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New York Times, Wednesday, March 6, 2013

Author:
Richard Chisholm
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
31-Down : Yalie's cheer word
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Richard Chisholm

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 37 Missing: {JQVXY} This is puzzle # 32 for Mr. Chisholm. Wednesday freshness: 49%
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R
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© 2013, The New York Times3/6/13 ( No. 23,129 )
Across
1
Whitewater craft : RAFT
5
Chews the fat : GABS
9
"Nothing but net" sound : SWISH
14
She sang with Duke and Dizzy : ELLA
15
Instrument called "an ill wind that nobody blows good" : OBOE
16
Ionian Sea vacation isle : CORFU
17
Out there : AFAR
18
Lacks pizazz : HASNOOOMPH
20
Former Haitian leader Duvalier : PAPADOC
22
Clothing, slangily : THREADS
23
Radio host who often wears cowboy hats : IMUS
25
Got hitched : WED
26
Overly partisan : TOOONESIDED
31
"Uncle" on a food package : BEN
34
___ Mountains : OZARK
35
Sen. Biden represented it: Abbr. : DEL
36
Jam session feature : SOLO
37
Doesn't fight back : TAKESIT
40
Failed to show up for, informally : BLEWOFF
42
A lot of a flock : EWES
43
"Major ___" of 1990s TV : DAD
45
Shire of "Rocky" : TALIA
46
Roseanne's husband on "Roseanne" : DAN
47
Animal on display : ZOOOCCUPANT
50
Filming site : SET
51
Roe source : SHAD
52
Casual eateries : BISTROS
56
Put up : ERECTED
61
Inuit, maybe : IGLOOOWNER
63
Leander's love : HERO
64
Téa of "Spanglish" : LEONI
65
Prefix with plane, to a Brit : AERO
66
Calif. neighbor : ARIZ
67
Three-star rank: Abbr. : LTGEN
68
Amount between some and all : MOST
69
High roller's pair : DICE
Down
1
Realize, as profit : REAP
2
Sporty auto, for short : ALFA
3
Try to get airborne, maybe : FLAP
4
Setting in a Mitchell novel : TARA
5
"Get lost!" : GOHOME
6
Ancestor of a calculator : ABACUS
7
Fenway nine, on scoreboards : BOS
8
E-mail folder heading : SENT
9
Ruined a shutout : SCORED
10
Tried to win : WOOED
11
Rombauer of cookery : IRMA
12
"Bullitt" law enforcement org. : SFPD
13
Confused responses : HUHS
19
Words said with a shrug : OHWELL
21
Light tennis shots that fall just over the net : DINKS
24
Caesar of old TV : SID
26
Brought along on a hike, say : TOTED
27
2000s Vienna State Opera conductor : OZAWA
28
Like some heavy buckets : OAKEN
29
Assaying samples : ORES
30
Cotillion V.I.P. : DEB
31
Yalie's cheer word : BOOLA
32
Like Keebler workers : ELFIN
33
Low-cal yogurt descriptor : NOFAT
36
One-for-one transaction : SWAP
38
"Same with me!" : IDOTOO
39
Confucian principle : TAO
41
Chopin piece : ETUDE
44
Built-in feature of the Apple II : DOS
47
Focus (on) : ZEROIN
48
"Bottoms up!" : CHEERS
49
Stick's partner, in an idiom : CARROT
50
Soup ingredient in an old folk story : STONE
52
Legislature's consideration : BILL
53
The Beach Boys' "___ Around" : IGET
54
Walk wearily : SLOG
55
Did laps, say : SWAM
57
Landlocked African land : CHAD
58
Hatcher who played Lois Lane : TERI
59
Spy novelist Ambler : ERIC
60
Go out for a short time? : DOZE
62
Prefix with natal : NEO

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