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New York Times, Monday, January 18, 2010

Author:
Adam Cohen
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
Comic book heroes originally called the Merry Mutants
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Adam Cohen

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 40 Missing: {FJQ} This is puzzle # 17 for Mr. Cohen. Monday freshness: 50%
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© 2010, The New York Times1/18/10 ( No. 21,986 )
Across
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Not striped, as a billiard ball : SOLID
6
Apple or quince : POME
10
With 18-Across, the Tour de France, for one : BIKE
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Diagonal line, on a bowling score sheet : SPARE
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Carrier to Tel Aviv : ELAL
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Applications : USES
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Extend, as a subscription : RENEW
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See 10-Across : RACE
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Profound : DEEP
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Game show catchphrase #1 : CANIBUYAVOWEL
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When a plane or train is due, for short : ETA
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Come out of a coma : WAKE
25
Buenos Aires's country: Abbr. : ARG
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Golf course pitfall : TRAP
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Medieval martial art : TAICHI
35
Ford auto, briefly : MERC
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Game show catchphrase #2 : SURVEYSAYS
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Corporate raider Carl : ICAHN
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Sign before Virgo : LEO
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Neighbor of a petal : SEPAL
43
Game show catchphrase #3 : COMEONDOWN
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Repetitive learning technique : ROTE
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Prisoner : INMATE
48
H.S. junior's hurdle : PSAT
50
Thoroughfares: Abbr. : STS
51
Save, in a way, as some shows : TIVO
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However, briefly : THO
55
Game show catchphrase #4 : THEPASSWORDIS
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Moccasin decoration : BEAD
62
Salvador who painted "The Persistence of Memory" : DALI
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Halloweenish : EERIE
65
Ricelike pasta : ORZO
66
Analogous (to) : AKIN
67
Les ___-Unis : ETATS
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Comic book heroes originally called the Merry Mutants : XMEN
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Identify : NAME
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Krispy Kreme offering : DONUT
Down
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Belarus or Ukraine, once: Abbr. : SSR
2
Org. with many Mideast members : OPEC
3
Turner who was known as the Sweater Girl : LANA
4
Actress Cara : IRENE
5
Early New York governor Clinton : DEWITT
6
Lima's locale : PERU
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Oil of ___ : OLAY
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Noisy bird : MACAW
9
Raise : ELEVATE
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Big Super Bowl advertiser, traditionally : BUDWEISER
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"So that's it!" : ISEE
12
Nautical bottom : KEEL
13
Clairvoyant's claim : ESP
21
Taverns : BARS
22
Green-lights : OKAYS
25
Firenze friends : AMICI
26
What a drone airplane may do, for short : RECON
27
Former Texas senator Phil : GRAMM
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"___ Lang Syne" : AULD
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Before surgery : PREOP
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Cosa Nostra leaders : CAPOS
33
Hilton rival : HYATT
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Man and Wight : ISLES
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Two-timed : CHEATEDON
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Things two-timers break : VOWS
40
"Reward" for poor service : NOTIP
44
Reno resident, e.g. : NEVADAN
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Western mil. alliance : NATO
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Kind of movie glasses : THREED
52
Japanese port : OSAKA
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Shelley's "___ the West Wind" : ODETO
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Four years, for a U.S. president : TERM
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Fog or smog : HAZE
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Slight, as chances : SLIM
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Merlot, for one : WINE
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Charter member of 2-Down : IRAN
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In ___ (as originally located) : SITU
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Practice pugilism : BOX
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Superlative suffix : EST

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