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New York Times, Saturday, November 11, 2006

Author:
Brendan Emmett Quigley
Editor:
Will Shortz
38-Across : Ones in hip joints?
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Brendan Emmett Quigley

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 66, Blocks: 26 Missing: {FJKVXZ} Puzzle has duplicate clues. This is puzzle # 111 for Mr. Quigley. Saturday freshness: 96%
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© 2006, The New York Times11/11/6 ( No. 20,822 )
Across
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They might be protected by an 8-Across : RABBITS
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See 1-Across : GAMELAW
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Sites for small schools : AQUARIA
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Like rubble, often : INAPILE
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Kind of grape : SULTANA
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Where Marat was murdered : BATHTUB
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Associate : PARTNER
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Haunted house worker's job : SCARING
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One may get pins and needles : ETUI
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Flowering plant with two seed leaves : DICOT
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"As I Lay Dying" father : ANSE
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Up : RISEN
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Editor Talese : NAN
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"___ where it hurts!" : HITEM
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German chancellor after Kohl : SCHRODER
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Tabloid fodder : RUMORS
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Villain : MENACER
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Villain : BADMAN
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Ones in hip joints? : COOLCATS
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Curtain shades : ECRUS
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Indicator of canonización : SAN
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Trunk coverer : SHIRT
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"Take heed ___ any man deceive you": Mark 13:5 : LEST
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Good : TASTY
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Mars: Prefix : AREO
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It may be a bear to throw down : AREARUG
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1984 movie with the tag line "It's 4 a.m., do you know where your car is?" : REPOMAN
54
Google company : YOUTUBE
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Varnish material : ACETATE
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People described by Josephus : ESSENES
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Classic R & B tune that inspired the "stroll" dance craze : CCRIDER
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Ice, e.g. : DESSERT
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Appropriately named band with the 1984 hit "Drive" : THECARS
Down
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Some laryngitis sufferers : RASPERS
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Marine, maybe : AQUATIC
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Member of the sedge family : BULRUSH
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Less together : BATTIER
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Home of the Zagros Mountains : IRAN
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Like antlers : TINED
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St. Louis Arch designer : SAARINEN
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Big name in guitars : GIBSON
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"It's all ___" : ANACT
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First name in espionage : MATA
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Biblical kingdom of the Hebrews : EPHRAIM
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Slammed : LITINTO
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1970-71 winner in Johnny Lightning : ALUNSER
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"Baseball Tonight" segment featuring the day's best defensive plays : WEBGEMS
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Simón Bolívar's birthplace : CARACAS
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Spanish uncle? : NOMAS
28
Projects : HURLS
30
Hangout : DEN
31
Flying Cloud of autodom : REO
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Term paper? : CONTRACT
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Secured while rock climbing : BELAYED
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Needlelike : ACEROSE
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"The King's Stilts" author, 1939 : DRSEUSS
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Changes : MUTATES
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All over the place : CHAOTIC
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Fleet of warplanes : AIRMADA
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Sugar daddy, e.g. : TREATER
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Jam band fans, stereotypically : STONERS
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Like the best advice : SAGEST
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Arrowroot, e.g. : TUBER
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"Ugh!" : YECCH
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Something written in stone : RUNE
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___ Noël : PERE

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3 unique to this puzzle, 5 debuted here and reused later.

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