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New York Times, Wednesday, August 4, 2004

Author:
Raymond Hamel
Editor:
Will Shortz
33-Across : Freedom from hardship
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271/22/19946/19/20061
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1.6015145%
Raymond Hamel

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 40 Missing: {FQXY} This is puzzle # 24 for Mr. Hamel. Wednesday freshness: 27%
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© 2004, The New York Times8/4/4 ( No. 19,993 )
Across
1
Variety of guitar : DOBRO
6
Walked (on) : TROD
10
Touches with a live wire : ZAPS
14
Volcanic creation : ISLET
15
Part to play : ROLE
16
Jacques's steady : AMIE
17
Make smooth : PLANE
18
Crude org. : OPEC
19
Mushroom cap part : GILL
20
Hand raiser's declaration : SOHELPMEGOD
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___ de guerre : NOM
24
Far from haute cuisine : GLOP
25
1945 John Wayne western : DAKOTA
27
Hand raiser's shout : WEREOVERHERE
32
The Louisville Lip : ALI
33
Freedom from hardship : EASINESS
37
"Tell Laura ___ Her" (1960 hit) : ILOVE
40
Burrowing insect : ANT
41
"I mean it!" : NOLIE
42
Leeway : LATITUDE
44
Not healthy : ILL
45
Hand raiser's cry : THROWTHEBALL
50
Fountain basin feature : MOSAIC
53
Violinist Leopold : AUER
54
Yes, to 16-Across : OUI
55
Hand raiser's request : CHECKPLEASE
61
Girl in Lou Bega's "Mambo No. 5" : RITA
63
"Dies ___" : IRAE
64
Confident way to solve crosswords : ININK
65
Not completely closed : AJAR
66
"Don't look at me!" : NOTI
67
Griffin of the N.B.A. : EDDIE
68
Bird that "at heaven's gate sings," in Shakespeare : LARK
69
Within the hour : SOON
70
Rough tools : RASPS
Down
1
Stock market turns : DIPS
2
Parliament city : OSLO
3
Not piquant : BLAH
4
Take back : RENEGE
5
Opera with "Ave Maria" : OTELLO
6
___ l'oeil : TROMPE
7
Part of a climber's gear : ROPE
8
Couturier Cassini : OLEG
9
Figures out : DECODES
10
Quick sidestep : ZAG
11
Protein acid : AMINO
12
Person who sits in front of a cabin : PILOT
13
City famously visited by Martin Luther King Jr. in 1965 : SELMA
21
Motion picture angle: Abbr. : POV
22
"Beyond the Sea" singer, 1960 : DARIN
26
Numbers game : KENO
27
Banshee's cry : WAIL
28
"___ Enchanted" (2004 film) : ELLA
29
Gasser : RIOT
30
Ask for more issues : RENEW
31
Beaver, e.g. : HAT
34
"Dream Children" essayist : ELIA
35
Threshold : SILL
36
Peddle : SELL
38
Short biography : VITA
39
Body of good conduct : ETHIC
40
Hurry-scurry : ADO
43
Waifs : URCHINS
46
Adopt, as a pet : TAKEIN
47
March sound : HUP
48
Harder to grasp : EELIER
49
"Beverly Hills 90210" girl : BRENDA
50
Fable conclusion : MORAL
51
Board used in "The Exorcist" : OUIJA
52
It was played by George Harrison : SITAR
56
Suffix with sock : EROO
57
Denouncer of Caesar, 63 B.C. : CATO
58
Supports : AIDS
59
Use scissors : SNIP
60
Squeezes (out) : EKES
62
Torah holder : ARK

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