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New York Times, Wednesday, April 12, 2006

Author:
Elizabeth C. Gorski
Editor:
Will Shortz
56-Across : Vexes
TotalDebutLatest
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Elizabeth C. Gorski

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 36 Missing: {JXZ} Spans: 3 This is puzzle # 144 for Ms. Gorski. Wednesday freshness: 15%
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© 2006, The New York Times4/12/6 ( No. 20,609 )
Across
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Fresh from the oven : HOT
4
Work by Chagall : MURAL
9
French clerics : ABBES
14
"Inventive" monogram : TAE
15
Bit of marine life : AMEBA
16
Medea, to Circe : NIECE
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Noted 1928 musical work, with "The" : THREEPENNYOPERA
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What gentle strokes may produce : PURR
21
Hope chest material : CEDAR
22
Egyptologist's study : TUT
23
Regarding : ASPER
26
Prickly heat : RASH
28
Excoriate : SCATHE
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All tied up : INKNOTS
34
Fort ___, Calif. : ORD
35
Lingo : ARGOT
38
Author Turgenev : IVAN
39
Marches may be written in it : FOURQUARTERTIME
43
Bill of Rights advocacy grp. : ACLU
44
"I'm game!" : TRYME
45
Earth Day mo. : APR
46
Prescribed time : SETDATE
49
Frenzied woman : MAENAD
51
P.M. after Eshkol : MEIR
52
Contests ending in draws? : DUELS
54
Chapel vow : IDO
56
Vexes : RILES
58
Dreamcast company : SEGA
62
Some fancy vocabulary : FIVEDOLLARWORDS
66
More aloof : ICIER
67
Shrovetide treats : BLINI
68
Gender ___ : GAP
69
Like Tom Thumb : TEENY
70
Wrap around a sandwich : SARAN
71
Cries of dismay : OYS
Down
1
Start of a Web address : HTTP
2
Home of the bygone Aloha Bowl : OAHU
3
Hawaii, before 1959: Abbr. : TERR
4
Daisy ___ : MAE
5
Worker often seen crouching : UMP
6
Volleyball ace Gabrielle : REECE
7
"Li'l ___" : ABNER
8
Touch down : LAND
9
Cold weather attire : ANORAK
10
Marcel Marceau character : BIP
11
In the style of the "Moonlight Sonata" : BEETHOVIAN
12
Linen shade : ECRU
13
Stock exchange purchase : SEAT
18
Part of Q.E.D. : ERAT
19
Ball in a basket, maybe : YARN
24
Cager O'Neal, to fans : SHAQ
25
Indiana city named for a foreign country : PERU
27
Agitation : SNIT
28
Davenports : SOFAS
29
"I Got a Name" singer, 1973 : CROCE
30
"Devil in Miss Jones," for one : ADULTMOVIE
31
___-bitty : ITTY
32
The Bucs stop here : TAMPA
33
Dummy Mortimer : SNERD
36
Admission receipts : GATE
37
Legendary Bruin : ORR
40
Lacking in tact : RUDE
41
One-named supermodel : EMME
42
Bona fide : REAL
47
Put on the clothesline : AIRDRY
48
Many a jazz combo : TRIO
50
Sinclair rival, once : ESSO
52
Street seen on "Perry Mason" : DELLA
53
Carrier once with an American flag logo : USAIR
54
"___ looks like a duck ..." : IFIT
55
Casino needs : DICE
57
Foreign attys.' degrees : LLBS
59
As a result : ERGO
60
Hello from Canberra : GDAY
61
Dangerous biters : ASPS
63
Twilight, to Tennyson : EEN
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Cellular stuff : RNA
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Take the gold : WIN

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