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New York Times, Monday, February 5, 2007

Author:
Joy C. Frank
Editor:
Will Shortz
12-Down : Fail a polygraph
TotalDebutLatest
312/22/20032/5/2007
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0300000
ScrabDebutFresh
1.4966%
Joy C. Frank

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 38 Missing: {JQVZ} Spans: 1 This is puzzle # 3 for Ms. Frank. Monday freshness: 48%
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© 2007, The New York Times2/5/7 ( No. 20,908 )
Across
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1960's-70's draft org. : SSS
4
Purse feature : STRAP
9
Where hair roots grow : SCALP
14
Photo : PIC
15
Singers Ochs and Collins : PHILS
16
Causing goosebumps : EERIE
17
Excitement : ADO
18
Pulitzer-winning biography of a Civil War general : RELEE
19
Take in or let out : ALTER
20
Modern fashion-conscious guys : METROSEXUALS
23
Didn't participate in : SATOUT
24
Circular staples : ADS
25
Appropriate : APT
28
Use a swizzle stick : STIR
30
Reception amenity : OPENBAR
33
Clubs or hearts : SUIT
36
Central point : NUB
38
Shinbone : TIBIA
39
Unlikely showing at a multiplex : UNDERGROUNDFILM
43
Germ cell : SPORE
44
Day-___ paint : GLO
45
"___ of the D'Urbervilles" : TESS
46
Item on a gunslinger's hip : HOLSTER
49
Bangkok native : THAI
51
Perry Como's "___ Impossible" : ITS
52
Nectar collector : BEE
54
List at a meeting : AGENDA
58
Yanks vs. Mets matchup, e.g. : SUBWAYSERIES
61
Olympics craft : KAYAK
64
"You ___ right!" : ARESO
65
___ Lilly and Company : ELI
66
Delight : ELATE
67
Suddenly cut out, as an engine : STALL
68
Rogue : CAD
69
Nintendo products : GAMES
70
Sprayed, as a sidewalk : HOSED
71
Iris's place : EYE
Down
1
Sends unwanted e-mails : SPAMS
2
Most-played half of a 45 : SIDEA
3
Willard of "Today" : SCOTT
4
Bamboo beginning : SPROUT
5
1973 Newman/Redford movie : THESTING
6
Annoy : RILE
7
Billy Joel's musical daughter : ALEXA
8
Prefix with intellectual : PSEUDO
9
Circus performer with a ball : SEAL
10
Disney collectibles : CELS
11
Paintings : ART
12
Fail a polygraph : LIE
13
The "p" in r.p.m. : PER
21
Lists : ROSTERS
22
Dangerous hisser : ASP
25
Hoffman of 1960's-70's radicalism : ABBIE
26
Buckets : PAILS
27
Mine transports : TRAMS
29
Karel Capek classic : RUR
31
LAX posting : ETD
32
Cooler : NIFTIER
33
Some Japanese cuisine : SUSHI
34
Prepare to transplant : UNPOT
35
Fan mail recipients : IDOLS
37
Morass : BOG
40
No longer working: Abbr. : RET
41
Final: Abbr. : ULT
42
Easy, as a loan : NOHASSLE
47
Recede : EBB
48
Clean again : REWASH
50
Ancient : AGEOLD
53
Keep an ___ the ground : EARTO
55
Nephew's sister : NIECE
56
Holdup : DELAY
57
In reserve : ASIDE
58
Fill up : SATE
59
Hawaiian strings, informally : UKES
60
"Pro" votes : YEAS
61
Beer bust purchase : KEG
62
Like : ALA
63
Thanksgiving side dish : YAM

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