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New York Times, Wednesday, November 17, 2004

Author:
Richard Silvestri
Editor:
Will Shortz
20-Across : Sideshow spiel
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Richard Silvestri

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 38 Missing: {GQXZ} This is puzzle # 126 for Mr. Silvestri. Wednesday freshness: 45%
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© 2004, The New York Times11/17/4 ( No. 20,098 )
Across
1
Genie's offering : WISH
5
Rascal : SCAMP
10
Final Four letters : NCAA
14
Tops : AONE
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Video companion : AUDIO
16
Cry of surprise : OHMY
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Fast-moving construction machine? : SWIFTCRANE
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Film editor's technique : WIPE
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Sideshow spiel : PATTER
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Set of moral principles : ETHIC
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Sniggled : EELED
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Out of kilter : ASKEW
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Watergate, e.g. : SCANDAL
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John of "Fawlty Towers" : CLEESE
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Insolent : SAUCY
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Hard-to-move painting : MURAL
36
Hush-hush org. : NSA
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Agreeable : NICE
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Hemmed in : BESET
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Open a bit : AJAR
40
Family : ILK
41
Homer hero of '61 : MARIS
42
Isn't just a benchwarmer : PLAYS
43
Ending with web and sure : FOOTED
45
Returns from Venus, say : VOLLEYS
47
Displeased look : FROWN
48
TV, radio, magazines, etc. : MEDIA
49
Comedian Anderson : LOUIE
51
Isn't fully upright : STOOPS
56
Mouthful of tobacco : CHAW
58
Eat pizza? : SWALLOWPIE
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Dance in a circle : HORA
62
Home of the brave : TEPEE
63
Historic ship : NINA
64
Jet black : INKY
65
"Awake and Sing!" playwright : ODETS
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Show on the face of it : SEEM
Down
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Yellow jacket : WASP
2
Davenport site : IOWA
3
Fit of pique : SNIT
4
Weight : HEFT
5
Like some cows : SACRED
6
Mongrel : CUR
7
Nabokov novel : ADA
8
Sought salt : MINED
9
Lay man? : POET
10
Not at all : NOWISE
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Cowardly Leno? : CHICKENJAY
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Roadie's tote : AMP
13
"Certainly, captain!" : AYE
18
Minuscule : TEENY
22
Campus building : HALL
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Worse, as excuses go : LAMER
25
Hard to grasp : ELUSIVE
27
Joseph Addison output : ESSAYS
28
Becomes frayed : WEARS
29
13-Down speaker : SAILOR
30
Crazy antic? : CUCKOOLARK
31
Trick taker, often : ACE
32
One eyeing a canary, maybe : CAT
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Express disdain : SNIFF
35
Do some landscaping : RESOD
38
Rotten : BAD
39
Barley product : ALE
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PC listing : MENU
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Aristotle's teacher : PLATO
44
Like most streets : TWOWAY
46
Cotton threads : LISLES
48
Sounded kittenish : MEWED
50
Ratio phrase : ISTO
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Has complete domination over : OWNS
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Ron Howard role : OPIE
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Tar source : PINE
55
Coal site : SEAM
56
Phi follower : CHI
57
Sweets : HON
59
Make like : APE
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Rent out : LET

Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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