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New York Times, Monday, April 4, 2005

Author:
Christina Houlihan Kelly
Editor:
Will Shortz
40-Across : Brit. word reference
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Christina Houlihan Kelly

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 38 Missing: {JQXZ} This is puzzle # 5 for Ms. Kelly. Monday freshness: 7%
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© 2005, The New York Times4/4/5 ( No. 20,236 )
Across
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Boss : CHIEF
6
Pepsi, for one : COLA
10
Not check or charge : CASH
14
Event with bucking broncos : RODEO
15
Banned orchard spray : ALAR
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Prefix with suction : LIPO
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Woody of "Manhattan" : ALLEN
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Take a breather : REST
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Norway's capital : OSLO
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"See you later" : BYE
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Check mate? : DEPOSITSLIP
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Beyond doubt : SURE
25
Some linens : SHEETS
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Balance beam? : TEETERTOTTER
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"Yow!" : YIKES
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Cry heard on a fairway : FORE
33
Catch, as a perp : NAB
36
Before-test work, informally : PREP
37
Simple song : DITTY
39
Super-duper : AONE
40
Brit. word reference : OED
41
Ferris wheel or bumper cars : RIDE
42
Join : UNITE
43
Firm offer? : BUSINESSTRIP
46
Illinois city symbolizing middle America : PEORIA
49
Refusals : NOES
50
Vegas spread? : URBANSPRAWL
53
Person in a zebra-striped shirt, informally : REF
56
Opposite of gave : TOOK
57
Whom the cheerleaders cheer : TEAM
58
Hit musical set in Argentina : EVITA
60
___ fixe (obsession) : IDEE
61
Suffix with major : ETTE
62
Katey of "Married ... With Children" : SAGAL
63
Loch ___ monster : NESS
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Film unit : REEL
65
Stable enclosure : STALL
Down
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One who complains, complains, complains : CRAB
2
"___ smokes!" : HOLY
3
Doing nothing : IDLE
4
Wide shoe designation : EEE
5
Cheese dishes : FONDUES
6
Aladdin's transportation : CARPET
7
Butter substitute : OLEO
8
Glasgow gal : LASS
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Beautiful skill : ARTISTRY
10
Deal finalizer : CLOSER
11
Grocery pathway : AISLE
12
Leave, slangily : SPLIT
13
B-ball : HOOPS
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Mess up : ERR
23
"How do I love ___?" : THEE
24
Tread : STEP
26
Mispelled, for misspelled, e.g. : TYPO
27
Irish republic : EIRE
28
Barely made, with "out" : EKED
29
Frequently : OFTEN
30
Kiddie : TOT
33
Pinot ___ (wine) : NOIR
34
Voting no : ANTI
35
When repeated, Road Runner's sound : BEEP
37
Fiasco : DISASTER
38
Dictator Amin : IDI
39
Relatives of termites : ANTS
41
Completely botch : RUIN
42
Futile : USELESS
43
Car stoppers : BRAKES
44
Tooth layer : ENAMEL
45
Boar's mate : SOW
46
Yeltsin's successor as leader of Russia : PUTIN
47
Eat away at : ERODE
48
Woodwinds : OBOES
51
Red Rose : PETE
52
$5.15/hour, e.g. : RATE
53
Latvia's capital : RIGA
54
Footnote abbr. : ETAL
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Autumn : FALL
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Dyemaker's container : VAT

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