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New York Times, Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Author:
Mike Buckley
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
23-Across : Thought, part 2
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Mike Buckley

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 41 Missing: {QVXYZ} This is puzzle # 6 for Mr. Buckley. Wednesday freshness: 28%
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© 2012, The New York Times12/19/12 ( No. 23,052 )
Across
1
Bamboo muncher : PANDA
6
Paparazzo's target : CELEB
11
"Very Funny" network : TBS
14
Like radon : INERT
15
Scout pack leader : AKELA
16
Spinks's opponent in two title fights : ALI
17
Start of a thought by British journalist Miles Kington : KNOWLEDGEIS
19
CD-___ : ROM
20
Falstaff's princely friend : HAL
21
Flower-shaped decoration : ROSETTE
23
Thought, part 2 : KNOWINGATOMATO
27
Hardly a win-win situation? : TIE
28
Album track : CUT
29
A Monopoly token : IRON
30
Thought, part 3 : ISAFRUIT
34
Salon supply : GEL
36
Places for mills, once : STREAMS
37
Some varsity players : JUNIORS
41
"The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the ___" (Thomas Gray line) : LEA
42
Thought, part 4 : WISDOMIS
43
Morales of "Caprica" : ESAI
46
One of a deadly seven : SIN
47
Pull down : NET
48
Thought, part 5 : NOTPUTTINGITIN
54
Anonymous one, in court : JANEROE
55
Ingested : ATE
56
Conquistador's booty : ORO
57
End of the thought : AFRUITSALAD
63
O. J. Simpson trial judge : ITO
64
"When thou ___ down, thou shalt not be afraid": Proverbs : LIEST
65
Where Sanyo is headquartered : OSAKA
66
Alternative to "smoking" : NON
67
Brown ermine : STOAT
68
Skewered fare : KEBAB
Down
1
Water ___, Inc. : PIK
2
New England's Cape ___ : ANN
3
"The Matrix" role : NEO
4
BBC time-traveling series : DRWHO
5
Counselor-___ : ATLAW
6
Insensitive sort : CAD
7
Heart chart, briefly : EKG
8
Eye lustfully : LEERAT
9
Poet whose work inspired "Cats" : ELIOT
10
Low man on stage : BASSO
11
Calculus, familiarly : TARTAR
12
Pie-eyed : BLOTTO
13
San ___ (Hearst Castle site) : SIMEON
18
Country music's ___ Young Band : ELI
22
Actor Estevez : EMILIO
23
Commercial ending for Sun or Star : KIST
24
Warm, so to speak : NEAR
25
"JAG" spinoff with Mark Harmon : NCIS
26
___ reaction : GUT
27
Frank McCourt memoir : TIS
31
One of baseball's Alous : FELIPE
32
"Norma ___" (Sally Field film) : RAE
33
Thurman of "The Avengers" : UMA
34
Gloomy guy? : GUS
35
Wind down : END
37
Spirit of Islamic myth : JINN
38
Onetime Dodge : OMNI
39
Nanette's "nothing" : RIEN
40
Mach 1 breaker : SST
42
Super Smash Bros. Brawl console : WII
43
Prohibit by judicial order : ENJOIN
44
Reach an altitude of : SOARTO
45
When some do lunch : ATNOON
46
Den system : STEREO
49
Eurasian range : URALS
50
Tailored ___ (customized) : TOFIT
51
Old gang heater : GAT
52
"Things could be worse" : ITSOK
53
Pick on : TEASE
58
G8 member : USA
59
Cousin of TV's Gomez : ITT
60
"CSI" setting : LAB
61
Rap sheet entry : AKA
62
Amount of cream : DAB

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