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New York Times, Wednesday, November 1, 2006

Author:
Paula Gamache
Editor:
Will Shortz
5-Down : *Sports car feature
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
1085/21/20021/14/20184
SunMonTueWedThuFriSatVariety
81318151217619
RebusCircleScrabDebutFresh
431.5850462%
Paula Gamache

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 34 Missing: {JQW} This is puzzle # 15 for Ms. Gamache. Wednesday freshness: 67%
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© 2006, The New York Times11/1/6 ( No. 20,812 )
Across
1
Take ___ at (try) : ASTAB
6
Wield, as influence : EXERT
11
Lens holder, for short : CAM
14
Statesman known popularly as Panditji, or "Scholar" : NEHRU
15
Mister abroad : SENOR
16
Draft choice? : ALE
17
Kind of acid : OLEIC
18
Place to see a Goya : PRADO
19
Cookie holder : TIN
20
Show hospitality at the door : ASKIN
22
*Coin collector's purchase : MINTSET
24
Tom, at birth : KITTEN
26
Game pieces : MEN
27
Splitsville? : RENO
28
*It has "E pluribus unum" on it : GREATSEAL
30
Broker's quarry : BUYER
31
Setting for many a joke : BAR
32
Peccadilloes : SINS
33
Donnybrooks : MELEES
34
*Has a clear conscience : RESTSEASY
36
Small military craft : PTBOAT
39
Release : EMIT
40
Side in checkers : RED
43
Butler at Tara : RHETT
44
*"Friends" was once part of it : MUSTSEETV
46
Cosmetics maker ___ Laszlo : ERNO
47
It may not be easy to shoot : PAR
48
Fixed, as a loose lace : RETIED
49
*"Dig in!" : LETSEAT
51
Menace to society : FELON
52
Suffix with Moon : IES
53
Rockne of Notre Dame fame : KNUTE
55
"A Faust Symphony" composer : LISZT
58
G.I. chow : MRE
59
Spine-tingling : EERIE
60
Wiesel and namesakes : ELIES
61
One form of ID : SSN
62
Was out : SLEPT
63
Soprano Fleming : RENEE
Down
1
It begins with enero : ANO
2
Partner of poivre : SEL
3
Play ground? : THEATER
4
Record label founded by Clive Davis : ARISTA
5
*Sports car feature : BUCKETSEAT
6
Disney-owned channel : ESPN
7
Gen ___ : XER
8
Nail polish : ENAMEL
9
"The Gates of Hell" sculptor : RODIN
10
Pioneering 1982 sci-fi film : TRON
11
*Colorful marble : CATSEYE
12
Property receiver : ALIENEE
13
Gurus : MENTORS
21
Not give an inch : INSIST
23
In fact : TRULY
24
Org. in which Putin was once an officer : KGB
25
Roth ___ : IRA
26
Rubber : MASSEUR
29
Suffix with differ : ENT
30
*What a writer hopes to write : BESTSELLER
33
Teacher at an école : MAITRE
34
Old newspaper sections : ROTOS
35
Grp. gotten by dialing 911 : EMS
36
Tourney starters : PRELIMS
37
Education fundamentals : THREERS
38
*1988 vice-presidential candidate : BENTSEN
40
Restrains : REINSIN
41
When the French fry? : ETE
42
Movie format : DVD
44
Adultlike : MATURE
45
Prima ballerina : ETOILE
47
Jury : PANEL
50
Squeezes (out) : EKES
51
Pedal pushers : FEET
54
Show instability : TIP
56
Last of 26 : ZEE
57
Literary monogram found in the answers to the nine asterisked clues : TSE

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