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New York Times, Friday, April 13, 2012

Author:
Tim Croce
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
27-Across : Hole in the wall
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Tim Croce

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 68, Blocks: 32 Missing: {JKQXZ} Spans: 6, (2 triple stacks) This is puzzle # 13 for Mr. Croce. Friday freshness: 43%
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© 2012, The New York Times4/13/12 ( No. 22,802 )
Across
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"I'd like to hear any justification at all" : GIVEMEONEREASON
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Young and inexperienced : INONESSALADDAYS
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"Yeah, and ...?" : SOWHATELSEISNEW
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Olympians brought them down : TITANS
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Flutter the eyelids, say : STIR
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First name in horror : LON
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"I should ___ die with pity": King Lear : EEN
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Surfing business? : ETAIL
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Hole in the wall : CRANNY
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"Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress" novelist : DEFOE
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Antebellum Ohio, e.g. : FREESTATE
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Like much lumber : SAWN
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Intl. group whose biennial conferences are focuses of protest : WTO
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Follower of grazing cattle : COWBIRD
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Put away : EAT
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Word repeated before "lama sabachthani" in Mark 15 : ELOI
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Frames wind up on them : FILMREELS
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Some crosses : LEFTS
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"Love Actually" co-star, 2003 : NEESON
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River that the dead drank from, in myth : LETHE
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You may leave them in stitches: Abbr. : ERS
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"Das ___ gut!" : IST
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Bottom : RUMP
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Convertible : RAGTOP
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Bar cliché : YOURPLACEORMINE
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It shows many flight numbers : INSTRUMENTPANEL
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Doesn't take the cake? : PASSESONDESSERT
Down
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You'll get it from CliffsNotes : GIST
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Way to fry : INOIL
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Promise one will : VOWTO
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Better : ENHANCE
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With 35-Down, have no malice : MEAN
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Quoted figs. : ESTS
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Sweet ending? : OSE
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Big inits. in paperback publishing : NAL
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Urban rumblers : ELS
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Pulitzer-winning poet Armantrout and others : RAES
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Ready for publication : EDITED
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What Web page sponsors may link to : ADSITES
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Seat of Marin County, Calif. : SANRAFAEL
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"Listen up!," to Luis : OYE
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State bordering the Pacific: Abbr. : NSW
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Tangle up : ENTWINE
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One who shouldn't be helping : ENABLER
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Winner of over 100 Pulitzer Prizes, briefly : NYTIMES
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Chiwere speakers : IOWAS
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Time to abstain : LENT
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Things done for fun, for short : REC
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From : ASOF
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Home of the U.S. Army Women's Museum : FTLEE
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Upper house support : ROOFTRUSS
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Misunderstands, say : ERRS
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See 5-Down : WELL
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___ volente : DEO
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"Ow-w-w!" : ITHURTS
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They're hard to figure out : ENIGMAS
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Always, in scores : SEMPRE
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"Rotten School" series author : STINE
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Photographer's bath : TONER
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Underscore neighbor : PLUS
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Mindless : ROTE
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Some MoMA works : ARPS
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Hide : PELT
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Small bark : YIP
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___ good day : ONA
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"Odi et ___": Catullus : AMO
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2000s, e.g.: Abbr. : CEN
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One may be tight : END

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