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Eric Berlin
Eric Berlin

NY Times, Sun, Jan 11, 2009 GOING TOO FAR

Author:
Eric Berlin
Editor:
Will Shortz
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 38
Notepad: Many of the answers in this crossword are one letter too long and won't fit in the spaces provided. Each of these answers will either begin or end in the gray square immediately before or after it. When the puzzle is done, all the gray squares will have been used exactly once, and the letters in them (reading left to right, line by line) will spell out a quote by author Tom Robbins.

The quote: "If little else, the brain is an educational toy."

— Tom Robbins

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© 2009, The New York Times
Across
1
Wizards : MAGES
6
Announcer's call on a pitch : INSIDE
11
Confused states : FOGS
14
Get down on one's knees and beg : GROVEL
15
Dweller on the Red Sea : YEMENI
16
Backwoods negative : NAW
17
Modern connector : MODEM
18
Anticipate : EXPECT
19
Shade : HUE
20
"Ash Wednesday" poet : TSELIOT
22
Coffee bean variety : ARABICA
24
Put forward : POSIT
26
Correct : RIGHT
27
State with authority : ASSERT
31
Certain horse or bean : PINTO
33
Adjustment specialist : TAILOR
34
Creme-filled snack : OREO
35
Wolfe of mystery : NERO
39
Carrier to Eilat : ELAL
40
Loom : IMPEND
41
West Coast N.F.L.er, for short : NINER
42
Baseball's Hideo : NOMO
43
Somme state : ETAT
44
Somme school : ECOLE
45
Single : UNWED
47
Musher's transport : DOGSLED
48
Closes : SHUTS
51
Not heralded : UNSUNG
53
Fleshy : SENSUAL
55
Common order of roses : ONEDOZEN
60
Cry after "heads," maybe : IWIN
61
Remorseful : RUING
63
Dillon portrayer : ARNESS
64
Wall St. watchdog : SEC
65
Leaves alone : LETSBE
66
Thus far : TODATE
67
Logical opening? : IDEO
68
Like old phones : ROTARY
69
Sitcom test : PILOT
Down
1
People in charge: Abbr. : MGMT
2
Got up : AROSE
3
Mathematician Kurt : GODEL
4
Daredevil Knievel : EVEL
5
No longer fully amateur : SEMIPRO
6
Duma denials : NYETS
7
Questionnaire datum : SEX
8
Unwilling to wait : IMPATIENT
9
Farm equipment giant : DEERE
10
Microsoft digital reference : ENCARTA
11
Up above, like angels : ONHIGH
12
Socially clumsy : GAUCHE
13
Get a workout : SWEAT
21
Horn sound : TOOT
23
Subject for the Six Million Dollar Man : BIONICS
25
Sees what you're saying? : LIPREADS
27
Gobbled up : EATEN
28
Place for a perm : SALON
29
Thailand, once : SIAM
30
They're in it for the money : SELLOUTS
32
Signal agreement : NOD
34
Letterman staple : TOPTENLIST
36
Name on a bomber : ENOLA
37
Rent again : RELET
38
Yawning, perhaps : BORED
40
Kitty-cat sound : MEW
44
Kind of soup : EGGDROP
46
Aetna, e.g. : INSURER
47
Loudness unit : SONE
48
Francis's home : ASSISI
49
Cut down : HEWED
50
Sister of Jack, Bobby and Ted : EUNICE
52
Felix of "The Odd Couple" : UNGER
54
Not manual : AUTO
56
Secretary Rice, informally : CONDI
57
Passion : ZEAL
58
This, in Toledo : ESTO
59
Map feature : INSET
62
Magic org. : NBA
Answer summary: 0 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later.

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