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New York Times, Wednesday, May 5, 2010

Author:
Dan Schoenholz
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
15-Across : One who's "toast"
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Dan Schoenholz

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 38 This is the debut puzzle for Mr. Schoenholz. Wednesday freshness: 92%
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© 2010, The New York Times5/5/10 ( No. 22,093 )
Across
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With 69-Across, 1930s-'50s bandleader : SAMMY
5
Brand name in the kitchen : AMANA
10
Suit to ___ : ATEE
14
Bellicose deity : ARES
15
One who's "toast" : GONER
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Comparison word : THAN
17
Japan, to the U.S., once : BITTERENEMY
19
Sleek, in car talk : AERO
20
1966 Mary Martin musical : IDOIDO
21
Fleet elite : ADMIRALS
23
Ex-lib, maybe : NEOCON
24
"I'm ___!" ("Can do!") : ONIT
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Views that reality is a unitary whole : MONISMS
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___ Martin (cognac brand) : REMY
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Ancient Greek sculptor of athletes : MYRON
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"Golly!" : MYOHMY
37
Hogwash : TRIPE
39
Eagle's claw : TALON
41
Place for une île : MER
42
Brickyard 400 entrant : RACER
43
Use weasel words : HEDGE
44
All there : SANE
46
Makes a cat's-paw of : USES
47
Sizzling sound : SSS
48
"Baby Baby" singer, 1991 : AMYGRANT
51
Sushi-rolling accessories : MATS
53
Good-humored : JOVIAL
58
Carbon 14 and uranium 235 : ISOTOPES
62
Subtitle of 1978's "Damien" : OMENII
63
Shark on some menus : MAKO
64
1976 Eric Carmen hit : ALLBYMYSELF
66
Pulitzer-winning author Robert ___ Butler : OLEN
67
Homeric sorceress : CIRCE
68
Word with family or fruit : TREE
69
See 1-Across : KAYE
70
Made bearable : EASED
71
Criteria: Abbr. : STDS
Down
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Oral vaccine developer : SABIN
2
Take for ___ (hoodwink) : ARIDE
3
Copycat's cry : METOO
4
Old Connecticut whaling town : MYSTIC
5
Science for farmers : AGRONOMY
6
See 50-Down : MOE
7
Wintour of fashion : ANNA
8
More than desire : NEED
9
One with yellow ribbons, maybe : ARMYMOM
10
Game maker since 1972 : ATARI
11
Courtroom antics, e.g. : THEATRICS
12
Sandwich man? : EARL
13
Fourth book of the Book of Mormon : ENOS
18
Esau's descendants' land : EDOM
22
Brass or woodwind: Abbr. : INSTR
26
Chinese menu notation : NOMSG
27
Start of a rumor report : IHEAR
28
Ancient city that lent its name to a fig : SMYRNA
30
Tool for a duel : EPEE
31
Actor Mike : MYERS
32
That you should feed a cold and starve a fever, and others : MYTHS
33
Explorer John and actress Charlotte : RAES
34
Snowy peak of song : OLDSMOKEY
35
Creamy beverage : NOG
38
Former German president Johannes : RAU
40
"Cool!" : NEATO
45
Ate up, so to speak : ENJOYED
49
Popular social networking site, and this puzzle's theme : MYSPACE
50
With 6-Down, 1994 Olympic gold medalist in downhill skiing : TOMMY
52
Thing to do on Yom Kippur : ATONE
54
Endows (with) : VESTS
55
Hard to combine, chemically : INERT
56
Was indisposed : AILED
57
Thomas Hardy's "___ Little Ironies" : LIFES
58
"Don't worry about me" : IMOK
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Part of una casa : SALA
60
London Magazine essayist : ELIA
61
Some cameras, for short : SLRS
65
Pre-A.D. : BCE

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