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New York Times, Wednesday, April 6, 2005

Author:
Michael Doran
Editor:
Will Shortz
41-Across : Take air in and out
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Michael J. Doran

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 37 Missing: {QX} This is puzzle # 3 for Mr. Doran. Wednesday freshness: 3%
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© 2005, The New York Times4/6/5 ( No. 20,238 )
Across
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"Huckleberry Finn" character and others : JIMS
5
Jaws : YAKS
9
In short supply : SCANT
14
Trial balloon, e.g. : IDEA
15
Twistable treat : OREO
16
Misanthrope, e.g. : HATER
17
V.I.P. accompanier : BODYGUARD
19
Journal submission : ESSAY
20
Product-pitching cow : ELSIE
21
Weigh down : LADE
23
One of a matched pair : HERS
24
Pro-Second Amendment grp. : NRA
26
Put on : TELECAST
28
Alcohol misuser : BINGEDRINKER
32
Cheer in Juárez : OLE
33
Meditative sect : ZEN
34
Throws high in the sky : LOFTS
38
Wrongdoing : MISDEED
41
Take air in and out : RESPIRE
43
Like 101 courses : BASIC
44
X-X-X part : TIC
45
Ambulance chaser's advice : SUE
46
Wedding figure : PHOTOGRAPHER
51
Knock the socks off : BOWLOVER
54
Olympics chant : USA
55
Toast topper : OLEO
56
___ Eleanor Roosevelt : ANNA
58
Golfer's set : IRONS
62
Monroe's successor : ADAMS
64
What 17-, 28- and 46-Across are always willing to do : TAKEASHOT
66
Exodus mount : SINAI
67
Actress Falco : EDIE
68
Yeats's home : EIRE
69
Checks out : TESTS
70
Successful solver's cry : DONE
71
Paint layer : COAT
Down
1
Be in accord : JIBE
2
Temple image : IDOL
3
Pills, slangily : MEDS
4
"That's life!," e.g. : SAYING
5
One of us? : YOU
6
49-Down's ___ Sea : ARAL
7
Protein in hair and nails : KERATIN
8
Soaking wet : SODDEN
9
"___ loves me ..." : SHE
10
Tobacco or cotton : CASHCROP
11
Befuddled : ATSEA
12
Closes in on : NEARS
13
A private eye might videotape one : TRYST
18
Richard of "Primal Fear" : GERE
22
Fraternal fellow : ELK
25
Timber-shaping tool : ADZE
27
Slippery sorts : EELS
28
Screen flop : BOMB
29
Skater Kulik : ILIA
30
1987 Costner role : NESS
31
___ alert : RED
35
Angle : FISH
36
Line up : TRUE
37
Tarot card user : SEER
39
Tactful one : DIPLOMAT
40
Back talk? : ECHO
41
Fix, in a way : RIG
42
Hose shade : ECRU
44
Early scene in "The Wizard of Oz" : TORNADO
47
They grow when fertilized : OVA
48
Camped out : TENTED
49
See 6-Down : ASIA
50
Astronomical distance : PARSEC
51
Act the blowhard : BOAST
52
Almost any doo-wop song : OLDIE
53
Trains to the cup, say : WEANS
57
Related : AKIN
59
Canton's home : OHIO
60
Asta's mistress : NORA
61
Margin notation : STET
63
A sib : SIS
65
Fat foot spec : EEE

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