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New York Times, Wednesday, June 8, 2011

Author:
Peter A. Collins
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
51-Across : Cold, at a 37-/40-Across
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Peter A. Collins
Snake Eye

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 38 Missing: {QZ} Spans: 2 This is puzzle # 47 for Mr. Collins. Wednesday freshness: 46%
Notepad: When this puzzle is done, connect the four V's with a square, the three K's with an upside-down L, and each K diagonally to the nearest V. Then draw a circle around the only X.
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© 2011, The New York Times6/8/11 ( No. 22,492 )
Across
1
Temporary homes for refugees : TENTS
6
Weekly reading for drs. : JAMA
10
Wail : SOB
13
Scare slightly : SPOOK
14
"Sadly ..." : ALAS
15
Supermodel Wek : ALEK
17
___ dish : PETRI
18
Brewskis : SUDS
19
The way the cookie crumbles : FATE
20
Cry heard at a 37-/40-Across : SEVENCOMEELEVEN
23
Philosopher Watts : ALAN
24
New Deal inits. : REA
25
French city with a 1598 edict : NANTES
28
Colorado Springs's ___ Air Force Base : PETERSON
33
Galoot : APE
34
Cuts : SHARES
36
Let (up) : EASE
37
With 40-Across, casino fixture : CRAPS
39
Canterbury can : LOO
40
See 37-Across : TABLE
41
Vatican tribunal : ROTA
42
Six, at a 37-/40-Across : BOXCAR
44
Spearheaded : LED
45
Large-scale wickedness : ENORMITY
47
Kitchen items that ding : TIMERS
49
2008 U.S. govt. bailout recipient : AIG
50
"Now I see!" : AHSO
51
Cold, at a 37-/40-Across : ONALOSINGSTREAK
59
Dudley's love in old cartoondom : NELL
60
Sprinkler attachment : HOSE
61
Totaled : RANTO
62
Roof's edge, often : EAVE
63
Wilson of "Wedding Crashers" : OWEN
64
Ailey of dance : ALVIN
65
Sidekick : PAL
66
Careful phrasing, perhaps : TACT
67
Hostess who inspired "Call Me Madam" : MESTA
Down
1
Six of these make a fl. oz. : TSPS
2
Olympic blade : EPEE
3
Punishment for a teen, maybe : NOTV
4
Clawed : TOREAT
5
Like some hot dogs : SKINLESS
6
Husband of Medea : JASON
7
Grad : ALUM
8
Fixed, as dinner : MADE
9
Proclaims : ASSERTS
10
Refuge : SAFEAREA
11
Norway's patron saint : OLAV
12
___ noire : BETE
16
Boy toy? : KEN
21
Alternative to credit : CASH
22
Novelist Harper : LEE
25
Inlay material : NACRE
26
Kitchen wear : APRON
27
"Super!" : NEATO
28
Stockholder's substitute : PROXY
29
Antidiscrimination agcy. : EEOC
30
Expensive fur : SABLE
31
Sir William who wrote "The Principles and Practice of Medicine" : OSLER
32
"Pressing" things : NEEDS
35
Plenty : ALOT
38
Euclidean geometry's ___ postulate : PARALLEL
40
Laurence Sterne's "___ Shandy" : TRISTRAM
42
Honcho : BIGSHOT
43
Olympians, e.g.: Abbr. : ATHS
46
"O Sole ___" : MIO
48
Esprit de corps : MORALE
50
Cut taker : AGENT
51
Snake eye (as this completed puzzle depicts) : ONE
52
Tide type : NEAP
53
Edison's middle name : ALVA
54
Herbert Hoover's home state : IOWA
55
Minute part of a minute: Abbr. : NSEC
56
Mailers: Abbr. : ENVS
57
Squabbling : ATIT
58
Kind of coffee : KONA

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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