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New York Times, Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Author:
Paula Gamache
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
34-Across : Changes course suddenly
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Paula Gamache

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 38 Missing: {JQZ} Spans: 2 Puzzle has duplicate clues. This is puzzle # 66 for Ms. Gamache. Tuesday freshness: 19%
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© 2011, The New York Times2/15/11 ( No. 22,379 )
Across
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___ Picchu (site of Incan ruins) : MACHU
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It's returned by a ticket-taker : STUB
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"Arrivederci ___" : ROMA
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Standoffish : ALOOF
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Topnotch : AONE
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Designer Cassini : OLEG
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Something everybody is aware of : COMMONKNOWLEDGE
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Stick with a stick : STAB
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Nincompoop : ASS
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Trojan War hero : AENEAS
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Gun, as an engine : REV
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Gait faster than a walk : TROT
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It's not very short and not very tall : AVERAGEHEIGHT
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401, in old Rome : CDI
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"There's ___ in My Bucket" (children's song) : AHOLE
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Changes course suddenly : VEERS
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Plan that changes courses : DIET
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Expiration notices? : OBITS
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It can scratch an itch : NAIL
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Attach with needle and thread : SEWON
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Do-it-yourself relocation rental : UHAUL
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Orbison who sang "Oh, Pretty Woman" : ROY
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They may be rounded up after a crime, with "the" : USUALSUSPECTS
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Exam for an aspiring J.D. : LSAT
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Prefix with sphere : EXO
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Buckeye : OHIOAN
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Goof up : ERR
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Mutual fund charge : LOAD
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Cheapest choice at the pump : REGULARGASOLINE
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Freud's libido : EROS
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Letter-shaped beam : IBAR
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Orange or grape soda brand : FANTA
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Peeved : SORE
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Fries, to a burger : SIDE
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Alan or Adam of filmdom : ARKIN
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Non-P.C. choices? : MACS
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Oodles : ALOT
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State it's not good to be in : COMA
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Man, in Havana : HOMBRE
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Sci-fi sight : UFO
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Noted Fifth Avenue emporium : SAKS
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Oodles : TONS
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Numero ___ : UNO
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"Watch out now" : BEWARE
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Winner of the first Nobel Prize in Physics, 1901 : ROENTGEN
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Shoppe description : OLDE
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Huge: Prefix : MEGA
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Matures : AGES
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Like the land that includes Monument Valley : NAVAHO
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Sainted ninth-century pope : LEOIV
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Elizabethan ___ : ERA
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Sorority members such as Ann-Margret and Laura Bush : THETAS
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"Farewell" : ADIEU
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Pros and cons : VIEWS
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Lose one's shirt, in business : GOBUST
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Yale of Yale University : ELIHU
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What the Tin Woodman sought from the Wizard of Oz : HEART
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The Ghostbusters and the Police : TRIOS
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D.J.'s collection : CDS
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Cunning : SLY
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Artist Henri de ___-Lautrec : TOULOUSE
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Apartment building overseers, informally : SUPERS
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Twangy-sounding : NASAL
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Comics villain ___ Luthor : LEX
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Hawaiian verandas : LANAIS
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Arrest : COLLAR
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Lucky strikes? : ORES
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Subway fare? : HERO
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Composer Stravinsky : IGOR
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Oath of old : EGAD
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Burger order specification : RARE
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Piggy plaint : OINK
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Dead set against : ANTI
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Watergate figure John : DEAN
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Cleanup hitter's stat : RBI
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"Anatomy ___ Murder" : OFA

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