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New York Times, Tuesday, October 28, 2003

Author:
Brendan Emmett Quigley
Editor:
Will Shortz
40-Across : Coquettish
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Brendan Emmett Quigley

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 74, Blocks: 40 Missing: none – this is a pangram. This is puzzle # 72 for Mr. Quigley. Tuesday freshness: 79%
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© 2003, The New York Times10/28/3 ( No. 19,712 )
Across
1
Jacks, in cards : KNAVES
7
Bikini part : BRA
10
Links org. : PGA
13
One of baseball's Alou brothers : FELIPE
14
Underage temptation, slangily : JAILBAIT
16
Mobile maker Alexander : CALDER
17
He wants you : UNCLESAM
18
Some toy dogs, for short : PEKES
19
Go kaput : DIE
20
French denials : NONS
21
Astronaut Grissom : GUS
22
Big bother : HASSLE
24
Reclined : LAIN
26
Criticize harshly : BASH
27
Beatnik's "Gotcha!" : IDIG
30
2003 war zone : IRAQ
31
___ Baba : ALI
32
Glass splinter : SLIVER
34
Dessert ___ : MENU
35
"There, there" : ITSOK
37
Traffic marker : CONE
38
"Simone" star Al : PACINO
40
Coquettish : COY
41
Excursion : TRIP
42
___-majesté : LESE
43
Challenge for a rat : MAZE
44
Affirmatives : AYES
45
1831 Poe poem : LENORE
47
PC screen : CRT
48
Calvary inscription : INRI
51
Sí, across the Pyrenees : OUI
52
Military medal, e.g. : HONOR
54
Way to sway : TOANDFRO
56
Declarer : AVOWER
58
"Baby Baby" singer, 1991 : AMYGRANT
59
Moon goddess : SELENE
60
___ Alamos : LOS
61
"Star Wars" extras, for short : ETS
62
Longtime Oreo competitor : HYDROX
Down
1
The Colonel's restaurant inits. : KFC
2
Kind of tide : NEAP
3
Loyalty to the cause : ALLEGIANCE
4
Traitor of Norway : VIDKUNQUISLING
5
Blunted blades : EPEES
6
Sun. talks : SERS
7
Send far, far away, maybe : BANISH
8
Puts through a food press : RICES
9
___-nighter : ALL
10
El ___, Tex. : PASO
11
Composer ___ Carlo Menotti : GIAN
12
20's dispensers, briefly : ATMS
14
Traitor of Jesus : JUDASISCARIOT
15
Traitor of America : BENEDICTARNOLD
22
Sentry's cry : HALT
23
Small, in Dogpatch : LIL
24
Like a wet noodle : LIMP
25
"He's ___ nowhere man" (Beatles lyric) : AREAL
26
"Soap" actor Jimmy : BAIO
28
Intellectual's retreat : IVORYTOWER
29
Wish granter : GENIE
32
___ terrier : SKYE
33
Sales team, informally : REPS
36
Flow like mud : OOZE
39
Wedding column word : NEE
43
Shows grief : MOURNS
46
Like dietetic yogurt : NOFAT
47
Group of quails : COVEY
48
Slanted type: Abbr. : ITAL
49
Hurler Hideo : NOMO
50
Beachgoers catch them : RAYS
52
Beanery fare : HASH
53
Ashcroft's predecessor : RENO
55
Rap's Dr. ___ : DRE
57
Stout of whodunits : REX

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