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New York Times, Wednesday, August 8, 2007

Author:
Donna S. Levin
Editor:
Will Shortz
14-Across : 1980 John Carpenter chiller
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Donna S. Levin

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 74, Blocks: 33 Missing: {JQXZ} This is puzzle # 2 for Ms. Levin. Wednesday freshness: 78%
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© 2007, The New York Times8/8/7 ( No. 21,092 )
Across
1
Toyota Camry model : SOLARA
7
Dietary needs : FATS
11
Balaam's beast : ASS
14
1980 John Carpenter chiller : THEFOG
15
Sarcastic reply : IBET
16
Rap's Dr. ___ : DRE
17
Channel swimmer Gertrude : EDERLE
18
Novelist Jaffe : RONA
19
Crude, e.g. : OIL
20
Back-to-the-slammer order? : PAROLEREVERSAL
23
Readies, briefly : PREPS
24
"___ a traveler from an antique land": "Ozymandias" : IMET
25
Son of Judah : ONAN
27
Opposite of ecto- : ENDO
28
Hard-rock connector : ASA
29
Cheerful : SUNNY
30
Reason the kids were left alone? : PARENTSTRIKE
34
Eiger, e.g. : ALP
37
A/C meas. : BTU
38
___ Na Na : SHA
39
Get stuck with, as the cost : EAT
40
Reward for a Ringling invention? : CIRCUSPATENT
44
In progress : AFOOT
45
La-la lead-in : TRA
46
Devil Ray or Blue Jay, for short : ALER
50
Prefix with cab or cure : PEDI
51
Baba ___, Gilda Radner "S.N.L." character : WAWA
53
Coward's lack : SPINE
54
Scuff marks on the prairie? : BUFFALOPAWINGS
57
Bespectacled dwarf : DOC
58
"Young Frankenstein" hunchback : IGOR
59
TV's Howser : DOOGIE
60
"Norma ___" : RAE
61
Poetic times : EENS
62
Museum guide : DOCENT
63
Since Jan. 1 : YTD
64
Be in a stew : FRET
65
Alley pickups : SPARES
Down
1
Grassy expanse : STEPPE
2
"Shoot!" : OHDARN
3
Looked like a wolf : LEERED
4
Music from across the Atlantic : AFROPOP
5
Diner basketful : ROLLS
6
Posthumous Pulitzer winner : AGEE
7
Dalmatian's master, sometimes : FIREMAN
8
Superior to : ABOVE
9
Group doctrine : TENET
10
Marquee topper : STAR
11
"Oklahoma!" gal : ADOANNIE
12
Ceylon, now : SRILANKA
13
Condiment for pommes frites : SEL
21
Revolt : RISEUP
22
Go bad : SOUR
26
Duma denial : NYET
28
Graphic ___ : ARTS
29
1970s tennis great Smith : STAN
31
Border on : ABUT
32
Woman's shoe style : TSTRAP
33
1969 and 2000 World Series venue : SHEA
34
Put ___ on (limit) : ACAP
35
1944 Hitchcock classic : LIFEBOAT
36
Cranked out : PRODUCED
41
Do : COIF
42
Least favorably : ATWORST
43
Starchy dessert : TAPIOCA
47
Hang around : LINGER
48
Object of a tuneup : ENGINE
49
Turns to 0, say : RESETS
51
It might be placed at a window : WAGER
52
Without equal : ALONE
53
Hawk's descent : SWOOP
55
Feudal estate : FIEF
56
Throws in : ADDS
57
Prohibitionist : DRY

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6 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later.

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