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New York Times, Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Author:
Aimee Lucido
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
14-Across : With 5-Down, where "Quiet!" is often yelled
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Aimee Lucido

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 38 Missing: {JQXZ} Spans: 3 Puzzle has duplicate clues. This is puzzle # 2 for Ms. Lucido. Tuesday freshness: 32%
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© 2011, The New York Times11/29/11 ( No. 22,666 )
Across
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LPs and 45s : DISCS
6
Cools, as drinks : ICES
10
Traffic components : CARS
14
With 5-Down, where "Quiet!" is often yelled : ONTHE
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"Not guilty," e.g. : PLEA
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Eye part : UVEA
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Like some stickers : SCRATCHANDSNIFF
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Spicy cuisine : THAI
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Sweetie : HON
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Make fun of : TEASE
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Enemy of Spider-Man : GREENGOBLIN
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Identify in a Facebook photo : TAG
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Source of stress for a coll. senior : GRE
30
Where shingles go : ROOF
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Mea ___ : CULPA
33
Pants part : HEM
34
Cutlass or Delta 88 : OLDS
38
Navigation aid for Hansel and Gretel : BREADCRUMBTRAIL
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Tale : YARN
43
Thumbs-up vote : AYE
44
Card game of Spanish origin : OMBRE
45
Almanac contents : DATA
47
Not Rep. or Ind. : DEM
49
Wood in archery bows : YEW
50
Degrees of separation in a Hollywood parlor game : BACONNUMBER
53
Building made of bricks : ADOBE
55
Branch : ARM
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Branch : LIMB
59
1976 Abba song ... or a hint to the starts of 17-, 23-, 38- and 50-Across : MONEYMONEYMONEY
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Prime draft status : ONEA
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Possesses : OWNS
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Probably will, after "is" : APTTO
66
Deborah of "The King and I" : KERR
67
Bygone Tunisian V.I.P.'s : DEYS
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"Get clean" program : REHAB
Down
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"O mighty Caesar! ___ thou lie so low?": Shak. : DOST
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Move slowly : INCH
3
One finishing a marathon in eight hours, say : STRAGGLER
4
Leader of a meeting : CHAIR
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See 14-Across : SET
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"There's an app for that" device : IPHONE
7
Trolley sound : CLANG
8
Day's end, to a poet : EEN
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Downcast : SAD
10
Writing with wedges and such : CUNEIFORM
11
Birdlike : AVIAN
12
Ones dressed in stripes, for short : REFS
13
Secure : SAFE
18
Often-impersonated diva : CHER
19
Normandy battle site : STLO
24
"Gosh almighty!" : EGAD
25
Utah city : OREM
26
Crash and burn : BOMB
27
Franchise offering "soft serve" and "hand scooped" : TCBY
28
Subtle glow : AURA
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Chinese zoo attraction : PANDABEAR
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Color : HUE
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Feature of the ancient palace of Minos at Knossos : LABYRINTH
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Urgent : DIRE
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Large amount : SLEW
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Ancient Roman censor : CATO
40
Actress Meg : RYAN
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Tut's resting place : TOMB
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___-deucy (backgammon variety) : ACEY
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Compulsion by threat : DURESS
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TV award : EMMY
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Screwup : BONER
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Mrs. Doubtfire, e.g. : NANNY
52
Run to Las Vegas, perhaps : ELOPE
53
Crazedly : AMOK
54
Finished : DONE
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Self-referential, in modern lingo : META
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Like many restaurants without a liquor lic. : BYOB
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Like some '60s fashion : MOD
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Run a tab : OWE
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Disfigure : MAR

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

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