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New York Times, Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Author:
Steve Dobis
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
22-Across : Early second-century year
TotalDebutLatest
54/23/20092/22/2010
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ScrabDebutFresh
1.631032%
Steve Dobis

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 36 Missing: {JKQX} This is puzzle # 4 for Mr. Dobis. Tuesday freshness: 68%
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© 2009, The New York Times12/15/9 ( No. 21,952 )
Across
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Lamebrain : SIMP
5
Kind of TV now converted from digital : ANALOG
11
Wood-shaping tool : ADZ
14
Gas brand in Canada : ESSO
15
Where to dock a Sea Ray : MARINA
16
Monk's title : FRA
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Zealous sort whose schedule may include 27-, 50- and 64-Across : EAGERBEAVER
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Cyclotron bit : ION
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Weapon using high-arcing ammo : MORTAR
21
Morale booster : LIFT
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Early second-century year : CII
23
Desktop picture : ICON
25
Japanese dramatic form : NOH
26
Suffix with chlor- or sulf- : IDE
27
See 17-Across : PLACESTOGO
31
Head honcho : BOSS
32
Spitfire-flying grp. : RAF
33
Rapper Kanye : WEST
34
Tax investigator, for short : TMAN
36
Port of old Rome : OSTIA
38
A/C fig. : BTU
40
Spin doctor's concern : IMAGE
43
Golf innovator Callaway and bridge maven Culbertson : ELYS
45
She-bears, south of the border : OSAS
47
Barker : DOG
48
Like bad losers : SORE
50
See 17-Across : THINGSTODO
53
Printers' measures : ENS
54
London facility : LOO
55
Greek counterpart of Mars : ARES
56
Blond shade : ASH
57
River of Florence : ARNO
59
Material thing : ENTITY
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"Mamma ___!" : MIA
64
See 17-Across : PEOPLETOSEE
66
Off-road transport, for short : ATV
67
One unlikely to compromise : PURIST
68
Fuel from bogs : PEAT
69
Word in alumnae bios : NEE
70
Big name in small swimsuits : SPEEDO
71
Many-axled vehicle : SEMI
Down
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Appear to be : SEEM
2
Golf's ___ Aoki : ISAO
3
Roman Cath. title : MSGR
4
Word with justice or license : POETIC
5
Cynical Bierce : AMBROSE
6
Scot's denial : NAE
7
___ Sea (Amu Darya's outlet) : ARAL
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Kind of will : LIVING
9
What a flamingo might stand on : ONEFOOT
10
Country's Brooks : GARTH
11
Devotee : AFICIONADO
12
Sci-fi automatons : DROIDS
13
Class clowns, e.g. : ZANIES
18
Monticello or Saratoga : RACEWAY
24
Crash-probing agcy. : NTSB
27
Old hand : PRO
28
Refrain syllables : LAS
29
Item in a man's medicine chest : AFTERSHAVE
30
10th-century Holy Roman emperor : OTTOI
31
Emeril catchword : BAM
35
Loaded onto the wrong truck, say : MISSENT
37
Spot in the Seine : ILE
39
McCain's alma mater: Abbr. : USNA
41
55-Across, e.g. : GOD
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I, to Claudius : EGO
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Save for a rainy day : STOREUP
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Go along with : AGREETO
48
One on deck : SEAMAN
49
Like some job training : ONSITE
51
Novelist ___ de Balzac : HONORE
52
Movie camera lens settings : TSTOPS
54
Northern Scandinavians : LAPPS
58
Mayberry boy : OPIE
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"Gotcha" : ISEE
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Orioles or Cardinals : TEAM
62
Bigfoot's Asian cousin : YETI
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Tripper's turn-on : LSD

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