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New York Times, Friday, January 5, 2007

Author:
Paula Gamache
Editor:
Will Shortz
34-Across : Biblical peak
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
1085/21/20021/14/20184
SunMonTueWedThuFriSatVariety
81318151217619
RebusCircleScrabDebutFresh
431.5850462%
Paula Gamache

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 70, Blocks: 26 Missing: {JKQXZ} This is puzzle # 17 for Ms. Gamache. Friday freshness: 74%
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© 2007, The New York Times1/5/7 ( No. 20,877 )
Across
1
Modern, efficient matchmaking process : SPEEDDATING
12
Alimentary particle? : ORT
15
One who got held up, maybe : LATEARRIVAL
16
Old Testament book: Abbr. : NEH
17
Sensor : ELECTRICEYE
18
TV schedule letters : TBA
19
Director Craven : WES
20
Pleads : SUES
21
Drawer freshener : SACHET
23
Record collection? : CUTS
24
Soothing art : PASTELS
25
"Nope" : UNHUNH
28
Something you might part with overseas : SAYONARA
29
Kmart acquisition : SEARS
30
Popular wedding gift : LINEN
31
N.F.L. Hall-of-Famer ___ Barney : LEM
32
Sans warranty : ASIS
33
Slate evaluator : VOTER
34
Biblical peak : NEBO
35
Acre's setting: Abbr. : ISR
36
Stable parents : MARES
37
Like tigers vis-à-vis lions : RARER
38
Good as new : REPAIRED
40
Washer setting : GENTLE
41
Arrives like a social butterfly? : FLITSIN
42
Pinup's pride : GAMS
43
Unspecified, but invariably unpleasant, alternative : ORELSE
44
Harry Belafonte cry : DAYO
45
Regrettable : SAD
48
Fabled elephant abductor : ROC
49
"Impossible!" : ITCOULDNTBE
52
The third to the fifth? : CDE
53
"Miss You Like Crazy" singer, 1989 : NATALIECOLE
54
Some tech. inst. grads : EES
55
Worker around a furnace : GLASSBLOWER
Down
1
Raft : SLEW
2
Like 24-Across : PALE
3
Are, in Alençon : ETES
4
Port. joined it in 1986 : EEC
5
Old Japanese cars : DATSUNS
6
"The Art of Arousal" writer : DRRUTH
7
Northern constellation : ARIES
8
Little jerks : TICS
9
"___ no idea" : IVE
10
Skeptical sort : NAYSAYER
11
Player of Joe the Bartender : GLEASON
12
Open-eyed : ONTHEALERT
13
1974 David Bowie song : REBELREBEL
14
1953 hit that mentions "old Napoli" : THATSAMORE
22
Shipping unit: Abbr. : CTN
23
Mean types : CURS
24
You can see right through them : PANES
25
Falcon's home : USAIRFORCE
26
Dessert with candied fruit, nuts and liqueur : NESSELRODE
27
Top secrets? : HAIRPIECES
28
Placed : SITED
30
Oscar winner for "Two Women" : LOREN
33
Like some wines : VARIETAL
34
Bert Bobbsey's twin and others : NANS
36
Lost : MISSING
37
Modernize : REMODEL
39
N.L. scoreboard abbr. : ATL
40
1960's-70's antidiscrimination movement : GAYLIB
42
Residents of ancient Alesia : GAULS
44
___ told : DOAS
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Throw below : STOW
46
Au fait : ABLE
47
Rural road sign image : DEER
50
Windy City rail inits. : CTA
51
PX shopper : NCO

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 9 debuted here and reused later.

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