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New York Times, Thursday, March 23, 2006

Author:
Ethan Cooper
Editor:
Will Shortz
27-Across : Keeping Don Juans at bay?
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Ethan Cooper

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 74, Blocks: 34 Missing: {FJQV} Spans: 2 This is puzzle # 10 for Mr. Cooper. Thursday freshness: 51%
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© 2006, The New York Times3/23/6 ( No. 20,589 )
Across
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___ cherry : BING
5
Watergate figure Fred : LARUE
10
Countertop, maybe : SLAB
14
"___ vincit insomnia" (Christopher Fry quip) : AMOR
15
Stinging surprise : IRONY
16
Whitish : PALE
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Assuming it stays constant? : BARRINGTHERAISE
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Dismiss : AXE
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Prefix with meter : ODO
22
Real handful for a sitter : TERROR
23
Super-duper : AONE
25
Cousin of a weasel : STOAT
27
Keeping Don Juans at bay? : BUCKINGTHEPASS
32
Tenochtitlán resident : AZTEC
33
Actors Calhoun and Culkin : RORYS
34
Flip (out) : WIG
36
Bibliographical abbr. : IBID
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Black tea : PEKOE
38
Prefix with phobia : XENO
39
Regulus's constellation : LEO
40
Greeted at the door : SAWIN
41
Cosmetician's goof : SMEAR
42
Finishing off a dressy outfit? : KNOTTINGTHETIE
45
Cartoon sound effect : BOING
46
Refuses to : WONT
47
Mophead : BEATLE
50
Do some surgeon's work : SEW
51
Orders : HAS
54
Passing out tennis apparel? : ISSUINGTHESKIRT
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"O, gie me the ___ that has acres o' charms": Burns : LASS
59
Was personally invested : CARED
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Worshiper of the sun god Inti : INCA
61
It has a low bridge : LUTE
62
Wife on "The Bob Newhart Show" : EMILY
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Awestruck : AGOG
Down
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The Who's "___ O'Riley" : BABA
2
Big-screen format : IMAX
3
Blank stare, say : NOREACTION
4
"Hands off that bone ..." : GRR
5
Basswood tree : LINDEN
6
Sirens passer : ARGO
7
Baloney : ROT
8
Durham sch. : UNH
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Perfectly alike : EYETOEYE
10
Capital of ancient Laconia : SPARTA
11
Den : LAIR
12
Not to mention : ALSO
13
Brew : BEER
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Kind of column : IONIC
19
Realizes : REAPS
24
Assented : OKED
25
Feeding : STOKING
26
Packed house : THRONG
27
It's limited by the Eighth Amendment : BAIL
28
Central Asian language : UZBEK
29
Appeared, as baby teeth : GREWIN
30
Doll : SWEETTHING
31
War site of 1967 : SINAI
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Butchery : GORE
37
1881 Gilbert and Sullivan operetta : PATIENCE
38
Comic book debut of 1963 : XMEN
40
Popular Russian import, informally : STOLI
41
TV Guide listings : SHOWS
43
Dull : OBTUSE
44
Like some professorial attire : TWEEDY
47
Pecker : BILL
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Mess of pottage buyer : ESAU
49
___ prof. : ASST
50
Author Silverstein : SHEL
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Sacramento's ___ Arena : ARCO
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Way to attend a party : STAG
55
Dame's asset : GAM
56
One less than tetra- : TRI
57
Sedona maker : KIA

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