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New York Times, Monday, February 7, 2005

Author:
Gordon Seaberg
Editor:
Will Shortz
54-Across : Step-up
TotalDebut
12/7/2005
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0100000
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1.4741%
Gordon Seaberg

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 38 Missing: {FGJKQXZ} This is the debut puzzle for Mr. Seaberg. Monday freshness: 3%
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© 2005, The New York Times2/7/5 ( No. 20,180 )
Across
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Jane Austen novel : EMMA
5
Chopper blade : ROTOR
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Friend : PAL
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Meat cuts behind the ribs : LOINS
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Give the slip : EVADE
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Pharmaceutical giant ___ Lilly : ELI
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Poker instruction : CUTTHECARDS
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___ v. Wade (1973 Supreme Court decision) : ROE
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Elapsed time : INTERVAL
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Slowly merged (into) : EASED
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Filling maker: Abbr. : DDS
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Saudi export : OIL
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"The final frontier" : SPACE
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Slots instruction : PULLTHELEVER
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Burn with hot liquid : SCALD
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His and ___ : HERS
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Cousin of an ostrich : EMU
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"Piece of cake!" : EASY
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Diamond weight : CARAT
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Mojave-like : ARID
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Mornings, for short : AMS
41
Boot bottom : SOLE
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Devoutness : PIETY
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Roulette instruction : SPINTHEWHEEL
47
Paris divider : SEINE
48
Versatile truck, informally : UTE
49
___ King Cole : NAT
52
Carafe size : LITER
54
Step-up : INCREASE
56
Critic ___ Louise Huxtable : ADA
57
Craps instruction : ROLLTHEDICE
60
Chess pieces : MEN
61
Clear the blackboard : ERASE
62
Breed of red cattle : DEVON
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Mammal that sleeps upside-down : BAT
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Shut out : DEBAR
65
New Jersey five : NETS
Down
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Castilian hero : ELCID
2
Pitcher's place : MOUND
3
Pitchers' gloves : MITTS
4
Prelude to a deal : ANTE
5
Carmaker's woe : RECALL
6
Racetrack : OVAL
7
Road goo : TAR
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Strange : ODD
9
Closes again, as an envelope : RESEALS
10
Keep working hard : PERSEVERE
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___ vera : ALOE
12
Told a whopper : LIED
14
Hide from view : SHROUD
18
Like Darth Vader : EVIL
22
11-pointer in blackjack : ACE
25
Queens ball park : SHEA
26
Sassy : PERT
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Work at, as a trade : PLY
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Pitched : THREW
29
Send forth : EMIT
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New York's Giuliani : RUDY
31
The world has seven of them : SEAS
32
Where soldiers stay overnight : CAMP
33
Helper : ASSISTANT
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Harry ___, Columbia Pictures co-founder : COHN
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Sheltered, nautically : ALEE
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Be under the weather : AIL
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How 007 does not like martinis : STIRRED
42
Squinted : PEERED
44
Formerly known as : NEE
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Orion, with "the" : HUNTER
46
Leave one's mark on : ETCH
49
Unsophisticated : NAIVE
50
High-class tie : ASCOT
51
Parenting challenges : TEENS
52
Ewe's baby : LAMB
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"I had no ___!" : IDEA
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Rick's love in "Casablanca" : ILSA
55
Paradise lost : EDEN
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It's north of Calif. : ORE
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Research room : LAB

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