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New York Times, Wednesday, March 5, 2008

Author:
Steven Ginzburg
Editor:
Will Shortz
69-Across : Least prominent
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
68/27/20078/4/20131
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ScrabDebutFresh
1.632637%
Steven Ginzburg

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 36 Missing: {QZ} This is puzzle # 2 for Mr. Ginzburg. Wednesday freshness: 47%
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© 2008, The New York Times3/5/8 ( No. 21,302 )
Across
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Humble home : SHED
5
Software rerelease, e.g. : UPDATE
11
Plane with a machmeter: Abbr. : SST
14
Protagonist : HERO
15
Meteor in a meteor shower : LEONID
16
Spray-paint, maybe : MAR
17
Fly off the handle : RANT
18
Common computer feature : CDROMDRIVE
20
Chemical compound suffix : IDE
21
Hatcher of "Desperate Housewives" : TERI
22
Bulldog : YALIE
23
German auto debut of 1974 : VWSCIROCCO
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Departed : WENT
28
Big name in stationery : EATON
29
Longoria of "Desperate Housewives" : EVA
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Long, long ___ : AGO
32
City near Saint-Exupéry International Airport : LYON
33
Frankie with the 1959 #1 hit "Why" : AVALON
36
It's more than a pinch: Abbr. : TSP
37
First person to win a Smarties Prize, for children's books, three years in a row : JKROWLING
40
"___ the season ..." : TIS
43
Ohio city named for a mathematician : EUCLID
44
Lends a hand : AIDS
48
1969 "bed-in" participant : ONO
49
Hoops org. : NBA
50
"Eat!" : DIGIN
51
Does in : OFFS
53
Universal recipient type : ABPOSITIVE
57
Some game endings : MATES
59
Govt. org. : AGCY
60
Neckline shape : VEE
61
Cause of some burns : UVEXPOSURE
64
Munich mister : HERR
65
Sting : CON
66
Cropped up : ARISEN
67
Melpomene, e.g. : MUSE
68
Units in a coll. curriculum : HRS
69
Least prominent : MEREST
70
Hightailed it : SPED
Down
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Turn from a grape into a raisin, e.g. : SHRIVEL
2
Progress : HEADWAY
3
Automaker Maserati : ERNESTO
4
One eye in ;-) : DOT
5
Peptic disorder : ULCER
6
Los Angeles's San ___ Bay : PEDRO
7
Kind of column : DORIC
8
"It's ___-brainer" : ANO
9
Curry of "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" : TIM
10
Drainage indicator : EDDY
11
Show friendliness : SMILEAT
12
Cash cache : SAVINGS
13
"Rock-a-bye, baby" spot : TREETOP
19
Undeveloped : RAW
21
Shack roof material : TIN
24
If, and or but: Abbr. : CONJ
25
They're part of the string section : CELLI
26
Egg-shaped : OVOID
30
"Raggedy" one : ANN
33
Dutch-speaking part of the West Indies : ARUBA
34
Words, informally : VOCAB
35
Spiked punch? : AWL
38
Novelist Kesey : KEN
39
Manner of going : GAIT
40
An overdose of : TOOMUCH
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Pro : INFAVOR
42
Starts to melt : SOFTENS
45
"You win" : IGIVEUP
46
Varied : DIVERSE
47
Showed contempt : SNEERED
50
Like many a home improvement project, for short : DIY
52
Driver's license datum : SEX
54
Remote control button : PAUSE
55
Fairy tale baddies : OGRES
56
Bloodhound's guide : SCENT
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It may be caught in a filter : SPAM
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Ida. neighbor : ORE
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Round Table honorific : SIR
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___ Pinafore : HMS

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