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New York Times, Monday, June 11, 2012

Author:
Andrea Carla Michaels and Michael Blake
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
40-Down : Big name in toy trains
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866/12/20007/8/202455
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241.6430623%
Andrea Carla Michaels
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1.646023%
Michael Blake

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 38 Missing: {JQX} Spans: 1 This is puzzle # 33 for Ms. Michaels. This is puzzle # 7 for Mr. Blake. Monday freshness: 54%
Constructor notes:

ANDREA:

FALL, FELL, FILL, FOLL, FULL. Michael and I had done H*CK, P*CK, I had done M*LT so now we tried F*LL. People occasionally pooh pooh this kind of "vowel run" theme. I still think of them as fun, bouncy word poems. Plus it's very difficult to FILL a grid with all those Fs and double LLs. FILLINTHEBLANKS was the perfect 15 across the middle and was a crossword reference so it seemed to pull it all together.

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© 2012, The New York Times6/11/12 ( No. 22,861 )
Across
1
Chews the fat : GABS
5
Fiona, e.g., in "Shrek" : OGRESS
11
Hula-Hoops or Furbys, once : FAD
14
500 sheets of paper : REAM
15
Geronimo's tribe : APACHE
16
Fury : IRE
17
Hankering : URGE
18
One knocked off a pedestal : FALLENIDOL
20
Pasture : FIELD
22
Course guide? : PAR
23
C.E.O.'s job: Abbr. : MGMT
24
Paid postgraduate position at a university : FELLOWSHIP
27
Black-eyed ___ : PEAS
28
Cry after hitting a hammer on one's thumb, say : YEOW
29
Morocco's capital : RABAT
31
"Much ___ About Nothing" : ADO
34
Uncooked : RAW
36
Beethoven's "Für ___" : ELISE
39
Solve a crossword, e.g.? : FILLINTHEBLANKS
44
Greeted and seated : LEDIN
45
___-lacto-vegetarian : OVO
46
Old Navy alternative : GAP
47
Harnessed, as oxen : YOKED
50
Mother of Don Juan : INEZ
53
"You said it, sister!" : AMEN
55
Put a spade atop a spade, say : FOLLOWSUIT
60
Barn dance seat : BALE
61
Miami locale: Abbr. : FLA
62
Cake words in "Alice in Wonderland" : EATME
63
Illegal wrestling hold : FULLNELSON
67
Newswoman Paula : ZAHN
68
"___ You Experienced" (Jimi Hendrix's first album) : ARE
69
Sean who wrote "Juno and the Paycock" : OCASEY
70
Like show horses' feet : SHOD
71
Tavern : BAR
72
Walked purposefully : STRODE
73
Tiny hill dwellers : ANTS
Down
1
Harsh and brusque : GRUFF
2
Eaglet's nest : AERIE
3
Breakfast order with a hole in it : BAGEL
4
Like gym socks : SMELLY
5
Dunderhead : OAF
6
4.0 is a great one: Abbr. : GPA
7
Kramden of "The Honeymooners" : RALPH
8
Cream-filled pastry : ECLAIR
9
Mount Everest guide : SHERPA
10
McCain or McConnell: Abbr. : SEN
11
Squirming : FIDGETING
12
Kitchen magnet? : AROMA
13
Shoulder muscles, for short : DELTS
19
African antelope or Chevrolet : IMPALA
21
Jane or John in court : DOE
25
Threadbare : WORN
26
Hit, as a fly : SWAT
30
___ Paese cheese : BEL
31
C.I.O.'s partner : AFL
32
Repeated cry when sticking a stake in a vampire : DIE
33
1957 Disney dog movie : OLDYELLER
35
"___ Let the Dogs Out" : WHO
37
Cousin of calypso : SKA
38
Mind reading, for short : ESP
40
Big name in toy trains : LIONEL
41
Tattoos, slangily : INK
42
Dastardly : EVIL
43
Pro ___ (like some law work) : BONO
48
Cause's partner : EFFECT
49
Avis rival : DOLLAR
51
Ram's mate : EWE
52
One of the Gabor sisters : ZSAZSA
53
Beeb comedy : ABFAB
54
Actress Tierney of "ER" : MAURA
56
Catch, as a dogie : LASSO
57
Salt Lake City native : UTAHN
58
"Can we turn on a fan or something?!" : IMHOT
59
Manages, as a 71-Across : TENDS
64
Denials : NOS
65
Brit. reference work : OED
66
Bill the Science Guy : NYE

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1 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later.

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