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New York Times, Monday, April 18, 2011

Author:
James Tuttle
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
53-Across : Minimum
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James Tuttle

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 40 Missing: {QWXZ} Spans: 1 This is puzzle # 2 for Mr. Tuttle. Monday freshness: 21%
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© 2011, The New York Times4/18/11 ( No. 22,441 )
Across
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Thailand, once : SIAM
5
Attack with a knife : STAB
9
Karate schools : DOJOS
14
How doodles are usually drawn : IDLY
15
Inform : TELL
16
Creative thoughts : IDEAS
17
Prevarications : LIES
18
Jason's ship, in myth : ARGO
19
English P.M. William and others : PITTS
20
Tricky romantic relationship : LOVETRIANGLE
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Inscribed pillar : STELA
24
Batman and Robin, e.g. : DUO
25
Spanish "that" : ESA
28
Distance on the Erie Canal, in song : FIFTEENMILES
33
Cardinals' home: Abbr. : STL
36
"Arabian Nights" bird : ROC
37
Computer data acronym : ASCII
38
One approaching middle age : THIRTYSOMETHING
43
___-Detoo ("Star Wars" droid) : ARTOO
44
PC linkup : LAN
45
Room with a mounted deer's head, maybe : DEN
46
"Arabian Nights" band : FORTYTHIEVES
51
Finder's charge : FEE
52
Kentucky Derby month : MAY
53
Minimum : LEAST
57
Tennis winner's declaration : GAMESETMATCH
61
Sound of an unsound floor : CREAK
64
Well-mannered : NICE
65
"Gone With the Wind" plantation : TARA
66
"___ you're satisfied now!" : IHOPE
67
Stratford-upon-___ : AVON
68
Leprechaun's land : ERIN
69
Dead duck : GONER
70
NaCl : SALT
71
Coin with a torch on the back : DIME
Down
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Places to cool pies : SILLS
2
Dodo : IDIOT
3
Excedrin alternative : ALEVE
4
"I'll do it ___" : MYSELF
5
The sun, e.g. : STAR
6
Actress Hatcher : TERI
7
Bit of plankton : ALGA
8
Marilyn Monroe, e.g., hairwise : BLONDE
9
Worker at the United Nations : DIPLOMAT
10
"Garfield" dog : ODIE
11
Boeing 757, e.g. : JET
12
Muesli ingredient : OAT
13
Draft org. : SSS
21
___ chi (martial art) : TAI
22
Item in a holster : GUN
25
Conqueror of Valencia in 1094 : ELCID
26
Paris divider : SEINE
27
"It's ___ of the times" : ASIGN
29
Cook, as onion rings : FRY
30
How-___ (books for handy types) : TOS
31
Rod-shaped bacteria : ECOLI
32
Kind of: Suffix : ISH
33
Personnel : STAFF
34
Pang : THROE
35
Petrol measure : LITRE
39
Decompose : ROT
40
Hasbro or Fisher-Price : TOYMAKER
41
Fannie ___ : MAE
42
Card holder: Abbr. : ENV
47
Scottish cap : TAM
48
"Laughing" animals : HYENAS
49
Tree with seeds that whirl like helicopter blades : ELM
50
Ushered : SEATED
54
Classic name in arcades : ATARI
55
Theater backdrop : SCRIM
56
Feudal baron : THANE
57
Display awe : GAPE
58
One of the Hindu trinity : SIVA
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Environmental subj. : ECOL
60
Camper's shelter : TENT
61
Item bummed from a pack : CIG
62
Letter before sigma : RHO
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Years and years and years : EON

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