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New York Times, Thursday, December 21, 2006

Author:
Lynn Lempel
Editor:
Will Shortz
38-Across : Tones down
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
10212/9/19793/19/20242
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673172130
CircleScrabDebutPre‑WSFresh
91.61331220%
Lynn Lempel

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 74, Blocks: 38 Missing: {JQX} This is puzzle # 23 for Ms. Lempel. Thursday freshness: 48%
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© 2006, The New York Times12/21/6 ( No. 20,862 )
Across
1
Nobodies : ZEROS
6
1969 biopic starring Omar Sharif : CHE
9
Penicillin treats it : STREP
14
Throw off : ELUDE
15
Shade : HUE
16
Old NBC courtroom drama : THEDA
17
Satan? : DEMONKING
19
Race : REVUP
20
Steeled : GIRDED
21
Tight-fitting woman's garment : BODICE
22
Preclusion : BAN
23
Visine? : REDREMOVER
26
Luke's father in "Star Wars" : ANAKIN
29
Crabber's bait : EEL
30
Takes to heart? : WEDS
31
Chest site : ATTIC
32
Plague : ANNOY
34
Spruce up some fabric? : EMBOSSTWEED
38
Tones down : MUTES
39
Indistinguishable : ALIKE
42
Subject of a museum in Austin, Minn. : SPAM
46
Some name suffixes : SRS
47
Kvetches : GRIPES
48
Idaho symbol? : TATERTOTEM
51
Drain unclogger : LYE
52
Track events : RELAYS
53
Psychologist who launched behaviorism : WATSON
56
Taurotragus oryx : ELAND
57
Fighter's dare ... or a hint to answering 17-, 23-, 34- and 48-Across : BRINGEMON
60
__ Janis, old comic actress : ELSIE
61
The George and Dragon, e.g. : INN
62
Teed off : IRATE
63
Caesar's father : PATER
64
Capture : BAG
65
Unavoidable : FATED
Down
1
Letter from London : ZED
2
Classy : ELEGANT
3
Muse : RUMINATE
4
It's in the dumps : ODOR
5
Thrill : SEND
6
Reprove : CHIDE
7
Goth subjugator : HUN
8
Lines of thought, for short? : EEG
9
1948 campaign name : STROM
10
It has its ups and downs : THEDOW
11
Bring back : REVIVE
12
Brought out : EDUCED
13
Professor's workload : PAPERS
18
"Ol' Man River" composer : KERN
21
Less than : BELOW
22
Suffolk sound : BAA
24
Least likely to get it : DENSEST
25
Lets out : RENTS
27
Clijsters of tennis : KIM
28
SALT concern : ICBM
32
Pirate battler : ASTRO
33
Class : YEAR
35
Unseats : OUSTS
36
Michigan's ___ Broad College of Business : ELI
37
One with a mission : DIPLOMAT
40
Main idea : KEYNOTE
41
Legal conclusion? : ESE
42
"Angels in America" actress : STREEP
43
One-dish meal : PAELLA
44
Ultimately : ATLAST
45
Bully : MEANIE
47
Fed : GMAN
49
Big name in trucks : RYDER
50
First-ever N.B.A. lottery pick : EWING
54
Cry of joy : TGIF
55
"Buona ___" : SERA
57
Spill catcher : BIB
58
Biochemistry abbr. : RNA
59
Lyricist Washington who won two Oscars for songwriting : NED

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5 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later.

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