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New York Times, Monday, April 2, 2007

Author:
Richard Hughes
Editor:
Will Shortz
69-Across : Instrument that's plucked
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Richard Hughes

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 38 Missing: {JKQX} Spans: 3 This is puzzle # 35 for Mr. Hughes. Monday freshness: 21%
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© 2007, The New York Times4/2/7 ( No. 20,964 )
Across
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With 71-Across, sort of person who might enjoy this puzzle? : LATIN
6
Narrow cut : SLIT
10
Like show horses' feet : SHOD
14
Make up (for) : ATONE
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Comfort : EASE
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Voice quality : TONE
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Person in a polling booth : VOTER
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Good for what ___ you : AILS
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Not written : ORAL
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Saying about the heart : AMORVINCITOMNIA
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One of the Kennedys : TED
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Hot to the tongue : PEPPERY
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___ Four (Beatles) : FAB
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Shuffles off this mortal coil : DIES
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Bad-mouth : DIS
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Wonder : AWE
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Sonja Henie's Norwegian birthplace : OSLO
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Clamor : NOISE
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Collect : GLEAN
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It can sense scents : NOSE
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Pie ___ mode : ALA
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Size above sm. : MED
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Campaign pros : POLS
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Singer Rawls or Reed : LOU
51
Was patient for : AWAITED
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Suffix with meteor : OID
57
Outcast : PERSONANONGRATA
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Decorate again : REDO
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Letter-shaped girder : IBAR
65
Pertaining to warships : NAVAL
66
TV's "American ___" : IDOL
67
Demolish : RAZE
68
Songstress Baker : ANITA
69
Instrument that's plucked : LYRE
70
Elevator pioneer Elisha : OTIS
71
See 1-Across : LOVER
Down
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Volcanic discharge : LAVA
2
Part of a molecule : ATOM
3
"The Wizard of Oz" dog : TOTO
4
Unmoving : INERT
5
Strengthened : NERVED
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Actor Penn : SEAN
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Secular : LAIC
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Waterfront Long Island town : ISLIP
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Tried out : TESTED
10
Crushes with the feet : STOMPSON
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Lena who sang "Stormy Weather" : HORNE
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Walking ___ (happy) : ONAIR
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What rain may cause : DELAY
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Expression : IDIOM
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Think out loud : OPINE
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Werewolf's tooth : FANG
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G.I. no-show : AWOL
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The "B" of N.B. : BENE
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Channel for armchair athletes : ESPN
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Single-masted boat : SLOOP
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___ buco : OSSO
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Leaning, as type: Abbr. : ITAL
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Building beside a barn : SILO
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Jacob's twin in the Bible : ESAU
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Woman's sheer undergarment : CAMISOLE
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___ a customer : ONETO
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Cantaloupe, e.g. : MELON
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Robert of "Raging Bull" : DENIRO
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Cue : SIGNAL
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First full month of spring : APRIL
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Overrun with dandelions and such : WEEDY
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Passion : ARDOR
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Touch lightly, as the corner of one's eye : DABAT
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Popular pipe clearer : DRANO
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Ultra-authoritarian : NAZI
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Mined rocks : ORES
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Tel ___ : AVIV
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London museum : TATE
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Wing-shaped : ALAR

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

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