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New York Times, Friday, April 23, 2010

Author:
Brad Wilber
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
33-Across : Lizard Fuel beverage maker
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21.6035482%
Brad Wilber

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 72, Blocks: 33 Missing: {KW} This is puzzle # 18 for Mr. Wilber. Friday freshness: 72%
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© 2010, The New York Times4/23/10 ( No. 22,081 )
Across
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Hearty cuts : TBONES
7
Response of mock subservience : YOURANG
14
Lid : CHAPEAU
15
The "thee" in "Get thee to a nunnery" : OPHELIA
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Address location : LECTERN
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Bad setting : GERMANY
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1040 subjs. : IRAS
19
Room in Clue : STUDY
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Antibiotic, e.g., briefly : MED
22
Prefix with relation : COR
23
Finds unbearable : ABHORS
25
"Meet Me at the ___" : COPA
26
Govt. org. associated with auctions : HUD
27
Fencing action : FEINT
28
Culmination's opposite : NADIR
29
Blanche DuBois's "I have always depended on the kindness of strangers," e.g. : EXITLINE
31
Founder of experimental physiology : GALEN
32
Bad marks gotten in high school? : ACNE
33
Lizard Fuel beverage maker : SOBE
34
Top banana : MRBIG
36
Giant in fashion : HUGOBOSS
40
Cardio option : TAEBO
41
Palate stimulus : SAPOR
42
HVAC measure : BTU
43
Not settled : IFFY
44
Defense attorney's claim : DURESS
45
Syllables sung by Figaro : LAS
46
"Non ___ andrai" (Figaro aria) : PIU
47
36-Down, notably : LOSER
48
Tubes in an oven : ZITI
49
1886 Alcott sequel : JOSBOYS
51
Favorite card game of Winston Churchill : BEZIQUE
54
In the main : ASARULE
55
Musical with the song "Everyone's a Little Bit Racist" : AVENUEQ
56
Spinner with numbers : ROLODEX
57
Boston and Charleston : DANCES
Down
1
"The Great Railway Bazaar" travel writer : THEROUX
2
Owner of Martini & Rossi, Dewar's and Grey Goose : BACARDI
3
Gets off the fence : OPTS
4
It separates two names : NEE
5
Attention : EAR
6
Gloom's opposite : SUNSHINE
7
Kind of smoothie : YOGURT
8
Pundit pieces : OPEDS
9
Pulitzer winner for "Driving Miss Daisy" : UHRY
10
Nocturnal cycle occurrence : REM
11
Having gotten the scoop? : ALAMODE
12
One standing in the back of an alley : NINEPIN
13
Sense of orientation : GAYDAR
14
Chestnut : CLICHE
20
Cosmetologist's concern : TONE
23
Org. with a handshake in its logo : AFLCIO
24
It's alive : BEING
25
Biblical scout : CALEB
28
He played an attendant at Wally's Filling Station in 1960s TV : NABORS
30
Puss : TABBY
31
"Our Lips Are Sealed" band : GOGOS
33
2007 hit comedy with a character who dubbed himself McLovin : SUPERBAD
34
One who might be seen in the offing? : MAFIOSO
35
Thumbs-down : REFUSAL
36
Famously overconfident competitor : HARE
37
Indirect : OBLIQUE
38
Bronzes, maybe : STATUES
39
Final track on the Rolling Stones' "12 X 5" : SUSIEQ
40
Place for extra notes on a piano? : TIPJAR
41
Area where the hoax Piltdown man was found : SUSSEX
44
Creator of Professor Challenger : DOYLE
47
Obstreperous : LOUD
48
Calamine component : ZINC
50
Dawg : BRO
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2006 Bond girl ___ Green : EVA
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Road to enlightenment, for some : ZEN

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