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New York Times, Wednesday, May 4, 2016

Author:
Jacob Stulberg
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
Vocalist known for the 1944 song whose title (and first line) appears in the shaded squares
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Jacob Stulberg

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 16 Words: 77, Blocks: 40 Missing: {JQVX} This is puzzle # 11 for Mr. Stulberg. Jeff Chen's Puzzle of the Week pick. Wednesday freshness: 92%
Jacob Stulberg notes:
Today's puzzle began with the realization that "INTO EACH LIFE SOME RAIN MUST FALL" consisted entirely of four-letter words. (Apparently, I ... read more
Jeff Chen notes:
Jacob's name is rising even higher in my list of constructors whose bylines I love seeing. He has a distinctly poetic voice, and it's again ... read more
Jim Horne notes:

Longfellow's ode to Seattle, The Rainy Day is a quick read.

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© 2016, The New York Times5/4/16 ( No. 24,284 )
Across
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"Dante Symphony" composer : LISZT
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"West Side Story" woman : ANITA
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___ Marino : SAN
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___ deep : INTOO
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Author of an 1841 poem that contains the line spelled out by the shaded squares : LONGFELLOW
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Shows signs of waking : STIRS
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Enter surreptitiously, as an organization : INFILTRATE
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Speak the gospel : PREACH
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Eastern European capital : SOFIA
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Employers of dispatchers and brakemen: Abbr. : RRS
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"Help!" : SOS
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Month in l'été : AOUT
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Region, weatherwise : CLIME
29
Big house party? : LIFER
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Purchase at an Army-Navy store : KITBAG
33
Civilize : TAME
36
Tulsa sch. : ORU
37
Oil holders, maybe : EASELS
38
One-named athlete whose real first name is Edson : PELE
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Chemical cousin : ISOMER
41
Ceramic jar : OLLA
42
Secure, with "down" : BATTEN
44
Hand-held platform : IOS
45
Just : ONLY
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Old Testament peak : ARARAT
47
Free of fluid : DRAIN
49
Snack with a chewy center : SMORE
50
Become absorbed in thought : MUSE
51
Keyboard abbr. : ALT
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Simpson's trial judge : ITO
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Actress Lords : TRACI
58
Drum up : MUSTER
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Variety of sherry whose name means "little apple" : MANZANILLA
63
Vaccine target : POLIO
64
Vocalist known for the 1944 song whose title (and first line) appears in the shaded squares : FITZGERALD
65
Phrase often following a superlative : OFALL
66
Pince-___ : NEZ
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Present, e.g. : TENSE
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Like the sounds "m" and "n" : NASAL
Down
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Imitates Sylvester the Cat : LISPS
2
It's just for starters : INTRO
3
Dumps : STIES
4
Novelist ___ Neale Hurston : ZORA
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Proportional : TOSCALE
6
Muhammad's successor, to Shiites : ALI
7
Like hormones synthesized from amino acids : NONSTEROID
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Skinny : INFO
9
Happy end-of-week cry : TGIF
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Not steady, as a light : AFLICKER
11
Canon offering, for short : SLR
12
It might stop a break-in : ALARMBELL
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"Just kidding" : NOTREALLY
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And others : ETALIA
17
Guitarist Borland : WES
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___ polloi : HOI
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Sci-fi craft : UFOS
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"Them's fightin' words!" : ITSON
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Where legends are born? : RUMORMILLS
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Fed. management agency : GSA
33
Sign of a crying jag : TEARSTAIN
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___ Springs, Fla. : ALTAMONTE
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Subway : METRO
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Grp. of pinheads? : PBA
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With 53-Down, blogger's bugbear : INTERNET
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Missing name in the tongue twister "I saw ___ sawing wood ..." : ESAU
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Livestock attachment : EARTAG
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Having an advantage over : ONEUPON
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Belief system : ISM
51
Where legends appear : ATLAS
52
"The Pearl Fishers" priestess : LEILA
53
See 39-Down : TROLL
54
Org. providing loans : IMF
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Suffix with high numbers : AIRE
57
Family : CLAN
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Resting place : SOFA
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[Snore] : ZZZ
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Summer cooler : ADE

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