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New York Times, Monday, August 9, 2010

Author:
David Poole
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
35-Down : Building wing
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David Poole

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 40 Missing: {FJQX} This is the debut puzzle for Mr. Poole. Monday freshness: 28%
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© 2010, The New York Times8/9/10 ( No. 22,189 )
Across
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Something to scratch : ITCH
5
"Hannah Montana" star Miley : CYRUS
10
Height: Prefix : ACRO
14
Roman tyrant : NERO
15
Small egg : OVULE
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___ the line (obeyed) : TOED
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Applaud : CLAP
18
Taxi's ticker : METER
19
Any volume of the Oxford English Dictionary : TOME
20
Accept an inevitable hardship : BITETHEBULLET
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Source of after-hours $$$ : ATM
25
Giants great Mel : OTT
26
Clarinet, oboe and saxophone : REEDS
27
Ham it up : CHEWTHESCENERY
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Swap : TRADE
33
Sardine containers : TINS
34
Boozehounds : SOTS
35
Poet Pound and others : EZRAS
37
Emcee's spot : DAIS
41
Succulent houseplant : ALOE
42
Comedy, sci-fi or romance : GENRE
43
Fall for a flimflam : SWALLOWTHEBAIT
48
Site of many Chicago touchdowns : OHARE
49
The other woman : HER
50
Suffix like -like : ISH
51
Understand what's happening : DIGESTTHENEWS
56
"How could ___?" : INOT
57
Film vault collection : REELS
58
Burden : ONUS
61
___ Reader (alternative magazine) : UTNE
62
Davy Crockett died defending it, with "the" : ALAMO
63
Fully red, as a raspberry : RIPE
64
Peat source : MOSS
65
Alternative to a convertible : SEDAN
66
Furrow, as the brow : KNIT
Down
1
Abbr. at the end of a company's name : INC
2
___ Aviv : TEL
3
Stuffed sole stuffing : CRABMEAT
4
Indian doll maker : HOPI
5
"The Iceman ___" : COMETH
6
Actress Mimieux of "The Time Machine" : YVETTE
7
Babe with a bat : RUTH
8
Beekeeper in a 1997 film : ULEE
9
Many a Bosnian : SERB
10
Churchill's predecessor and successor : ATTLEE
11
Hoosegow : COOLER
12
Cure : REMEDY
13
Clifford ___, "Awake and Sing!" dramatist : ODETS
21
Carry : TOTE
22
Vases : URNS
23
Is a cast member : ACTS
24
"Comin' ___ the Rye" : THRO
28
Vocabulary: Abbr. : WDS
29
Toss (about) : STREW
30
"Alias" org. : CIA
31
Warrant officer's superior: Abbr. : ENS
35
Building wing : ELL
36
Dr. Seuss' "If I Ran the ___" : ZOO
37
Society girl, for short : DEB
38
"Delta of Venus" author : ANAISNIN
39
What the white of an eye surrounds : IRIS
40
Actor Rogen of "Knocked Up" : SETH
41
Pub quaffs : ALES
42
Richard of "Chicago" : GERE
43
Japanese for "the way of the gods" : SHINTO
44
Conestogas, e.g. : WAGONS
45
Craggy mountain ridges : ARETES
46
"___ & Louise," 1991 film : THELMA
47
Jim who created Kermit the Frog : HENSON
48
Hatred : ODIUM
52
Chorus syllables : TRAS
53
The "T" in TV : TELE
54
President : HEAD
55
Cry made while cracking a whip, maybe : WORK
59
Wire service inits. : UPI
60
"Quiet on the ___!" : SET

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