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New York Times, Friday, March 19, 2010

Author:
Trip Payne
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
25-Across : They change people's profiles
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Trip Payne

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 70, Blocks: 28 Missing: {QWZ} This is puzzle # 42 for Mr. Payne. Friday freshness: 53%
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© 2010, The New York Times3/19/10 ( No. 22,046 )
Across
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Land grant, of a sort : SHORELEAVE
11
"The Praise of Chimney-Sweepers" writer : ELIA
15
Person with a shaky story? : HULADANCER
16
Dosage units : RADS
17
Thanksgiving symbol : INDIANCORN
18
Drill instructors, e.g.: Abbr. : NCOS
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Viscosity symbols : ETAS
20
Joyner joiner? : KERSEE
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Bitter herb : RUE
23
Jason of "I Love You, Man" : SEGEL
25
They change people's profiles : NOSEJOBS
27
Subject of Article III, Section 3 of the Constitution : TREASON
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They may be charitable : TRUSTS
31
Schaefer alternative : STROHS
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Davis of "Evening Shade" : OSSIE
35
Fancy follower : THAT
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Top : ONEUP
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Coup de ___ (sudden impulse: Fr.) : TETE
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Spiral staircase, essentially : HELIX
43
One way to travel : ONFOOT
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"The Way I Am" autobiographer, 2008 : EMINEM
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Person from Moscow : IDAHOAN
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They hold on to things : PACKRATS
54
Physicist with a unit of distance named after him : FERMI
55
___ stretch : ATA
56
Went around in circles, perhaps : SKATED
59
Weakens : SAPS
60
Like potpourri, sometimes : PINY
62
Counts : ENUMERATES
64
Bluesy James : ETTA
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Spy's device : MINICAMERA
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Be a stinker : REEK
67
1952 best seller set in California : EASTOFEDEN
Down
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Least likely to take command : SHIEST
2
Hide seeker? : HUNTER
3
What the fortunate reach : OLDAGE
4
Complain loudly : RAISEASTINK
5
Author LeShan : EDA
6
Thin : LANK
7
Ending with prefer : ENCE
8
Voter registration grp. founded in 1970 : ACORN
9
Left to the editor? : VERSO
10
Companion of Algernon in an Oscar Wilde play : ERNEST
11
South end? : ERN
12
It was last an official Olympic event in 1908 : LACROSSE
13
Skeptical response : IDOUBTIT
14
Person who's been charged : ASSESSEE
21
First name in design : EERO
24
Allied transport, for short : LST
26
Despite everything : JUSTTHESAME
28
Plata's partner : ORO
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It just isn't done : NONO
32
Female octopus : HEN
33
Religious mystic : SUFI
35
1994 Michael Keaton film in which real journalists have cameo roles : THEPAPER
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Main ore of iron : HEMATITE
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Spanish seaport : ALICANTE
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Sheller's discard : POD
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Gen ___ (demographic group) : XERS
44
Bozo : OAF
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"You and whose army?!" : MAKEME
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Gave out one's address? : ORATED
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A in physics? : AMPERE
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Pathfinder producer : NISSAN
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Patty Hearst alias : TANIA
53
Blows the mind of : STUNS
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Broadcast : EMIT
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Roaring Twenties look : DECO
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Tibetan wolf's prey : YAK
63
"Battle of Britain" grp. : RAF

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 2 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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