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New York Times, Thursday, January 1, 2009

Author:
Alan Arbesfeld
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
62-Across : It often has a ring in the middle
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Alan Arbesfeld

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 72, Blocks: 34 Missing: {JKQVX} Spans: 1 This is puzzle # 80 for Mr. Arbesfeld. Thursday freshness: 72%
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© 2009, The New York Times1/1/9 ( No. 21,604 )
Across
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Brisk pace : TROT
5
Satirist who wrote jokes for J.F.K. : SAHL
9
Hardly getting along : INBAD
14
Sight blocker : HAZE
15
Oil of ___ : OLAY
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Who opposed George Washington for president in 1792 : NOONE
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Independent : ONONESOWN
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Justin Timberlake's former band : NSYNC
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Do a marathon in Egypt? : RUNAROUNDSUEZ
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Not rejecting out of hand : OPENTO
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Leave open-mouthed : AWE
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Señor chaser? : ITA
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Close to the hour : TENOF
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Surround : ENGIRD
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Bro, say : SIB
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Some kind of a nut : MACADAMIA
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Goes all out at an audition for a sax great? : PLAYSHARDTOGETZ
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Suddenly : ALLATONCE
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Formerly named : NEE
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Irish ___ : SETTER
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Take care of one's taxes sans paper : EFILE
48
Inside look, for short? : MRI
49
Drivel : PAP
51
"___ Brasco" (1997 Pacino/Depp film) : DONNIE
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Top-secret carpentry tool? : CLASSIFIEDADZ
59
Mend, as a torn seam : RESEW
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Add up : HOLDWATER
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It often has a ring in the middle : ARENA
63
Yours, overseas : ATOI
64
Yakutsk's river : LENA
65
Intoxicating : HEADY
66
Dermatologist's concern : WART
67
D-Day vessels: Abbr. : LSTS
Down
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Complete, for short : THORO
2
Accumulated : RANUP
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O3 : OZONE
4
One paying for staying : TENANT
5
"Already?" : SOSOON
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Diamond family name : ALOU
7
Best Supporting Actress for "Cactus Flower," 1969 : HAWN
8
Carter who played Wonder Woman : LYNDA
9
Dirty campaign technique : INNUENDO
10
Mr. Potato Head piece : NOSE
11
Band whose 1994 song "I'll Make Love to You" was #1 for 14 weeks : BOYZIIMEN
12
Novelist Packer or Patchett : ANN
13
Read a New Book Mo. : DEC
18
Art Deco designer : ERTE
21
Worry about, in slang : SWEAT
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Shopworn : TRITE
26
Stunned, after "in" : ADAZE
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Gulf of ___ : OMAN
29
TV's "Fawlty Towers," for one : FARCE
31
Squirting flower or dribble glass : GAG
32
Tic : SPASM
33
More wonderful, to a hip-hopper : ILLER
34
Part of Poland's border : BALTICSEA
36
Certain scale start : CDEF
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China's Sun ___-sen : YAT
39
Leave for a bit : STEPAWAY
40
Rings at Jewish weddings? : HORAS
45
"Hurray for me!" : IDIDIT
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Co-founder of MGM : LOEW
47
Ultimate goal : ENDALL
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"Nonsense!" : PSHAW
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Rear end, anatomically : NATES
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Birth cert., e.g. : IDENT
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Pound and Stone : EZRAS
56
Furnish : LEND
57
Smidgen : IOTA
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"Dona ___ and Her Two Husbands" : FLOR
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Bit of cheer? : RAH
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"___ the bat hath flown / His cloister'd flight ...": Macbeth : ERE

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

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