch. whose teams play at the Pete Maravich Assembly Center : LSU

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