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New York Times, Saturday, December 7, 1996

Author:
R. H. Burns
Editor:
Will Shortz
52-Across : "Take On Me" pop trio
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Rand H. Burns

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 72, Blocks: 29 Missing: {JQXZ} Spans: 2 Puzzle has duplicate clues. This is puzzle # 21 for Mr. Burns. Saturday freshness: 5%
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© 1996, The New York Times12/7/96 ( No. 17,196 )
Across
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Person in a cast : ACTRESS
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Salts : SEADOGS
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Product of the mountains of Italy : CHIANTI
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One who can't get a seat : ALSORAN
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Obsolescent symbol : HAMMERANDSICKLE
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Head lock : TRESS
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Press : MEDIA
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Embattled funding org. : NEA
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Caesar's sidekick : COCA
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Kin of "-kin" : ULE
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Fax button : SEND
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High-tensile steel product : PIANOWIRE
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Tikal dwellers : MAYAS
30
Show fallibility : ERR
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Inability to smell : ANOSMIA
33
Colorful pottery : REDWARE
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It's usually inadmissible : HEARSAY
40
Arctic sheet : ICEFLOE
42
Indiana humorist : ADE
43
Byrd book : ALONE
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Entry mode for full gainers : FEETFIRST
49
Yap : BARK
50
Overseas relative : TIA
51
Chronicle : SAGA
52
"Take On Me" pop trio : AHA
53
Prefix with surgery or transmitter : MICRO
55
Blown-up area : INSET
58
Snug joint : TONGUEANDGROOVE
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Like some alkaloids : ERGOTIC
62
Subject of Newton's first law : INERTIA
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Lot : DESTINY
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Catholicon : CUREALL
Down
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Zwei cubed : ACHT
2
Burn : CHAR
3
It gets punched : TIMECARD
4
Garlic variety : RAMSON
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Menuhin's mentor : ENESCO
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Gibr., for one : STR
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Famous twins' birthplace : SIAM
8
Two-tone oxford : SADDLESHOE
9
Dinsmore of children's literature : ELSIE
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One of seven big things : ASIA
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One of seven small things : DOC
12
___ Islands (Scapa Flow locale) : ORKNEY
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PbS : GALENA
14
Slammin' Sammy's family : SNEADS
18
Prefix with surgery or transmitter : NEURO
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Informed : AWARE
25
Mosel tributary : SAAR
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A head : PER
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Dudgeon : IRE
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Futility : INEFFICACY
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War stat : MIA
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Fulfills : MEETS
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Subtle signal : WINK
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Crack : ACE
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Site of Florida's first golf course : SARASOTA
38
Deuce followers : ADS
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Nonetheless : YET
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Absorb : LEARN
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Died down : ABATED
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City in Kipling's "Kim" : LAHORE
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Arboreal apes : ORANGS
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Like Snow White, vis-a-vis the Queen : FAIRER
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Bypass : IGNORE
50
Link : TIEIN
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Ormandy's successor in Philadelphia : MUTI
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Lyrical : ODIC
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Base : EVIL
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Shade of blue : TEAL
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Fetched : GOT
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Brindled beast : GNU

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

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