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New York Times, Wednesday, May 5, 2010

Author:
Dan Schoenholz
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
62-Across : Subtitle of 1978's "Damien"
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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
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Suit to ___ : ATEE
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Bellicose deity : ARES
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One who's "toast" : GONER
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Comparison word : THAN
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Japan, to the U.S., once : BITTERENEMY
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Sleek, in car talk : AERO
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1966 Mary Martin musical : IDOIDO
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Fleet elite : ADMIRALS
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Ex-lib, maybe : NEOCON
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"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
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Hogwash : TRIPE
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Eagle's claw : TALON
41
Place for une île : MER
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Brickyard 400 entrant : RACER
43
Use weasel words : HEDGE
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All there : SANE
46
Makes a cat's-paw of : USES
47
Sizzling sound : SSS
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"Baby Baby" singer, 1991 : AMYGRANT
51
Sushi-rolling accessories : MATS
53
Good-humored : JOVIAL
58
Carbon 14 and uranium 235 : ISOTOPES
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Subtitle of 1978's "Damien" : OMENII
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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
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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
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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
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Esau's descendants' land : EDOM
22
Brass or woodwind: Abbr. : INSTR
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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
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Ate up, so to speak : ENJOYED
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Popular social networking site, and this puzzle's theme : MYSPACE
50
With 6-Down, 1994 Olympic gold medalist in downhill skiing : TOMMY
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Thing to do on Yom Kippur : ATONE
54
Endows (with) : VESTS
55
Hard to combine, chemically : INERT
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Was indisposed : AILED
57
Thomas Hardy's "___ Little Ironies" : LIFES
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"Don't worry about me" : IMOK
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Part of una casa : SALA
60
London Magazine essayist : ELIA
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Some cameras, for short : SLRS
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Pre-A.D. : BCE

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