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New York Times, Friday, February 24, 2006

Author:
Manny Nosowsky
Editor:
Will Shortz
17-Across : Certain secretary
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Manny Nosowsky

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 68, Blocks: 27 Missing: {QV} Puzzle has duplicate clues. This is puzzle # 230 for Mr. Nosowsky. Friday freshness: 77%
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© 2006, The New York Times2/24/6 ( No. 20,562 )
Across
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Tanglewood's ___ Hall : SEIJIOZAWA
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Wet blanket? : MIST
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Winslow Homer's "The Reaper," e.g. : WATERCOLOR
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After : ONCE
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Certain secretary : ESCRITOIRE
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When repeated, a taunt : NYAH
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Standard of living? : ETHOS
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Place that may suit you : MENSSTORE
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After : BEHIND
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___ bourgeoisie (gentry) : HAUTE
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"It will come ___ surprise ..." : ASNO
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Within: Prefix : ENTO
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Prefix with business : AGRI
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End of many a riddle : WHOAMI
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Isn't just a licensee : OWNS
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The Seminoles, in coll. sports : FSU
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Hardly an independent thinker : LEMMING
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Fail : NOTPASS
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But, to Brutus : SED
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Prefix with drama : MELO
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Political convention activity : CAUCUS
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Tow job : REPO
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Mark of a ruler : INCH
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It may have a big head : BEER
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___ bar : TAPAS
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Anago, in a sushi restaurant : SEAEEL
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Hideous : UGLYASSIN
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One thrown at a rodeo : RIATA
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Immoralist : ROUE
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Big blow to the Japanese? : KARATECHOP
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"This one's ___" : ONME
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"Well, bless my soul" : IDODECLARE
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Forks : WYES
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Place to wait for a couple of minutes, maybe : PENALTYBOX
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___' Pea : SWEE
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Marco Polo's heading : EAST
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Zinc oxide may treat it : ITCH
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Giant bottle : JEROBOAM
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Maya Angelou's "And Still ___" : IRISE
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Mo. with United Nations Day : OCT
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Get very close : ZOOMIN
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Not recognizable by : ALIENTO
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Wearied : WORNDOWN
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Trojan ally, in the "Iliad" : ARES
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Wiesbaden weekday : MONTAG
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Confrontational : INYOURFACE
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Cicatrix : SCARTISSUE
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Ticklee's utterance : TEHEE
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Mount in Siskiyou County : SHASTA
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Poet who wrote "Don't send a poet to London" : HEINE
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Cobblers' tools : AWLS
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Does it ever hurt! : SHEERAGONY
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Voltaire, e.g. : NOMDEPLUME
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Brunch beverage : MIMOSA
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Time to see estrellas : NOCHE
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Former empire inits. : USSR
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Ballet step : GLISSADE
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For all to see : PUBLICLY
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Club with a nearly vertical face : ONEIRON
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Check list? : PAYEES
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Home of the 1988 and 2010 Winter Olympics : CANADA
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Best-selling author of "Personal Injuries" : TUROW
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Stiff-backed : ERECT
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Pass on : SKIP
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Starbuck's orderer : AHAB
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Bilbao bull : TORO
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Top : APEX
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Application form datum: Abbr. : TEL

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2 unique to this puzzle, 10 debuted here and reused later.

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