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New York Times, Friday, October 14, 2011

Author:
Caleb Madison and J.A.S.A. Class
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
55-Across : Melodious birdsong, maybe
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Caleb Madison

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 72, Blocks: 30 Missing: {JQXZ} Spans: 1 This is puzzle # 22 for Mr. Madison. Friday freshness: 23%
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K
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P
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K
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© 2011, The New York Times10/14/11 ( No. 22,620 )
Across
1
Bologna is in it : ITALIA
7
Look out for, say : ABET
11
Pilot's point? : NIB
14
Player of Duke Santos in "Ocean's Eleven," 1960 : CESARROMERO
16
What may come between two friends? : OFA
17
Co-writer and star of "Bridesmaids" : KRISTENWIIG
18
Part of the former U.A.R.: Abbr. : SYR
19
Blocks of history : ERAS
20
One concerned with blocking : STAGEACTOR
22
More reasonable : SANER
24
Caucus call : AYE
25
Sports org. : AAU
26
Coal-rich valley : SAAR
28
"Are you up for it?" : SHALLWE
32
One helping with filing, for short : CPA
35
Momentary disruption : BLIP
37
"Gotcha" : IDIGIT
38
Where to see the writing on the wall? : FACEBOOKPROFILE
41
A. J. who wrote "The Citadel" : CRONIN
42
Will of "Jeremiah Johnson" : GEER
43
Lou Gehrig's disease, for short : ALS
44
Abnormally small : STUNTED
46
Little middle? : TEES
48
Terre Haute sch. : ISU
49
Cousin of the cassowary : EMU
51
Messing around on TV? : DEBRA
55
Melodious birdsong, maybe : MATINGCALL
59
Composer Khachaturian : ARAM
60
Peabody Museum patron, perhaps : ELI
61
Wind instrument? : AEOLIANHARP
63
Abbr. after several examples : ETC
64
Playwright who became a president : VACLAVHAVEL
65
Big hits, for short : KOS
66
Artist whose moniker is the pronunciation of his initials : ERTE
67
Vice president from Tennessee : ALGORE
Down
1
Official in the Clinton White House : ICKES
2
___ nullius (no man's land) : TERRA
3
Like about 25% of legal U.S. immigrants : ASIAN
4
Gals across the pond : LASSES
5
N.Y.C. subway inits. : IRT
6
Father of Harmonia, in myth : ARES
7
Distributor of Nutrilite vitamins : AMWAY
8
Sandy shades : BEIGES
9
City on Presque Isle Bay : ERIE
10
___ party : TOGA
11
It "isn't what it used to be," said Simone Signoret : NOSTALGIA
12
So to speak : IFYOUWILL
13
William ___, 1990s attorney general : BARR
15
One side of the Detroit River : ONTARIO
21
Part of U.S.C.: Abbr. : CALIF
23
Hopper : RABBIT
27
Exclusively : ALONE
29
New worker : HIREE
30
Dear : ADORED
31
"Vous ___ ici" : ETES
32
Ozone destroyers, for short : CFCS
33
Liking : PARTIALTO
34
Sound system? : ACOUSTICS
36
Env. alternative : PKG
39
Lassitude : ENNUI
40
1968 Julie Christie movie set in San Francisco : PETULIA
45
Extract the essence of by boiling : DECOCT
47
Cartoon villain who sails the Black Barnacle : SEAHAG
50
Filmmaker Louis : MALLE
52
Applause accompanier : BRAVO
53
More bloody, so to speak : RARER
54
Big : AMPLE
55
Easily imposed upon : MEEK
56
Mass gathering place : NAVE
57
Tour de France setting? : GEAR
58
Source of venanzite : LAVA
62
The Stars may play the Blues in it, briefly : NHL

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