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New York Times, Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Author:
Andrea Carla Michaels and Peter L. Stein
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
59-Across : Holders of some pipe joints?
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Andrea Carla Michaels
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14/28/20101
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1.54623%
Peter L. Stein

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 40 Missing: {JQXZ} This is puzzle # 21 for Ms. Michaels. This is the debut puzzle for Mr. Stein. Wednesday freshness: 33%
Constructor notes:

ACME: This puzzle was with longtime friend and college buddy Peter Stein, who is better than I am at everything we do...except maybe Scrabble! We decided to collaborate on a puzzle, his idea to riff off the one I had 10/27/08 a year and a half earlier with frequent collaborator Michael Blake.

The 08 puzzle had SPIN as the reveal, i.e. SP-IN (SPUTTERNONSENSE, SPRAYOFSUNSHINE, SPACEOFDIAMONDS) so we decided to try SP-OUT, where we took OUT the letters SP. As a result the phrases are shorter than the three 15 spanners of the original puzzle, but we made up for it by having four entries. It's harder to take out letters and still have a phrase that makes sense. There is more energy and fun in adding letters... I think that's what made this a Wednesday.

It's been over 5 years and we are itching to collaborate again!

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© 2010, The New York Times4/28/10 ( No. 22,086 )
Across
1
Appetite arouser : AROMA
6
Show appreciation, in a way : CLAP
10
Busyness : ADO
13
Reporting to : BELOW
14
"Gladiator" setting : ROME
15
Groucho's cigar, e.g. : PROP
16
Attila, for one? : ACEINVADER
18
First-rate stand-up comic : RIOT
19
Bird sounds : COOS
20
Neck and neck : EVEN
21
Is tiresome : WEARS
22
How some things are set : INSTONE
24
When said three times, a dance : CHA
25
Cowardly boxer? : RINGCHICKEN
31
Voice opposition : DEMUR
35
Food with lots of fiber : ROUGHAGE
36
North Carolina's ___ University : ELON
37
Jefferson's religious belief : DEISM
39
"L'___ c'est moi" : ETAT
40
Like a photon : MASSLESS
42
Herders' tools : PRODS
43
Where to find a genie? : INTHEBOTTLE
46
Colony worker : ANT
47
Polite reply that may be accompanied by eye-rolling : YESDEAR
52
The Destroyer, in Hinduism : SHIVA
55
Relative of Bowser : FIDO
57
Concerning : INRE
58
Trek : HIKE
59
Holders of some pipe joints? : ELLBINDERS
61
Start the bidding : OPEN
62
Middling : SOSO
63
Nimbi : AURAE
64
Carry-on checkers: Abbr. : TSA
65
Bit of laughter : PEAL
66
Teapot part ... or a two-word hint to 16-, 25-, 43- and 59-Across : SPOUT
Down
1
Early counters : ABACI
2
Military drone's job, for short : RECON
3
Spreads in bars : OLEOS
4
Like towelettes, typically : MOIST
5
Barley bristle : AWN
6
Lily-livered : CRAVEN
7
Prospector's strike : LODE
8
Word of agreement : AMEN
9
A pop : PER
10
"Habanera" from "Carmen" is one : ARIA
11
"Let's Make a Deal" choice : DOOR
12
Stops waffling : OPTS
15
Flock leader : PREACHER
17
Caesar's "I came" : VENI
21
Taylor or Tyler : WHIG
23
Norris Trophy winner for eight consecutive years : ORR
24
One to hang with : CHUM
26
Miller's need : GRIST
27
N.Y.S.E. listings : COS
28
Green Hornet's sidekick : KATO
29
"Yikes!" : EGAD
30
Pulls in : NETS
31
Prefix with god : DEMI
32
Zip : ELAN
33
Kind of votes a candidate wants : MOST
34
Stubbly : UNSHAVEN
37
Cardholder's woe : DEBT
38
That, in Toledo : ESO
41
___ the Hyena of "Li'l Abner" : LENA
42
Foot, to a zoologist : PES
44
Popular bathroom cleaner : TYDBOL
45
First pope with the title "the Great" : LEOI
48
Fixed fashionably : DIDUP
49
Summer month in South America : ENERO
50
Pianist Claudio : ARRAU
51
Change, as an alarm : RESET
52
It may precede a chaser : SHOT
53
They may swivel : HIPS
54
Self-assembly retail chain : IKEA
55
Ice sheet : FLOE
56
She said "Play it, Sam" : ILSA
59
"I know what you're thinking" skill : ESP
60
"If I Ruled the World" rapper : NAS

Answer summary:
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