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New York Times, Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Author:
Robert W. Harris
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
27-Across : Greedy sort
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Robert W. Harris

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 36 Missing: {FJQV} This is puzzle # 5 for Mr. Harris. Wednesday freshness: 29%
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© 2010, The New York Times11/17/10 ( No. 22,289 )
Across
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Home, slangily : CRIB
5
Rio Grande city : ELPASO
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In the manner of : ALA
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Rhein tributary : AARE
15
Food storage area : LARDER
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Mick Jagger's title : SIR
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Signs of elation --> marathon segments : BROADSMILES
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Liberal arts maj. : SOC
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Prefix with skeleton : ENDO
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Italy's side, once : AXIS
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Melt ingredient : TUNA
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Put down : ABASED
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Sign of trouble --> commercial writers : BADOMEN
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Greedy sort : PIG
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Certain offshoot : SECT
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Lech of Poland's Solidarity : WALESA
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Beehive State Indians : UTES
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"Born from jets" automaker : SAAB
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Watch readouts, for short : LEDS
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Pigtail --> cause for a siren : HAIRBRAID
40
Hydrotherapy sites : SPAS
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Squandered, as a lead : BLEW
43
Courtroom attention-getter : OYEZ
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Like some phone minutes : UNUSED
49
Furry sci-fi creature : EWOK
51
That, in Tijuana : ESO
52
Toaster food --> dazzling designs : POPTART
54
Smoothly, on a score : LEGATO
56
Spanish counterpart of a mlle. : SRTA
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"Dies ___" : IRAE
60
Rotund Wolfe : NERO
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Ore suffix : ITE
62
Fireplace part --> fall color : HEARTHSTONE
65
TV spot, often : DEN
66
Katharine Hepburn's foursome : OSCARS
67
États-___ : UNIS
68
What a farmer in Del. works on? : EDT
69
Surgeon's probe : STYLET
70
Bog product : PEAT
Down
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Locomotive part : CAB
2
Cheesy dish : RAREBIT
3
First millennium B.C., roughly : IRONAGE
4
Worrier's handful : BEADS
5
Chi-town rails : ELS
6
Holy man in an Ogden Nash verse : LAMA
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___ fixe : PRIX
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Forgo the script : ADLIB
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Plaything for two : SEESAW
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Places for scrubs, for short : ORS
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Like an alias : ASSUMED
12
Disney's Nala, for one : LIONESS
13
Deep secrets : ARCANA
18
Performs : DOES
22
El Greco's city : TOLEDO
23
Satyajit Ray's "The ___ Trilogy" : APU
24
First name in '50s TV comedy : DESI
26
Painter of dreamscapes : DALI
29
Prepare for a marathon, say, with "up" : CARB
30
Set aside : TABLE
33
Cascade Range peak : SHASTA
35
Make stout : BREW
38
On the ocean blue : ASEA
39
A.F.B. truant : AWOL
40
Showed contempt for something : SNORTED
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Soldier's shelter : PUPTENT
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The start of time : YEARONE
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Where Skype was invented : ESTONIA
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Wild scene : ZOO
47
Positive aspect : UPSIDE
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Having the least vermouth : DRIEST
50
Ranges of knowledge : KENS
53
Comics character with a wrist radio : TRACY
55
Fancy duds : GETUP
58
Asia's ___ Sea : ARAL
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To be, to Brigitte : ETRE
62
Jolly sounds : HOS
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Prez who said "If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen" : HST
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Ballpark fig. : EST

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