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New York Times, Thursday, August 28, 2008

Author:
Sheldon Benardo
Editor:
Will Shortz
67-Across : "Do the Right Thing" pizzeria
TotalDebutLatest
117/6/19988/28/2008
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0603200
ScrabDebutFresh
1.482815%
Sheldon Benardo

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 36 Missing: {MQ} This is puzzle # 11 for Mr. Benardo. Thursday freshness: 38%
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© 2008, The New York Times8/28/8 ( No. 21,478 )
Across
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Poor dating prospects : CADS
5
Central Africa's Lake ___ : CHAD
9
Place for a motto : CREST
14
M.P.'s quarry : AWOL
15
Bloody, so to speak : RARE
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Early British automaker Henry : ROYCE
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Hot strip? : GAZA
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Washington has some big ones : EGOS
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Mountaineering equipment : ICEAX
20
Historical 1976 miniseries : EYECLAUDIUS
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C7H5N3O6 : TNT
24
Toy at the beach : KITE
25
Close, old-style : ANIGH
27
Record holder : SLEEVE
30
Refrigerator part : CRISPER
32
Big name in Gotham City : WAYNE
33
"Mens sana in corpore ___" : SANO
34
California's ___ Music Festival, since 1947 : OJAI
36
Goon : APE
37
Juliet, e.g., in Gounod's "Romeo and Juliet" : SOPRANO
40
Chapel Hill sch. : UNC
41
Only player to be part of three World Cup-winning teams : PELE
43
Poland's second-largest city : LODZ
44
Tear : SPREE
46
Obeys : LISTENS
48
Didn't raise : STAYED
49
___ light: Var. : KLEIG
50
Lay person? : POET
51
Reverence : AWE
53
Punny hint to answering 20-Across, 11-Down and 29-Down : ANEYEFORANI
58
Sends : SHIPS
60
Object of ridicule : BUTT
61
After-lunch bite : OREO
62
Black tea : PEKOE
63
Stick on a dish : OLEO
64
Scraggy : LEAN
65
It may be rounded up in a roundup : STEER
66
European capital : BERN
67
"Do the Right Thing" pizzeria : SALS
Down
1
Part of a pound : CAGE
2
Out : AWAY
3
Siesta : DOZE
4
Abate : SLACKEN
5
Hatch : CREATE
6
Global legal venue, with "The" : HAGUE
7
Yankee nickname starting in 2004 : AROD
8
1940s-'50s film/TV star with two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame : DESIARNAZ
9
Cause for using a hot line : CRISIS
10
Sinbad's avian attacker : ROC
11
Classic 1947 detective novel : EYETHEJURY
12
Process, in a way, as documents : SCAN
13
Transcript : TEXT
21
Biographies : LIVES
22
___ Station : UNION
26
Delivery notation: Abbr. : GPO
27
Give and take : SWAP
28
It's sometimes grabbed : LAPEL
29
Bygone political slogan : EYELIKEIKE
30
'06 Series winner : CARDS
31
Eastern royal : RANEE
33
Title TV character in Bikini Bottom : SPONGEBOB
35
Put away : ICED
38
Liquid fat : OLEIN
39
Prefix with sclerosis : OSTEO
42
Night school class, for short : ESL
45
Soldiers' jobs : PATROLS
47
Come-on : TEASER
48
Not punishing sufficiently : SOFTON
50
One of the "Brady Bunch" kids : PETER
51
Cold-blooded killers : ASPS
52
Stimulate : WHET
54
Holiday season : YULE
55
Quarter : AREA
56
"Hud" Oscar winner : NEAL
57
Ones with charges : IONS
59
Writer who wrote "I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity" : POE

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