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New York Times, Friday, July 25, 2008

Author:
John Farmer
Editor:
Will Shortz
42-Down : Intimate
TotalDebutLatest
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John Farmer

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 66, Blocks: 28 Missing: {QVX} Spans: 1 This is puzzle # 14 for Mr. Farmer. Friday freshness: 96%
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T
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© 2008, The New York Times7/25/8 ( No. 21,444 )
Across
1
Spell : TRANCE
7
Crams : JAMPACKS
15
Continue the journey : RIDEON
16
In Dutch : UPACREEK
17
Least hospitable : ICIEST
18
How some are offended : MORTALLY
19
Cobbler, at times : MENDER
20
Practice : PLY
21
___-majesté : LESE
22
Turkey's dewlap : WATTLE
23
Tribulations : ILLS
25
Baseball's Belinsky and Jackson : BOS
26
Prickly area of a prickly pear : AREOLE
27
Sue Grafton's "N" : NOOSE
29
"Should ___ shouldn't ..." : IOR
30
Visitors : SOJOURNERS
35
Cousin of a woodcock : SNIPE
38
Britton who wrote "The President's Daughter," 1927 : NAN
39
Fifth-century pope, the first to receive the title "the Great" : STLEO
40
Ones with read faces? : TIMEPIECES
43
Mac : BUB
44
Got by : DIDOK
45
Rebelled : UPROSE
48
"Calvin and Hobbes" bully : MOE
51
Part of the N.C.A.A.'s purview: Abbr. : CONF
52
Look daggers : GLOWER
53
Start of a "Name That Tune" bid : ICAN
55
Text te-hee : LOL
56
"Your children are not your children" poet : GIBRAN
57
Bank of America Stadium team : CAROLINA
59
Attire : ENROBE
60
Inclusive words, fittingly? : ALLSIZES
61
They may be lined up at the bar : STOOLS
62
Weed : HASHEESH
63
Herbs of the mint family : THYMES
Down
1
Goal of middle management? : TRIMWAIST
2
Quaker Oats product : RICEARONI
3
Acting : ADINTERIM
4
Must : NEEDTO
5
TV announcer who played himself in "Bananas" : COSELL
6
Some specials : ENTREES
7
Rolling Stones hit just before "Honky Tonk Women" : JUMPINJACKFLASH
8
Ill-fated NASA effort : APOLLOONE
9
Jazz pianist/composer Williams : MARYLOU
10
Tax fig. : PCT
11
Landlocked ___ Sea : ARAL
12
One with a high Q score : CELEB
13
Five-time Horse of the Year, 1960-64 : KELSO
14
Celtic canines : SKYES
24
Former union members: Abbr. : SSRS
28
Apnea specialist, for short : ENT
31
Some court contests : ONEONONES
32
Shortage in a rush-hour subway : ELBOWROOM
33
Not intended for just a single application: Var. : REUSEABLE
34
Dry state : SOBERNESS
36
Walker, quickly : PED
37
Grand : EPIC
41
Put on a pedestal : IDOLIZE
42
Intimate : SUGGEST
46
Base of support : PLINTH
47
Legendary MacGregor : ROBROY
48
Child prodigy of "Heroes" : MICAH
49
Florida's ___ National Forest : OCALA
50
Lords of London : EARLS
54
Have a little something : NOSH
58
Invention that's not thought highly of : LIE

Answer summary:
5 unique to this puzzle, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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