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New York Times, Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Author:
Elizabeth A. Long
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
40-Down : Most risqué
TotalDebutLatest
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Elizabeth A. Long

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 38 Missing: {JQXZ} This is puzzle # 9 for Ms. Long. Tuesday freshness: 44%
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© 2012, The New York Times1/17/12 ( No. 22,715 )
Across
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Tick off : MIFF
5
Wash : BATHE
10
Mimics : APES
14
Skunk's defense : ODOR
15
Under way : AFOOT
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Attract, as an audience : DRAW
17
Dickens wrote one about two cities : TALE
18
They're frowned upon : NONOS
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What an office seeker seeks : VOTE
20
Blockheaded : THICK
22
In medias ___ : RES
23
Human or kangaroo : BIPED
24
Red salmon : SOCKEYE
26
Not a pretty sight : EYESORE
28
Cleaning substance : LYE
29
Banded marbles : AGATES
30
Most negligible : MEREST
33
Currently : NOWADAYS
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Sports org. in a 1976 merger : ABA
37
Blow away : WOW
38
Leased : LET
39
Sticks out : OBTRUDES
43
Showily stylish : FLOSSY
46
River on the Texas/Louisiana border : SABINE
47
Hightailed it : RAN
48
With 50-Across, Dutch painter represented by this puzzle's circled letters : VINCENT
50
See 48-Across : VANGOGH
54
Warning at a station : ONAIR
55
Cairo-to-Addis Ababa dir. : SSE
57
It used to be called the Hermit Kingdom : KOREA
58
Evidence of a ship's passing : WAKE
59
Be sassy, with "off" : MOUTH
61
Fateful day in March : IDES
62
Ovine mothers : EWES
63
Cream of the crop : ELITE
64
Wasp's home : NEST
65
"___ we forget" : LEST
66
Indian emblem : TOTEM
67
"Pardon me, would you have any ___ Poupon?" : GREY
Down
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Applesauce maker : MOTTS
2
The 43rd state : IDAHO
3
Kind of acid in breakfast cereal : FOLIC
4
Something redheads tend to do : FRECKLE
5
Outlaw : BAN
6
In front of, old-style : AFORE
7
Kind of deafness : TONE
8
Slammer : HOOSEGOW
9
Flying saucer fliers, for short : ETS
10
Counseled : ADVISED
11
Season-ending events on "The Bachelor" : PROPOSALS
12
"Peter Peter Pumpkin ___" : EATER
13
Writer Stieg Larsson, e.g. : SWEDE
21
People are always searching for them : KEYS
23
Alpha-gamma connector : BETA
25
Still : YET
27
Go slightly off course : YAW
29
Win by ___ : ANOSE
30
Chinese chairman : MAO
31
Opposite of rise : EBB
32
Rodent-eating reptiles : RATSNAKES
34
"You're calling because ...?" : YES
35
Messy dorm room, say : STY
37
Broke off from a group : WENTSOLO
40
Most risqué : RACIEST
41
"Deutschland ___ Alles" : UBER
42
What a lot of partiers make : DIN
43
___ Angelico : FRA
44
Long and lean : LANK
45
Not stopping : ONGOING
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"I'd like to buy a ___, Pat" : VOWEL
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Deeply impressed : INAWE
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Sting Ray, e.g., informally : VETTE
51
"Large pepperoni with extra cheese," e.g. : ORDER
52
V-formation fliers : GEESE
53
Overly quick : HASTY
56
Diamonds, e.g. : SUIT
59
Shook hands with, say : MET
60
What a seamstress may take up : HEM

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