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New York Times, Saturday, October 12, 2002

Author:
William I. Johnston
Editor:
Will Shortz
55-Across : Ring
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William I. Johnston

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 72, Blocks: 27 Missing: {BQWZ} This is puzzle # 13 for Mr. Johnston. Saturday freshness: 22%
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© 2002, The New York Times10/12/2 ( No. 19,331 )
Across
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Style of the White House's Red Room : EMPIRE
7
Man of steel? : JPMORGAN
15
Help rise : LEAVEN
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Skateboard wheel material : URETHANE
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The Muses, e.g. : ENNEAD
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Composer who wrote the book "The Paris Diaries" : NEDROREM
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Hand of ___ : GOD
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Up : PERKY
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"___ to conjure with" : ANAME
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Press : IRON
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Dash control : DEFOG
27
They may be hurt by falls : EGOS
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Biblical wonder worker : AARON
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Its first route was Key West-Havana : PANAM
32
Chemical suffix : ENE
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Site of the first Winter Olympics : CHAMONIX
35
Some Scots : LASSES
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It may follow 40-40 : ADIN
38
"Pieces of Me" singer McKenna : LORI
39
Words of encouragement : CHINUP
42
Testing device : DIPSTICK
46
Civil Rights Memorial designer : LIN
47
Wheelman? : SAJAK
49
Asian capital : HANOI
50
Boy or girl preceder : ATTA
52
No guffaw : TEHEE
54
Earful at the complaint department : RANT
55
Ring : PHONE
57
Crib parts : SLATS
59
1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc.: Abbr. : STS
60
Literally, "wind and water" : FENGSHUI
62
Breath freshener : TICTAC
64
Aeschylus trilogy : ORESTEIA
65
Improve, in a way : ENRICH
66
Some computer actions : RESTARTS
67
Like angry bulls : SNORTY
Down
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Like Berg's "Violin Concerto" : ELEGIAC
2
It gets brighter in winter : MENORAH
3
Box opener : PANDORA
4
Waylon Jennings's "___ Always Been Crazy" : IVE
5
Bring in : REAP
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Silent, now : ENDED
7
Unwelcome message : JUNKFAX
8
Victimize : PREYON
9
Dose, informally : MED
10
___ vez : OTRA
11
Wine region : RHONE
12
Escort sites : GARAGES
13
Tentacled feeder : ANEMONE
14
Batman and Robin, to Catwoman : NEMESES
21
Fasten anew : REPIN
24
Odysseus, to Polyphemus : NOMAN
26
Children's dance in "The Nutcracker" : GALOP
29
Difficult point : NODUS
31
Malarial region : MARSH
34
Try to bite : NIPAT
36
"Norwegian Wood" instrument : SITAR
38
"___ Rock" (Bob Seger hit) : LIKEA
39
Applaud : CLAPFOR
40
"Greetings" : HITHERE
41
Drones : INTONES
42
Showy flowers : DAHLIAS
43
All riled up : INASTIR
44
Secret agent's need : CONTACT
45
Lowbrow, in a way : KITSCHY
48
Kind of priest : JESUIT
51
Distress : ANGST
53
Suffix with Rock- : ETTES
56
This, in Toledo : ESTA
58
___ Fein : SINN
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Any storm, once : HER
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___-Magnon : CRO

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