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New York Times, Thursday, September 14, 2006

Author:
Karen M. Tracey
Editor:
Will Shortz
24-Across : Zigs
TotalDebutLatest
325/6/20036/18/2010
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ScrabDebutFresh
1.6617686%
Karen M. Tracey

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 74, Blocks: 36 Missing: {Q} Spans: 2 This is puzzle # 7 for Ms. Tracey. Thursday freshness: 60%
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J
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© 2006, The New York Times9/14/6 ( No. 20,764 )
Across
1
Part of the head : JOWL
5
Slip : SKID
9
___ Bay, Sunshine Skyway locale : TAMPA
14
Foreign friend : AMIE
15
Child's plea : CANI
16
Night hunter : ORION
17
Novelist ___ Mae Brown : RITA
18
Roughly : ORSO
19
"The Winslow Boy" screenwriter/director David : MAMET
20
See note : THRILLEDTOBITS
23
Nancy Drew's beau : NED
24
Zigs : VEERS
25
It may be sweet or hard : CIDER
28
River to the North Sea : WESER
29
Big inits. in bowling : AMF
32
Crucifix : ROOD
33
Whup : TAN
34
Shire dweller : HOBBIT
36
See note : ONTOPOFTHEWORLD
39
Like a bad night's sleep : FITFUL
40
Lemon or peach : HUE
41
Java neighbor : BALI
42
Scotland's Firth of ___ : TAY
43
Constraining : TIGHT
45
Blend : ADMIX
46
Actor Willem : DAFOE
47
Presidential nickname : ABE
48
See note : PLEASEDASPUNCH
54
Eponym of a physics lab near Chicago : FERMI
55
___ Novello Award for songwriters : IVOR
56
___ Oscar (entree) : VEAL
58
Villain : FIEND
59
Nix : VETO
60
Automaker Ferrari : ENZO
61
Café cup : TASSE
62
Shortly : ANON
63
A.A.A. options : RTES
Down
1
Jolt : JAR
2
Leave off : OMIT
3
Beside : WITH
4
Heard about : LEARNEDOF
5
Shrew : SCOLD
6
Baedeker of the Baedeker travel guides : KARL
7
See note : INSEVENTHHEAVEN
8
Circuit components : DIODES
9
Optimist's focus : TOMORROW
10
Relatives of Moors : ARABS
11
Actress Rogers : MIMI
12
Meter reader? : POET
13
Ones heading for the hills? : ANTS
21
Comparative suffix : IER
22
Giggle : TEEHEE
25
Tenant farm, in Britain : CROFT
26
Aegean region : IONIA
27
A bit crazy : DOTTY
28
Auxiliary service member, once : WAF
29
Presidential middle name : ABRAM
30
Music's ___ Vanilli : MILLI
31
Army post near Mt. Holly, N.J. : FTDIX
33
"L'chaim," literally : TOLIFE
35
"Gilligan's Island" star : BOBDENVER
37
Table : PUTASIDE
38
QB's cry : HUT
44
Chocolate maker : GODIVA
45
"Aladdin" monkey : ABU
46
Curses : DAMNS
47
Aircraft parking spot : APRON
48
[Fizzle] : PFFT
49
Sci-fi princess : LEIA
50
Start of a Cockney toast : ERES
51
"And ___ bed" : SOTO
52
Small change : CENT
53
Skyline obscurer : HAZE
57
Acapulco article : LOS

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1 unique to this puzzle, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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