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New York Times, Friday, February 9, 2007

Author:
Eric Berlin
Editor:
Will Shortz
16-Across : Goes down
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
436/23/200211/29/20203
SunMonTueWedThuFriSatVariety
1413521521
RebusCircleScrabDebutFresh
361.5223969%
Eric Berlin

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 66, Blocks: 33 Missing: {BJQ} This is puzzle # 28 for Mr. Berlin. Friday freshness: 85%
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E
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C
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G
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© 2007, The New York Times2/9/7 ( No. 20,912 )
Across
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Steps up : ESCALATES
10
Treasured instrument : AMATI
15
Strike out : LEAVEHOME
16
Goes down : WANES
17
Polka heard frequently on "The Benny Hill Show" : YAKETYSAX
18
Part of a chronicle : ANNAL
19
Frustrate : STYMIE
20
1950's political slogan : ILIKEIKE
22
A, B or C, often: Abbr. : ANS
23
Part of a telephone worker's routine : LINETEST
24
Baseball's Vizquel : OMAR
27
Hunter of literature : EVAN
28
Part of CORE : RACIAL
31
Marks off : DELIMITS
36
Doesn't puff idly : INHALES
38
Subject of the biography "All or Nothing at All" : SINATRA
39
Develops anacusis : GOESDEAF
41
Spurs : EGGSON
42
Pollster Roper : ELMO
43
___ the Great (detective of kids' books) : NATE
44
One end of a canal : OUTEREAR
48
Chemical ending : ANE
50
Frequent area of auto damage : FRONTEND
51
Symbols : TOTEMS
55
Lord's realm : MANOR
56
Boeing employee : TESTPILOT
58
"He seemed like such ___ boy" : ANICE
59
Chance : HAPHAZARD
60
When to see la luna : NOCHE
61
Votaries : ADHERENTS
Down
1
Country rocker Joe and others : ELYS
2
You might run for it : SEAT
3
Forming clumps : CAKY
4
Parts of some services : AVEMARIAS
5
Admit : LETIN
6
"I understand now" : AHYES
7
Set-___ : TOS
8
Like spam : EMAILED
9
Masters topics : SEXLIVES
10
Realization : AWAKENING
11
"Un bar aux Folies-Bergère" artist : MANET
12
"Maybe" musical : ANNIE
13
Durable woods : TEAKS
14
Dot on a map, maybe : ISLET
21
How a snake may be caught? : INALIE
24
Before being retitled: Abbr. : ORIG
25
War preceder : MANO
26
Flu symptom : ACHE
29
Bearer of catkins : ALDERTREE
30
Actress Sobieski : LEELEE
32
Make attractive : MAGNETIZE
33
Words with shame or boy : ITSA
34
Order at a horse show : TROT
35
Levelheaded : SANE
37
TV witch : SAMANTHA
40
A bad way to be left : FORDEAD
44
"The Rights ___" : OFMAN
45
Heavens: Prefix : URANO
46
Nervine, for one : TONIC
47
Methuselah's father : ENOCH
48
___ least : ATTHE
49
Like some stocks : NOPAR
52
Brio : ELAN
53
Cartoonist Walker : MORT
54
Criteria: Abbr. : STDS
57
Geom. figure : SPH

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3 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later.

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