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New York Times, Monday, October 25, 2010

Author:
Jonah Kagan
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
1-Down : Toyland visitors
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
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CircleScrabDebutFresh
21.623846%
Jonah Kagan

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 34 Missing: {JQX} Spans: 1 This is puzzle # 4 for Mr. Kagan. Monday freshness: 69%
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© 2010, The New York Times10/25/10 ( No. 22,266 )
Across
1
Healing ointment : BALM
5
Partner : MATE
9
David who sang "Space Oddity" : BOWIE
14
1-Across ingredient : ALOE
15
Enthusiastic : AVID
16
Like some on-the-spot wireless networks : ADHOC
17
*Toy that's thrown : BOOMERANG
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Point of no return? : DEATH
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What an E may stand for : EFFORT
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Deck wood : TEAK
23
China's ___ Zedong : MAO
24
Like a clear night sky : STARLIT
26
Tic : SPASM
28
1492, 1776, 2001, etc. : YEARS
30
Seek divine help from : PRAYTO
33
Indent key : TAB
36
Back of the neck : NAPE
38
Silents star Normand : MABEL
39
Has an exciting opening number, say ... or what the answer to each starred clue does? : STARTSWITHABANG
43
Knight's attire : ARMOR
44
Actor Jared : LETO
45
Fig. on a vitamin bottle : RDA
46
Possible result of an animal bite : RABIES
48
Door fastener : LATCH
51
Jimmy of the Daily Planet : OLSEN
53
Bizarre : STRANGE
57
Angsty music genre : EMO
59
Look searchingly : PEER
61
"Certainly, madame!" : OUIOUI
62
Domino's offering : PIZZA
64
*Situation set to explode : POWDERKEG
66
"Pirates of the Caribbean" locales : ISLES
67
In the thick of : AMID
68
One who ran away with the spoon, in a nursery rhyme : DISH
69
Directors Ethan and Joel : COENS
70
Slothful : LAZY
71
Kiln for hops : OAST
Down
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Toyland visitors : BABES
2
Overhead : ALOFT
3
Bath sponge : LOOFA
4
Dalí's "The Persistence of ___" : MEMORY
5
Invaders in an H. G. Wells story : MARTIANS
6
Gardner of film : AVA
7
Windshield glare reducer : TINT
8
A hexagon has six of them : EDGES
9
Comeuppance for evil actions, supposedly : BADKARMA
10
Laudatory poem : ODE
11
*Guitar accessory that adds vibrato : WHAMMYBAR
12
Itsy-bitsy bit : IOTA
13
Canyon sound effect : ECHO
18
Gardner of mystery : ERLE
22
Download for an iPhone : APP
25
Fish with a net : TRAWL
27
Sad-sounding car company? : SAAB
29
Sales pitch : SPIEL
31
Be inclined (to) : TEND
32
___ Korbut, 1972 Soviet gymnastics star : OLGA
33
Old Russian autocrat : TSAR
34
Gillette razor : ATRA
35
*Hoodwink : BAMBOOZLE
37
Singers James and Jones : ETTAS
40
Agitate : ROIL
41
Ignore a property owner's signs, perhaps : TRESPASS
42
Warm bedtime beverage : HOTTODDY
47
Visualize : SEE
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Rock's Mötley ___ : CRUE
50
Bob or beehive : HAIRDO
52
Country with Sherpas : NEPAL
54
Finnish cell phone giant : NOKIA
55
"___ who?!" : GUESS
56
Number in an octet : EIGHT
57
"Ben-Hur," for one : EPIC
58
Soup with sushi : MISO
60
Italia's capital : ROMA
63
Buddhist sect : ZEN
65
Brainiac : WIZ

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