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New York Times, Wednesday, June 2, 2010

Author:
Adam Cohen
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
59-Across : New Mexico native
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Adam Cohen

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 36 Missing: {FQX} Puzzle has duplicate clues. This is puzzle # 18 for Mr. Cohen. Wednesday freshness: 58%
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© 2010, The New York Times6/2/10 ( No. 22,121 )
Across
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Japanese beef center : KOBE
5
Speck in the ocean : ISLET
10
Visitor to Mecca : HAJI
14
Sources of gold, e.g. : ORES
15
Clichéd : STALE
16
Holder in the Obama cabinet : ERIC
17
Bye lines? : OBIT
18
Prickly plant : BRIER
19
Looney Tunes manufacturer : ACME
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Metaphorical target of attacks : LIGHTNINGROD
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Roundup animal : STEER
24
Speck in the ocean : KEY
25
Tribesman of Kenya or Tanzania : MASAI
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Broccoli ___ : RABE
31
It makes jelly gel : PECTIN
32
Grab most of : HOG
35
Captor of Wendy Darling : CAPTAINHOOK
38
Bears, in Baja : OSOS
40
Boxer Ali : LAILA
41
___ Stanley Gardner : ERLE
42
Game show originally titled "Occupation Unknown" : WHATSMYLINE
45
The Cisco ___ : KID
46
___ Beach, Fla. : DELRAY
47
Bit of dust : MOTE
49
Oslo Accords partner of Yitzhak and Bill : YASIR
50
George Harrison's "All Those Years ___" : AGO
52
Some border patrol cops : NARCS
56
Dance with fiddlers and a caller : VIRGINIAREEL
59
New Mexico native : ZUNI
62
One of 101 in a googol : DIGIT
63
Cuisine that includes pad see ew : THAI
64
It may let off steam : IRON
65
Grande ___ (Québec's main drag) : ALLEE
66
Diary fastener : HASP
67
Unwanted engine sound : PING
68
Richter scale event : SEISM
69
Sawbuck halves : ABES
Down
1
Mentholated smokes : KOOLS
2
Go round and round : ORBIT
3
Color that blends well : BEIGE
4
"Sanford and Son" aunt : ESTHER
5
Amazon.com ID : ISBN
6
Compensation during a work stoppage : STRIKEPAY
7
"Rawhide" singer Frankie : LAINE
8
Poem of lament : ELEGY
9
La., e.g., from 1805 to 1812 : TERR
10
Ibuprofen target : HEADACHE
11
Circumference section : ARC
12
Olympian Thorpe : JIM
13
Beverage store buy : ICE
21
___ II (razor brand) : TRAC
22
Eclipse, to the impressionable : OMEN
26
Image on many a birth announcement : STORK
27
Garlicky sauce : AIOLI
28
Sporting tattoos, slangily : INKED
30
Like Indian summer days : BALMY
31
Forte's opposite : PIANO
32
Cowboy's greeting : HOWDY
33
Milo of "The Playboys" : OSHEA
34
What a shut-out team may lack : GOALS
36
Up to, in ads : TIL
37
Severance package payments? : ALIMONIES
39
Trying hard : STRIVING
43
"Slumdog Millionaire" garb : SARI
44
Sicilian spewer : ETNA
48
Kitt in a cabaret : EARTHA
50
Like a ballerina : AGILE
51
Movie bomb of 2003 : GIGLI
53
Post-surgery regimen, for short : REHAB
54
"Give it a rest!" : CEASE
55
Errata : SLIPS
57
Vitamin label amts. : RDAS
58
Agenda part : ITEM
59
___ + 4 : ZIP
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Altdorf's canton : URI
61
___ troppo (moderately, in music) : NON

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