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New York Times, Friday, April 12, 2013

Author:
Patrick Berry
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
29-Across : Post office purchase
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
2297/11/199911/4/20182
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741241679512
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981.541,84281%
Patrick Berry

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 66, Blocks: 25 Missing: {QXZ} Spans: 2 This is puzzle # 173 for Mr. Berry. Friday freshness: 84%
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© 2013, The New York Times4/12/13 ( No. 23,166 )
Across
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Entree meant to be eaten with the fingers, according to its creator : CAESARSALAD
12
"People's Choice Awards" airer : CBS
15
Key chain : ARCHIPELAGO
16
Millerite, e.g. : ORE
17
In flight? : MAKINGARUNFORIT
19
Late critic featured on the Hollywood Walk of Fame : EBERT
20
Position of prominence : FOREFRONT
21
Vatican money, once : LIRE
22
Sunbathes, informally : BAKES
23
So-called "Playwright of the Midwest" : INGE
24
Out of spirits : SAD
25
Marlon Brando's role in "Superman" : JOREL
26
Leave off : CEASE
27
W.W. II pistol : LUGER
28
Buildings with many owners : CONDOS
29
Post office purchase : MAILER
31
Big 1970s-'80s band with a geographical name : BOSTON
32
Art of television : CARNEY
33
Innocents : LAMBS
34
Playing costs : ANTES
35
Dear : HONEY
36
What Mad magazine lacked from 1957 to 2001 : ADS
39
Part of many a vegan's diet : TOFU
40
Country singers? : LARKS
41
Short distance : STEP
42
Goes beyond the pail? : SLOPSOVER
44
Element #100 is named for him : FERMI
45
It's often freely given : PERSONALOPINION
47
Surveillance cam location : ATM
48
Athlete who started a clothing company in 1933 : RENELACOSTE
49
"Fantastic Mr. Fox" director Anderson : WES
50
Hiking guide : TRAILMARKER
Down
1
Dry mounts? : CAMELS
2
Locale for many 1-Down : ARABIA
3
St. Petersburg's ___ College : ECKERD
4
Middle-earth region, with "the" : SHIRE
5
"___ Nobody's Business" (old blues standard) : AINT
6
Shoulder-fired weapon, for short : RPG
7
Salt : SEAFARER
8
Willard Scott's successor on "Today" : ALROKER
9
Symbol of Apollo : LAUREL
10
Dancer de Mille : AGNES
11
Remove : DOFF
12
Seeker of the Seven Cities of Gold : CORONADO
13
Induces : BRINGSON
14
Victorian-era furnishings : SETTEES
18
Shows the ropes : ORIENTS
22
Scorecard blemish : BOGEY
25
Pulitzer-winning cartoonist Feiffer : JULES
26
Bill who received a Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2002 : COSBY
27
Suspect groups : LINEUPS
28
Turns up : COMES
29
Celebrated matador during Franco's reign : MANOLETE
30
Painting and ballet : ARTFORMS
31
Be an angel? : BANKROLL
32
Tool : CATSPAW
33
Title maiden in a Heinrich Heine poem : LORELEI
35
Home of the Karl Marx Theater : HAVANA
36
Endangered : ATRISK
37
Lower : DEMOTE
38
Brent of "Star Trek: T.N.G." : SPINER
40
Company boycotter? : LONER
41
Don Quixote, e.g. : SENOR
43
Kind : SORT
44
Payroll tax, for short : FICA
46
Oil in a can : PAM

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