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New York Times, Friday, January 23, 2009

Author:
Barry C. Silk
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
26-Across : Not be generous
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Barry C. Silk

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 70, Blocks: 28 Missing: none – this is a pangram. Spans: 2 This is puzzle # 33 for Mr. Silk. Friday freshness: 45%
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© 2009, The New York Times1/23/9 ( No. 21,626 )
Across
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Creek Confederacy tribe : ALABAMA
8
"The Appeal" novelist : GRISHAM
15
Two-time foreign minister of the U.S.S.R. : MOLOTOV
16
Clio maker : RENAULT
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Film with the line "By the authority vested in me by Kaiser William II, I pronounce you man and wife. Proceed with the execution" : THEAFRICANQUEEN
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Equipment for strokes : OARS
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___ lot (was telling) : SAIDA
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Observing things : EYES
22
Home of Sault Ste. Marie: Abbr. : ONT
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Recipient of a trade discount : RETAILER
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Withdraw : SECEDE
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Not be generous : SKIMP
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King of Naples in "The Tempest" : ALONSO
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One way to recoil : INHORROR
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Sported : WORE
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Ill-gotten : DIRTY
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Prefix with marine : AERO
39
Jesus, Mary or Joseph : NAZARENE
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Like some DVDs in DVD players : PAUSED
43
Burning evidence : SMOKE
44
Evidence that one is an alien : ACCENT
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Opening for an anchor : TOPSTORY
48
Toy store inits. : FAO
51
Asian au pair : AMAH
54
Have ___ (not be trapped) : ANOUT
55
U.S. org. with over 39 million members : AARP
56
Fantastic flight : MAGICCARPETRIDE
59
Cheat : FLEECER
60
August : EXALTED
61
Ignition problem : MISFIRE
62
Big East team with six N.I.T. basketball championships : STJOHNS
Down
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Childish comeback : AMTOO
2
"I Know Who Killed Me" actress, 2007 : LOHAN
3
Word often preceded by a color : ALERT
4
Givers of unfriendly hugs : BOAS
5
Justice Dept. division : ATF
6
A ham might use it : MORSECODE
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Focus on one's approach, say : AVIATE
8
Inclination : GRADIENT
9
Kind of artery : RENAL
10
Govt. probe : INQ
11
Frank request : SAUERKRAUT
12
U.S. military chopper : HUEY
13
One way to turn a ship : ALEE
14
Chain links?: Abbr. : MTNS
18
George H. W. Bush, once : CIADIRECTOR
23
Apt., e.g. : RES
24
Panamanian pronoun : ESO
25
Lifter : SNEAKTHIEF
27
Ticks off : IRES
28
Glutton's desire : MORE
29
Driving tool : PROD
30
Beards : AWNS
31
The good earth? : LOAM
32
Pasta eaten with a spoon : ORZO
34
Web connection means : HYPERTEXT
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Trapped : INASNARE
40
Franklin contemporary : REO
42
Word with longer or minute : ANY
45
Body types : COUPES
47
Apparently anxious person : PACER
48
Hill in Nashville : FAITH
49
"As You Like It" setting : ARDEN
50
Subjective pieces : OPEDS
51
Switch letters : AMFM
52
Where Bambara is spoken : MALI
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All ___ (words on a game box) : AGES
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One of a comic-strip married couple : ARLO
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Third-century year : CCI
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Atlantic City hot spot, with "the" : TAJ

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 4 debuted here and reused later.

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