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New York Times, Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Author:
Jonah Kagan
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
1-Across : Painter's primer
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Jonah Kagan

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 32 Missing: {JQV} Spans: 4 This is puzzle # 2 for Mr. Kagan. Wednesday freshness: 35%
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© 2010, The New York Times4/14/10 ( No. 22,072 )
Across
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Painter's primer : GESSO
6
Mex. miss : SRTA
10
Big Apple neighborhood west of the East Village : NOHO
14
English novelist Canetti who wrote "Crowds and Power" : ELIAS
15
Thing to look under : HOOD
16
Privy to : INON
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Actress Thompson : EMMA
21
When la Tour Eiffel lights up : NUIT
22
Rock band with a lightning bolt in its logo : ACDC
23
What children should be, so the saying goes : SEENBUTNOTHEARD
27
Electees : INS
28
Mount in the Bible : ASS
29
"___ the last rose of summer" (start of a Thomas Moore poem) : TIS
30
___ the day : RUE
31
Head out on the ranch? : STEER
33
Korean money : WON
34
What Justin Timberlake's "bringin' back," in a song : SEXY
35
Home of the Ivy League : NORTHEAST
39
Director Preminger : OTTO
42
Palindromic exclamation : OHO
43
Many sand castle molds : PAILS
47
Not con : PRO
48
Take to court : SUE
49
Carmaker whose name means "arise out of Asia" : KIA
51
___ Mustard : COL
52
It's a relief in Athens : PARTHENONFRIEZE
56
Princess with a blaster : LEIA
57
"That's big news, dude!" : WHOA
58
Sentence segment: Abbr. : PRED
59
Likely to change everything : EARTHSHATTERING
62
Baseball's Moises : ALOU
63
Like lemonade sans sugar : TART
64
Oscar-winning "Tootsie" actress : LANGE
65
Cold war news source : TASS
66
Canine command : STAY
67
Comedian Wanda : SYKES
Down
1
Book that spans 2,369 years : GENESIS
2
Gold or silver, but not bronze : ELEMENT
3
Like the cats in "Lady and the Tramp" : SIAMESE
4
Clear kitchen wrap : SARAN
5
Sunrise direction in Berlin : OST
6
Hoot and holler : SHOUTS
7
1998 De Niro film : RONIN
8
In direct competition : TOETOTOE
9
Google moneymakers : ADS
10
Lisa Simpson, to Patty or Selma : NIECE
11
How one might go bungee jumping : ONADARE
12
Receptacle for Voldemort's soul in Harry Potter : HORCRUX
13
Que. neighbor : ONT
18
Burden : ONUS
19
Derisive laughs : HAHS
24
Prefix with -meter : BARO
25
Fey of "30 Rock" : TINA
26
Susan of "L.A. Law" : DEY
32
Musician Brian : ENO
33
"... that's ___!" : WHO
34
Where to catch a bullet?: Abbr. : STA
36
Player/preyer : ROUE
37
"And after that?" : THENWHAT
38
Exchange jabs or gibes : SPAR
39
Right to left, e.g.: Abbr. : OPP
40
Light refrain : TRALALA
41
Stars in a ring : TOREROS
44
Place to see a flying camel : ICERINK
45
Drop down one's throat? : LOZENGE
46
Big busting tools : SLEDGES
48
Persian monarch : SHAH
49
Full of difficulties : KNOTTY
50
"___ first you ..." : IFAT
53
"___ Andronicus" : TITUS
54
John who wrote "Appointment in Samarra" : OHARA
55
Start of an appeal : IPRAY
59
Drop down one's throat : EAT
60
Urban grid: Abbr. : STS
61
Chi-town trains : ELS

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

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