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New York Times, Monday, October 29, 2012

Author:
Gareth Bain
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
54-Across : Crude home
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154/6/20119/7/20202
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0434112
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211.586638%
Gareth Bain

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 39 Missing: {JV} This is puzzle # 6 for Mr. Bain. Monday freshness: 70%
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H
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O
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P
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I
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A
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D
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Z
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R
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A
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D
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I
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A
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L
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A
M
E
N
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D
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A
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O
D
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S
S
A
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W
O
L
F
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D
O
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N
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P
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P
U
P
S
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N
O
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A
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R
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I
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C
E
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Z
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E
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M
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N
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K
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Y
A
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R
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O
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N
D
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C
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O
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D
Y
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G
R
A
D
E
R
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A
B
E
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T
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A
B
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N
O
M
I
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N
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E
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E
39
P
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N
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Y
U
P
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P
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G
O
U
T
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P
E
T
U
N
I
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A
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R
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X
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N
R
A
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R
E
A
G
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A
N
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S
O
O
T
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S
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Q
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U
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L
A
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W
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Y
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H
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I
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H
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E
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T
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O
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A
R
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S
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E
S
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B
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E
A
R
U
P
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N
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R
A
C
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I
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M
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P
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R
U
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E
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C
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S
R
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Y
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S
© 2012, The New York Times10/29/12 ( No. 23,001 )
Across
1
Indian tribe with a rain dance : HOPI
5
Wood-shaping tool : ADZ
8
Kind of tire : RADIAL
14
The answer to a preacher's prayers? : AMEN
15
Org. with sniffing dogs : DEA
16
Old Soviet naval base site : ODESSA
17
Devour : WOLFDOWN
19
Some online ads : POPUPS
20
"You cheated!" : NOFAIR
21
Cooler contents : ICE
23
New York's Tappan ___ Bridge : ZEE
24
Waste time playfully : MONKEYAROUND
28
Buffalo Bill : CODY
31
Teacher after a test, e.g. : GRADER
32
"Honest" prez : ABE
33
File folder projection : TAB
35
Choice of a political party : NOMINEE
39
Pay what's due : PONYUP
41
Eat, eat, eat : PIGOUT
42
Porky's porcine sweetie : PETUNIA
44
Tyrannosaurus ___ : REX
45
Right-to-bear-arms org. : NRA
46
Carter's successor : REAGAN
48
Chimney sweep coating : SOOT
49
Hoard : SQUIRRELAWAY
54
Crude home : HUT
55
Uganda's ___ Amin : IDI
56
Attached ___ (legalese phrase) : HERETO
60
Crops up : ARISES
63
Pertain to : BEARUPON
65
Like Jim Crow laws : RACIST
66
"Don't you know who ___?" : IAM
67
Lima's land : PERU
68
Makes into law : ENACTS
69
Boffo show sign : SRO
70
Hankerings : YENS
Down
1
"The First Wives Club" actress Goldie : HAWN
2
Melville opus : OMOO
3
Ill-gotten wealth : PELF
4
Criminal renown : INFAMY
5
Deck out : ADORN
6
Pasture moisture : DEW
7
More madcap : ZANIER
8
Muhammad Ali strategy : ROPEADOPE
9
"Much ___ About Nothing" : ADO
10
Withdrawal's opposite: Abbr. : DEP
11
Japanese truck maker : ISUZU
12
"Quaking" tree : ASPEN
13
Erased a tattoo, say : LASED
18
God, in Italian : DIO
22
Blue shade : CYAN
25
Spy grp. dissolved in 1991 : KGB
26
Many a song at a dance club : REMIX
27
Not a photocopy: Abbr. : ORIG
28
Al who created Joe Btfsplk : CAPP
29
Instrument with metal keys : OBOE
30
Tin can blemish : DENT
33
One doing piano repair : TUNER
34
Beekeepers : APIARISTS
36
It's taboo : NONO
37
Continental coin : EURO
38
Coup d'___ : ETAT
40
Space race hero Gagarin : YURI
43
Superannuated : AGED
44
Genetic material : RNA
47
They may fall apart under cross-examination : ALIBIS
48
Too sentimental : SYRUPY
49
Not hoard : SHARE
50
Imam's holy book : QURAN
51
New York city with a name from antiquity : UTICA
52
Company that originated Frisbees and Boogie Boards : WHAMO
53
___ Lingus : AER
57
Sporting sword : EPEE
58
Ripped : TORN
59
Big burden : ONUS
61
[not my mistake] : SIC
62
Superlative suffix : EST
64
What a headphone goes over : EAR

Answer summary:
1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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