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New York Times, Saturday, May 26, 2007

Author:
Joe DiPietro
Editor:
Will Shortz
16-Across : Smothering
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
1418/26/19955/9/20241
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311092443303
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331.591,23673%
Joe DiPietro

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 70, Blocks: 27 Missing: {BGJQZ} This is puzzle # 95 for Mr. DiPietro. Saturday freshness: 44%
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© 2007, The New York Times5/26/7 ( No. 21,018 )
Across
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Fandangles : DOODADS
8
It can aid one's climb to the top : TOEHOLD
15
With regard to worth : INVALUE
16
Smothering : ALLOVER
17
DNA component : ADENINE
18
Fidgety : RESTIVE
19
"The heck with it" : NERTS
20
Come down briskly? : SKI
22
What might prevent you from staying out? : APNEA
23
Semicircular room : APSE
24
Creaky : STIFF
26
Swamp thing : REED
27
Languish : ROT
28
Without repercussions : SCOTFREE
30
Massen of the 1940s film "Tokyo Rose" : OSA
31
___ of assistance (search warrant) : WRIT
32
Winter coat : ULSTER
36
Skips : SITSOUT
38
Letter : MISSIVE
39
Flatten : STEPON
40
1992 Pulitzer poet James : TATE
41
Massenet's "Le ___" : CID
42
How apples and oranges may come : INCRATES
44
Special treatment : TLC
45
Check : CHIT
48
Series of six : HEXAD
49
___ land : LALA
50
Precipitateness : HASTE
52
It might be humanitarian : AID
53
Inside look? : DECOR
54
Thought : IDEATED
56
Like some tour buses : OPENTOP
58
Fashionable part of N.Y.C. : PARKAVE
59
___ Island, N.C. : ROANOKE
60
Brown foe : STEELER
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Displaying unmatched nimbleness : SPRYEST
Down
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Singer with the 1980 #1 hit "Upside Down" : DIANAROSS
2
Banked : ONDEPOSIT
3
Hyperbolize : OVERSTATE
4
"De Vulgari Eloquentia" author : DANTE
5
First word of Oregon's Latin motto : ALIS
6
Hound for bucks? : DUN
7
Makes sure something's done : SEESTOIT
8
Duty : TARIFF
9
Appreciative response to 38-Down : OLE
10
Designer Schiaparelli : ELSA
11
Give a smooth and glossy finish, in a way : HOTPRESS
12
Woolly : OVINE
13
Bank : LEVEE
14
Be apprehensive : DREAD
21
Arizona's ___ Peak National Observatory : KITT
24
Compress : SCRUNCH
25
Like some plains : FRUITED
28
Faint : SWOON
29
It might follow someone : ELSES
33
Game in which crosses are used : TICTACTOE
34
Glares : EVILLOOKS
35
Special kind of treatment : REDCARPET
37
Bit of slapstick : SPITTAKE
38
Ones who accept charges : MATADORS
40
Waiter at a hotel : TAXI
43
Schoolbook : READER
45
Takes the edge off, maybe : CHIPS
46
Charged : HADAT
47
River from the Savoy Alps : ISERE
49
1974 Dustin Hoffman movie : LENNY
51
Substitute for some names : ETAL
53
Cherished : DEAR
55
One-named rap star/actress : EVE
57
Some music : POP

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