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New York Times, Saturday, June 26, 2010

Author:
Robert H. Wolfe
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
27-Down : On a deck beneath
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Robert H. Wolfe

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 70, Blocks: 38 Missing: {JQXZ} Spans: 3 This is puzzle # 81 for Mr. Wolfe. Saturday freshness: 5%
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N
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O
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T
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© 2010, The New York Times6/26/10 ( No. 22,145 )
Across
1
Procrastinator's reply : NOTTODAY
9
Engagement party? : FIANCE
15
Beat : OVERCAME
16
Enclosed : INDOOR
17
Rat smeller's words : SOMETHINGSFISHY
19
Roll : PEAL
20
Break : TAKETEN
21
___ bonus : ASA
23
Doesn't go swimmingly? : WADES
24
Alternative to premium : REGULAR
28
Heathrow takeoff sound? : TATA
32
Winter sports arenas : ICEPALACES
36
Neurotic toon : REN
37
Warning to a pest : DONTDOTHATAGAIN
40
Elvis Presley was one: Abbr. : NCO
41
Trading center during the Klondike gold rush : WHITEHORSE
42
Unit in an erg's definition : DYNE
44
Way to look back? : INANGER
45
Jewel holder : CHEST
49
"___ said ..." : ASI
50
Court cover-up? : ASPHALT
53
They're often associated with world leaders : ERAS
56
"Seriously?" : AREYOUKIDDINGME
60
Crude container : BARREL
61
Artery binder : LIGATURE
62
"Climb Ev'ry Mountain" singer in "The Sound of Music" : ABBESS
63
Rails at : LAYSINTO
Down
1
They're not positive : NOS
2
Egg head? : OVO
3
Placement aid : TEMPAGENCY
4
Pistachio or almond : TREE
5
Prefix with -valent : OCTA
6
Gary who invented the Pet Rock : DAHL
7
1960s-'70s Citroën : AMI
8
Grapevine cultivator? : YENTA
9
Big name in college guides : FISKE
10
Take over : INFEST
11
Colliery access : ADIT
12
A hook might give it a hook : NOSE
13
Columbia Pictures co-founder : COHN
14
Green attachment? : ERY
18
Knock (about) : GAD
21
Anhydrous : ARID
22
It goes by quickly : SECOND
23
Face reddener : WRATH
25
Baltimore neighborhood that includes Marble Hill : UPTON
26
Bar mitzvah, e.g. : LAD
27
On a deck beneath : ALOW
29
Composition of some plasmas : ARGON
30
Folks may cry after it's shot : TEARGASGUN
31
Members of the carrot family : ANISES
33
Loop setting, briefly : CHI
34
1984 hit with the lyric "Have a banana, have a whole bunch" : EATIT
35
9-mm. weapon : STEN
38
Brainstorm outburst : AHA
39
St. Philip of Rome : NERI
43
Hollow replies : ECHOES
46
Does semi-related work? : HAULS
47
Pennsylvania's ___ Mountain (skiing area) : ELK
48
Allay : STILL
50
Many a dinar spender : ARAB
51
Dinar spender : SERB
52
Phoenix construction : PYRE
53
Envelope-pushing : EDGY
54
Cousins of fjords : RIAS
55
What may start climactically? : ANTI
56
Grp. concerned with precedents : ABA
57
Semana segment : DIA
58
Chain-sporting star : MRT
59
Job ad abbr. : EEO

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2 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later.

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