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New York Times, Monday, April 8, 2013

Author:
Janet R. Bender
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
44-Across : Nickname of a three-time A.L. M.V.P.
TotalDebutLatest
3111/30/199211/3/2014
SunMonTueWedThuFriSatVariety
1151111002
ScrabDebutPre‑WSFresh
1.5992215%
Janet R. Bender

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 38 Missing: {HQXZ} Spans: 1 This is puzzle # 30 for Ms. Bender. Monday freshness: 38%
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© 2013, The New York Times4/8/13 ( No. 23,162 )
Across
1
Former British colony in the South Pacific : FIJI
5
Wide : BROAD
10
Whip : FLOG
14
Melville novel : OMOO
15
British truck : LORRY
16
Puerto ___ : RICO
17
Words from Ali Baba : OPENSESAME
19
Aware of : ONTO
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Assassinated : SLAIN
21
Range from Peru to Chile : ANDES
22
Use a shovel : DIG
25
Beavers' school : OREGONSTATE
28
Cabinet department since 1977 : ENERGY
30
Rumple, with "up" : MUSS
31
List that goes from Appetizers to Desserts : MENU
32
Oscar winner Davis : GEENA
34
Physicians' org. : AMA
37
Windows or Unix : OPERATINGSYSTEM
41
Ave. crossers : STS
42
Europe's longest river : VOLGA
43
Branching-out point : NODE
44
Nickname of a three-time A.L. M.V.P. : AROD
45
Like many a winter sweater : WOOLEN
47
What Jesus is said to have been born without : ORIGINALSIN
52
"Wee" boy : LAD
53
Outspoken : VOCAL
54
Hammond ___, author of "The Wreck of the Mary Deare" : INNES
56
Prepare for publication : EDIT
57
Cranberry juice brand : OCEANSPRAY
62
Descartes who wrote "Cogito, ergo sum" : RENE
63
Burning : AFIRE
64
Hairdo for any of the Jackson 5 : AFRO
65
Clothing : TOGS
66
Photocopier need : TONER
67
Twist, as polling results : SKEW
Down
1
Egg ___ yung : FOO
2
Little devil : IMP
3
Vice president Biden : JOE
4
Charged particles : IONS
5
Like tired eyes, maybe : BLEARY
6
Comic O'Donnell : ROSIE
7
Arboreal ape, informally : ORANG
8
Elbow's place : ARM
9
Go from blond to brunet, say : DYE
10
Is the lead singer of : FRONTS
11
Singer Ronstadt : LINDA
12
Eightsome : OCTET
13
"Silly" bird : GOOSE
18
Walk, as through mud : SLOG
21
Analyze, as ore : ASSAY
22
Test versions : DEMOS
23
Clumsy : INEPT
24
Heredity carriers : GENES
26
Alpha's counterpart : OMEGA
27
Some parochial school teachers : NUNS
29
Work by Karel Capek : RUR
32
Funny Radner : GILDA
33
London is its cap. : ENG
34
Coral formation : ATOLL
35
Jason's wife in mythology : MEDEA
36
Change : AMEND
38
Singer Lavigne : AVRIL
39
Animated character : TOON
40
___-Cat : SNO
44
Playing marbles : AGATES
45
Unreturned tennis shot : WINNER
46
Washington bills : ONES
47
Not concealed : OVERT
48
Event with barrel racing : RODEO
49
Sweetest part of a cake : ICING
50
Pacifists' protest demonstration : LIEIN
51
Trap : SNARE
55
Places to get massages : SPAS
57
___ bran : OAT
58
Corp. money person : CFO
59
D.C.'s ___ Stadium : RFK
60
"___ you kidding me?" : ARE
61
"Man, that hurts!" : YOW

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