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New York Times, Thursday, July 26, 2007

Author:
Joe Krozel
Editor:
Will Shortz
38-Down : Early American patriot Silas
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Joe Krozel

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 69, Blocks: 43 Missing: {JQVXZ} Featured in Will Shortz's favorite puzzles. This is puzzle # 2 for Mr. Krozel. Thursday freshness: 87%
Notepad: While some Across clues in this puzzle are blank, every answer is in fact clued.
Jim Horne notes:

Every answer on the far right wraps around to the far left so, for example, 1 Across is not clued and the answer to 10 Across is NOT ONE.

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© 2007, The New York Times7/26/7 ( No. 21,079 )
Across
4
Common Halloween costumes : GHOSTS
10
Opposite of all : NOTONE
14
Went on and on : RANTED
15
Loser : ALSORAN
17
Hosts : EMCEES
18
Try, as something new : TESTOUT
21
Engine meas. : RPM
22
Like some low-rise buildings : THREESTORY
23
West Indies, e.g. : ISLES
25
Suffix with super : IOR
29
Inaugural oath starter : IDO
30
Places where fans may gather to watch a game : SPORTSBARS
35
End of a match : PIN
36
Noted 1829 West Point graduate : ROBERTELEE
38
Summer clock setting: Abbr. : DST
39
Buffoon : OAF
40
Deem appropriate : SEEFIT
43
Imitate : APE
44
Irish playwright who wrote "The Shadow of a Gunman" : SEANOCASEY
46
Bill of Rights freedom: Abbr. : REL
47
Countryman of Chancellor Konrad Adenauer : WESTGERMAN
48
"Monsters, ___" (2001 Pixar film) : INC
49
Long-billed wading bird : SNIPE
54
Shade of green : PEA
55
Target of chondrolaryngoplasty surgery : ADAMSAPPLE
60
English king who was the youngest son of William the Conqueror : HENRYI
62
Barely : BYANOSE
64
Canine coat? : ENAMEL
65
Comforting words : ITSOKAY
67
Some dips : SALSAS
68
What some browsers browse : THENET
Down
1
Spanish card suit : OROS
2
Kind of mile: Abbr. : NAUT
3
Inner: Prefix : ENTO
4
London shades : GREYS
5
Part of a western sandwich : HAM
6
One way to buy things : ONCREDIT
7
Hamlet, to Claudius : STEPSON
8
Abound (with) : TEEM
9
Radical '60s org. : SDS
10
Card, e.g. : NLER
11
Bone: Prefix : OSSE
12
Bear : TOTE
15
Like a thumb struck with a hammer : ATHROB
20
Spring (from) : RISE
22
___ the morning : TOPOF
24
Not really sing : LIPSYNC
25
Certain Middle Easterner : ISRAELI
26
Cloud up : BEFOG
27
One of the Honeymooners : ALICE
28
Fix, as a road : RETAR
31
Visit anew : RESEE
32
Mint dept. : TREAS
33
Blockage fix : STENT
38
Early American patriot Silas : DEANE
39
Guests may be greeted with them : OPENARMS
42
Symbol in Wal-Mart ads : SMILEY
43
Magazine locale : ARSENAL
44
Scand. language : SWED
50
Parts of beach kits : PAILS
51
Like some online forum postings: Abbr. : ANON
52
Move slowly (along) : POKE
53
H.S. exam : PSAT
54
Former Royals manager Tony : PENA
56
Somewhat : ABIT
57
Belief that toads cause warts, for example : MYTH
58
Encl. to facilitate a response : SASE
60
Guys : HES
61
Verily : YEA

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle.

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