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New York Times, Thursday, October 2, 2008

Author:
Samuel A. Donaldson
Editor:
Will Shortz
45-Across : Horace who founded the New York Tribune
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
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241.6324669%
Samuel A. Donaldson

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 74, Blocks: 32 Missing: {JQZ} This is the debut puzzle for Mr. Donaldson. Thursday freshness: 81%
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© 2008, The New York Times10/2/8 ( No. 21,513 )
Across
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In a poem, it "perched upon a bust of Pallas just above my chamber door" : RAVEN
6
Sing like Mel Tormé : SCAT
10
Use cue cards : READ
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Slightly ahead : UPONE
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Part of a military band : TUBA
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___ dixit : IPSE
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Anxious baseball player at the plate? : BATTWIRLER
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Talk like Daffy : LISP
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Supermarket bagful : ICE
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Great literature it's not : SMUT
22
Wallpaper and such : DECOR
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"Big Sur" writer, 1962 : KEROUAC
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Worst in the worst way : TROUNCE
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Sign above a luau buffet? : PICKYOURPOIS
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Working factory, e.g. : ASSET
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Actress Popplewell of "The Chronicles of Narnia" : ANNA
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___ in victory : VAS
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Hogwarts stick : WAND
35
High-school disrupters : GANGS
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Big party : FETE
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___ premium : ATA
39
Out of order : DOWN
40
Broad valleys : DALES
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Land of laughs? : YUKTERRITORY
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Horace who founded the New York Tribune : GREELEY
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They may be seen on slides : AMOEBAS
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Certain resident of Yemen : ADENI
51
Ready : PREP
52
Home of Sault Ste. Marie: Abbr. : ONT
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It may be held at a 39-Down : MAYO
54
Flood of ideas? : BRAINSURGE
57
Observer : EYER
58
Barn young 'un : CALF
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Where to see "bombs bursting" : INAIR
60
Flat sound : SSSS
61
One who wants you to put away everything he sets out : CHEF
62
Two-time Time Man of the Year (and a hint to 17-, 27-, 41- and 54-Across) : NIXON
Down
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1980s craze starter : RUBIK
2
Quickly : APACE
3
Campaign target : VOTER
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Suffix with insist : ENT
5
Preinterview purchase, maybe : NEWSUIT
6
Lit, as a match : STRUCK
7
Zealot's group : CULT
8
Five-spot : ABE
9
Contents of some pits : TAR
10
Provoke : RILEUP
11
"War and Peace," e.g. : EPICNOVEL
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Business partner : ASSOCIATE
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Takes the starch out of : DEPRESSES
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Product promoted as having both "beauty" and "brains" : IMAC
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Nickelodeon's explorer : DORA
24
Newspaper piece : OPED
25
Chinese secret society : TONG
26
Directs : RUNS
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One-named New Age musician : YANNI
29
Road trip events : AWAYGAMES
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Popular dates for dates : SATURDAYS
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Loser at the dice table : SNAKEEYES
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Blood : GORE
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Out of whack : AWRY
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Actress Dunaway : FAYE
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Shop with 53-Across : DELI
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Pays a visit : DROPSIN
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Choir section : TENORS
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Duty : TARIFF
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Harbinger : OMEN
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Powdered cleaning agent : BORAX
48
Hospital procedure, for short : ANGIO
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Draconian : STERN
51
Washed out : PALE
54
Abbr. atop some e-mails : BCC
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Cheering word : RAH
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Sea urchin, at a sushi bar : UNI

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