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New York Times, Tuesday, December 20, 2005

Author:
Nancy and Holden Baker
Editor:
Will Shortz
54-Down : Kind of need
TotalDebutCollabs
112/20/20051
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0010000
ScrabDebutFresh
1.58343%
Nancy Baker
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
1611/17/199711/1/20102
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
0842110
RebusCircleScrabDebutFresh
111.535228%
Holden Baker

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 74, Blocks: 34 Missing: {GKQWXZ} Spans: 1 This is the debut puzzle for Ms. Baker. This is puzzle # 12 for Mr. Baker. Tuesday freshness: 78%
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© 2005, The New York Times12/20/5 ( No. 20,496 )
Across
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Command to Rover : HEEL
5
Feudal estate : FIEF
9
Veronica of "Hill Street Blues" : HAMEL
14
Jai ___ : ALAI
15
Not taken in by : ONTO
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Stubborn as ___ : AMULE
17
British man-of-war : HMSBOUNTY
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Bulgaria's capital : SOFIA
20
On a higher plane : ASTRAL
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Above everything else : ATTHETOP
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Formerly, formerly : ERST
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Nuns' garb : HABITS
26
Knuckleheads : DOLTS
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Neighbor of Francia : ESPANA
32
Landed : ALIT
33
Yellow fruit : PAPAYA
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Nice winter coat : FUR
37
Man o' War : FAMOUSRACEHORSE
40
Dam-building org. : TVA
41
Comparatively close : NEARER
42
"What's in a ___?": Juliet : NAME
43
It's gender : NEUTER
44
Kafka's "In the ___ Colony" : PENAL
45
The Supreme Court, e.g. : ENNEAD
48
Lowly worker : SERF
50
Place for things to get sorted out : MAILROOM
53
Home in bed, ill : LAIDUP
57
In other words : IDEST
58
Portuguese man-of-war : JELLYFISH
60
Copier company : RICOH
61
Natural balm : ALOE
62
Three-point shot, in hoops slang : TREY
63
"Danse Macabre" composer Saint-___ : SAENS
64
Card catalog abbr. : ISBN
65
Towel embroidery : HERS
Down
1
"Stop! You're killing me!" : HAHA
2
Trees in an O'Neill title : ELMS
3
"___ of Eden" : EAST
4
Opera script : LIBRETTO
5
They're not fair : FOULS
6
Place to overnight : INN
7
Jazz singer James : ETTA
8
A.J., the racer : FOYT
9
Rosh ___ : HASHANAH
10
One-celled creature : AMOEBA
11
Civilian attire : MUFTI
12
"Middlemarch" author : ELIOT
13
Bounds' partner : LEAPS
18
Pair in a dinghy : OARS
22
"Casey at the Bat" writer Ernest Lawrence ___ : THAYER
24
Treat roughly : TEARAT
26
A bit cuckoo : DAFT
27
Sainted Norwegian king : OLAV
28
Capital near the ruins of the ancient city Pachacamac : LIMA
30
Bowler's pickup : SPARE
31
Indiana hoopsters : PACERS
33
False start? : PSEUDO
34
Friend of Kukla and Ollie : FRAN
35
Alma mater of D.D.E. : USMA
36
Virginia dance : REEL
38
Brings to light : UNEARTHS
39
20% : ONEFIFTH
43
A Rockefeller : NELSON
44
Supplicate : PRAY
45
Mideast princes : EMIRS
46
Gymnast Comaneci : NADIA
47
Family girl : NIECE
49
Sitcom that debuted in 1994 : ELLEN
51
Town near Santa Barbara : OJAI
52
Blanc and Brooks : MELS
54
Kind of need : DIRE
55
Word with fee or ID : USER
56
___ Ed. : PHYS
59
High ball? : LOB

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