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New York Times, Monday, October 8, 2012

Author:
Dave Sarpola
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
26-Across : Vehicle with a compactor
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Dave Sarpola

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 38 Missing: {QZ} This is puzzle # 2 for Mr. Sarpola. Monday freshness: 81%
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© 2012, The New York Times10/8/12 ( No. 22,980 )
Across
1
Rand McNally publication : ATLAS
6
Where a fetus develops : WOMB
10
What says "Miss America" on Miss America : SASH
14
"Grand" instrument : PIANO
15
Samoan capital : APIA
16
Duo + one : TRIO
17
Cent : PENNY
18
Casual pants : DUNGAREES
20
Ocean bottoms : SEABEDS
22
Depart : LEAVE
23
Fishing line holder : REEL
24
Names like Billy the Kid : ALIASES
26
Vehicle with a compactor : GARBAGETRUCK
30
Ingredient in a McDonald's Quarter Pounder : ONION
31
Recreational walk : HIKE
32
Traffic problem : JAM
35
Unsuave sort : BOOR
36
Unrefined oil : CRUDE
38
Conceal : HIDE
39
Items checked by T.S.A. agents : IDS
40
Rugmaking apparatus : LOOM
41
Target, as with a gun : AIMAT
42
Where one might witness a hit and run? : BASEBALLGAME
45
Opposite of rejects : ACCEPTS
48
Winnie-the-___ : POOH
49
Find, as a missing person : TRACE
50
Atomic bomb unit : MEGATON
53
Fishing gear holder : TACKLEBOX
56
Stop, as a stream : DAMUP
58
"What ___ be done?" : ISTO
59
Made a rug, e.g. : WOVE
60
Pig sounds : OINKS
61
Spot for a goatee : CHIN
62
Spots for glasses : EYES
63
Skedaddles ... or what 18-, 26-, 42- and 53-Across all have : FLIES
Down
1
Online store offering : APP
2
Knots : TIES
3
Roadway division : LANE
4
University of Michigan's home : ANNARBOR
5
Small source of protein : SOYBEAN
6
Walk like a duck : WADDLE
7
Magnum ___ : OPUS
8
Fraction of an hr. : MIN
9
Valise : BAG
10
What a meteor looks like in the sky : STREAK
11
Zones : AREAS
12
One working out the lumps? : SIEVE
13
Garden watering aids : HOSES
19
Wonderland girl : ALICE
21
Neural activity measure, for short : EEG
24
Desertlike : ARID
25
Book between Mark and John : LUKE
26
Asian desert : GOBI
27
"And giving ___, up the chimney he rose" : ANOD
28
Spanish waterways : RIOS
29
Hitchhiker's digit : THUMB
32
Iwo ___ : JIMA
33
Eve's mate : ADAM
34
Ration (out) : METE
36
Price : COST
37
Masses of fish eggs : ROES
38
Leave lickety-split : HIGHTAIL
40
Place to pin a tiny flag : LAPEL
41
Numerous : ALOADOF
42
Summon : BECKON
43
Peaks : APEXES
44
Item resting on andirons : LOG
45
Room just under a roof : ATTIC
46
Stock market disaster : CRASH
47
Desert plants : CACTI
50
Transport : MOVE
51
Prefix with directional : OMNI
52
Zap : NUKE
54
Ram's mate : EWE
55
The "B" of B.S.A. : BOY
57
Letter add-ons, for short : PSS

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