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New York Times, Friday, January 25, 2008

Author:
David Quarfoot
Editor:
Will Shortz
63-Across : Fancy haberdashery item
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
416/18/200412/4/20147
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101021720
RebusScrabDebutFresh
21.6129085%
David Quarfoot

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 72, Blocks: 27 Missing: {FWXZ} Puzzle has duplicate clues. This is puzzle # 23 for Mr. Quarfoot. Friday freshness: 66%
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© 2008, The New York Times1/25/8 ( No. 21,262 )
Across
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War-torn Baghdad suburb : SADRCITY
9
23-Across and others : BEIGES
15
One and only : TRUELOVE
16
Weather Channel topic : ELNINO
17
Fleet runner of myth : ATALANTA
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Key that doesn't include 58-Across : EMAJOR
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Up to : TIL
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Ape : MIRROR
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Habit : ROTE
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Shade shade : ECRU
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Biblical miracle setting : CANA
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Powerful piece : QUEEN
27
Boarding spot : SLOPE
29
Call from home : YEROUT
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1936 N.L. leader in slugging percentage : MELOTT
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Brooklynese pronoun : DESE
34
Pilot's place : SKY
37
Part of Manhattan's Alphabet City : AVENUEC
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"Be honest" : DONTLIE
41
Onetime Serbian capital : NIS
42
Show some spunk : DARE
44
Drops in a theater : SCRIMS
45
Japanese model sold from 1970 to 2006 : CELICA
47
Meccan pilgrim : HADJI
48
Some speakers : SONYS
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Abbr. before a date : ESTD
53
Underhand? : PEON
54
Zip : TEAR
55
Spotter's confirmation : ISEEIT
57
Polit. label : IND
58
It's almost a B, scorewise : ASHARP
60
Pilot's place : GASRANGE
62
Apple application : ITUNES
63
Fancy haberdashery item : ASCOTTIE
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No longer in : DEMODE
65
Judge of films : REINHOLD
Down
1
Henry Clay or William Jennings Bryan : STATESMAN
2
It forbids religious tests for political office : ARTICLEVI
3
Versatile actors may play them : DUALROLES
4
Person found in a tree: Abbr. : REL
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Buck : CLAM
6
Corinthian alternative : IONIC
7
It might hold a couch potato's potato : TVTRAY
8
Really hoped to get, with "for" : YEARNED
9
It can be drafted : BEER
10
___ bark beetle : ELM
11
Stuck : INARUT
12
11 1/2" soldier : GIJOE
13
Online memo : ENOTE
14
Archaeologist David who found the lost Roman city of Kourion : SOREN
21
Made some waves? : OARED
24
Word in some British place names : UPON
26
Put out : QUENCH
28
School exercises : ETUDES
30
Zoo de Madrid beasts : OSOS
32
Shade of blue : TEAL
34
Enter gently : SLIDEINTO
35
Head of state known to his people as "Dear Leader" : KIMJONGIL
36
"Of course" : YESINDEED
38
Exclamations : CRIES
40
Piehole : TRAP
43
Swee' Pea's creator : ECSEGAR
45
Edmond Rostand hero : CYRANO
46
Calm : ATEASE
48
Composed : STAID
49
Dirección sailed by Columbus : OESTE
50
British poet Tate : NAHUM
52
Track-and-field equipment : DISCI
55
___ dixit : IPSE
56
1982 film title role for Bruce Boxleitner : TRON
59
Traffic stopper : RED
61
School dept. : ATH

Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later.

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