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New York Times, Thursday, March 27, 2008

Author:
Joe Krozel
Editor:
Will Shortz
4-Down : Start of many a story
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Joe Krozel

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 70, Blocks: 32 Missing: {JQ} Spans: 3 This is puzzle # 7 for Mr. Krozel. Thursday freshness: 80%
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© 2008, The New York Times3/27/8 ( No. 21,324 )
Across
1
Basis of fries : SPUDS
6
A good breakfast, but a bad supper, according to Francis Bacon : HOPE
10
Dumpsite pollutants, for short : PCBS
14
___ once : ALLAT
15
Robert of "The Sopranos" : ILER
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Bloody, so to speak : RARE
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Ton of : LOTTA
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Federally guaranteed security : GINNIEMAE
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See 49-Down : STRETCHONESNECK
22
Showy shrubs : AZALEAS
23
Certain prayer starter : OUR
24
Special ties : INS
25
Diamond setting : BALLPARK
30
Arabian Peninsula port : ADEN
33
Trickled (through) : SEEPED
35
"___ Cried" (1962 top 10 hit) : SHE
36
See 49-Down : NOVELISTSTEPHEN
39
Afore : ERE
40
It's often played before playing : ANTHEM
41
Replies on the Enterprise : AYES
42
Cary Grant played a male one in 1949 : WARBRIDE
44
Tin ___ : EAR
46
"Donald's Cousin ___" (1939 Disney cartoon) : GUS
47
Back : FINANCE
51
See 49-Down : LARGEWADINGBIRD
56
Private chats : ONEONONES
57
Northeast airport : LOGAN
58
God, to Godard : DIEU
59
Lead-in to meter : VOLT
60
Spain's Princess ___ : ELENA
61
Lives no more : ISNT
62
Unlikely valentine swappers : EXES
63
Skates on thin ice, e.g. : DARES
Down
1
Chip topper : SALSA
2
Faint, in slang : PLOTZ
3
Commercial prefix with suede : ULTRA
4
Start of many a story : DATELINE
5
___ Island, N.Y. : STATEN
6
Weather map numbers : HIGHS
7
Assortment : OLIO
8
Ivy League choice : PENN
9
Marine eagle : ERNE
10
Engagement agreement : PRENUP
11
Hard to take? : CAMERASHY
12
Bric-a-___ : BRAC
13
Dig for : SEEK
19
Wagner princess : ISOLDE
21
Designer for Jackie Kennedy : CASSINI
25
"This must ___ place" : BETHE
26
Place for prayer : APSE
27
What "knock knock" may mean : LETMEIN
28
Korea's Syngman ___ : RHEE
29
Understands : KENS
30
From the top : ANEW
31
Celebrated Sigmund Freud patient : DORA
32
Oscar-winning song from "A Star Is Born" : EVERGREEN
34
Abbr. accompanying a college name : ESTD
37
Perfect-game pitcher Don : LARSEN
38
Graph of the equation y = ax2 + bx + c : PARABOLA
43
Leave in a hurry, slangily : BUGOUT
45
Maneuvered : ANGLED
47
Dukes : FISTS
48
Land that's more than 90% desert : NIGER
49
Word defined by 20-, 36- and 51-Across : CRANE
50
Best and Ferber : EDNAS
51
City near Sacramento : LODI
52
Black cuckoos : ANIS
53
Emulated Arachne : WOVE
54
Strong as ___ : ANOX
55
Strike out : DELE

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4 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later.

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