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New York Times, Thursday, November 5, 2009

Author:
Patrick Blindauer
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
49-Across : Comparatively cockamamie
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Patrick Blindauer

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 74, Blocks: 32 Missing: {FQWXZ} Spans: 1 Featured in Will Shortz's favorite puzzlemakers. This is puzzle # 33 for Mr. Blindauer. Thursday freshness: 77%
Notepad: When this puzzle is completed, one letter of the alphabet will appear 22 times. Shade in its square everywhere it appears. The result will be an image suggested by 36-Across.
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© 2009, The New York Times11/5/9 ( No. 21,912 )
Across
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___ de coeur : CRI
4
Worked on : CAJOLED
11
Ryan of "Top Gun" : MEG
14
Computer system acronym : LAN
15
Way, way back : AGESAGO
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Canine care grp.? : ADA
17
Tolkien creature : ENT
18
Start of a lover's quatrain : ROSESARERED
20
Big fans : ADORERS
22
Not straight, in a way : SNAKING
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Rice-A-___ : RONI
24
1950s political inits. : AES
26
Canadian Oscar : GENIE
27
Holds : CLASPS
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Eur. carrier : SAS
32
Small denomination : SECT
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___ ante : UPTHE
34
Port of ancient Rome : OSTIA
36
1897 novel subtitled "A Grotesque Romance" : THEINVISIBLEMAN
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Composer of "The Planets" : HOLST
43
True inner self : ANIMA
44
One way to stand : TALL
48
Fleur-de-___ : LYS
49
Comparatively cockamamie : INANER
50
It's addictive : OPIUM
52
___ Maj. : SGT
54
The Dakotas, once: Abbr. : TERR
55
#1 album for 13 weeks in 1966-67, with "The" : MONKEES
58
Where the Samoyed dog comes from : SIBERIA
60
Eliminates undesirable parts : CLEANSHOUSE
62
Pretense : ACT
63
According to : ALA
64
Panties, old-style : STEPINS
65
Pacific port where Amelia Earhart was last seen : LAE
66
Rocky point : TOR
67
Get comfortable with : ADAPTTO
68
This Across answer, appropriately : END
Down
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Plain as day : CLEARCUT
2
Air Force base near San Antonio : RANDOLPH
3
Speak with gravity : INTONATE
4
It may be managed or extended : CARE
5
Ancient meeting places : AGORAS
6
19th-century James : JESSE
7
Sugar ending : OSE
8
Filly : LASS
9
New York cardinal : EGAN
10
Headwear banned by the N.F.L. in 2001 : DORAG
11
"Battle Cry" soldier : MARINE
12
Like paradise : EDENIC
13
Thingumbob : GADGET
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Just manages, with "out" : EKES
21
Hindu sage : RISHI
25
1973 horror flick about a doctor who turns his assistant into a cobra : SSSSSSS
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Phnom ___ : PENH
30
Having words : ATIT
31
Bro or sis : SIB
34
Like unwashed hair : OILY
35
Mathematician Turing : ALAN
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TV control: Abbr. : VOL
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Maternally related : ENATE
39
Eau ___ : MINERALE
40
Yank : AMERICAN
41
Told tales : NARRATED
44
The Rum Tum Tugger, e.g. : TOMCAT
45
New York theater on the National Register of Historic Places, with "the" : APOLLO
46
Like some algebra : LINEAR
47
1987 Suzanne Vega hit : LUKA
49
Words of objection : ITISNT
51
Indicator of brightness : MENSA
53
Astronaut's attire : GSUIT
56
Founded: Abbr. : ESTD
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Where the Mets once met : SHEA
59
Don Juan's kiss : BESO
61
Vs. : OPP

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