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New York Times, Saturday, March 4, 2006

Author:
Bob Peoples
Editor:
Will Shortz
31-Across : Staging area for the Crusades
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Bob Peoples

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 70, Blocks: 26 Missing: {JZ} Spans: 1 This is puzzle # 35 for Mr. Peoples. Saturday freshness: 75%
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© 2006, The New York Times3/4/6 ( No. 20,570 )
Across
1
Working together : INCAHOOTS
10
Level connectors : RAMPS
15
Ready to take off : AIRWORTHY
16
Arita porcelain : IMARI
17
Dig in one's heels : STANDFIRM
18
Risk : PERIL
19
N.Y.C. subway line : IRT
20
"The X-Files" org. : SETI
21
The "R" in Edward R. Murrow : ROSCOE
22
Cleaner : MAID
24
Item with a long spout : OILCAN
26
It follows directions : ERN
27
Plains natives : OTOES
29
Schedule : SLOT
30
Sheet of matted fabric used in quilting : BATT
31
Staging area for the Crusades : VENICE
33
Post-accident inquiry : AREYOUOK
35
Dated database : CARDINDEX
37
Rare occasion : BLUEMOON
40
King's bane : RACISM
44
Abu ___, first Muslim caliph, 632-34 : BAKR
45
Turns down : DIMS
47
Drug agent : NARCO
48
Part of the sch. year : QTR
49
Tick off : DETAIL
51
Stage lead : REIN
52
Vegetable holder : PEAPOD
54
Depilation brand : NEET
56
Common gift of welcome : LEI
57
Newswoman Gwen : IFILL
58
Frequent raid target : PIGGYBANK
60
View : TENET
61
Green light : CLEARANCE
62
Beginnings : SEEDS
63
Really big job : TALLORDER
Down
1
1994 literary autobiography whose first chapter is titled "Infant Prodigy?" : IASIMOV
2
River pollutant : NITRATE
3
Meal replaced by M.R.E.'s : CRATION
4
Grass part : AWN
5
Bricklayers' equipment : HODS
6
Monteverdi opera : ORFEO
7
Common childhood malady : OTITIS
8
Epic 1975 showdown, popularly : THRILLAINMANILA
9
N, O or P, in chem. : SYM
10
Bad-mouth : RIPON
11
Rachel of "General Hospital" : AMES
12
"Art of silence" performer : MARCEAU
13
Ahead of : PRIORTO
14
Start to knit : SILENTK
21
Very violent, say : RATEDR
23
Ethylene glycol product : DEICER
25
Chip ingredient : CORN
28
Hustle : SCAM
30
Railyard sight : BOXCAR
32
Lost ground : ERODED
34
Birth : YEAN
36
"Act!" : DOIT
37
Grill sites, briefly : BBQPITS
38
Visa charge : LATEFEE
39
Largest country wholly in Europe : UKRAINE
41
Ignis fatuus, the fair maid of ___ : IRELAND
42
Learning : SCIENCE
43
Handle : MONIKER
46
Don who directed "Invasion of the Body Snatchers," 1956 : SIEGEL
49
Idiots : DOLTS
50
Copier setting : LEGAL
53
Responded in court : PLED
55
Trainee : TYRO
58
Loan figure: Abbr. : PCT
59
Except for : BAR

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