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New York Times, Saturday, November 18, 2006

Author:
Victor Fleming
Editor:
Will Shortz
29-Across : Border
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Victor Fleming

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 68, Blocks: 30 Missing: {QZ} Spans: 3 This is puzzle # 6 for Mr. Fleming. Saturday freshness: 33%
Victor Fleming notes:

I submitted this puzzle about 50 weeks before its publication date. In the transmittal letter I listed the twelve longest answers and their clues. In what was becoming, by then, something of a tradition,

Will changed eleven of those twelve clues. The one that survived, though, was so clever on my part that I feel bound to repeat it here: [Some cats] SIAMESES. This was my first themeless crossword in the Times.

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© 2006, The New York Times11/18/6 ( No. 20,829 )
Across
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Interviewer in some mock interviews : BABAWAWA
9
Point in the wrong direction : MISAIM
15
Grad school administration : ORALEXAM
16
Eponym for an annual literary award since 1919 : OHENRY
17
Attention-getter : NOTABENE
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Goal-oriented activity : SOCCER
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Balmy : NUTS
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Actress who made her big-screen debut in "Julia," 1977 : STREEP
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Inits. in a 1948 upset : HST
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It's often taken in night sch. : ESL
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Like germs : TINY
25
Bubble : BOIL
26
Souvenir shop staples : TEES
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Rather, musically : POCO
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Border : VERGE
30
"Shake Loose My Skin" poet Sanchez : SONIA
32
Losers : ALSORANS
34
Able to draw : FASCINATING
36
Captain's charge : JETPLANE
38
Something to part with : ADIEU
40
"... lived in ___" : ASHOE
41
Envoy and others : GMCS
43
Point in the right direction? : EAST
45
Look : MIEN
46
Asian city heavily bombed during W.W. II : KOBE
47
Alex Box Stadium sch. : LSU
48
Knock hard? : PAN
49
Ending words of inclusiveness : ANDALL
51
Millinery : HATS
52
Pungent cheese : ASIAGO
54
Some cats : SIAMESES
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Enclosing rim in which a jewel is set : COLLET
57
Longtime play-by-play announcer Chris : SCHENKEL
58
Works with one's hands : KNEADS
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It may be planned before a move : YARDSALE
Down
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Clothing item with strings : BONNET
2
Gets excited : AROUSES
3
Admiral Nelson victory : BATTLEOFTHENILE
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Expression of unhappiness : ALAS
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Natural trap : WEB
6
Cans : AXES
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"Are you up for it?" : WANTTO
8
Scene of many demonstrations : AMERICANEMBASSY
9
Amble : MOSEY
10
Chain letters? : IHOP
11
Tick : SEC
12
Earthquake Park setting : ANCHORAGEALASKA
13
Quitter's cry : IRESIGN
14
Allspice and clove, e.g. : MYRTLES
21
Name on a historic B-29 : ENOLA
25
QB Kosar : BERNIE
27
Easily attachable : SNAPON
28
Cousin of an agouti : PACA
29
Cancel : VOID
31
Resort site : ISLE
33
Subway map array: Abbr. : STAS
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How some trust : INGOD
36
Cram : JAMPACK
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Boomer born in the 1960's : ESIASON
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Pittsburgh giant : USSTEEL
42
Car model beginning in 1970 : CELICA
44
Scrap : TUSSLE
46
Tough posers : KNOTS
49
Like some cigars : AGED
50
Garland co-star of 1939 : LAHR
51
Nesters : HENS
53
___ provençale : ALA
55
Pill, e.g. : MED

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

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