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New York Times, Saturday, October 24, 2009

Author:
Paula Gamache
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
52-Across : Foundation strengthener
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Paula Gamache

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 70, Blocks: 27 Missing: {QZ} Featured in Will Shortz's favorite puzzlemakers. This is puzzle # 48 for Ms. Gamache. Saturday freshness: 80%
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© 2009, The New York Times10/24/9 ( No. 21,900 )
Across
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High-definition storage medium : BLURAYDISC
11
With 28-Across, like some traffic : STOP
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Singer born Anna Mae Bullock : TINATURNER
16
Ranchero's hand : MANO
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"Baby Hold On" hitmaker, 1978 : EDDIEMONEY
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Item of the past : EXES
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Situation before many a game is won : ADIN
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Cookie flavoring : ANISE
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Word before thou : WILT
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Cabinet chief between Smith and Thornburgh : MEESE
24
___-Deux-Mers (Bordeaux wine appellation) : ENTRE
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Glass top : RIM
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It spawned the Weather Underground Org. : SDS
28
See 11-Across : ANDGO
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Singer Aguilera, self-referentially : XTINA
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Alternatives to iPhones : TREOS
33
"The Practice" and "Boston Legal" Emmy winner : SPADER
34
French Revolution radical : JACOBIN
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Wild : BERSERK
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Gadget for a grease monkey : OILGUN
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Big dos : FETES
40
Like some shoulders : BROAD
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Triumphant cries : TADAS
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It may thicken the plot : SOD
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Some Amazon.com orders : CDS
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Calvin Klein offering : SCENT
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Her alter ego is Princess Adora : SHERA
50
Contents of some deposits : ORES
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Foundation strengthener : REBAR
54
"Life of Pi" author ___ Martel : YANN
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Real joker : RIOT
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Dupe's exclamation : IVEBEENHAD
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Fear, to François : PEUR
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Time to pull a product : SELLBYDATE
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Out-of-commission cruisers : SSTS
61
"Turn! Turn! Turn!" songwriter : PETESEEGER
Down
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Sub squads : BTEAMS
2
Like 57-Downs : LIDDED
3
Brief briefs? : UNDIES
4
Farmers' needs : RAINS
5
Got fed up? : ATE
6
Where César Chávez was born : YUMA
7
Talked and talked and talked : DRONEDON
8
They have tops and bottoms : INNINGS
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Minds : SEESTO
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Old yeller? : CRYER
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Old World duck : SMEW
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It begins where a person hails from : TAXIRIDE
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Routine delivery : ONELINER
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Prepare for delivery : POSTMARK
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iPod attachments : EARBUDS
25
Station skipper : EXPRESS
29
Prussian prohibition : NEIN
31
Soviet agency created from Rosta : TASS
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Cover of the Colosseum? : TOGA
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___ goal : SETA
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Creation of the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 : JOBCORPS
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Hangs up after agitating? : AIRDRIES
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Bargain hunter's bonanza : CLOSEOUT
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Stand where you lie : BEDTABLE
39
Alternator driver : FANBELT
41
Nonhuman baby sitter? : TEEVEE
42
Ugly Dungeons & Dragons figure : SEAHAG
43
Busy : ORNATE
44
Irish : DANDER
47
Like new ones : CRISP
49
Chrissie of the Pretenders : HYNDE
51
Navigation rtes. : STRS
53
Lee side : REBS
57
It has a ball : EYE

Answer summary:
5 unique to this puzzle, 8 debuted here and reused later.

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