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New York Times, Monday, November 24, 2008

Author:
Billie Truitt
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
39-Across : Come to a compromise
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Billie Truitt

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 38 Missing: {FQZ} Spans: 1 This is puzzle # 3 for Ms. Truitt. Monday freshness: 32%
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© 2008, The New York Times11/24/8 ( No. 21,566 )
Across
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Event involving burning and looting : RIOT
5
Competent : ABLE
9
Not completely shut, as a door : AJAR
13
Remove wooden pins from : UNPEG
15
Study just before a test : CRAM
16
Created : MADE
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Gardener's gift : GREENTHUMB
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Military no-show : AWOL
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Electric eye, e.g. : SENSOR
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Rain cover : TARP
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Big slice of history : ERA
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Measure of national economic health : MISERYINDEX
27
Cane cutter : MACHETE
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Don Juan type : ROUE
32
Norway's capital : OSLO
33
Walk-___ (small parts) : ONS
35
Appears to be : SEEMS
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Come to a compromise : MEETINTHEMIDDLE
43
Skedaddle : SCOOT
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Outer: Prefix : EXO
45
River near the Sphinx : NILE
46
Butterfly catchers : NETS
49
Chin beards : GOATEES
51
"Call sometime" : GIVEMEARING
55
Brouhaha : ADO
56
___ good example : SETA
57
Dine at a restaurant : EATOUT
62
Halter attachment : REIN
64
Rhyming word game : HINKYPINKY
66
Hay bundle : BALE
67
Buffalo's lake : ERIE
68
Go inside : ENTER
69
Norway's patron saint : OLAV
70
Start of a counting-out rhyme : EENY
71
Blah : SOSO
Down
1
Toupees, slangily : RUGS
2
Memo starter : INRE
3
Ready for business : OPEN
4
Summer shirts, informally : TEES
5
Alas, in Augsburg : ACH
6
No gentleman : BRUTE
7
Hedy of "Samson and Delilah" : LAMARR
8
Womb occupant : EMBRYO
9
Doctors' grp. : AMA
10
Chatted : JAWED
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Love to bits : ADORE
12
"Stop worrying!" : RELAX
14
Garden statuette : GNOME
18
Spiral seashell : TRITON
22
First of 12 popes with a religious-sounding name : PIUSI
25
Shipped off : SENT
26
Has no obligation to : NEEDNT
27
Pops' partners : MOMS
28
"Wait just ___!" : ASEC
29
Queen of the 45-Across, for short : CLEO
30
Definitely a day for air-conditioning : HOTONE
34
"That's all ___ wrote" : SHE
36
Actress Falco : EDIE
37
French miss: Abbr. : MLLE
38
Envisions : SEES
40
Agenda details : ITEMS
41
Veteran, perhaps : EXGI
42
Mr. ___ (Lucy's TV boss) : MOONEY
47
Giggle : TEEHEE
48
Lampoon : SATIRE
50
Yawning or visibly astonished : AGAPE
51
Reclusive actress Greta : GARBO
52
Just right : IDEAL
53
"There!" : VOILA
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Arrested : RANIN
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Old-fashioned food containers : TINS
59
Not fooled by : ONTO
60
Maui music makers : UKES
61
Newbie : TYRO
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Carson City's home: Abbr. : NEV
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Ignition starter : KEY

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