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New York Times, Saturday, April 2, 2011

Author:
Mark Diehl
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
26-Across : Chum, at sea
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
7711/11/19841/22/20233
SunMonTueWedThuFriSatVariety
3214720373
RebusScrabDebutPre‑WSFresh
31.57592888%
Mark Diehl

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 68, Blocks: 28 Missing: {JQX} Spans: 2 This is puzzle # 55 for Mr. Diehl. Saturday freshness: 48%
Jim Horne notes:

This Saturday puzzle has a bit of a theme with two related long answers crossing at the center. You can read about the Cardiff Giant here and learn who really coined the famous sucker birth frequency stat.

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© 2011, The New York Times4/2/11 ( No. 22,425 )
Across
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Start of a dogwatch : FOURPM
7
1949 comedy about husband-and-wife lawyers on opposing sides of a murder case : ADAMSRIB
15
Easily shaken : UNSURE
16
Libertine : RAKEHELL
17
"Price be damned!" : NAMEIT
18
Not foreordained : EVITABLE
19
Soul's 1970s TV co-star : GLASER
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Itch : YEN
21
34-Across, e.g. : RUSE
22
"___ the Water to Charlie" (old ballad) : OER
23
"Thank You" singer, 2001 : DIDO
25
Competed in the Giro d'Italia : BIKED
26
Chum, at sea : BAIT
28
Tuition portion : COURSEFEES
31
Voice of Fredricksen in "Up" : ASNER
33
Animal whose tongue is long enough to clean its eyelids and ears : OKAPI
34
New York "find" of 10/16/1869 : THECARDIFFGIANT
40
"The Legend of ___" : ZELDA
41
Push aside : ELBOW
42
Steinbeck novel : EASTOFEDEN
47
Way off : LOCO
48
Atacama Desert export : NITER
49
Wallis and Futuna : ILES
51
DVD precursor : VHS
52
Dweller in a 59-Across : CREE
53
Cab alternative : ZIN
55
"Doubt" co-star, 2008 : STREEP
57
Editorial work : AMENDING
59
Home for a 52-Across : TEEPEE
60
Irregular, often : SALEITEM
61
Not yet home : ONBASE
62
Rev up : ENERGIZE
63
Split the eardrums : ROARED
Down
1
Pop-up generator : FUNGOBAT
2
Restrained : ONALEASH
3
Devil dog : USMARINE
4
Ways of Charles de Gaulle? : RUES
5
Got some leverage on : PRIED
6
Standard : METRIC
7
"Really?!" : AREYOUKIDDINGME
8
Writer Eggers : DAVE
9
Sharing common alleles : AKIN
10
Sat : MET
11
Guevara portrayer : SHARIF
12
Call on the carpet : REBUKE
13
"Maybe" : ILLSEE
14
Runs over : BLEEDS
24
Kilroy, e.g. : DOODLE
25
Like desert sand : BEIGE
27
Sue Grafton's Kinsey Millhone, e.g. : TEC
29
San ___, Calif. : RAFAEL
30
Cover letters? : SPF
32
You might purchase this with cream : RAZOR
35
O.E.D., e.g. : REF
36
Bad : ILL
37
Good : ABOVEPAR
38
Whopper request : NOCHEESE
39
Like some Schwinns : TWOSPEED
42
Surround : ENCASE
43
Ace, e.g. : AIRMAN
44
1980s TV private eye : STEELE
45
"American Bandstand" viewer : TEENER
46
Sage : NESTOR
50
One who keeps padded accounts? : STENO
53
Tubes in an oven : ZITI
54
Destructive 1966 hurricane : INEZ
56
"Pee-wee's Playhouse" mail lady : REBA
58
Really enjoy : DIG

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