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Eric Berlin
Eric Berlin

NY Times, Sun Mar 23, 2008 Going Too Far

Author:
Eric Berlin
Editor:
Will Shortz
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 37
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 fashion editor Diana Vreeland.

The quote: "Magic doesn't come to those who don't expect it."

— Diana Vreeland

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V
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R
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T
© 2008, The New York Times
Across
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"Yikes!" : EGAD
5
Post-___ : MORTEM
10
Org. : ASSOC
14
Travel here and there : ROVE
15
Place for a phono needle : GROOVE
16
Big name in microprocessors : INTEL
17
Son of Sarah : ISAAC
18
Fragrant compound : ESTER
19
Baker or Sawyer : DIANE
20
Real estate option : CONDO
22
Therefore : HENCE
23
College figure, briefly : PROF
24
Two-time Wimbledon winner Gibson : ALTHEA
26
Lesser-played songs : BSIDES
28
Teach : EDUCATE
30
Fields : AREAS
33
Far offshore : ASEA
36
"Oedipus Rex," for one : TRAGEDY
38
It's often solemn : OATH
39
Student supporter: Abbr. : PTA
40
Bad review : PAN
41
Chianti, e.g. : VINO
42
Its slogan was once "We'll open your eyes" : RCA
43
Feedbox grain : OAT
44
Part of a division : SOLDIER
46
Sore : ACHY
47
One of the family : NIECE
49
Court figure : WITNESS
51
Competitor of Prada : ARMANI
53
Railroad support : TRESTLE
57
Set loose : UNTIE
59
Glove material : LATEX
61
Easy marks : RUBES
62
Tony winner Caldwell and others : ZOES
63
Turns on a point : PIVOTS
65
Pink : ROSE
66
"Hamlet" courtier : OSRIC
67
The wise men's gold, frankincense and myrrh : GIFTS
68
Kind of sax : TENOR
69
Meeting of Cong. : SESS
70
"Not just yet" : INAFEW
71
___ Canal, joining Lake Huron with Lake Ontario : TRENT
Down
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"All My Children" woman : ERICA
2
Break away from the band, say : GOSOLO
3
Opposite of aprés : AVANT
4
Tie : DEADHEAT
5
Milk go-with : OREO
6
___ Hashanah : ROSH
7
Carryall : TOTEBAG
8
Tied : EVENSTEVEN
9
Overseas "thanks" : MERCI
10
Faraway shooter : SNIPER
11
1980s-'90s TV talent show : STARSEARCH
12
Prefix with -phile : OENO
13
Split : CLEFT
21
Brit. word authority : OED
25
Related to hearing : AURAL
27
1980s-'90s singer Taylor : DAYNE
29
Home for many blonds : SCANDINAVIA
31
"Of course!" : NATCH
32
Light carriage : SHAY
33
Dinner fowl : CAPON
34
Blotch : STAIN
35
Carnivores : MEATEATERS
37
More terrible : DIRER
40
Rondeau or rondel : POEM
45
Like each other immediately : HITITOFF
46
One saying "All's well" : ASSURER
48
Big trouble : CRISIS
50
Arid : SERE
52
Set straight : ALIGN
54
Hearty steak : TBONE
55
"Little House on the Prairie" family name : OLESON
56
Much of Mongolia : DESERT
57
Greek liqueurs : OUZOS
58
Plane part : NOSE
60
Diminutive suffix : ETTE
64
Vane dir. : SSW
Answer summary: 0 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later.

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