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New York Times, Monday, July 14, 2008

Author:
Ed Early
Editor:
Will Shortz
28-Across : New York City's ___ Island
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
557/7/19947/14/20081
SunMonTueWedThuFriSatVariety
1917117442
ScrabDebutFresh
1.5419532%
Ed Early

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 34 Missing: {QXZ} This is puzzle # 55 for Mr. Early. Monday freshness: 88%
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© 2008, The New York Times7/14/8 ( No. 21,433 )
Across
1
New ___, India : DELHI
6
Massachusetts vacation spot, with "the" : CAPE
10
"Yeah, sure!" : IBET
14
Like the outfield walls at Wrigley Field : IVIED
15
Downwind, to a sailor : ALEE
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Musical finale : CODA
17
Red Sox stadium : FENWAYPARK
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Frozen waffle brand : EGGO
20
Actor Omar : SHARIF
21
Precious Chinese carvings : JADES
22
Look through the cross hairs : AIM
25
"... ___ quit!" : ORI
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Alpha's opposite : OMEGA
28
New York City's ___ Island : STATEN
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Makes believe : PRETENDS
33
Peels, as an apple : PARES
34
Copper/zinc alloy : BRASS
35
Cockney's residence : OME
36
"Anything ___?" : ELSE
37
"To Autumn" poet : KEATS
38
Roman poet who wrote the "Metamorphoses" : OVID
39
Fed. biomedical research agency : NIH
40
"O Come, ___ Faithful" : ALLYE
41
Packing string : TWINE
42
Watergate and Irangate : SCANDALS
44
Bitterness : RANCOR
45
Everest or Kilimanjaro : MOUNT
46
Diving seabird : AUK
47
College credit units: Abbr. : HRS
48
Classic Alan Ladd western : SHANE
50
Lacking any guarantee of being paid : ONSPEC
53
Score the 3 in a 4-3 game : LOSE
54
Seaside community NE of Boston : SWAMPSCOTT
58
Natural balm : ALOE
59
Actress Rowlands : GENA
60
House of Henry VII and Henry VIII : TUDOR
61
Fairy's stick : WAND
62
Stepped (on) : TROD
63
"Tosca" or "Thaïs" : OPERA
Down
1
"What's the ___?" ("So what?") : DIF
2
Holiday preceder : EVE
3
China's ___ Yutang : LIN
4
Cuts with an ax : HEWS
5
Potatoes from the Northwest : IDAHOES
6
Blue Grotto's island : CAPRI
7
Jai ___ : ALAI
8
Make holes in, as for ease of tearing : PERFORATE
9
Hair-raising cry : EEK
10
Period ending about 9000 B.C. : ICEAGE
11
Peter who directed "The Last Picture Show" : BOGDANOVICH
12
Periphery : EDGE
13
New Mexico city or county : TAOS
18
A knitter might have a ball with it : YARN
21
"Cool your ___!" : JETS
22
Forest quakers : ASPENS
23
Like right-slanting type : ITALIC
24
"The Goodbye Girl" actress : MARSHAMASON
27
Cafeteria, to a soldier : MESS
29
Football kicker's aid : TEE
30
Says grace, e.g. : PRAYS
31
Key of Beethoven's Ninth : DMINOR
32
Passover meals : SEDERS
34
Carillon site : BELLTOWER
37
Group investigated in "Mississippi Burning" : KLAN
38
Have title to : OWN
40
Together, in music : ADUE
41
Likes immediately : TAKESTO
43
"Thanks, but I'm O.K." : NONEED
44
Coach Adolph in the Basketball Hall of Fame : RUPP
46
Comparable to a wet hen? : ASMAD
48
Picnic side dish : SLAW
49
Spanish greeting : HOLA
51
One billionth: Prefix : NANO
52
Medium bra size : CCUP
54
"___ Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" : SGT
55
"To Autumn," e.g. : ODE
56
Rocky peak : TOR
57
___ la la : TRA

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

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