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New York Times, Thursday, August 4, 2005

Author:
Elizabeth C. Gorski
Editor:
Will Shortz
22-Across : Beat in a pool
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Elizabeth C. Gorski

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 74, Blocks: 32 Missing: {JQXYZ} Spans: 3 This is puzzle # 138 for Ms. Gorski. Thursday freshness: 67%
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© 2005, The New York Times8/4/5 ( No. 20,358 )
Across
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Den denizens : CUBS
5
Tennis lesson subject : GRIP
9
"This ___ life!" : ISTHE
14
Ibiza, e.g. : ISLA
15
"Slaves of New York" author Janowitz : TAMA
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Romance, e.g. : NOVEL
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Green light : STAMPOFAPPROVAL
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Mag famous for sex quizzes : COSMO
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Major artery : CAROTID
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Beat in a pool : OUTSWAM
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Where the buoys are : SEA
26
Dwindle : EBB
28
Yearbook sect. : SRS
29
"___ Coming" (1969 Three Dog Night hit) : ELIS
31
___ flask (lab container) : DEWAR
33
Snowbird's destination : FLORIDA
36
Setting for betting : RENO
37
Colorful language : FOURLETTERWORDS
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One of the Brontë sisters : ANNE
42
Flu symptoms : SHIVERS
43
Analyzes : READS
45
"Don't look at me!" : NOTI
46
Honor society letter : PHI
49
Tach reading : RPM
50
Prefix with dimensional : UNI
53
Profit : NETGAIN
55
Where a kookaburra lives : OUTBACK
58
Some wedding music providers : HARPS
59
Go to an extreme : PUSHTHEENVELOPE
62
Actor Ron of "Superfly" : ONEAL
63
"___ small world" : ITSA
64
Others, in Latin : ALIA
65
Guitarist Van Halen : EDDIE
66
Cereal box stat. : NTWT
67
Come across as : SEEM
Down
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Great Lakes swimmers : CISCOS
2
Pro golfers' circuit : USTOUR
3
Wingdings : BLASTS
4
"Dynasty" actress : SAMMS
5
1964 hit with the lyric "C'mon and turn it on, wind it up, blow it out" : GTO
6
W.W. II fighters : RAF
7
Apple that may be green or red : IMAC
8
Father figures : PAPAS
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Encroachment : INROAD
10
Epitome of blackness : SOOT
11
Nielsen respondent : TVVIEWER
12
Stretchy athletic item : HEADBAND
13
Extra room, perhaps : ELL
18
U.S. secretary of state raised in the Bronx : POWELL
19
Historic beginning? : PRE
23
Healing plants : ALOES
24
Feature of a Friars Club meeting : MIRTH
27
Warner ___ : BROS
30
Occupation not much seen nowadays? : SITIN
32
Olympic archer : EROS
33
Basset hound of the comics : FRED
34
Cattle variety : DEVON
35
Rocky ridge : ARETE
37
Klinger portrayer : FARR
38
Maximum weight of a ball in Olympic soccer : ONEPOUND
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Hardly laughing : UNAMUSED
40
Squirm : WRITHE
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Faint : SUBTLE
46
End of a sentence, maybe : PAROLE
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Flower child : HIPPIE
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Line of fashion? : INSEAM
51
"Uh-uh!" : NAH
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Strand, in a way : ICEIN
54
Big dos : GALAS
56
Ethnic cuisine : THAI
57
Etta of old comics : KETT
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He wrote "To Helen" and "For Annie" : POE
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Australian state: Abbr. : NSW
61
Vintner's vessel : VAT

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1 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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