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New York Times, Tuesday, November 2, 2010

Author:
Brendan Emmett Quigley
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
16-Across : Where a cowpuncher may work
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Brendan Emmett Quigley

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 14 Words: 71, Blocks: 34 Missing: {XZ} Spans: 1 Featured in Will Shortz's favorite puzzlemakers. Puzzle has duplicate clues. This is puzzle # 144 for Mr. Quigley. Tuesday freshness: 85%
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© 2010, The New York Times11/2/10 ( No. 22,274 )
Across
1
Toy gun shot : BBS
4
Machine that was often cloned : IBMPC
9
Molecular matter : ATOM
13
"Don't Bring Me Down" band, for short : ELO
14
It may be "golden" in mathematics : RATIO
15
Kind of shark : MAKO
16
Where a cowpuncher may work : DUDERANCH
18
Sweat spot : BROW
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School attended by James Bond ... and Ian Fleming : ETON
20
Big bears : KODIAKS
22
Drink made with vodka, coffee liqueur and cream : WHITERUSSIAN
26
Equipment for Olympian Lindsey Vonn : SKIS
27
Aunts, in Arles : TANTES
30
"Exodus" hero : ARI
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Grades in the mid-70s : CEES
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"Arrivederci" : CIAO
36
"Sorry if that rude word offended you" : PARDONMYFRENCH
40
Double-reed woodwind : OBOE
41
Prefix with -morphism : ENDO
42
"What a pleasant surprise!" : OHO
43
Letter-writing prisoner, perhaps : PENPAL
46
Quatre + un : CINQ
48
Play whence the phrase "the most unkindest cut of all" : JULIUSCAESAR
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Group for young people coping with parental substance abuse : ALATEEN
55
"Othello" villain : IAGO
56
Green fruit : KIWI
57
What the last words in 16-, 22-, 36- and 48-Across are : DRESSINGS
61
___ fixe : IDEE
62
"Fiddler on the Roof" milkman : TEVYE
63
Game cube : DIE
64
Signs of approval : NODS
65
Pictures that may be difficult to focus on : OPART
66
Word repeated in a classic "When Harry Met Sally ..." scene : YES
Down
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Moisten, as grass : BEDEW
2
Animator Don : BLUTH
3
"Same here" : SODOI
4
Like the verb "to be": Abbr. : IRR
5
Sheep's cry : BAA
6
Everest, e.g.: Abbr. : MTN
7
Selects : PICKS
8
Any regular on "The View," e.g. : COHOST
9
Atmosphere, as at a restaurant : AMBIANCE
10
Quentin who directed "Inglourious Basterds" : TARANTINO
11
"I get it already!" : OKOK
12
Does some lawn work : MOWS
17
Sinusitis docs : ENTS
21
1/7 of a Spanish week : DIA
23
Kitchen utensil brand name : EKCO
24
Nothing, in Paris : RIEN
25
1972 #2 hit for Bill Withers : USEME
28
Individually : EACH
29
Greenwich Village neighbor : SOHO
30
Individually : APOP
31
"Streamers" playwright David : RABE
32
Exhibiting fierce determination : IRONJAWED
34
Matches, as two tapes : SYNCS
37
Sheriffs' sidekicks : DEPUTIES
38
Bank guarantor, for short : FDIC
39
"Five Women" author Jaffe : RONA
44
Word that can follow pale, brown or cask : ALE
45
Told fibs : LIEDTO
47
British monarch beginning in '52 : QEII
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Overseas diplomat in N.Y.C., say : UNREP
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Little Orphan Annie's dog : SANDY
51
Texas A&M athlete : AGGIE
52
Rock's Guns N' ___ : ROSES
53
Like, with "to" : AKIN
54
Beach resort at the entrance to the Lagoon of Venice : LIDO
58
Model Herzigova : EVA
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Six-Day War land: Abbr. : SYR
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Word with the longest entry in the O.E.D. : SET

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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