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New York Times, Wednesday, April 7, 2010

Author:
Richard Silvestri
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
Chinese calendar animal ... or the key to this puzzle's theme
TotalDebutLatest
1821/12/197810/27/2024
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ScrabDebutPre‑WSFresh
1.534304631%
Richard Silvestri

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 42 Missing: none – this is a pangram. Spans: 1 This is puzzle # 153 for Mr. Silvestri. Wednesday freshness: 15%
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W
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© 2010, The New York Times4/7/10 ( No. 22,065 )
Across
1
Prefix with lateral : EQUI
5
Frame side : JAMB
9
Was in the arms of Morpheus : SLEPT
14
Ward who played Robin : BURT
15
Baseball family name : ALOU
16
Conductors' platforms : PODIA
17
Wait : BIDE
18
Symbol of uncommunicativeness : CLAM
19
Hockey no-no : ICING
20
One who plunders boatloads of jack-o'-lanterns? : PUMPKINPIRATE
23
Published : RAN
24
Zilch : NIL
25
Pet store offering : GERBIL
29
Pick-me-up : LIFT
31
___-devil : SHE
34
One way to read : ALOUD
35
Shook out of dreamland : WOKE
36
In among : AMID
37
First-rate chastisement? : SUPREMEBERATING
40
Tree of Life locale : EDEN
41
Destination for a ferry from Livorno : ELBA
42
Get stuffed : GORGE
43
Words from the Rev. : SER
44
One may be in waiting : LADY
45
Ship of fuels : TANKER
46
"The tongue of the mind": Cervantes : PEN
47
Stage design : SET
48
Nickname for an unpredictable Communist? : ERRATICTHERED
55
Family : BLOOD
56
Skyrocket : SOAR
57
Love of Spain : AMOR
59
Preceding on the page : ABOVE
60
"I'm off!" : TATA
61
Egypt's third-largest city : GIZA
62
Arab League member : YEMEN
63
Yoked pair : OXEN
64
What "........" means to a typesetter : STET
Down
1
A drop in the ocean? : EBB
2
Will Rogers specialty : QUIP
3
Official language of Pakistan : URDU
4
News clipping : ITEM
5
Follower who does the dirty work : JACKAL
6
Bushed : ALLIN
7
Sound stressed, maybe : MOAN
8
Traffic slower : BUMP
9
Ghost : SPIRIT
10
Neighborhood pub : LOCAL
11
Ready for release : EDIT
12
Tar source : PINE
13
It's game : TAG
21
Fall preceder : PRIDE
22
Draw a conclusion : INFER
25
Krypton and others : GASES
26
Not get caught by : ELUDE
27
Rodeo specialist : ROPER
28
Use as fuel : BURN
29
Hotel area : LOBBY
30
Furniture chain : IKEA
31
Show of smugness : SMIRK
32
Pivotal point : HINGE
33
Trimming tool : EDGER
35
Ironworker's union? : WELD
36
Loads : ATON
38
Had in view : MEANT
39
Banded gemstone : AGATE
44
Heavy : LEADEN
45
Home of the Azadi Tower : TEHRAN
46
Establish as fact : PROVE
47
Union member : STATE
48
Hamburg's river : ELBE
49
Leeway : ROOM
50
Part of an analogy : ISTO
51
Sweet-talk : COAX
52
Car wash gear : RAGS
53
Shoot out : EMIT
54
Snooze : DOZE
55
Dark horse : BAY
58
Chinese calendar animal ... or the key to this puzzle's theme : RAT

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