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New York Times, Tuesday, April 4, 2006

Author:
Robert Dillman
Editor:
Will Shortz
63-Down : ENE's opposite
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Robert Dillman

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 38 Missing: {JQXZ} Spans: 2 This is puzzle # 23 for Mr. Dillman. Tuesday freshness: 5%
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A
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S
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T
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A
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R
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E
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C
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P
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O
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L
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L
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G
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M
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L
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N
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B
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E
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R
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O
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B
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L
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U
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E
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L
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F
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H
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P
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S
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L
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B
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W
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K
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I
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E
© 2006, The New York Times4/4/6 ( No. 20,601 )
Across
1
"The Thin Man" pooch : ASTA
5
Anchor's job at the end of the news : RECAP
10
How a soldier may go : AWOL
14
Vientiane's locale : LAOS
15
Long, long time : EPOCH
16
Fancy entrance feature : GATE
17
"... Phoenix" : BYTHETIMEIGETTO
20
Employ : USE
21
Actress Kedrova and others : LILAS
22
Writer Chekhov : ANTON
23
Popular Mitsubishi S.U.V. : MONTERO
25
Terminal : END
26
"... Kalamazoo" : IVEGOTAGALIN
32
Genesis boy : ABEL
35
Opposite of well done : RARE
36
Lennon's Yoko : ONO
37
Swiss city on the Rhine : BASEL
39
Flying saucer : UFO
40
___ Domingo : SANTO
42
Terminal info: Abbr. : ETA
43
German article : EINE
45
Animal with a mane : LION
46
"... Buffalo" : SHUFFLEOFFTO
51
Suffix with meteor : ITE
52
1971 R&B collection "___ Greatest Hits" : ARETHAS
56
Pooped : SPENT
59
Carpenter's nail holder : APRON
61
Before, to poets : ERE
62
"... New Orleans" : WAYDOWNYONDERIN
65
Small field : ACRE
66
Swagger : STRUT
67
Red ink amount : LOSS
68
Keg contents : BEER
69
Vacation segments : WEEKS
70
___ fixe : IDEE
Down
1
Photo collection holder : ALBUM
2
Approval : SAYSO
3
Count from one ___ : TOTEN
4
Volcanic spew : ASH
5
Go to bed : RETIRE
6
Literary coda : EPILOG
7
What a conk on the head may produce : COMA
8
Assets in poker : ACES
9
Letter after upsilon : PHI
10
Meeting list : AGENDA
11
Light bulb unit : WATT
12
"Beetle Bailey" pooch : OTTO
13
Trotsky or Spinks : LEON
18
Architect's abbr. : ELEV
19
River to the Bay of Bengal : GANGES
24
Mah-jongg piece : TILE
25
Big feature of an elephant : EAR
27
Title character in a Gluck opera : ORFEO
28
Confucian way : TAO
29
Anderson of "WKRP in Cincinnati" : LONI
30
Really liking, informally : INTO
31
Midday : NOON
32
Lincoln and others : ABES
33
Wash-up : BATH
34
Old Testament twin : ESAU
38
Reserved for : LEFTTO
39
French article : UNE
41
Tremendously : ALOT
44
Speck in la mer : ILE
47
Locator : FINDER
48
1930's-50's Egyptian king : FAROUK
49
Leads, as a band : FRONTS
50
Minister (to) : TEND
53
King in "The Passion of the Christ" : HEROD
54
Come up : ARISE
55
Perspicacity : SENSE
56
What tars do to decks : SWAB
57
The "P" in a Latin R.I.P. : PACE
58
Jane of a Brontë novel : EYRE
59
Kick into the pot : ANTE
60
Combustible heap : PYRE
63
ENE's opposite : WSW
64
Wallach or Whitney : ELI

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