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New York Times, Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Author:
Wayne and P. K. King
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
9-Across : Kid-lit pachyderm
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This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 38 Missing: {JQWXZ} Spans: 2 This is the debut puzzle for Mr. King. This is the debut puzzle for Ms. King. Tuesday freshness: 0%
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© 2009, The New York Times5/12/9 ( No. 21,735 )
Across
1
Get some sun : TAN
4
Blow one's stack : ERUPT
9
Kid-lit pachyderm : BABAR
14
Naked ___ jaybird : ASA
15
Sine, cosine or tangent : RATIO
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Tourist mecca off the coast of Venezuela : ARUBA
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"Beat swords into plowshares" : DISARMANDHAMMER
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Way off : AFAR
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Parasol's offering : SHADE
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Cathedral area : APSE
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Grazed, say : ATE
25
Silver of the silver screen : RON
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"Ignore the red, white and blue" : DISMISSAMERICA
35
Marx Brothers-like : ANTIC
36
Meat favored by Sarah Palin : MOOSE
37
With 44-Across, a traditional Catholic prayer : AVE
39
Ring decisions, for short : TKOS
40
Chuck who sang "Maybellene" : BERRY
41
Petty quarrel : SPAT
42
Moray, for one : EEL
43
"Peachy keen!" : NEATO
44
See 37-Across : MARIA
45
"Oust from practice, then interrogate" : DISBARANDGRILL
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Take steps : ACT
49
The "A" in MoMA : ART
50
Shi'ite leader : IMAM
53
Typical John Wayne film : OATER
57
Stir up : RILE
61
"Scatter while fleeing" : DISBANDONTHERUN
64
Neptune's realm : OCEAN
65
Word before city or tube : INNER
66
Etiquette guru Vanderbilt : AMY
67
Smallest possible : LEAST
68
Has to have : NEEDS
69
Masseur's place : SPA
Down
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Bit of verbal trumpeting : TADA
2
"A likely story" : ASIF
3
Shuttle org. : NASA
4
Pull a boner : ERR
5
Any of several Egyptian kings : RAMSES
6
Six-sided state : UTAH
7
___ colada : PINA
8
Rocker Rundgren : TODD
9
Ovine sound : BAA
10
Giorgio of fashion : ARMANI
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Fist ___ (modern greeting) : BUMP
12
Lincoln and others : ABES
13
Like proverbial hen's teeth : RARE
18
A Musketeer : ARAMIS
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Rejection of church dogma : HERESY
24
Behavioral quirk : TIC
26
Rich rock : ORE
27
Palm fruit : DATE
28
Put one's John Hancock on : INKED
29
Vodka brand, informally : STOLI
30
Makeup mishap : SMEAR
31
Main artery : AORTA
32
Mental midget : MORON
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Blue Grotto's isle : CAPRI
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To no ___ : AVAIL
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List-ending abbr. : ETAL
40
Bang, as a drum : BEATON
41
"No Exit" dramatist : SARTRE
43
"30 Rock" network : NBC
44
Dugout V.I.P.: Abbr. : MGR
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Rio dances : SAMBAS
47
Moved like a hummingbird : DARTED
50
Miley Cyrus, to teens : IDOL
51
Owls' prey : MICE
52
Where pirates go : ASEA
54
Score after deuce : ADIN
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Mute, with "down" : TONE
56
Feminine suffix : ENNE
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Portfolio holdings, briefly : IRAS
59
Sugar unit : LUMP
60
One-named New Age singer : ENYA
62
Tiny colonist : ANT
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Four-baggers: Abbr. : HRS

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2 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later.

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