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New York Times, Friday, February 24, 2012

Author:
Patrick Berry
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
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Patrick Berry

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 64, Blocks: 32 Missing: {FJQXZ} Spans: 1 This is puzzle # 159 for Mr. Berry. Friday freshness: 65%
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© 2012, The New York Times2/24/12 ( No. 22,753 )
Across
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Cuisine featuring nam prik : THAI
5
Identifies : PEGS
9
Counterpart : MATE
13
Mezzo-soprano Marilyn : HORNE
15
1968 Best Actor nominee for "The Fixer" : ALANBATES
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A blimp may hover over one : ARENA
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Induce squirming in, perhaps : EMBARRASS
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Coat that's easy to take off : WATERBASEPAINT
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French loanword that literally means "rung on a ladder" : ECHELON
22
Colors : TINCTS
24
Perfect : DEADON
25
It was MSNBC's highest-rated program when canceled in 2003 : DONAHUE
26
Antique shop purchase : CURIO
29
Wizard's garment : ROBE
30
Paper assets : STOCKSANDSHARES
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Device with a hard disk : TIVO
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It has a denomination of $1,000 : TNOTE
38
Homeric character who commits matricide : ORESTES
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Weapons used to finish off the Greek army at Thermopylae : ARROWS
46
What a robot might resemble : PERSON
47
To the left : LIBERAL
48
Psychedelic 1968 song featuring a lengthy drum solo : INAGADDADAVIDA
51
What a whatnot has : BRICABRAC
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Like molasses : GOOEY
53
Danger for a climber : ROCKSLIDE
54
President's daughter on "The West Wing" : ELLIE
55
Alternative to "your" : ONES
56
Company whose Nasdaq symbol is the company's name : EBAY
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Keep alive, as a fire : TEND
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Showed a bit more friendliness : THAWED
2
Poet who gave us "carpe diem" : HORACE
3
Singer at Barack's inauguration : ARETHA
4
Poor : INNEED
5
Hymn sung to Apollo : PAEAN
6
Trees in Gray's country churchyard : ELMS
7
Kaplan who co-hosted six seasons of "High Stakes Poker" : GABE
8
Acknowledge a commander's entrance, maybe : SNAPTO
9
Pizza sauce : MARINARA
10
Not going with the flow? : ATANCHOR
11
Round-bottomed container : TESTTUBE
12
Letter on Kal-El's costume : ESS
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One hanging at a temple : EARLOCK
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It's all in your head : BRAIN
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Christmas green? : BONUS
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Gets the gist : SEES
25
Dimwit : DODO
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"I hate it when that happens!" : RATS
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Business often located near an interstate : INN
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Obstruct : STOP
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Trunk item : TIREIRON
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Too accommodating for one's own good : OVERNICE
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Once-autonomous people of southern Russia : COSSACKS
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Sober : STAID
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Nonwoody plant parts : HERBAGE
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Senate sheets : TOGAS
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Make possible : ENABLE
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Disobey the rule? : REVOLT
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Baltimore's ___ Park : ORIOLE
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Begin with enthusiasm : WADEIN
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Got a lot of laughs out of : SLAYED
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1980s Tyne Daly role : LACEY
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Small quantity : DRIB
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Surrealism forerunner : DADA
51
Buddy : BRO

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5 unique to this puzzle, 2 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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