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New York Times, Tuesday, January 22, 2008

Author:
Adam G. Perl
Editor:
Will Shortz
55-Down : Pointed
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Adam G. Perl

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 80, Blocks: 38 Missing: {FJQX} This is puzzle # 13 for Mr. Perl. Tuesday freshness: 2%
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© 2008, The New York Times1/22/8 ( No. 21,259 )
Across
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Ooze : SEEP
5
Neighbor of Kan. : OKLA
9
Go after : CHASE
14
Island dance : HULA
15
Do perfectly : NAIL
16
Go online : LOGIN
17
Final notice? : OBIT
18
Coastal flier : ERNE
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Take away little by little : ERODE
20
Diana Ross musical, with "The" : WIZ
21
They require signals : LANECHANGES
23
Neptune's domain : SEA
24
___ carte : ALA
25
Number of operas composed by Beethoven : ONE
26
Play the slots, e.g. : BET
28
Ohio university whose team is the Golden Flashes : KENTSTATE
34
Fancy flapjacks : CREPES
37
Comstock ___ : LODE
38
Touch with a hanky, say : DAB
39
Pro ___ (proportionately) : RATA
40
Slacks material : CHINO
42
Facts and figures : DATA
43
Baseball bat wood : ASH
44
P P P, in Greek : RHOS
45
Liechtenstein's language : GERMAN
47
Fibs : WHITELIES
50
Stephen of "The Crying Game" : REA
51
Beehive State native : UTE
52
Timeline division : ERA
54
Carpet fuzz : NAP
57
Publication that is the key to this puzzle's theme : DAILYPLANET
62
Conk out : DIE
63
Tunesmith's org. : ASCAP
64
"That's a shame" : ALAS
65
Exec's note : MEMO
66
Peach pit : STONE
67
Treat with grandmotherly love, with "on" : DOTE
68
Kitchen dial site : OVEN
69
Sharpened : HONED
70
Proofer's mark : STET
71
Takes as one's spouse : WEDS
Down
1
Exhibits : SHOWS
2
Blake of jazz : EUBIE
3
1998 role for Cate Blanchett : ELIZABETHI
4
Butter slice : PAT
5
N.B.A.'s Shaquille : ONEAL
6
Egyptian temple site : KARNAK
7
Airport delay? : LINE
8
Guinness of stage and screen : ALEC
9
Make spotless : CLEANSE
10
Big buzzer : HORNET
11
Bug-eyed : AGOG
12
Slaw, e.g. : SIDE
13
Hydrocarbon suffixes : ENES
21
After the buzzer : LATE
22
"Oh, goody!" : HOTDOG
27
Air quality grp. : EPA
29
Beethoven dedicatee : ELISE
30
"Smoking or ___?" : NON
31
Genesis duo : ADAMANDEVE
32
"Ciao!" : TATA
33
Israel's Abba : EBAN
34
Sticking point? : CRAW
35
Too hasty : RASH
36
Haul, slangily : SCHLEP
41
___ polloi : HOI
42
Rap's Dr. ___ : DRE
44
Entered again : RETYPED
46
Part of Q.E.D. : ERAT
48
New Orleans school : TULANE
49
Hundred on the Hill : SENATE
53
Bowling alley button : RESET
55
Pointed : AIMED
56
Doers of drudgery : PEONS
57
Track meet event : DASH
58
Regarding : ASTO
59
Revered one : ICON
60
Little shavers : LADS
61
Jillions : ALOT
65
Use a Lawn-Boy, e.g. : MOW

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