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New York Times, Monday, September 21, 2009

Author:
Mark Feldman
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
39-Across : What 17-, 20-, 56- and 60-Across are?
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Mark Feldman

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 36 Missing: {JQ} Spans: 1 This is puzzle # 4 for Mr. Feldman. Monday freshness: 20%
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© 2009, The New York Times9/21/9 ( No. 21,867 )
Across
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Even a tiny bit : ATALL
6
Family group : CLAN
10
Employs : USES
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Tia ___ (coffee liqueur) : MARIA
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Opposite of taped : LIVE
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Having everything arranged just so : NEAT
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Official with a stopwatch : TIMEKEEPER
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Goat cheese : FETA
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Bragging sort : SELFPROMOTER
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Uncle's partner : AUNT
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Going ___ (bickering) : ATIT
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Alternatives to woods : IRONS
27
Sags : DROOPS
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Pinup's leg : GAM
30
Broadcast : AIR
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Resuming the previous speed, in music : ATEMPO
35
See 5-Down : ERIE
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What 17-, 20-, 56- and 60-Across are? : MAGAZINEREADERS
42
Writer/illustrator Silverstein : SHEL
43
Stroke gently : CARESS
44
Owns : HAS
45
Firms: Abbr. : COS
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Subject of a will : ESTATE
49
Stable bedding : STRAW
52
"The Thin Man" pooch : ASTA
55
Wild goat : IBEX
56
One good at forming connections with others : PEOPLEPERSON
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"And so ..." : ERGO
60
Miser, e.g. : MONEYLOVER
64
Sir Christopher the architect : WREN
65
___ Minor (constellation) : URSA
66
Bedtime story? : DREAM
67
Fill : SATE
68
"Leave in," to a proofer : STET
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Crystal ball users : SEERS
Down
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Quantity: Abbr. : AMT
2
___ chi ch'uan : TAI
3
Where the humerus and ulna are : ARM
4
Doesn't level with : LIESTO
5
With 35-Across, view from Cleveland : LAKE
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Split : CLEFT
7
Florentine painter Fra Filippo ___ : LIPPI
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Prevent, as disaster : AVERT
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Detective ___ Wolfe : NERO
10
Not yet in a recognizable shape : UNFORMED
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Take care of : SEETO
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All gone, as dinner : EATEN
13
Constellation elements : STARS
18
Stretchables : ELASTICS
21
Actress Farrow : MIA
22
John or John Quincy : ADAMS
23
Dickens's Heep : URIAH
24
Oslo's country, to natives : NORGE
28
La ___, Bolivia : PAZ
29
Takes it slow : GOESEASY
32
Disney deer : ENA
33
Mal de ___ : MER
34
Lead-in to nuptial : PRE
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Program for kicking a habit : REHAB
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Angry, and then some : IRATE
38
County on the Thames : ESSEX
40
Gangster a k a Scarface : ALCAPONE
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Nincompoop : ASS
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"Whoo ... whoo ..." caller : OWL
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Cassiterite : TINORE
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Gushes : SPEWS
50
___ firma : TERRA
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Thesaurus compiler : ROGET
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Toward the left side of a ship : APORT
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Taste or touch : SENSE
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Halloween goody : TREAT
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Down Under birds : EMUS
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Former G.M. make : OLDS
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Sign flashed by Churchill : VEE
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Something that may be pricked : EAR
63
Apt. divisions : RMS

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