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New York Times, Thursday, November 8, 2001

Author:
Manny Nosowsky
Editor:
Will Shortz
59-Across : Power broker?
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Manny Nosowsky

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 70, Blocks: 32 Missing: {GQVXZ} Spans: 2 This is puzzle # 143 for Mr. Nosowsky. Thursday freshness: 93%
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© 2001, The New York Times11/8/1 ( No. 18,993 )
Across
1
Total : ADDUPTO
8
Sleepers : PAJAMAS
15
Shiraz resident : IRANIAN
16
Early Christian : APOSTLE
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Dance floor request : MAYICUTINPLEASE
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Airport northwest of LAX : SFO
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Poor dancer : STIFF
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Poi-producing plants : TAROS
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___ time : ATNO
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Whittle : PARE
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Skater Lipinski : TARA
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"I have measured out my life with coffee spoons" writer : TSELIOT
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First name on Broadway, 1951 : YUL
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Rarer than rare : RAW
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Knucklehead : MORON
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Odysseus, to the Cyclops Polyphemus : NOMAN
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Name whose reading hints at 17- and 59-Across : CONNECTICUT
39
"___ and the Pussycats" (2001 movie) : JOSIE
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Is extremely cool, slangily : ROCKS
41
Peaked : WAN
42
Have a bawl : CRY
44
In addition : BESIDES
48
Platter player : HIFI
50
Responsive to the helm, in nautical lingo : YARE
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Time out? : COMA
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___ decent living : EARNA
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Is defeated : LOSES
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Cabin bed : COT
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Power broker? : ELECTRICUTILITY
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Actress Day of "Foreign Correspondent" : LARAINE
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Snake in the grass : RATTLER
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Naps, in Nogales : SIESTAS
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Escape artists : ELUDERS
Down
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Draws a bead on : AIMSAT
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Preliminary write-ups : DRAFTS
3
The start of something : DAYONE
4
Prefix with valve : UNI
5
Shots, for short : PICS
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Tight : TAUT
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Walking quietly : ONTIPTOE
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Make schnitzel, e.g. : PANFRY
9
Software program, briefly : APP
10
Shock : JOLT
11
"Save me ___" (movie request) : ASEAT
12
Bibl. landing site : MTARARAT
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One who's back in the pack : ALSORAN
14
Go up and down : SEESAW
18
"___ body meet ..." : IFA
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Actor Edward James ___ : OLMOS
25
One of the Kennedys : EUNICE
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Greek column type : IONIC
29
Pig-headed : ORNERY
31
Canal features : LOCKS
34
A.T.M.-making co. : NCR
36
"Sweet and healing medicine of troubles": Horace : MUSIC
37
Colleague : CONFRERE
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"Of course ..." : TOBESURE
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Handball relative : JAIALAI
41
Crate that runs : WHEELS
43
Some Ivy Leaguers : YALIES
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Easy to control : DOCILE
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Ham on stage : EMOTER
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Mates for forest nymphs : SATYRS
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Onetime empire builders : INCAS
51
Sinbad's bird : ROC
54
Fighting : ATIT
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Abbreviated Latin phrase : ETAL
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In ___ (where found) : SITU
60
Cytoplasm material : RNA
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Inc., abroad : LTD

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

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