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New York Times, Monday, April 16, 2012

Author:
Lynn Lempel
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
50-Across : Supple sort
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
10212/9/19793/19/20242
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673172130
CircleScrabDebutPre‑WSFresh
91.61331220%
Lynn Lempel

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 38 Missing: {QVX} This is puzzle # 59 for Ms. Lempel. Monday freshness: 21%
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© 2012, The New York Times4/16/12 ( No. 22,805 )
Across
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Yankee's crosstown rival : MET
4
Burro : ASS
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Aunts' little girls : NIECES
13
Lion's locks : MANE
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___ constrictor : BOA
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"So fancy!" : OOLALA
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Assns. : ORGS
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Sexy sort : STUDMUFFIN
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Playing marble : AGATE
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Grp. that raids grow houses : DEA
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Cry of surprise : EEK
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Influential sort : BIGENCHILADA
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Compass pointer : NEEDLE
29
Bread eaten during Passover : MATZOH
33
Photocopier malfunctions : JAMS
34
Israeli carrier : ELAL
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Tired : WEARY
38
Cry to a matador : OLE
39
Amiable sort : GOODEGG
41
Tree juice : SAP
42
Gandhi, e.g., religiously : HINDU
44
"Gladiator" garment : TOGA
45
Yearn (for) : PINE
46
Word after "force of" or "freak of" : NATURE
48
Encouragement : URGING
50
Supple sort : HUMANPRETZEL
54
Cigar residue : ASH
57
Opposite of post- : PRE
58
Rather distrustful : LEERY
59
Precious sort : SWEETIEPIE
64
New York theater award : OBIE
65
Place for pizza or ice cream : PARLOR
66
Put two and two together, say : ADD
67
Caterer's coffee containers : URNS
68
Feature on a skunk's back : STRIPE
69
Parcel of property : LOT
70
Feeling blue : SAD
Down
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Reader's notes alongside the text : MARGINALIA
2
Usual wedding precursor : ENGAGEMENT
3
Exam takers : TESTEES
4
Stomach muscles, for short : ABS
5
Drunkard : SOT
6
Riyadh native : SAUDI
7
Polite refusal to a lady : NOMAAM
8
Debtor's letters : IOU
9
Worker in Santa's workshop : ELF
10
Bistro : CAFE
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Nobelist Wiesel : ELIE
12
Plummeted : SANK
13
Biblical kingdom east of the Dead Sea : MOAB
18
Dover's state: Abbr. : DEL
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Finish : END
24
Royal role for Liz Taylor : CLEO
25
Serf : HELOT
26
Cartoondom's Deputy ___ : DAWG
27
Chowed down : ATE
30
Spelling clarification that Aziz might use twice : ZASINZEBRA
31
Common marmalade ingredient : ORANGERIND
32
Ballyhoo : HYPE
33
Adams, Tyler or Kennedy : JOHN
35
Hullabaloo : ADO
36
Advantage : LEGUP
39
Spiritual teacher of a 42-Across : GURU
40
Teri of "Tootsie" : GARR
43
"That's obvious, stupid!" : DUH
45
Pathetic : PITEOUS
47
Order of the British ___ : EMPIRE
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Hairspray alternative : GEL
51
"Diamonds ___ Forever" : ARE
52
Country with Mount Everest on its border : NEPAL
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Caustic cleaners : LYES
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Venomous vipers : ASPS
55
Whack, as a fly : SWAT
56
Frau's spouse : HERR
60
Peyton's brother on the gridiron : ELI
61
Lid : TOP
62
Repeated words shouted after "Who wants ...?" : IDO
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Summer hrs. in D.C. : EDT

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