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New York Times, Wednesday, January 16, 2008

Author:
Barry C. Silk
Editor:
Will Shortz
12-Down : Two- or three-pointer
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
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121.6540277%
Barry C. Silk

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 36 Missing: {JQ} This is puzzle # 19 for Mr. Silk. Wednesday freshness: 50%
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© 2008, The New York Times1/16/8 ( No. 21,253 )
Across
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Gets one's feet wet? : WADES
6
Frizzy do : AFRO
10
Pop group whose music was the basis of a hit 2001 Broadway musical : ABBA
14
Hut material : ADOBE
15
A lot of pizzazz? : ZEES
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Some socials : TEAS
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Rid of vermin : DERAT
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French chalk mineral : TALC
19
Corporal punishment unit : LASH
20
1999 Russell Crowe movie : MYSTERYALASKA
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Something to shoot for : PAR
25
N.R.C. forerunner : AEC
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Scorecard listing : ROSTER
27
Fielder's cry : IGOTIT
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Potter's need : SOIL
31
"The racer's edge" : STP
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Parent's handful : PROBLEMCHILD
35
___ Club (retail chain) : SAMS
36
Cyclotron particle : ION
37
Deplaned, e.g. : ALIT
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Nickname for the National Security Agency : PUZZLEPALACE
46
The Monkees' "___ Believer" : IMA
49
Scholarship consideration : NEED
50
Popped up : ARISEN
51
"Groovy!" : FAROUT
53
Orch. section : STR
54
QB stats : TDS
55
W.W. II encryption device : ENIGMAMACHINE
59
Fretted fiddle : VIOL
60
Whittle : PARE
61
In a pique : VEXED
64
Last word in an ultimatum : ELSE
65
Getz of jazz : STAN
66
Dispatch boat : AVISO
67
Black Flag alternative : RAID
68
Manhattan, e.g. : ISLE
69
Reveal one's feelings : LETON
Down
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Tobacco buy : WAD
2
Suffix with cannon : ADE
3
Campus quarters : DORMROOM
4
24/7 auction site : EBAY
5
Shove off : SETSAIL
6
San Diego State player : AZTEC
7
Goose bumps cause : FEAR
8
Depend (on) : RELY
9
Last king of the united Sweden and Norway : OSCARII
10
Travel aid : ATLAS
11
Coarse sorts : BEASTS
12
Two- or three-pointer : BASKET
13
Black key : ASHARP
21
French noodle? : TETE
22
Lounge : LOLL
23
Domino features : PIPS
24
Red Fort city : AGRA
28
Cookbook amt. : TBSP
29
Dress down : SCOLD
30
"Die Frau ___ Schatten" (Strauss opera) : OHNE
33
Baseball's Johnny, known as the Big Cat : MIZE
34
Mustachioed Surrealist : DALI
38
End of the road, possibly : LASTEXIT
39
Like some coffee : ICED
40
Gymnastics coups : TENS
42
E pluribus ___ : UNUM
43
Fraternity founded in 1847 at New York University : ZETAPSI
44
Walkway : PATH
45
Stork's bundle : ARRIVAL
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Assuming, hypothetically : IFEVER
47
1975 "Thrilla" city : MANILA
48
Melodic passages : ARIOSI
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Looked libidinously : OGLED
53
Public to-do : SCENE
56
Dojo accessories : MATS
57
Asia's ___ Sea : ARAL
58
Campbell of "Three to Tango" : NEVE
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"___ Beso" : ESO
63
Mafia figure : DON

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