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New York Times, Monday, April 26, 2010

Author:
Lynn Lempel
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
56-Down : Nutcase
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
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CircleScrabDebutPre‑WSFresh
91.61331220%
Lynn Lempel

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 38 Missing: {JQZ} Spans: 1 This is puzzle # 48 for Ms. Lempel. Monday freshness: 52%
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© 2010, The New York Times4/26/10 ( No. 22,084 )
Across
1
Navajo's neighbor in Arizona : HOPI
5
Edinburgh native : SCOT
9
Defect : FLAW
13
Racetrack shapes : OVALS
15
Many millennia : EONS
16
Parks who received the Presidential Medal of Freedom : ROSA
17
Tendon : SINEW
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Common advice to travelers : PACKLIGHT
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Terminus : END
21
Seed with a licoricelike flavor : ANISE
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Beginning : ONSET
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Race that finishes in a tie : DEADHEAT
26
Warm embrace : HUG
27
Worms, to a fisherman : BAIT
28
Early Fords that "put America on wheels" : MODELTS
32
Say "C-A-T" or "D-O-G," e.g. : SPELL
34
Boathouse gear : OARS
36
"___ don't say!" : YOU
37
Doing something risky ... or a hint to the last words of 18-, 24-, 49- and 58-Across : PLAYINGWITHFIRE
41
Avis or Alamo offering : CAR
42
Misfortunes : ILLS
43
Uncles' mates : AUNTS
44
Being risked, as in a bet : ATSTAKE
47
Cassini of fashion : OLEG
48
Cubes from the freezer : ICE
49
Bygone love interest : OLDFLAME
53
Digging tool : SPADE
56
Weak-___ (easily intimidated) : KNEED
57
Candlemaking supply : WAX
58
"Omigosh!" : HOLYSMOKE
60
Oven brand : AMANA
62
Language of Pakistan : URDU
63
What Yale became in 1969 : COED
64
Hayseed : YOKEL
65
Vault (over) : LEAP
66
"The ___ the limit" : SKYS
67
Crème de la crème : BEST
Down
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Cleaned with water, as a sidewalk : HOSED
2
Sheeplike : OVINE
3
Adorable zoo critters from China : PANDABEARS
4
Suffix with percent : ILE
5
Tone of many old photos : SEPIA
6
Where a hurricane makes landfall : COAST
7
___ in a blue moon : ONCE
8
"For shame!" : TSK
9
Outer edge : FRINGE
10
Hearth contents : LOGS
11
U.S. tennis legend on a 37¢ stamp : ASHE
12
The "W" of kWh : WATT
14
Widespread language of East Africa : SWAHILI
19
Earsplitting : LOUD
22
Ping-Pong table divider : NET
25
Tyne of "Cagney & Lacey" : DALY
26
Party giver : HOST
28
CT scan alternatives : MRIS
29
Suffering from insomnia : LYINGAWAKE
30
Wrong that's adjudicated in court : TORT
31
Takes to court : SUES
32
Org. for cat and dog lovers : SPCA
33
Builder's map : PLAT
34
Look at lustfully : OGLE
35
Hole-making tool : AWL
38
Athletics brand with a swoosh : NIKE
39
9:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., say, for a worker : HALFDAY
40
Gasoline or peat : FUEL
45
Neaten : TIDYUP
46
Unreturned tennis serves : ACES
47
Keats's "___ to Psyche" : ODE
49
Not sharp or flat : ONKEY
50
Textile city of north-central England : LEEDS
51
Grooms comb them : MANES
52
Praise mightily : EXALT
53
Place for a bar mitzvah service : SHUL
54
Skin opening : PORE
55
Alan of "M*A*S*H" : ALDA
56
Nutcase : KOOK
59
Introducers of a show's acts, e.g. : MCS
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"The Godfather" crowd, with "the" : MOB

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