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New York Times, Friday, May 28, 2004

Author:
Manny Nosowsky
Editor:
Will Shortz
47-Across : Setting for "Androcles and the Lion"
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Manny Nosowsky

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 70, Blocks: 28 Missing: {BQZ} Spans: 2 This is puzzle # 198 for Mr. Nosowsky. Friday freshness: 52%
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© 2004, The New York Times5/28/4 ( No. 19,925 )
Across
1
Television portmanteau word : SITCOM
7
Question to a consumer watchdog : ISITSAFE
15
Treetop whistler : ORIOLE
16
Like some relations : STRAINED
17
Ill-fated : DAMNED
18
Caterpillars, maybe : TRACTORS
19
Fashion model Wek : ALEK
20
Opinion leader? : ITHINK
22
Deserved : DUE
23
Take a flier? : JET
24
TV monitor? : VCHIP
25
Study grant named after a Rhode Island senator : PELL
26
Call up : EVOKE
28
___ Plaza, former Calgary landmark name : ESSO
30
Draws on : USES
31
Disciplined : RIGOROUS
33
Grayish brown : DUN
35
Is a pro : KNOWSONESONIONS
40
A fourth of what's left? : TEN
41
Award for Neil Armstrong : AIRMEDAL
42
Prefix with graphic : IDEO
45
Certain voice : ALTO
47
Setting for "Androcles and the Lion" : ARENA
48
Neighbor of Swed. : NORW
49
One-eighty : UTURN
51
Water gate? : TAP
52
Do-say link : ASI
53
Tool for Edmund Hillary : ICEAXE
55
Lily who debuted as Lakmé : PONS
56
Hokum : JIVETALK
58
Biblical miracle worker : ELIJAH
60
Water : ADAMSALE
61
No put-on? : KIMONO
62
Treasure Stater : MONTANAN
63
Patronize, as an inn : STAYAT
Down
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One whose work is counter-productive? : SODAJERK
2
"The Stepford Wives" author : IRALEVIN
3
"See you later" : TIMETOGO
4
Go pffft, with "out" : CONK
5
Pennsylvania's ___ Bull State Park : OLE
6
"M*A*S*H" extra : MEDIC
7
Theater question : ISTHISSEATTAKEN
8
Peels : STRIPS
9
Shiraz locale : IRAN
10
Sticker : TACK
11
Chow order? : SIT
12
Certain terminals : ANODES
13
Schoolmaster's child-punisher : FERULE
14
"E-cars" : EDSELS
21
Kofi Annan's bailiwick : THEUN
24
Frost lines : VERSE
25
Less significant : PUNIER
27
Truckle : KOWTOW
29
Something you might turn up your nose at : ODOR
32
Mrs. Chaplin : OONA
34
Emasculate : UNMAN
36
Little Bighorn fighters : SIOUX
37
Schiller poem used by Beethoven : ODETOJOY
38
"Hey Jude" chorus : NANANANA
39
Possible goal : SLAPSHOT
42
Stuck : INAJAM
43
Square dance figure : DOSIDO
44
Armenia's capital, old-style : ERIVAN
46
Fashion designer Bartley : LUELLA
50
Makes a big stink : REEKS
53
"___ boy!" : ITSA
54
"Misery" co-star, 1990 : CAAN
55
Tucson's county : PIMA
57
One concerned with matters of the heart: Abbr. : EMT
59
On : LIT

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