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New York Times, Saturday, November 14, 2009

Author:
Joe Krozel
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
23-Across : Like some building blocks
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Joe Krozel

This puzzle:

Rows: 16, Columns: 15 Words: 75, Blocks: 34 Missing: none – this is a pangram. Spans: 4, (1 quad stack) This is puzzle # 30 for Mr. Krozel. Grid flow: 32.9 Saturday freshness: 9%
Jim Horne notes:

This is the first NYT puzzle to stack four 15-letter answers.

1
A
2
N
3
T
4
E
5
S
6
Y
7
E
8
A
9
R
10
S
11
P
12
A
13
N
14
Z
E
B
R
A
15
O
N
M
E
16
O
R
N
O
17
T
A
I
N
T
18
U
T
E
S
19
F
A
T
S
20
E
L
L
21
A
P
E
X
22
M
A
I
Z
E
23
C
E
L
24
L
25
U
L
A
R
26
G
A
R
R
27
E
N
O
S
28
L
E
T
29
I
30
G
31
O
32
I
33
N
34
C
O
M
E
S
35
T
A
T
E
36
M
E
N
T
37
M
O
O
N
O
V
E
R
P
A
R
A
D
O
R
38
A
R
R
I
V
E
D
E
R
C
I
R
O
M
A
39
M
A
N
D
A
R
I
N
O
R
A
N
G
E
S
40
S
H
E
41
B
A
T
42
M
O
L
E
43
D
44
E
L
S
45
M
E
S
S
R
46
O
47
O
48
M
49
S
50
A
B
L
E
51
W
I
N
S
52
F
R
O
53
K
I
E
V
54
M
A
M
A
55
I
56
Q
U
I
T
57
I
D
E
E
58
A
C
E
D
59
M
U
S
E
E
60
D
E
F
S
61
J
O
S
E
62
P
E
E
L
S
© 2009, The New York Times11/14/09 ( No. 21,921 )
Across
1
Deserves a deal? : ANTES
6
Many a Roman numeral : YEAR
10
6-Across, for one : SPAN
14
Ref : ZEBRA
15
"Call ___" (1974 hit) : ONME
16
Little ___ : ORNO
17
Spoil : TAINT
18
2009 Sugar Bowl champs : UTES
19
Good or bad intake : FATS
20
Certain large couch : ELL
21
It's all downhill from here : APEX
22
Hue similar to chrome lemon : MAIZE
23
Like some building blocks : CELLULAR
26
"Tootsie" Oscar nominee : GARR
27
Third-generation man, in the Bible : ENOS
28
Charter : LET
29
"___ for That" (1939 hit) : IGO
32
Overhead shower : INCOMESTATEMENT
37
1988 comedy starring Richard Dreyfuss and Raul Julia : MOONOVERPARADOR
38
Song with the lyric "City of a million warm embraces" : ARRIVEDERCIROMA
39
Pomelo relatives : MANDARINORANGES
40
Word for a storm : SHE
41
Inverted hanger? : BAT
42
Uninvited rooter : MOLE
43
Pol. convention attendees : DELS
45
Where things are bolted down on base : MESSROOM
49
Jet-black : SABLE
51
Season tally : WINS
52
Big do : FRO
53
Russians call it the Mother of Cities : KIEV
54
One of the folks : MAMA
55
Cry of exasperation : IQUIT
57
What comes to a head of France? : IDEE
58
Didn't bomb at all : ACED
59
Beaux-arts setting : MUSEE
60
Etym. followers, often : DEFS
61
Tenor Cura : JOSE
62
Kitchen waste : PEELS
Down
1
Like some ruins : AZTEC
2
Former Canucks coach Harry : NEALE
3
One maturing quickly, for short : TBILL
4
Direction follower : ERN
5
Watched, in a way : SAT
6
"That was the turnoff!" : YOUPASSEDIT
7
It may start a scene : ENTER
8
Charging giant, informally : AMEX
9
Monitor stat : RES
10
Yet : SOFAR
11
Natural tunnel creator : PRAIRIEDOG
12
1998 film featuring Colonel Cutter : ANTZ
13
Pliers part : NOSE
21
Alternative medicine treatments : ALOEVERAS
22
Some are raw : MATERIALS
24
Russian writer Andreyev : LEONID
25
Not to be persuaded : UNMOVABLE
26
Convey : GETACROSS
28
Renoir at the Getty : LAPROMENADE
30
Item sometimes planted in a garden : GNOME
31
Others, to Andalusians : OTRAS
32
Some clerics : IMAMS
33
Singer Jones : NORAH
34
Something to make a hash of : CORNEDBEEF
35
One way around Spain : TREN
36
Miser of literature : MARNER
44
Noted workshop workers : ELVES
45
Tacit storytellers : MIMES
46
Valuable : OFUSE
47
Large bay : ORIEL
48
Grains : MOTES
49
A screech may accompany it : SKID
50
Right hand : AIDE
51
1993 standoff site : WACO
54
Key tag?: Abbr. : MAJ
55
Nanny tester : IMP
56
Its flag has four fleurs-de-lis: Abbr. : QUE

Answer summary:
5 unique to this puzzle, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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