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New York Times, Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Author:
Leonard Williams
Editor:
Will Shortz
53-Down : Gives a yellow flag
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Leonard Williams

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 36 Missing: {QX} This is puzzle # 8 for Mr. Williams. Tuesday freshness: 62%
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© 2008, The New York Times7/15/8 ( No. 21,434 )
Across
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Music played by Ravi Shankar at Woodstock : RAGA
5
"There it is!" : VOILA
10
Disconcert : FAZE
14
Historic periods : ERAS
15
Pianist Claudio : ARRAU
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"I'll get right ___!" : ONIT
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Use of a company car, e.g. : PERK
18
Wherewithal : MEANS
19
Emulates Lil' Kim or Lil Wayne : RAPS
20
Fairy tale's start : ONCEUPONATIME
23
Greeted, with "to" : SAIDHI
24
Destination for a W-2 : IRS
25
Thor Heyerdahl craft : RAI
28
That, to Tomás : ESA
29
"Exodus" author : URIS
32
"Brrrr!" : IMCOLD
34
Grandpa's start : WHENIWASABOY
36
Plus : ALSO
39
Adlai's opponent in '52 and '56 : IKE
40
Rod's partner : REEL
41
Mom's start : BACKINTHEDAY
46
"The Count of Monte ___" : CRISTO
47
Blueprint detail : SPEC
48
Broadway's Hagen : UTA
51
Cooke who sang "You Send Me" : SAM
52
Indianapolis-to-New Orleans dir. : SSW
54
Like some patches : IRONON
56
Legend's start : INYEARSGONEBY
60
Balletic leap : JETE
62
Location of a starry belt : ORION
63
Cole Porter's "Well, Did You ___?" : EVAH
64
Lab medium : AGAR
65
Quitter's cry : UNCLE
66
It produces more than 20 billion bricks annually : LEGO
67
Popular Microsoft product : WORD
68
Expressed disapproval : TSKED
69
White blanket : SNOW
Down
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Period of rest : REPOSE
2
Gladiators' locales : ARENAS
3
Ice cream flavor Cherry ___ : GARCIA
4
Made an inquiry : ASKED
5
Anne Rice's Lestat, for one : VAMPIRE
6
Cookie with a floral design on it : OREO
7
Ahmadinejad's land : IRAN
8
Island veranda : LANAI
9
Where Schwarzenegger was born : AUSTRIA
10
W-2, e.g. : FORM
11
Bacterium that doesn't need oxygen : ANAEROBE
12
Address ending, informally : ZIP
13
Some "Stargate SG-1" characters, in brief : ETS
21
Guttural refusal : UHUH
22
Ideological beliefs : ISMS
26
___ vera : ALOE
27
Pastoral composition : IDYL
30
The G, W or B in G.W.B. : INIT
31
Followers of Guru Nanak : SIKHS
33
Grant in four Hitchcock films : CARY
34
Chinese cookers : WOKS
35
Sob : WEEP
36
Rudiments : ABCS
37
Yuri's love in "Dr. Zhivago" : LARA
38
Curved saber : SCIMITAR
42
Start of a spider's description, in song : ITSY
43
Barely beat : NOSEOUT
44
Condescended : DEIGNED
45
Prefix with phobic : ACRO
48
Not level : UNEVEN
49
Trinidad's partner : TOBAGO
50
Be that as it may : ANYHOW
53
Gives a yellow flag : WARNS
55
Law school newbies : ONELS
57
Geek : NERD
58
Cafe proprietor in "Casablanca" : RICK
59
It's commonly filleted : SOLE
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Talk on and on, slangily : JAW
61
Sense of self : EGO

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