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New York Times, Monday, May 14, 2007

Author:
Paula Gamache
Editor:
Will Shortz
23-Down : Azure
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
1085/21/20021/14/20184
SunMonTueWedThuFriSatVariety
81318151217619
RebusCircleScrabDebutFresh
431.5850462%
Paula Gamache

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 37 Missing: {JQX} This is puzzle # 22 for Ms. Gamache. Monday freshness: 42%
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© 2007, The New York Times5/14/7 ( No. 21,006 )
Across
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Some Apple computers : IMACS
6
Fall behind : LAG
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Milan's La ___ : SCALA
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End of an Aesop fable : MORAL
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Eggs : OVA
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Secret languages : CODES
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*Mock rock band in a 1984 film : SPINALTAP
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From the country : RURAL
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Hides the gray : DYES
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Old-fashioned "Scram!" : BEGONE
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"Dear" dispenser of advice : ABBY
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*Revealer of vowels, on TV : VANNAWHITE
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Hardly trim : FLABBY
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Enclosure for grain or coal : BIN
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"Cut it out!" : STOP
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Hearing-related : AURAL
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Hawaiian veranda : LANAI
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*Part of a Valentine's Day bouquet : REDROSE
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*Seasoned seaman : OLDSALT
42
The mating game? : CHESS
44
Rarin' to go : EAGER
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Citrus coolers : ADES
49
Parts of lbs. : OZS
50
Tie the knot : SAYIDO
51
*Local place for making deposits or getting loans : BANKBRANCH
54
___ empty stomach : ONAN
55
Garb : ATTIRE
56
Long, long time : AEON
58
Around, as a year : CIRCA
59
Be logical ... or what the last words of the answers to the five starred clues can do? : HOLDWATER
64
Parts of eyes : UVEAS
65
Nothing's opposite : ALL
66
Rub out : ERASE
67
Oozes : SEEPS
68
"Affirmative" : YES
69
Pub projectiles : DARTS
Down
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Quick online notes, for short : IMS
2
Clean the floor : MOP
3
___ Onassis, Jackie Kennedy's #2 : ARI
4
Butterfinger or 3 Musketeers : CANDYBAR
5
Smite : SLAY
6
"___ luck!" : LOTSA
7
Gardner of "The Night of the Iguana" : AVA
8
Space between the teeth, e.g. : GAP
9
Fastener that turns : SCREW
10
Robitussin suppresses them : COUGHS
11
Skillful : ADROIT
12
Crude shelter : LEANTO
13
Dozing : ASLEEP
18
Impose, as a tax : LEVY
21
Yawn-inspiring : BANAL
22
From quite a distance : AFAR
23
Azure : BLUE
24
Poet : BARD
26
Org. with a 24-second shot clock : NBA
27
Bogotá boys : NINOS
29
Voting coalition : BLOC
33
Talk show host Gibbons : LEEZA
34
Notion : IDEA
36
Ocean's edge : SHORE
38
Tokyo "ta-ta!" : SAYONARA
39
Not fer : AGIN
40
Mother of Helen, in myth : LEDA
41
1982 sci-fi film : TRON
43
Tax ID : SSN
45
You can always count on this : ABACUS
46
Latin case : DATIVE
47
Course before dessert : ENTREE
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Headwear on the slopes : SKICAP
50
Place for a lawn mower : SHED
52
Military bigwigs : BRASS
53
Phones : CALLS
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Was in debt : OWED
59
Stable diet? : HAY
60
Cheer for a matador : OLE
61
Road surface : TAR
62
Ballpark fig. : EST
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High-___ monitor : RES

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