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New York Times, Thursday, May 19, 2005

Author:
Barbara Olson
Editor:
Will Shortz
4-Down : Chocolatier Henri
TotalDebutLatest
510/30/20016/27/2007
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ScrabDebutFresh
1.511430%
Barbara Olson

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 74, Blocks: 36 Missing: {QVWXZ} This is puzzle # 3 for Ms. Olson. Thursday freshness: 45%
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© 2005, The New York Times5/19/5 ( No. 20,281 )
Across
1
Arrange : PLAN
5
Sixth Jewish month : ADAR
9
Suddenly interest : GRAB
13
Sno-cone choice : LIME
14
Football official : LINEJUDGE
16
Blastoff of Spirit or Opportunity? : EMISSIONTOMARS
18
Danke preceder, perhaps : BITTE
19
General Motors make, now : SAAB
20
Gets : SEES
22
Etching tool : STYLUS
24
Choice for people who go Dutch? : KLM
26
Time piece : ERA
27
Once-beautiful castle? : ESTATEOFRUIN
31
Desert land: Abbr. : ISR
34
Wrangle : SPAR
35
Surveyor's aid : TRIPOD
36
Turndowns : NOES
38
"I Will Follow ___" (1963 #1 hit) : HIM
40
Ill-humored : DOUR
41
Cloaked : DRAPED
44
Syrup-soaked cake : BABA
47
Secretive org. : NSA
48
Moon-pastry? : ECLAIRDELUNE
51
Poetic contraction : EEN
52
Word repeated in Shelley's line "___ happiness, ___ majesty, ___ fame" : NOR
53
Library area : STACKS
57
Blah : DRAB
59
Greek letters : PHIS
62
"___ the Sheriff" (Eric Clapton hit) : ISHOT
63
Three-hanky film? : EMOTIONPICTURE
66
Natural mood alterer : SEROTONIN
67
List ender : ETAL
68
Certain N.C.O. : SSGT
69
Donkey ___ (game) : KONG
70
Artist Magritte : RENE
Down
1
Commoners : PLEBS
2
55 miles an hour, maybe : LIMIT
3
Friendliness : AMITY
4
Chocolatier Henri : NESTLE
5
Lord of the ring, once : ALI
6
God: Sp. : DIOS
7
Pavlova of ballet : ANNA
8
Second shot : RETAKE
9
Bite harmlessly : GUM
10
Food product figs. : RDAS
11
Mutually accept : AGREEUPON
12
"Stop fooling around!" : BESERIOUS
15
Miscellany of merchandise : JOBLOT
17
Big name in children's books : SEUSS
21
Dee of "Gidget" : SANDRA
23
Big letters in racing : STP
25
Plant owner: Abbr. : MFR
28
Response during a medical checkup : AAH
29
Sioux or Cree : TRIBE
30
Empty (of) : RID
31
"Really!" : INDEED
32
Witch : SORCERESS
33
What Voltaire and Mark Twain were not : REALNAMES
37
Getaway : SPA
39
___ de tête (French headache) : MAL
42
German article : EIN
43
"End of discussion!" : DROPIT
45
It follows a line : BUS
46
Madcap : ANTIC
49
Leader of the Medicine Show, in 1970's rock : DRHOOK
50
___ Sunday : EASTER
54
Water slide, e.g. : CHUTE
55
Holy text : KORAN
56
Engraved pillar : STELE
58
Wimbledon champ, 1976-80 : BORG
60
___ hurry : INNO
61
"Wheel of Fortune" choice : SPIN
64
Tad : TOT
65
Like Dvorák's Symphony No. 8 : ING

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