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New York Times, Thursday, March 20, 2008

Author:
Stephen Edward Anderson
Editor:
Will Shortz
13-Down : Palooka
TotalDebutLatest
33/20/20082/24/2009
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Stephen Edward Anderson

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 74, Blocks: 40 Missing: {FJQ} This is the debut puzzle for Mr. Anderson. Thursday freshness: 22%
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© 2008, The New York Times3/20/8 ( No. 21,317 )
Across
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Big kid? : GOAT
5
Burns and Cowper : BARDS
10
Sit heavily : PLOP
14
Sch. of the Runnin' Rebels : UNLV
15
Apply : EXERT
16
Locale of the highways H1 and H2 : OAHU
17
Served to perfection? : ACED
18
Animal in the 2005 film "Madagascar" : LEMUR
19
Sound of silver striking crystal : TING
20
South-of-the-border border town portmanteau : MEXICALIMEXICO
23
"___ certainly do not!" : NOI
24
Te-___ cigars : AMO
25
Plains border town portmanteau : KANORADOKANSAS
33
Downed : EATEN
34
Cellar stock : WINES
35
Cheerful, proud, powerful sort, it's said : LEO
36
Each state, symbolically : STAR
37
Displayed audacity : DARED
38
Fire starter? : PYRO
39
Up to : TIL
40
Cattle-herding canine : CORGI
41
Usher to the parlor : SEEIN
42
Mid-Atlantic border town portmanteau : DELMARDELAWARE
45
Issue pikes and poleaxes, e.g. : ARM
46
Switzerland's ___ Léman : LAC
47
South-central border town portmanteau : TEXARKANATEXAS
55
Minestrone morsels : ORZO
56
"The Big Trail" or "The Big Stampede" : OATER
57
Source for an outburst : NOVA
58
The Putumayo River forms part of its northern border : PERU
59
Two bells, in a sailor's middle watch : ONEAM
60
Pressing need? : IRON
61
Milk dispenser : TEAT
62
Encounters : MEETS
63
Donkey ___ : KONG
Down
1
Acquisition of the U.S. in the Spanish-American War : GUAM
2
A while ago : ONCE
3
Doonesbury's daughter in "Doonesbury" : ALEX
4
Takeout alternative : TVDINNER
5
1950s-'70s Chevy : BELAIR
6
Jump and a twist : AXEL
7
Do trailers? : REMI
8
Run (out of) : DRUM
9
Like some poorly washed windows : STREAKED
10
Aphrodisiac, perhaps : POTION
11
Not of the cloth : LAIC
12
"Horrors!" : OHNO
13
Palooka : PUG
21
Nighttime scavenger, informally : COON
22
$hopping season? : XMAS
25
Holmes of "Dawson's Creek" : KATIE
26
In the least : ATALL
27
Bestow : AWARD
28
Doleful air : DIRGE
29
Buck ___, first African-American coach in Major League Baseball : ONEIL
30
More foxy : SLYER
31
Raptor's perch : AERIE
32
"So ___?" : SOON
33
Abbr. before a date : ESTD
37
Campus digs : DORMROOM
38
Dove : PEACENIK
40
Italian sweetie : CARA
41
Team letters : SWAT
43
Hit the limit : MAXOUT
44
Bells and whistles, say : ALARMS
47
Decision-making diagram : TREE
48
Fitch of Abercrombie & Fitch : EZRA
49
Sugar ___, Marilyn Monroe's role in "Some Like It Hot" : KANE
50
To ___ (just so) : ATEE
51
Straight up : NEAT
52
Tic-tac-toe choice : XORO
53
Skin So Soft maker : AVON
54
Trolled : SANG
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Make up one's mind : OPT

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