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New York Times, Thursday, April 28, 2005

Author:
Elizabeth C. Gorski
Editor:
Will Shortz
8-Across : Playground sights
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Elizabeth C. Gorski

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 74, Blocks: 38 Missing: {QVXZ} Puzzle has duplicate clues. This is puzzle # 134 for Ms. Gorski. Thursday freshness: 56%
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© 2005, The New York Times4/28/5 ( No. 20,260 )
Across
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Popular Father's Day gift : SILKTIE
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Playground sights : SEESAWS
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With 66-Across, possible title for this puzzle : PEANUTS
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Wood in Hollywood : NATALIE
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Its national currency is the dram : ARMENIA
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Brought into harmony : ATTUNED
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1962 Peace Nobelist : LINUSPAULING
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Centipede's head? : SOFTC
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Winter hrs. in Kansas : CST
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2.0 : CEE
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High bond rating : AAA
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"The Sweetest Taboo" singer : SADE
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Pricey dresses : DIORS
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Cop : CRIB
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Chutney ingredients : MANGOES
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Actress in "Hercules and the Amazon Women" : LUCYLAWLESS
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Like brilliantly colored lips : ROSERED
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Bumbler's cry : OOPS
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Some hallway art : BUSTS
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Juana ___ de la Cruz, Mexican nun and poet : INES
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1977 double-platinum Steely Dan album : AJA
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Adder's kin : ASP
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"My man!" : BRO
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Blotto : TIPSY
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"Wall Street" actor : CHARLIESHEEN
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Bar sing-along : KARAOKE
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World views? : ATLASES
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Turned over : UPENDED
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See 15-Across : GALLERY
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Badgers : PESTERS
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Prison camps : STALAGS
Down
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Hydrotherapy venue : SPA
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Suffix with cash or hotel : IER
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Getaway : LAM
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Prepared to propose : KNELT
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Hip-length covers : TUNICS
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Get ___ writing : ITIN
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Genesis brother : ESAU
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Pics : SNAPS
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Really bother : EATAT
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Words to a traitor : ETTU
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Handel oratorio : SAUL
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Alloy found in magnets : ALNICO
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Dog : WIENER
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Swamp plants : SEDGES
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Film pitches : SCENARIOS
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Pouch : SAC
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Stick in the water : OAR
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Go belly up : FAIL
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Vanderbilt and others : AMYS
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Valley : DALE
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Ruby of film : DEE
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"This ___ sudden!" : ISSO
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___ Ward, who played Robin in TV's "Batman" : BURT
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PBS host Ifill : GWEN
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Shoppe sign word : OLDE
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Industrial units: Abbr. : COS
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Bribery money, in slang : SOAP
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Sleeping togs : PJS
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Pronounce : SAY
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Alternative : BACKUP
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Horseshoe-like figure : USHAPE
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Fifth wheels : SPARES
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Kim Hunter Broadway role created by Tennessee Williams : STELLA
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Yamaha customer : BIKER
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Swamp plants : REEDS
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Counting everything : INALL
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Go ballistic : RANT
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Gold streak? : LODE
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Storybook baddies : HAGS
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Caroline de Nord, e.g. : ETAT
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Great expanse : SEA
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Unit of work : ERG
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Procedure: Abbr. : SYS

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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