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New York Times, Thursday, August 18, 2011

Author:
Kevan Choset
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
22-Across : Literary inits.
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Kevan Choset

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 16 Words: 83, Blocks: 36 This is puzzle # 22 for Mr. Choset. Thursday freshness: 73%
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BA
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© 2011, The New York Times8/18/11 ( No. 22,563 )
Across
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Traditional keikogi accessory : OBI
4
Apple types : IMACS
9
Manic : CRAZED
15
One regulated by the F.E.C. : PAC
16
It's enough to take you for a ride : CABFARE
17
"Sleepers" co-star, 1996 : DENIRO
18
Literary source of "Bless us and splash us, my precioussss!" : THEHOBBIT
20
With force and much noise : SLAMBANG
21
Memorable ship : MAINE
22
Literary inits. : EAP
24
City on the Rhône : ARLES
25
Peeling potatoes, perhaps : ONKP
27
Env. contents : LTR
29
Nature worshiper, of a sort : ANIMIST
31
Onetime NASA booster : AGENA
33
Pill bug, for one : ISOPOD
35
Stop: Abbr. : STA
36
Anticipate : FORESEE
38
Call, in a way : REF
39
Part of an Asian capital's name : BATOR
40
Often-cited distance between things ... or what's hidden in this puzzle : SIXDEGREES
43
Collections : SETS
46
Geom. figure : CIR
47
Epithet for the mouse in Burns's "To a Mouse" : BEASTIE
51
Nav. leader : CMDR
52
State of Grace : MONACO
54
Judo move : THROW
55
Apparel : RAIMENT
57
Jim Beam product : RYE
59
River of York : OUSE
60
China ___ : ASTER
61
Lacto-___-vegetarian : OVO
63
Creature in Dr. Seuss's "If I Ran the Zoo" : NERD
65
From where : WHENCE
67
Writer featured in the memoir "Dream Catcher" : JDSALINGER
71
Reduced : LESSER
72
Narnia hero : ASLAN
73
Center start? : EPI
74
Cool red giants : SSTARS
75
Himalayan legends : YETIS
76
Many an old T-shirt, now : RAG
Down
1
Reject, with "out of" : OPT
2
"Pshaw!" : BAH
3
Source of some cubes : ICEMAKER
4
Folder, sometimes : ICON
5
With 52-Down, English-born cabaret singer : MABEL
6
Hit Brit sitcom : ABFAB
7
Announcers : CRIERS
8
___ record : SETA
9
Modern records : CDS
10
Fixed, as tiles : RELAID
11
___ and a leg : ANARM
12
Notable violinist : ZIMBALIST
13
1990s Mexican president Zedillo : ERNESTO
14
Its rising signaled the flooding of the Nile in ancient Egypt : DOGSTAR
19
Cool factor : HIPNESS
23
News deliverer : PAPERBOY
25
Ox : OAF
26
Vietnam's ___ Dinh Diem : NGO
28
Connected with : TIEDINTO
30
Free : NOFEE
32
"___ was saying ..." : ASI
34
Assn. : ORG
37
Parolee, e.g. : EXCON
39
Tuba : BASSHORN
41
Period of years : ERA
42
Take in : EAT
43
Writes poorly : SCRAWLS
44
— — — : EMDASHES
45
Most overused : TRITEST
48
Weary walker : TRUDGER
49
Aegean island near Naxos : IOS
50
Farm milk provider : EWE
52
See 5-Down : MERCER
53
Game stick : CROSSE
56
Noted test provider : MENSA
58
Zhou ___ : ENLAI
62
August 15, 1945 : VJDAY
64
One from Germany : EINS
66
Some TV drama sites, for short : ERS
68
PC key : ALT
69
Green grp. : EPA
70
Fix : RIG

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