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New York Times, Friday, October 16, 2009

Author:
Karen M. Tracey
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
27-Across : Coastal island colonists
TotalDebutLatest
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Karen M. Tracey

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 68, Blocks: 28 Missing: {QZ} This is puzzle # 28 for Ms. Tracey. Friday freshness: 78%
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© 2009, The New York Times10/16/9 ( No. 21,892 )
Across
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It's often said with the eyes closed : AMEN
5
Stunned : AGASP
10
Floppy headgear : TAMS
14
Writer of the history "Ab Urbe Condita" : LIVY
15
"Beloved" heroine : SETHE
16
Chick chaser? : ADEE
17
London broil, often : FLANKSTEAK
19
Cleave : REND
20
Part of Christmas : SILENTT
21
Longtime name in photography : MINOLTA
23
"Where people go to dance the night away," in song : TUXEDOJUNCTION
25
Bucolic call : BAA
26
Limnological study : LAKE
27
Coastal island colonists : EIDERS
28
Up to : UNTIL
30
Lusatian ___ (German/Polish border river) : NEISSE
32
1930s bomber : BTEN
33
Brush : COPSE
34
Some displays, briefly : CRTS
38
What you probably have a head for : SHOWER
40
Summer Olympics event : SKEET
41
Like some checkups : ANNUAL
44
1980s Argentine president ___ Alfonsín : RAUL
46
It has four bases : DNA
47
Châteaubriand accompaniment, often : BEARNAISESAUCE
50
Kids in funny shorts : OURGANG
51
Recipients of dollars for quarters? : LESSORS
53
Reader's digest founder of 1984 : UTNE
54
Cut off : DISINHERIT
56
Vote in der Bundesrat : NEIN
57
Modern way to request participation : EVITE
58
Male protagonist in William Inge's "Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff" : RAFE
59
"Nuts!" : DRAT
60
Start over, in a way : RESET
61
Multitude : SLEW
Down
1
Film composer Clausen and others : ALFS
2
Unlike doves : MILITANT
3
Gauge : EVALUATE
4
1997 Bell Atlantic acquisition : NYNEX
5
Court figure: Abbr. : ASSTDA
6
More than merely meet : GETTOKNOW
7
Partook of : ATE
8
Popular aquatic performer : SHAMU
9
Toy developed in China : PEKINESE
10
Set for a reading : TAROTDECK
11
Emperor's relative : ADELIE
12
Guide : MENTOR
13
Typical taxis : SEDANS
18
Sound ominously : KNELL
22
Spinoff of CBS's "JAG" : NCIS
24
"Golly!" : JEEPERS
25
Sonny : BUB
29
Young Turk, e.g. : INSURGENT
31
Old covenant keeper : ISRAELITE
33
Draining aid : COLANDER
35
Its skeleton may be used to make jewelry : REDCORAL
36
Largest of the Canary Islands : TENERIFE
37
Platform place: Abbr. : STA
39
Easternmost town on Maui, on one end of 52 miles of twisty highway : HANA
40
Fractional bit? : SLASH
41
Be everywhere, so to speak : ABOUND
42
Fix : NEUTER
43
Setting for C. S. Lewis's "The Last Battle" : NARNIA
45
Early online discussion setting : USENET
48
"You win" : IGIVE
49
Detox population : USERS
52
Fuss : STEW
55
Familial title : SIS

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