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New York Times, Tuesday, August 15, 2006

Author:
David Sullivan
Editor:
Will Shortz
36-Across : Nothing can escape from one
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David Sullivan

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 36 Missing: {JQ} This is puzzle # 3 for Mr. Sullivan. Tuesday freshness: 49%
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© 2006, The New York Times8/15/6 ( No. 20,734 )
Across
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1968 U.S. Open winner : ASHE
5
"___ Easy" (1977 Ronstadt hit) : ITSSO
10
Big name in pineapples : DOLE
14
Shell game, e.g. : SCAM
15
Appointed : NAMED
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Popular computer operating system : UNIX
17
Dollars for rocket research? : THRUSTFUND
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Trillion: Prefix : TERA
20
Sitter's handful : IMP
21
Prefix with dollars : PETRO
22
"Vamoose!" : SCRAM
23
Housetop laborer : ROOFER
25
Former F.B.I. chief Louis : FREEH
27
Clearasil target : ACNE
29
Lipton competitor : TETLEY
33
Ex-Giants quarterback Phil : SIMMS
36
Nothing can escape from one : BLACKHOLE
39
"Star Trek: T.N.G." counselor : TROI
40
Kind of club appropriate for this puzzle? : FOURH
41
Country singer McEntire : REBA
42
Dawdling : DALLIANCE
44
Waste conduit : SEWER
45
"Ta-ta!" : SEEYOU
46
Largest continent : ASIA
48
Yellowfin and albacore : TUNAS
51
Montezuma's people : AZTECS
55
Sounds of relief : SIGHS
58
Soothing stuff : SALVE
60
Curly's assaulter : MOE
61
Month before Nisan : ADAR
62
Fabrics manufacturer? : THREADMILL
64
Hefty volume : TOME
65
Daughter of Lear : REGAN
66
___ onto (grab) : GLOM
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Otherwise : ELSE
68
With regard to : ANENT
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Hess who was a dame : MYRA
Down
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Up and about : ASTIR
2
Jerky sort : SCHMO
3
Oprah's production company : HARPO
4
Cousin of a cassowary : EMU
5
Often-unpaid worker : INTERN
6
Wilson's predecessor : TAFT
7
Blue toon : SMURF
8
Madrid mister : SENOR
9
Peculiar : ODD
10
Killer tulip? : DUTCHTHREAT
11
Lulu : ONER
12
Old Italian money : LIRA
13
Midterm worry : EXAM
18
Glasses, informally : SPECS
22
Pursue : SEEK
24
Trio running the Mafia? : FAMILYTHREE
26
Write on glass, e.g. : ETCH
28
Raven-colored : EBON
30
Marcus who co-founded 63-Down : LOEW
31
Hamburg's river : ELBE
32
Orbital period : YEAR
33
Norms: Abbr. : STDS
34
"Dies ___" : IRAE
35
Double agent : MOLE
37
Director Jean-___ Godard : LUC
38
Territory : AREA
40
Goat-man of myth : FAUN
43
Debtors' notes : IOUS
44
Evaluated, with "up" : SIZED
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Idiot ___ : SAVANT
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Pale with fright : ASHEN
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One reporting to a looie : SARGE
52
Post with good etiquette : EMILY
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Some sports commentary : COLOR
54
1965 march site : SELMA
55
Fill beyond full : SATE
56
Teen fave : IDOL
57
Pinup's legs : GAMS
59
What Mrs. Sprat couldn't eat : LEAN
62
Refrain syllable : TRA
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Big film inits. : MGM

Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later.

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