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New York Times, Friday, November 14, 2003

Author:
Myles Callum
Editor:
Will Shortz
39-Across : Brouhaha
TotalDebutLatest
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Myles Callum

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 70, Blocks: 27 Missing: {JQVXZ} This is puzzle # 14 for Mr. Callum. Friday freshness: 86%
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© 2003, The New York Times11/14/3 ( No. 19,729 )
Across
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Cold ones : BREWSKIS
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Kind of kick : ONSIDE
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"Whatever" : YEAHSURE
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Crashing bore : YAWNER
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It may stop the presses : GAGORDER
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National forest in California : SHASTA
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"O" may open it : ODE
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Product of Berlin : SONG
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Service lights? : TAPERS
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Department whose capital is Lille : NORD
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Fish, in a way : SEINE
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Shell game : SCAM
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Formulator of the law of quadratic reciprocity : EULER
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Bergen's bumpkin : SNERD
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Horned Frogs' sch. : TCU
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Done up professionally : STYLED
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Motor-mouths love them : GABFESTS
36
Twelve Oaks neighbor : TARA
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Oppression : PALL
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Brouhaha : BIGSCENE
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Title heroine of many Beverly Cleary books : RAMONA
47
"Bambi" character : ENA
48
Infect : TAINT
50
Steps on a scale : TONES
51
Are, in Ávila : ESTA
53
Old PC installation : MSDOS
55
Buttonholes, say : SEWS
56
1980 John Carpenter chiller : THEFOG
58
Code collection : LAWS
60
Moo ___ pork : SHU
61
"Norma" librettist Felice ___ : ROMANI
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Parrot : IMITATOR
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Alternative to crossing out : ERASER
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Camp clothing label : NAMETAPE
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Associated with choppers : DENTAL
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Caught : ENSNARED
Down
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Water under the bridge : BYGONES
2
High-tech report : READOUT
3
Way to await something : EAGERLY
4
Terse question : WHO
5
Lat. and others, once : SSRS
6
High marks : KUDOS
7
Tony winner Worth and others : IRENES
8
Overcasting in order to prevent fraying : SERGING
9
Where to get bluepoints : OYSTERBAR
10
Okinawa port : NAHA
11
Pulls the switch? : SWAPS
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They may put out feelers : INSECTS
13
Take away : DETRACT
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"The Praise of Folly" author : ERASMUS
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Iron-pumpers' targets : DELTS
25
Spring's opposite : NEAP
28
Strike back, e.g. : REACT
30
Chopin's "Raindrop" Prelude is in it : DFLAT
33
Perfect 10, perhaps : DREAMGIRL
35
"___ World" ("Sesame Street" segment) : ELMOS
37
French cordial flavoring : ANIS
39
Obviously embarrassed : BEETRED
40
Like some marine habitats : INSHORE
41
One may let you in : GATEMAN
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Court boundary : ENDLINE
44
Low-quality : ONESTAR
45
Pennsylvania town connected by bridge to Lambertville, N.J. : NEWHOPE
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Nice way to rest : ASSURED
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Unanimously : TOAMAN
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Make ___ buck : AFAST
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Crawls, e.g. : SWIMS
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Quite qualified to serve : ONEA
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W.W. II weapon : STEN
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Loss leader? : ATA

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 5 debuted here and reused later, 2 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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