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New York Times, Thursday, January 4, 2007

Author:
Alan Olschwang
Editor:
Will Shortz
51-Down : Show eager anticipation
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Alan Olschwang

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 38 This is puzzle # 6 for Mr. Olschwang. Thursday freshness: 25%
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S
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L
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W
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B
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F
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H
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COLON
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M
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B
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PERIOD
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C
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L
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O
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COMMA
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© 2007, The New York Times1/4/7 ( No. 20,876 )
Across
1
Picnic staple : SLAW
5
Lincoln and others : ABES
9
Skiing mementos? : CASTS
14
Puncture : HOLE
15
"The Last of the Mohicans" woman : CORA
16
Playwright Fugard : ATHOL
17
Actor Morales : ESAI
18
Make : EARN
19
Isabel, for one : REINA
20
Condescend : DEIGN
22
Rodeo performer : ROPER
24
Good or bad name, informally : REP
25
28
Advantages : UPSIDES
31
Classic Paris couture house : DIOR
32
Poured : RAINED
33
Haiti, once : FRENCHCOLONY
37
Kind of orch. : SYM
38
Friend, slangily : BRO
39
Oxford letters : EEE
40
Without a regular schedule : APERIODICALLY
44
Spanish entree : PAELLA
47
Concert wind : OBOE
48
Having I-strain? : SELFISH
49
President : COMMANDERINCHIEF
53
One of a pair of conjunctions : NOR
54
Novelist Gide : ANDRE
55
As yet : SOFAR
59
Sci-fi figure : DROID
61
"Tobermory" writer : SAKI
63
Singular, to Caesar : RARA
64
"___ Mio" : OSOLE
65
Currier's partner : IVES
66
Uncommon trick taker : TREY
67
Goes (for) : SELLS
68
___ Gwyn, mistress of Charles II : NELL
69
Neptune's realm : SEAS
Down
1
Tool holder : SHED
2
Shake : LOSE
3
Asia's Trans ___ mountains : ALAI
4
Prefight event : WEIGHIN
5
Crackerjack : ACE
6
Gets on : BOARDS
7
Kind of message : ERROR
8
Los Angeles harbor site : SANPEDRO
9
Small bag : CARRYON
10
Got down : ATE
11
Bake in a shallow dish : SHIRR
12
Opposite of flabby : TONED
13
Haphazardly : SLAPDASH
21
Botticelli figure : NUDE
23
Adams of "The Ernie Kovacs Show" : EDIE
26
___ Brooks, 1950's-60's "Meet the Press" host : NED
27
Not go straight : ARC
28
___ Major : URSA
29
Week or month at the office, usually : PAYPERIOD
30
___ Valley, Calif. : SIMI
33
Zap : FRY
34
Prefix with pad : HELI
35
Wearers of eagle insignia : COLONELS
36
Word repeated in a Beatles refrain : YEAH
38
Isn't conspicuous : BLENDSIN
41
Iowa college : COE
42
Rubs : ABRADES
43
Pork ___ : LOIN
44
Canadian prov. : PEI
45
Subjects of Guinness records? : ALES
46
Struggles : EFFORTS
48
Mideast money : SHEKEL
49
Members of a raiding party : COMMANDOS
50
Origin of the word "troll" : NORSE
51
Show eager anticipation : DROOL
52
Hunger for : CRAVE
56
Commuting cost : FARE
57
Realm : AREA
58
Skates : RAYS
60
In a bad way : ILL
62
Cuba, e.g.: Abbr. : ISL

Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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