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New York Times, Wednesday, December 13, 2006

Author:
David Sullivan
Editor:
Will Shortz
13-Down : Duel tool
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David Sullivan

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 74, Blocks: 31 Missing: {JKZ} Spans: 2 This is puzzle # 4 for Mr. Sullivan. Wednesday freshness: 79%
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© 2006, The New York Times12/13/6 ( No. 20,854 )
Across
1
Slap on : DAUB
5
___ Kadiddlehopper, old TV hayseed : CLEM
9
Losing rolls : CRAPS
14
Mont Blanc, e.g., locally : ALPE
15
Classic theater name : ROXY
16
Cousin of a cockatoo : MACAW
17
Sign above a Tijuana A.T.M.? : LATENIGHTDINERO
20
2004 Will Smith thriller : IROBOT
21
Solver's cry : AHA
22
Campsite hookup user : RVER
23
"Oh Boy! What ___" (1920's hit) : AGIRL
25
One listed on MySpace : FRIEND
27
"Why did the chicken cross the road?," e.g., in Tijuana? : POLLOQUESTION
31
"Excuse me ..." : AHEM
32
Letters before Choice or Prime : USDA
33
Web-footed mammal : OTTER
36
Plastered : LIT
37
Pick up on : GET
38
Co. informally known as Brown : UPS
40
Charlottesville sch. : UVA
41
Israel's Dayan : MOSHE
43
Brontë heroine : EYRE
45
QB Tarkenton : FRAN
46
Tijuana air freshener? : BANODEODORANT
49
Morning hour : ELEVEN
51
Japanese cartoon genre : ANIME
52
Spot for a nap : SOFA
53
Biblical verb ending : ETH
55
He did not beware the Ides of March : CAESAR
59
Advice regarding a good poker hand in Tijuana? : STANDBYYOURMANO
62
Hoops coach Thomas : ISIAH
63
Crowd sound : ROAR
64
Kind of clef : ALTO
65
Brings in : EARNS
66
Yorkshire river : OUSE
67
Cry out for : NEED
Down
1
Painter of dreamscapes : DALI
2
Controversial spray : ALAR
3
As many as : UPTO
4
Plant yielding a fragrant oil : BEEBALM
5
Point out the pluses and minuses of : CRITIQUE
6
Enter, as a record : LOG
7
Blew out : EXHALED
8
Washington chopping down the cherry tree, e.g. : MYTH
9
Early 10th-century year : CMI
10
Went wild : RANRIOT
11
Jim Carrey title role : ACEVENTURA
12
Emoticon element, for short : PAREN
13
Duel tool : SWORD
18
NASA scrub : NOGO
19
Batty : DAFT
24
Like the Tin Man, upon discovery : RUSTED
26
Ocho ___, Jamaica : RIOS
27
Conceal, as a coin : PALM
28
Where John Glenn was senator : OHIO
29
"Gimme a break" : LETSBEFAIR
30
A Tolkien Dark Lord : SAURON
34
Politico Bayh : EVAN
35
Go ballistic : RANT
37
Trait carrier : GENE
39
Spa treatment : PEDICURE
42
Baseball's Jose Canseco, by birth : HAVANAN
44
"Me?" response : YEAHYOU
45
Ex-slave : FREEMAN
47
First-floor apartment : ONEB
48
Actor Epps : OMAR
49
Davis of "The Matrix Reloaded" : ESSIE
50
"___ luck!" : LOTSA
54
Newbie : TYRO
56
Realtor's goal : SALE
57
Part of A.M. : ANTE
58
Chancel cross : ROOD
60
Some A.L.'ers : DHS
61
West. alliance : OAS

Answer summary:
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