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New York Times, Friday, November 21, 2008

Author:
Patrick Berry
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
35-Across : What jack-in-the-boxes do
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Patrick Berry

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 62, Blocks: 38 Missing: {FJXZ} This is puzzle # 115 for Mr. Berry. Friday freshness: 82%
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© 2008, The New York Times11/21/8 ( No. 21,563 )
Across
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Paid, with "up" : PONIED
7
Garden pests in Harry Potter books : GNOMES
13
Authorize : ENABLE
14
Greeting in Granada : QUEPASA
15
1950 #1 hit for the Ames Brothers : RAGMOP
16
Bedlamites : LUNATICS
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Hush-hush org. : NSA
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Least welcoming : ICIEST
20
"Am I an idiot!" : DOH
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___ buco : OSSO
23
Brain part : LOBE
24
Possible response to name-calling? : HERE
25
Gauge part : DIAL
26
They affect one's constitution : AMENDMENTS
29
Scottish dog breed : SKYETERRIER
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"Go ahead with your proposal" : IMLISTENING
33
Unmentionable : PANTYGIRDLE
35
What jack-in-the-boxes do : SPRINGOPEN
38
Word of dismay : OOPS
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Singer/songwriter Gilmore : THEA
41
Table game with paddles, slangily : PONG
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Holder of spectacles : NOSE
43
Relig. title : REV
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Means : WEALTH
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Neither high nor low : MID
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Small and insignificant : ONEHORSE
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King who had an audience with Pope Leo I : ATTILA
52
Projecting windows : DORMERS
53
Pay the bills with : LIVEON
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Print up? : EMBOSS
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Doesn't repeat one's mistake : LEARNS
Down
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Clear liqueur : PERNOD
2
Billionaire who bought the Greek island Skorpios : ONASSIS
3
"Madame Butterfly" setting : NAGASAKI
4
Co. whose employees have won four Nobel Prizes : IBM
5
"Telephone Line" band, briefly : ELO
6
Removing hair from, as the body : DEPILATING
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They're held by stocks : GUNS
8
Bar request : NEAT
9
Show a preference : OPT
10
Horse that has never won a race : MAIDEN
11
Conduct : ESCORT
12
Military uniform accouterments : SASHES
14
Title assumed by Margaret Tudor in 1513 : QUEENREGENT
16
Symbol of dissent against British rule : LIBERTYPOLE
19
Transpires : COMESTOPASS
22
State capital with just 42,000 people : OLYMPIA
24
William ___, law partner of Abraham Lincoln : HERNDON
27
Campus gathering place : DININGHALL
28
Russian-born Israeli leader : MEIR
30
Dash : ELAN
32
Not as bright : GLOOMIER
34
Electromotive force symbol : EPSILON
35
Moved with authority : STRODE
36
Prodigy : PHENOM
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Label on an amplifier knob : REVERB
39
Civics, e.g. : SEDANS
44
Things to worry about : WOES
45
Guesses wrong : ERRS
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Grp. that charges premiums : HMO
50
___ fighter ("Star Wars" ship) : TIE
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Corp. created by F.D.R. : TVA

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7 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 2 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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