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New York Times, Thursday, March 24, 2011

Author:
Ian Livengood
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
13-Across : Come ___ surprise
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Ian Livengood

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 74, Blocks: 36 Missing: {QX} Spans: 4 Featured in Will Shortz's favorite puzzlemakers. This is puzzle # 7 for Mr. Livengood. Thursday freshness: 20%
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© 2011, The New York Times3/24/11 ( No. 22,416 )
Across
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Tea Partiers, in Congress, e.g. : BLOC
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Ryan of "Boston Public" : JERI
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Appreciate : GAIN
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Come ___ surprise : ASNO
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Something that might reduce a tip? : EMERY
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Subject of a lesson for Katharina in "The Taming of the Shrew" : LUTE
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[See circles] : JACUZZIFEATURES
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Where oils are produced : ATELIERS
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Imagined : DREAMT
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July 4, 1872, for Calvin Coolidge: Abbr. : DOB
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Muckraker Tarbell : IDA
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[See circles] : ENGINESONAPLANE
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Called previously : NEE
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Pitch : SLANT
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Title of respect : SAHIB
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Paul of "There Will Be Blood" : DANO
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See 28-Down : SLEEP
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Art ___ : DECO
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___ shirt (colorful short-sleeved attire) : ALOHA
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Ruth chaser in 1961 : MARIS
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Classic auto : REO
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[See circles] : TEAMFROMNEWYORK
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Suffix with buff : OON
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Person's head? : PEE
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Caribou's domain : TUNDRA
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Prevaricate : TELLALIE
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[See circles] : SHARKSRIVALGANG
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Writer who popularized the saying "To err is human, to forgive divine" : POPE
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Position : TENET
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Lingering trace : ECHO
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The 1999 comedy "She's All That" is based on his work : SHAW
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Unveiled : BARE
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Médoc and Grenache : REDS
Down
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___ 1000 (annual Mexican race) : BAJA
2
Some coll. seniors take it for Harvard and Yale, but not for Princeton : LSAT
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"The Raven" opening : ONCE
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"Would they let me?" : COULDI
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Wicked women : JEZEBELS
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Doha V.I.P. : EMIR
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Zebras : REFS
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Cause of shouting : IRE
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Arts and crafts purchase : GLUE
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Special glow : AURA
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TMZ twosome : ITEM
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"Cheep" accommodations : NEST
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When tripled, "and so on" : YADDA
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___ Camp, historic Mormon expedition led by Joseph Smith : ZIONS
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Green surroundings? : TRAPS
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June-August worker, perhaps : INTERN
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Finish on : ENDAT
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Writer Zora ___ Hurston : NEALE
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Salami option : GENOA
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Pink shade : SALMON
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Common time for 38-Across : ONEAM
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Young 'un : LAD
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"Don't be ___" : AHERO
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More gentlemanly or ladylike : NICER
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Kindle download : EBOOK
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His law is represented as I = V/R : OHM
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Makeshift Frisbee : PIEPLATE
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Stick ___ in (test for doneness) : AFORK
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Keen : SWELL
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Often-televised celebrity event : ROAST
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Flier of the X-1 : YEAGER
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Recipe amts. : TSPS
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"This might get ugly!" : UHOH
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Wine region : NAPA
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Took a card : DREW
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Rock bassist Weymouth : TINA
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By any chance : EVER
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Collar material : LACE
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How many TV shows can be seen nowadays : INHD
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Big heads : EGOS
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Jeff Davis follower : REB

Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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