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New York Times, Monday, May 9, 2011

Author:
Nina Rulon-Miller
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
48-Down : Tarzan, for one
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Nina Rulon-Miller

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 38 Missing: {V} Spans: 2 This is the debut puzzle for Ms. Rulon-Miller. Monday freshness: 72%
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© 2011, The New York Times5/9/11 ( No. 22,462 )
Across
1
Up high : ALOFT
6
On : ATOP
10
Seriously susceptible to sunburn : PALE
14
___ Vader : DARTH
15
Tex-Mex dish with lettuce, tomato, cheese, etc., in a hard tortilla "bowl" : TACOSALAD
17
Daily kids' TV show that debuted in 1955, with "The" : MICKEYMOUSECLUB
19
Gun owners' org. : NRA
20
Talk that might put one to sleep : LECTURE
21
Classic song about an Irish lass that was a #1 hit in 1913 and 1947 : PEGOMYHEART
26
German magazine ___ Spiegel : DER
27
Central point, as of an argument : CRUX
28
Farm-related: Abbr. : AGR
29
China's ___ Xiaoping : DENG
30
Knight's title : SIR
31
Floating ice mass : BERG
33
___ Beta Kappa : PHI
35
A real wag : QUITETHEJOKER
40
Convent resident : NUN
41
"___ of Eden" : EAST
42
Clearasil target, informally : ZIT
44
Wine barrel : CASK
47
Govt. prosecutors : DAS
48
Florence's river : ARNO
49
Smart ___ whip : ASA
50
Tool for turning up soil : GARDENSPADE
54
Bulging, as a cloud : BILLOWY
56
Be in debt : OWE
57
Setting for the Cardinals or Orioles : BASEBALLDIAMOND
63
No matter what happens : INANYCASE
64
Independent candidate Ralph : NADER
65
Old "Put a tiger in your tank" brand : ESSO
66
Like the English Channel for the first time in 1875 : SWUM
67
The bee's ___ (the height of excellence) : KNEES
Down
1
Navy V.I.P. : ADM
2
China's Chou En-___ : LAI
3
Tolkien creature : ORC
4
U.S. army post in Kentucky : FTKNOX
5
Heat unit : THERM
6
$$$ convenience : ATM
7
"___ Te Ching" (old Chinese text) : TAO
8
Eye-related : OCULAR
9
Tricky puzzle : POSER
10
Treaty : PACT
11
Refer (to) : ALLUDE
12
Designer Ralph : LAUREN
13
Tennis's Stefan : EDBERG
16
Splinter group : SECT
18
"Yippee!" : YAY
21
Compaq products : PCS
22
Actor La Salle : ERIQ
23
Teacher sitting cross-legged, maybe : GURU
24
Male deer : HART
25
Brainiac : EGGHEAD
29
Cartoonist Browne : DIK
31
A/C meas. : BTU
32
After-dusk time, to a poet : EEN
33
Attire that might have images of jumping sheep, informally : PJS
34
Like the tropics : HOT
36
Hard-to-erase stuff : INK
37
Leisure : EASE
38
Book before Nehemiah : EZRA
39
Melon's cover : RIND
43
Tip of a sock : TOE
44
One hailed on city streets : CABBIE
45
Tibetans and Thais : ASIANS
46
Tex-Mex sauces : SALSAS
47
Prohibition of alcohol sales : DRYLAW
48
Tarzan, for one : APEMAN
50
Elapse : GOBY
51
Military plane acronym : AWACS
52
"___ do not!" : NOI
53
Actress Hilary : SWANK
55
Funnyman Jay : LENO
58
Baton Rouge sch. : LSU
59
Rep.'s rival : DEM
60
"___ on a Grecian Urn" : ODE
61
Michelle Obama (___ Robinson) : NEE
62
A.M.A. members : DRS

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