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New York Times, Wednesday, November 24, 2004

Author:
Adam Cohen
Editor:
Will Shortz
25-Across : Definitely not Mr. Right
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Adam Cohen

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 37 Missing: {JQX} This is puzzle # 11 for Mr. Cohen. Wednesday freshness: 44%
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© 2004, The New York Times11/24/4 ( No. 20,105 )
Across
1
Homes for hombres : CASAS
6
Spongy cake : BABKA
11
Radiator sound : SSS
14
Listing : ATILT
15
Unified : ASONE
16
"Blah, blah, blah ..." : ETC
17
"My Big Fat Greek Wedding" star : NIAVARDALOS
19
Experience a brain cramp : ERR
20
"Our Lady" of the Roman Cath. Church : STMARY
21
Pick up : GET
22
Think tank nugget : IDEA
23
Robe fabric : TERRY
25
Definitely not Mr. Right : CREEP
26
McGregor of film : EWAN
30
2004 Olympics swimming star : IANTHORPE
32
Mormon doctrine since 1890 : MONOGAMY
35
Do a 5K, say : RUN
36
Performing in the theater : ONSTAGE
37
Retire : GOTOBED
41
Suffix with front : IER
42
Give rise to : GENERATE
43
"Ninotchka" actress, 1939 : INACLAIRE
47
Airline with a kosher menu : ELAL
48
Places for pews : NAVES
49
Congested-sounding : NASAL
52
Just slightly : ATAD
53
Depot: Abbr. : STN
54
Chinese dish : LOMEIN
59
Barbecue site : PIT
60
"Not a Pretty Girl" singer, 1995 : ANIDIFRANCO
62
"Die Meistersinger" heroine : EVA
63
Common childhood illness, once : MUMPS
64
Tears down : RAZES
65
Three times, in an Rx : TER
66
Construction girder : IBEAM
67
Atlanta university : EMORY
Down
1
Pink-slips : CANS
2
Go ___ (tussle) : ATIT
3
Locale for Anna : SIAM
4
Part of T.A.E. : ALVA
5
Get cracking : START
6
No longer edible : BAD
7
Noted 19th-century botanist : ASAGRAY
8
Anne ___ (Henry VIII's second) : BOLEYN
9
Granny ___ : KNOT
10
50's monogram : AES
11
Furrow filler : SEEDER
12
"Sophie's Choice" Oscar winner : STREEP
13
Tough spot : SCRAPE
18
Deli loaf : RYE
22
Siderite, for one : IRONORE
24
Winter coat : RIME
25
Place to throw garbage : CHUTE
26
Modern rock genre : EMO
27
Took the cake : WON
28
Ques. follower : ANS
29
Saw : NOTICED
31
Sci-fi film of 1982 : TRON
33
Highlanders, e.g. : GAELS
34
Indian tourist stop : AGRA
37
Turns right : GEES
38
___ Harbour, Fla. : BAL
39
LAX posting, for short : ETA
40
First State: Abbr. : DEL
42
Old-timer : GRANDPA
43
Lathered up : INAPET
44
American Indian : NATIVE
45
Hindu incarnation : AVATAR
46
Down the road : INTIME
50
Wisecracking TV alien : ALF
51
Ugarte's player in "Casablanca" : LORRE
53
Brush off : SNUB
55
Palindromic title : MAAM
56
Automaker Ferrari : ENZO
57
Pastry chef, at times : ICER
58
Like a yenta : NOSY
60
"Who ___ to say?" : AMI
61
An end to sex? : ISM

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