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New York Times, Monday, May 29, 2006

Author:
Alex Boisvert
Editor:
Will Shortz
10-Down : Masked critter
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Alex Boisvert

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 40 Missing: {JQX} This is the debut puzzle for Mr. Boisvert. Monday freshness: 57%
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G
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A
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H
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C
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N
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F
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L
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O
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K
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S
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D
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B
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G
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© 2006, The New York Times5/29/6 ( No. 20,656 )
Across
1
Soccer scores : GOALS
6
Not go to : SKIP
10
Crow's call : CAW
13
"Kate & ___" of 1980's TV : ALLIE
14
Opera set on the banks of the Nile : AIDA
15
Pepsi, but not 7-Up : COLA
16
Conversation filler #1 : WELLANYWAY
18
Tends a garden : HOES
19
Rotary telephone part : DIAL
20
Sale tag words : ASIS
21
Cowboy's workplace : RANCH
22
Lively, playful musical piece : SCHERZO
24
Rank above maj. : COL
25
Conversation filler #2 : LIKEYOUKNOW
31
An arm and a leg : LIMBS
35
Place for an F.D.R. chat : FIRESIDE
36
Smell : ODOR
37
___ Michaels of "S.N.L." : LORNE
39
Les États-___ : UNIS
40
Lamp fuel : KEROSENE
42
Dead tired : SPENT
43
Conversation filler #3 : IMEANCOMEON
46
"Obviously!" : DUH
47
Lines on weather maps : ISOBARS
52
Geek : DWEEB
55
Not just one of the two : BOTH
57
Basic util. : ELEC
58
Frees (of) : RIDS
59
Conversation filler #4 : ORWHATEVER
61
Meter or liter : UNIT
62
Shoe bottom : SOLE
63
Ouzo flavoring : ANISE
64
Understand : GET
65
Gorbachev was its last leader: Abbr. : USSR
66
Extend the due date of : RENEW
Down
1
"Oh, fer ___ sake!" : GAWDS
2
Kind of acid : OLEIC
3
To whom a Muslim prays : ALLAH
4
City NNE of Paris : LILLE
5
The Caribbean, e.g. : SEA
6
Gives the green light : SAYSOK
7
New Zealand bird : KIWI
8
Mrs. William McKinley and others : IDAS
9
Salary : PAY
10
Masked critter : COON
11
Actor Baldwin : ALEC
12
Laundry : WASH
15
Attributes (to) : CHALKSUP
17
"The Producers" extra : NAZI
21
Womanizer : ROUE
23
"Treasure Island" inits. : RLS
24
Very center : CORE
26
Violinist Zimbalist : EFREM
27
Yang's counterpart : YIN
28
Full complement of baseball players : NINE
29
Valhalla chief : ODIN
30
Pacific states, with "the" : WEST
31
Trickster in Norse myth : LOKI
32
The same: Lat. : IDEM
33
Extra : MORE
34
Most encompassing : BROADEST
37
Lustful one, informally : LECH
38
Yoko, the "fifth Beatle" : ONO
41
Treat rudely : SNUB
42
___-cone : SNO
44
One or the other : EITHER
45
Worker safety grp. : OSHA
48
Designer Geoffrey : BEENE
49
___ Ailey American Dance Theater : ALVIN
50
Witherspoon of "Walk the Line" : REESE
51
Fastener that's twisted in : SCREW
52
Pharmaceutical : DRUG
53
Merlot, for one : WINE
54
Revise : EDIT
55
Warner ___ : BROS
56
Big-eyed birds : OWLS
59
Sch. in Stillwater : OSU
60
Sailor : TAR

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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