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New York Times, Wednesday, December 29, 2010

Author:
Patrick Merrell
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
36-Across : Card game of Spanish origin
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Patrick Merrell

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 34 Missing: {FQUWXZ} Spans: 1 Featured in Will Shortz's favorite puzzlemakers. This is puzzle # 73 for Mr. Merrell. Wednesday freshness: 74%
Jim Horne notes:

American crosswords traditionally ignore diacritical marks, even with foreign words, but this puzzle carefully handles both N and Ñ so the words are correct both Across and Down. In 2012, David J. Kahn did something similar with És.

1
P
2
O
3
D
4
R
5
E
6
N
7
A
8
M
9
E
10
B
11
L
12
A
13
M
14
A
C
E
15
E
M
I
N
O
R
16
L
A
V
E
17
B
E
N
18
P
I
N
A
C
O
19
L
A
D
A
S
20
L
A
S
21
V
E
G
A
S
22
D
A
H
L
I
A
23
O
N
E
E
A
R
24
S
25
T
E
P
26
E
L
S
27
S
L
A
28
P
29
A
S
T
30
A
31
A
32
P
33
A
T
34
T
I
35
K
I
36
O
M
37
B
38
R
39
E
40
J
A
L
A
41
P
E
N
O
P
42
E
P
P
E
R
S
43
A
N
G
L
O
44
A
S
E
A
45
H
A
S
P
46
S
T
47
A
T
48
I
S
49
T
O
50
B
51
A
52
P
53
I
S
A
54
O
55
T
H
R
56
E
57
A
58
T
59
A
M
I
60
G
O
S
61
M
62
A
R
I
A
C
H
I
63
M
A
N
A
N
A
64
S
E
N
O
R
65
O
Y
L
66
B
I
O
L
67
D
O
G
O
O
D
68
N
E
D
69
A
N
N
A
70
S
P
A
S
M
S
71
O
S
E
© 2010, The New York Times12/29/10 ( No. 22,331 )
Across
1
Jettisoned compartment : POD
4
Update, in a way : RENAME
10
Noise in a comic book gunfight : BLAM
14
Expert : ACE
15
Key of "The James Bond Theme" : EMINOR
16
Bathe : LAVE
17
Big ___ : BEN
18
Margarita alternatives : PINACOLADAS
20
Spanish for "the meadows" : LASVEGAS
22
Mexican bloom : DAHLIA
23
Like telemarketing headsets : ONEEAR
24
Bit of a climb : STEP
26
They're caught in Chicago : ELS
27
What a cheeky one's cheek might get : SLAP
29
Screen role for Skippy the dog : ASTA
31
Pit-___ : APAT
34
Cook Island carving : TIKI
36
Card game of Spanish origin : OMBRE
40
Salsa verde ingredients : JALAPENOPEPPERS
43
Barrio outsider : ANGLO
44
At 30° W 30° N, e.g. : ASEA
45
Lock part : HASP
46
Goals against, e.g. : STAT
48
"What ___ be done?" : ISTO
50
Certain Protestant: Abbr. : BAP
53
Golfer Aoki : ISAO
55
Reason for an evacuation : THREAT
59
Baja buddies : AMIGOS
61
Like traditional Mexican music : MARIACHI
63
Procrastinating words south of the border : MANANASENOR
65
Castor ___ (old comic strip character) : OYL
66
Subj. involving cells : BIOL
67
Be altruistic : DOGOOD
68
Mustachioed "Simpsons" character : NED
69
Kournikova of tennis : ANNA
70
They might be knee-jerk reactions : SPASMS
71
Carbohydrate suffix : OSE
Down
1
"Tortilla Flat" character : PABLO
2
Jersey Shore county, appropriately : OCEAN
3
None too swift : DENSE
4
Officially annul : REPEAL
5
Go from home to home? : EMIGRATE
6
One of a 15th-century trio : NINA
7
"With the jawbone of ___ ..." : ANASS
8
Comfy footwear, briefly : MOC
9
Slowly disappears : ERODES
10
Bor-r-ring : BLAH
11
Soup kitchen server : LADLE
12
Use : AVAIL
13
Tijuana tables : MESAS
19
One turned off for takeoff : LAPTOP
21
Virgins of ancient Rome : VESTALS
25
Island capital of 2.6 million : TAIPEI
28
It requires one who's blind with a bat : PINATA
30
Two-handled vase : AMPHORA
31
1977 double-platinum album by Steely Dan : AJA
32
Sweeping shot : PAN
33
Medit. land : ALG
35
Flattens, for short : KOS
37
Arthur of "The Golden Girls" : BEA
38
$200 Monopoly properties: Abbr. : RRS
39
Gift in "The Gift" : ESP
41
Crone's concoction : POTION
42
White House ceremony site : EASTROOM
47
Syrian presidential family : ASSADS
49
Helping for the very hungry, maybe : THIRDS
50
"La ___" : BAMBA
51
At full speed : AMAIN
52
Evergreen with edible nuts : PINON
54
Psi follower : OMEGA
56
Cheap, in adspeak : ECONO
57
"But of course" : AHYES
58
Mark used four times in this puzzle's solution : TILDE
60
Pricey event : GALA
62
Yucatán years : ANOS
64
Soak (up) : SOP

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later.

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