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New York Times, Wednesday, June 5, 2013

Author:
Mark Bickham
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
17-Across : "It just can't be predicted"
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Mark Bickham

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 74, Blocks: 38 Missing: {KQVZ} Spans: 2 This is the debut puzzle for Mr. Bickham. Wednesday freshness: 69%
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© 2013, The New York Times6/5/13 ( No. 23,220 )
Across
1
Sails fixed to bowsprits : JIBS
5
Reform Party candidate of 1996 : PEROT
10
What cats often do in the spring : SHED
14
Grounded birds : EMUS
15
Psychoanalyst Fromm : ERICH
16
Designed for flight, for short : AERO
17
"It just can't be predicted" : THERESNOTELLING
20
Sermon subject : SIN
21
Vintner's dregs : LEES
22
Some farm machines : DEERES
23
Puts forward as fact : POSITS
25
Come-___ : ONS
26
"False!" : THATSNOTTRUE
32
2005 "Survivor" island nation : PALAU
35
Guffaw syllable : HAR
36
That certain something : AURA
37
"I ___ the opinion ..." : AMOF
38
Tumbler, e.g. : GLASS
40
Rules' partners, briefly : REGS
41
Massage deeply : ROLF
42
An end to sex? : UAL
43
Shake hands (on) : AGREE
44
"Later" : TILLNEXTTIME
48
Exclamations of tsuris : OYS
49
How bettors may act : ONATIP
52
Easy to prepare, in ads : NOFUSS
55
Part of GTO : GRAN
56
French possessive : SES
58
Work containing 21 epistles : THENEWTESTAMENT
61
Museum area : WING
62
Tower of ___ (puzzle with pegs and rings) : HANOI
63
Sister of Luke, in sci-fi : LEIA
64
Muscular firmness : TONE
65
Like "The Biggest Loser" contestants : OBESE
66
Sound suggested by the first letters of the words in 17-, 26-, 44- and 58-Across : BANG
Down
1
Movie foes of the Sharks : JETS
2
Beatnik's "Gotcha" : IMHIP
3
Like a well-behaved niño : BUENO
4
Abbr. retired after Gorbachev's resignation : SSR
5
Pre-euro currency : PESETA
6
One of the winemaking Gallos : ERNEST
7
Kia subcompacts : RIOS
8
N.L.C.S. mo. : OCT
9
"L.A. Woman" band : THEDOORS
10
Figure for a rep to achieve : SALESTARGET
11
Whodunit suspect, perhaps : HEIR
12
Predatory seabird : ERNE
13
Follows relentlessly : DOGS
18
Diplomat Root : ELIHU
19
Post-Carnival period : LENT
24
Hangout for teachers : STAFFLOUNGE
27
Word on Moses' tablets : SHALT
28
"Illmatic" rapper : NAS
29
Sorry sort : RUER
30
Wanderlust, e.g. : URGE
31
Life of Riley : EASE
32
Reader's goal : PART
33
Mine, to Mimi : AMOI
34
Hang loose : LOLL
38
Question while covering someone's eyes : GUESSWHO
39
Left Coast airport letters : LAX
43
Brand owned by Whirlpool : AMANA
45
Closing bell org. : NYSE
46
Some sculptures : TORSOS
47
Headed for sudden death, say : INATIE
50
"___ bad moon rising" : ISEEA
51
Surround on all sides : PENIN
52
Packaging abbr. : NTWT
53
Louisville's river : OHIO
54
Sherilyn of "Twin Peaks" : FENN
55
Blood type determinant : GENE
57
Hartford insurance company symbol : STAG
59
A patron may run one : TAB
60
Org. for Tigers, but not Lions or Bears : MLB

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