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New York Times, Tuesday, November 2, 2004

Author:
Patrick Merrell
Editor:
Will Shortz
47-Across : Zoo baby
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Patrick Merrell

This puzzle:

Rows: 16, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 50 Missing: {FJQWXZ} There are unchecked squares Featured in Will Shortz's favorite puzzles. This is puzzle # 39 for Mr. Merrell. Tuesday freshness: 15%
Jim Horne notes:

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© 2004, The New York Times11/2/4 ( No. 20,083 )
Across
1
Gangster's blade : SHIV
5
Datebook entry: Abbr. : APPT
9
Brief news report : RECAP
14
Prefix with -batic : AERO
15
Detective's discovery : CLUE
16
Explode : ERUPT
17
Flying irritant : GNAT
18
Runners : CANDIDATES
20
Pleasingly drawn : ARTISTIC
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E.R. personnel : RNS
23
Tuscan home of St. Catherine : SIENA
24
Last herb in a Simon & Garfunkel title : THYME
26
Clay, after 1964 : ALI
29
Wildebeest : GNU
31
Cinderella's accompaniers to the ball : COACHMEN
33
Caveat emptor phrase : ASIS
36
Loll in a tub : SOAK
38
Skewered food : KABOB
39
Place for a bagel and a schmear : DELI
40
Binge : SPREE
42
State bird of Hawaii : NENE
43
Area at a river's mouth : DELTA
45
Having time on one's hands : IDLE
46
Alum : GRAD
47
Zoo baby : TIGERCUB
49
Islands welcome : LEI
51
Plastic ___ Band : ONO
52
Half of a 1960's pop quartet : MAMAS
54
Cattle breed : ANGUS
58
Bobby of hockey : ORR
59
Desperate final effort : LASTGASP
61
Where elections are decided : ATTHEPOLLS
65
Marc Antony's love, for short : CLEO
66
Chemist Pasteur : LOUIS
67
Finished second : LOST
68
Château ___-Brion wine : HAUT
69
Fathered : BEGOT
70
LAX listings: Abbr. : ETAS
71
Wriggly biters : ASPS
Down
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Short stories they're not : SAGAS
2
Rousseau or Matisse : HENRI
3
Furious : IRATE
4
Booth, e.g. : VOTINGSITE
5
Bank statement no. : ACCT
6
Braid of hair : PLAIT
7
Obsolescent election item : PUNCHCARDBALLOT
8
A Kennedy : TED
9
Rustic ... and proud of it : REDNECK
10
Notable times : ERAS
11
Scene-ending cry : CUT
12
Gibbon or orangutan : APE
13
Scoreboard nos. : PTS
19
"___ la Douce" : IRMA
21
___ Gabriel : SAN
25
Rube : YOKEL
26
Yellow shade : AMBER
27
Hotelier Helmsley : LEONA
28
Under the covers : INBED
30
Beginning of many ship names : USS
32
Potential problem with 7-Down : HANGINGCHAD
33
Enlarge, as one's lead : ADDTO
34
Greet, as a new year : SEEIN
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Volunteer's statement : ILLGO
37
Kind of den : OPIUM
41
Long fish : EEL
44
It's often shared in theaters : ARMREST
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Complain : CARP
50
Have a bite : EAT
53
Mexican restaurant bowlful : SALSA
55
Inaugural balls : GALAS
56
Deplete : USEUP
57
Dalmatian features : SPOTS
58
Perennial battleground state : OHIO
60
Retired Atl. fliers : SSTS
61
Priestly garb : ALB
62
Bath water tester : TOE
63
Harbor craft : TUG
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Grand ___ Opry : OLE

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