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New York Times, Wednesday, November 7, 2007

Author:
Richard Chisholm
Editor:
Will Shortz
18-Across : Romantic goings-on
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Richard Chisholm

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 38 Missing: {JQZ} Spans: 1 This is puzzle # 21 for Mr. Chisholm. Wednesday freshness: 29%
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© 2007, The New York Times11/7/7 ( No. 21,183 )
Across
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Scores, as a victory, with "up" : CHALKS
7
Blunted blade : EPEE
11
Hipster : CAT
14
Door sign : LADIES
15
Fancy club trophies : URNS
16
Pale ___ : ALE
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Mongol horde, e.g. : ASIANS
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Romantic goings-on : LOVELIFE
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"Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose" writer : STEIN
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Clinton cabinet member : RENO
22
Poetic land : ERIN
23
Tupperware sale event : HOUSEPARTY
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Takes a turn : GOES
26
City limits sign abbr. : ELEV
27
Dept. of Labor agcy. : OSHA
29
N.L. Central team : STL
32
Society column word : NEE
34
Erie Canal city : UTICA
38
What 18-, 23-, 55- and 63-Across each comprises : TWOKINDSOFBOATS
43
Early time to rise : SIXAM
44
Mahmoud Abbas's grp. : PLO
45
Pro-gun org. : NRA
46
Catches Z's : NAPS
49
Star pitchers : ACES
52
Chorus after a bad call : BOOS
55
Catching cold? : ICEFISHING
60
Annika Sorenstam's org. : LPGA
61
Fraternity letters : PHIS
62
Good-looker : CUTIE
63
Cockpit datum : AIRSPEED
65
Whodunit plot element : MOTIVE
66
Vane dir. : NNE
67
"You lookin' ___?" : ATME
68
Spring bloomers : IRISES
69
___ Moines : DES
70
North Sea feeder : YSER
71
When many stores open : ATNINE
Down
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Don't go together : CLASH
2
Must : HASTO
3
It means "Go with God" : ADIEU
4
Act as a go-between : LIAISE
5
Boarding site : KENNEL
6
Sound of a leak : SSS
7
Calculus pioneer : EULER
8
Chop-chop : PRONTO
9
Embassy figures : ENVOYS
10
Suffix with Brooklyn : ESE
11
Where "Aida" premiered : CAIRO
12
Jude Law title role : ALFIE
13
Many Justin Timberlake fans : TEENS
19
Smooth, musically : LEGATO
21
Was incoherent : RAVED
24
"All the King's Men" star, 2006 : PENN
28
Important airport : HUB
29
They cross aves. : STS
30
___-night doubleheader : TWI
31
Deli delicacy : LOX
33
Eerie ability : ESP
35
Novelist Fleming : IAN
36
N.B.A. position: Abbr. : CTR
37
"___ friend, I ..." : ASA
39
Toto's home : KANSAS
40
"___ Believer" : IMA
41
Five Norse kings : OLAFS
42
Points that may have rays : FOCI
47
Lab tubes : PIPETS
48
Intrigue : SCHEME
50
Debutante's date : ESCORT
51
Confined : SHUTIN
52
Short on flavor : BLAND
53
Say one's piece : OPINE
54
Shrek's ilk : OGRES
56
Pillow filler : EIDER
57
Answer to "Who's there?" : ITISI
58
David of Pink Panther movies : NIVEN
59
Foie gras sources : GEESE
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Pony up : PAY
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"Mamma ___!" : MIA

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1 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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