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New York Times, Wednesday, August 15, 2007

Author:
Ray Fontenot
Editor:
Will Shortz
20-Across : Start of a newspaper headline about a workplace mishap
TotalDebutLatest
56/26/20073/26/2012
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0122000
ScrabDebutFresh
1.551319%
Ray Fontenot

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 40 Missing: {JQXZ} This is puzzle # 2 for Mr. Fontenot. Wednesday freshness: 19%
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© 2007, The New York Times8/15/7 ( No. 21,099 )
Across
1
Did one leg of an Ironman competition : SWAM
5
Mike holder on a film set : BOOM
9
Luxuriant fur : SABLE
14
Wheeling's river : OHIO
15
Castaway's spot : ISLE
16
Ballerinas' skirts : TUTUS
17
Queen of Carthage who loved Aeneas : DIDO
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Part of a blind : SLAT
19
Paradises : EDENS
20
Start of a newspaper headline about a workplace mishap : MANWHOFELLINTO
23
HBO competitor : SHO
24
U.N. workers' grp. : ILO
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Mil. decoration : DSC
28
Special ___ : OPS
30
Not subtle at all : BLATANT
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Headline, part 2 : UPHOLSTERY
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Mideast ruler: Var. : AMIR
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Ingenuous : NAIVE
39
Flight info, for short : ETA
40
Subject for a chiropractor : SPINE
41
Feudal serf : ESNE
42
Headline, part 3 : MACHINENOW
44
Stung : SMARTED
46
I, in old Rome : EGO
47
C.I.A. predecessor : OSS
48
___ Lanka : SRI
49
Something that may be drawn in a fight : IRE
51
End of the headline : FULLYRECOVERED
59
Soothing plants : ALOES
60
Shook, maybe : WOKE
61
Panache : ELAN
63
Map detail : INSET
64
Beige : ECRU
65
Muse of history : CLIO
66
Blacksmiths' tools : RASPS
67
Bubble source : SOAP
68
Soviet news agency : TASS
Down
1
Greenskeeper's supply : SOD
2
Caprice : WHIM
3
"Celeste ___" (aria) : AIDA
4
Gazes dreamily : MOONS
5
Knights' neighbors : BISHOPS
6
1952 Winter Olympics site : OSLO
7
Minnesota's St. ___ College : OLAF
8
Hand (out) : METE
9
Designer McCartney, daughter of Paul and Linda : STELLA
10
Sound recording : AUDIOTAPE
11
Bingo call : BTEN
12
Broadway's ___-Fontanne Theater : LUNT
13
Brand name that's coincidentally Italian for "it" : ESSO
21
Alternative to 1% or 2% : WHOLE
22
Easter decoration : LILY
25
Beach sights : DUNES
26
Twitch : SPASM
27
Great Wall site : CHINA
29
Lieu : STEAD
30
Astronomer Tycho ___ : BRAHE
31
Protein acid, for short : AMINO
32
Boys, in Bogotá : NINOS
33
Close-fitting tartan pants : TREWS
35
Ignore the alarm? : OVERSLEEP
36
List ender : ETC
40
[How boring!] : SNORE
42
Rabin's predecessor : MEIR
43
"Go ahead, tell me" : IGIVEUP
45
No-tell motel happenings : TRYSTS
50
Construct : ERECT
51
Evenhanded : FAIR
52
It's hinged with the humerus : ULNA
53
Red ink entry : LOSS
54
Meadow mamas : EWES
55
Fashion's Chanel : COCO
56
Gumbo ingredient : OKRA
57
"___ Enchanted" (Gail Carson Levine book) : ELLA
58
Place for a seat of honor : DAIS
62
Dissenting chorus : NOS

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