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New York Times, Monday, November 22, 2010

Author:
David Poole
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
18-Across : Big name in Scotch
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David Poole

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 36 Missing: {QVXZ} This is puzzle # 2 for Mr. Poole. Monday freshness: 49%
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© 2010, The New York Times11/22/10 ( No. 22,294 )
Across
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Wrestling surfaces : MATS
5
Small plateaus : MESAS
10
Gets on in years : AGES
14
Pioneering razor with a pivoting head : ATRA
15
Bright-eyed and bushy-tailed : ALERT
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Tedious way to learn : ROTE
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Actor Penn with two 23-Across : SEAN
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Big name in Scotch : DEWAR
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Bart Simpson's brainy sister : LISA
20
Meal money in Manitoba? : CANADIANBACON
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Academy Awards : OSCARS
24
Show that launched Eddie Murphy and Chevy Chase, for short : SNL
25
Gangster's gun : GAT
28
Golf peg : TEE
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Quick bite : NOSH
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Persistent, irritating critic : GADFLY
34
Meal money in California? : MONTEREYJACK
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Unconscious state : COMA
39
Cenozoic or Mesozoic : ERA
40
Scots Gaelic : ERSE
41
Meal money in Tuscany? : ITALIANBREAD
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Comic's asset : TIMING
47
Feudal worker : SERF
48
Tanning lotion letters : SPF
51
Spanish "that" : ESA
52
Actor Cage, familiarly : NIC
54
Daytona 500 acronym : NASCAR
56
Meal money in Massachusetts? : BOSTONLETTUCE
60
Was sorry about : RUED
62
The Ram : ARIES
63
Benevolent and Protective Order group : ELKS
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Not much : ATAD
65
Boardinghouse window sign : TOLET
66
Baldwin of "30 Rock" : ALEC
67
Not his : HERS
68
New Mexico county whose seat is Alamogordo : OTERO
69
Actress Sedgwick of "The Closer" : KYRA
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Georgia's bulldog or Princeton's tiger : MASCOT
2
"Relax, soldier!" : ATEASE
3
Hypnotized state : TRANCE
4
Yemen's capital : SANAA
5
President after Jefferson : MADISON
6
Home of Zeno : ELEA
7
Stitched : SEWN
8
Most Yemenis : ARABS
9
Eerie : STRANGE
10
Folkie Guthrie : ARLO
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On the path to great success : GOINGFAR
12
U.F.O.'s crew : ETS
13
Word repeated in the lyric "From ___ to shining ___" : SEA
21
Villain in the title of a James Bond book : DRNO
22
Ali, before he was Ali : CLAY
26
Part of baseball's postseason: Abbr. : ALCS
27
Rug rat : TYKE
30
British W.W. II gun : STEN
31
Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme : HERBS
33
Played records at a party, say : DJED
34
Where Timbuktu is : MALI
35
Opposite of well done : RARE
36
Quote from, as a legal case : CITE
37
Elevator pioneer Elisha : OTIS
38
Who owned the too-soft bed that Goldilocks tried : MAMABEAR
42
Quaint roadside stops : INNS
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Energetically, in music : AGITATO
44
Che Guevara's given name : ERNESTO
45
"... to buy ___ pig" : AFAT
48
Mulder's partner on "The X-Files" : SCULLY
49
Green Bay athlete : PACKER
50
Sprite alternative : FRESCA
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French painter of "Le Pont de Mantes" : COROT
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The "turf" part of "surf and turf" : STEAK
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2:1 or 3:1 : ODDS
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River near the Great Pyramids : NILE
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Wanton look : LEER
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"Go, team!" : RAH
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Sport-___ (vehicle) : UTE

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1 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later.

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