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New York Times, Monday, October 5, 2009

Author:
Mark Feldman
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
25-Across : $5,000
TotalDebutLatest
117/31/20056/12/2014
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
3420200
RebusScrabDebutFresh
21.597042%
Mark Feldman

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 74, Blocks: 36 Missing: {QXZ} Spans: 3 This is puzzle # 5 for Mr. Feldman. Monday freshness: 73%
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© 2009, The New York Times10/5/9 ( No. 21,881 )
Across
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Brown eyes or curly hair : TRAIT
6
Surrender : CEDE
10
House in Spain : CASA
14
Cry of exasperation : AARGH
15
Salve ingredient : ALOE
16
Boxer Muhammad and family : ALIS
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Stoops : SLOUCHES
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Not knowledgeable in the ways of the world : NAIVE
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Prefix with plunk or plop : KER
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Collection of information in tabular form : DATASET
25
$5,000 : JAMESMADISON
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Gladden : ELATE
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Sort of: Suffix : ISH
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"___ du lieber!" : ACH
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Exactly ... or where to find 17-, 25-, 43- and 57-Across? : RIGHTONTHEMONEY
40
China's Chiang ___-shek : KAI
41
Tricked : GOT
42
Questioned : ASKED
43
$10,000 : SALMONPCHASE
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Not to be missed, as a TV show : MUSTSEE
50
"... boy ___ girl?" : ORA
51
Pester : ANNOY
52
Divided in appropriate amounts : PRORATED
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Swampy ground : MIRE
61
Snakes that constrict : BOAS
62
U.S./Mex./Can. commerce pact : NAFTA
63
Years and years : AGES
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Rodgers and Hart's "___ It Romantic?" : ISNT
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Nervous : ANTSY
Down
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Fancy marbles : TAWS
2
Banister : RAIL
3
Singer Guthrie : ARLO
4
Ice house: Var. : IGLU
5
Stocky : THICKSET
6
Kodak product : CAMERA
7
Majestic shade trees : ELMS
8
Only one of the Seven Dwarfs to wear glasses : DOC
9
Hair-raising cry : EEK
10
Ancient Palestine : CANAAN
11
"___ well" ("Don't worry") : ALLIS
12
Kitchen utensil with a mesh : SIEVE
13
So far : ASYET
18
Sound before "Your, um, fly is open" : AHEM
19
Take ___ account : INTO
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Waiter's serving : DISH
24
Tennis's Arthur : ASHE
25
Bozo : JERK
26
Inter ___ (among other things) : ALIA
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Bearers of gold, frankincense and myrrh : MAGI
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Biblical suffix : ETH
29
"Same for me" : DITTO
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Paul who sang "Diana" : ANKA
33
Middling grades : CEES
34
Jekyll's counterpart : HYDE
36
Undress with the eyes : OGLE
37
Alaskan city near the Arctic Circle : NOME
38
Dance craze of the '90s : MACARENA
39
___Kosh B'Gosh : OSH
43
Hotpoint products : STOVES
44
"___ sow, so shall ..." : ASYE
45
What the weary get, it's said : NOREST
46
Can. division : PROV
47
Molten volcanic material : MAGMA
48
Strip, as a ship : UNRIG
49
Cause unrest? : SNORE
52
Bit of strategizing : PLAN
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Shepard who walked on the moon : ALAN
54
President just before Wilson : TAFT
55
Med. specialists who might treat tonsillitis : ENTS
56
June 6, 1944 : DDAY
58
Hitter's stat : RBI
59
"I Spy" co-star Bill, familiarly : COS

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1 unique to this puzzle, 3 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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