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New York Times, Tuesday, July 7, 2009

Author:
Lynn Lempel
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
43-Down : Erroneous
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
10212/9/19793/19/20242
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
673172130
CircleScrabDebutPre‑WSFresh
91.61331220%
Lynn Lempel

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 38 Missing: {KWZ} This is puzzle # 42 for Ms. Lempel. Tuesday freshness: 17%
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© 2009, The New York Times7/7/9 ( No. 21,791 )
Across
1
500 sheets : REAM
5
Cuts down : FELLS
10
Panty raid prize : BRA
13
It takes a hammering : ANVIL
15
Roundup rope : LASSO
16
It might make a ewe turn : RAM
17
Late-arriving TV detective? : JOESATURDAY
19
Puppy's bark : YIP
20
Nimble circus performer : ACROBAT
21
Short-term govt. securities : TBILLS
23
Like a wallflower : SHY
24
Alpha's counterpart : OMEGA
27
Lesser-used PC key : ESC
28
Late-arriving actor of old? : FREDRICAPRIL
32
Classroom jottings : NOTES
35
Home for Adam and Eve : EDEN
36
Campus e-mail letters? : EDU
37
Verve : ELAN
38
Former U.N. head Kofi ___ : ANNAN
40
Fish with only minute fins : EELS
41
Harrison of "My Fair Lady" : REX
42
Work monotonously : PLOD
43
Like some needs : UNMET
44
Late-arriving singer/actress of old? : DORISEVENING
48
___ of Good Feelings : ERA
49
Parcel out : ALLOT
50
Blackball : BAN
53
Knack : TALENT
56
Region of pre-Roman Italy : ETRURIA
58
___ Lilly & Co. : ELI
59
Late-arriving disco singer? : DONNAAUTUMN
62
"Act your ___!" : AGE
63
Many Conan O'Brien lines : QUIPS
64
Down the hatch : EATEN
65
U.K. fliers : RAF
66
Word next to an arrow in a maze : START
67
Screen star Lamarr : HEDY
Down
1
Indian royalty : RAJAS
2
Tennyson title hero ___ Arden : ENOCH
3
New York's ___ Fisher Hall : AVERY
4
Kind of soup at a Japanese restaurant : MISO
5
Having decorative grooves : FLUTED
6
Obstacle for a barber : EAR
7
Source of a hippie's high : LSD
8
Exam for A.B.A.-approved schools : LSAT
9
Protein-rich legume : SOYBEAN
10
"A little dab'll do ya" brand : BRYLCREEM
11
Complain bitterly : RAIL
12
Concert blasters : AMPS
14
Feats for Hercules : LABORS
18
Docile : TAME
22
AOL, for one : ISP
25
Monster defeated by Beowulf : GRENDEL
26
Slave entombed with Radames : AIDA
28
Swamp : FEN
29
100 years: Abbr. : CEN
30
Just loafing : IDLE
31
The hots : LUST
32
Jock's counterpart : NERD
33
Margarine : OLEO
34
Government's gift to I.R.S. filers : TAXRELIEF
38
Drink from a stein : ALE
39
Star of changing brightness : NOVA
40
Official lang. of Guyana : ENG
42
Manners : PSANDQS
43
Erroneous : UNTRUE
45
Fury : IRE
46
Atlanta Braves' div. : NLEAST
47
Tiny bit : IOTA
50
"Et tu, ___?" : BRUTE
51
Got ready to shoot : AIMED
52
Kids' caretaker : NANNY
53
Shred : TEAR
54
Sea lettuce, e.g. : ALGA
55
Talk up : TOUT
57
One of the Four Corners states : UTAH
60
Actress Peeples : NIA
61
"Car Talk" airer : NPR

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