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New York Times, Monday, October 16, 2006

Author:
Paula Gamache
Editor:
Will Shortz
48-Across : Empty, as a lot
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
1085/21/20021/14/20184
SunMonTueWedThuFriSatVariety
81318151217619
RebusCircleScrabDebutFresh
431.5850462%
Paula Gamache

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 40 Missing: {FJQZ} This is puzzle # 14 for Ms. Gamache. Monday freshness: 48%
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© 2006, The New York Times10/16/6 ( No. 20,796 )
Across
1
With: Fr. : AVEC
5
Milkshake item : STRAW
10
In ___ (together) : SYNC
14
Hawaiian port : HILO
15
"The Devil Wears ___" : PRADA
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Get better, as a cut : HEAL
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State with conviction : AVER
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Drive away : REPEL
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Artist Bonheur : ROSA
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Historic Boston neighborhood : BACKBAY
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Wiggle room : LEEWAY
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Loads and loads : TONS
25
Gush : SPEW
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Totaling : ADDING
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Comedian who created the character Jose Jimenez : BILLDANA
33
Manipulate : WIELD
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Burden of proof : ONUS
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Half a sch. year : SEM
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Toll unit on a toll road : AXLE
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What "yo mama" is : SLANG
39
Cover for a wound : SCAB
40
Plop oneself down : SIT
41
"Are you ___ out?" : INOR
42
Gem of an oyster : PEARL
43
Ailment that may cause sneezing : HEADCOLD
45
Go by, as time : ELAPSE
46
Wolf's sound : HOWL
47
Jump named for a skater : AXEL
48
Empty, as a lot : VACANT
51
Auxiliary wager : SIDEBET
55
Composer Stravinsky : IGOR
56
Some Apples : IMACS
59
Say yea or nay : VOTE
60
Line of stitches : SEAM
61
Modern assembly line worker : ROBOT
62
Love god : EROS
63
"The Thin Man" dog : ASTA
64
Les ___-Unis : ETATS
65
Mardi Gras follower : LENT
Down
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Melville captain : AHAB
2
Start of a Spanish cheer : VIVA
3
Util. bill : ELEC
4
Sound-absorbing flooring : CORKTILE
5
Helped bust out, as from prison : SPRANG
6
Cards above deuces : TREYS
7
Séance sound : RAP
8
Juice drink : ADE
9
Where to get juice for a household appliance : WALLPLUG
10
Astute : SHREWD
11
"Man, that hurts!" : YEOW
12
Astronaut's insignia : NASA
13
Potter's medium : CLAY
21
007 : BOND
23
Slithery fishes : EELS
25
Ireland's ___ Fein : SINN
26
Covered with water : AWASH
27
The South : DIXIE
28
River mouth feature : DELTA
29
Word that can follow the first words of 20-, 29-, 43- and 51-Across and 4-, 9-, 37- and 39-Down : BOARD
30
B.M.I. rival : ASCAP
31
Draws nigh : NEARS
32
Mosey (along) : AMBLE
37
Winter traction provider : SNOWTIRE
38
Lounge : LOLL
39
Death Valley is below it : SEALEVEL
41
Computer image : ICON
42
Appealed earnestly : PLED
44
Greg's sitcom partner : DHARMA
45
Is : EXISTS
47
English race place : ASCOT
48
Document checked at a border : VISA
49
Matures : AGES
50
Jacket : COAT
52
Bloviator, often : BORE
53
Princely prep school : ETON
54
Exam : TEST
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Bon ___ (witticism) : MOT
58
Lawyer's org. : ABA

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