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New York Times, Saturday, April 29, 2006

Author:
Robert H. Wolfe
Editor:
Will Shortz
20-Across : ___ Island, home for part of the Gateway National Recreation Area
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Robert H. Wolfe

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 62, Blocks: 32 Missing: {FJQWXZ} This is puzzle # 68 for Mr. Wolfe. Saturday freshness: 87%
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© 2006, The New York Times4/29/6 ( No. 20,626 )
Across
1
Quick : APT
4
Course yardstick : PAR
7
Standard pass : SPIRAL
13
Hoity-toity : LAHDIDAH
16
Unfrequented : LONELY
17
Taking a grand tour, say : INEUROPE
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It's measured in radians : ARCSIN
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Buckthorn trees with medically useful bark : CASCARAS
20
___ Island, home for part of the Gateway National Recreation Area : STATEN
21
Transistor electrodes : EMITTERS
22
Stud : HEMAN
23
Postulate : ASSERT
24
Doesn't properly follow through : RENEGES
26
Not the common way : SIDESTREET
28
Things to pass in : LANES
33
Puffer's place : SEA
34
Flip : SASSY
35
N.H.L'.ers, e.g. : ICESKATERS
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Tops : BETTERS
39
Routs : MOPSUP
44
Ran over : SPILT
45
Volleys : BARRAGES
47
Spam producer : HORMEL
48
Moving about : AMBULANT
49
Go into banks, perhaps : AVIATE
50
1972 #1 hit with the lyric "I'm right up the road / I'll share your load" : LEANONME
51
Leaf sides : RECTOS
52
Person with a plan : INTENDER
53
Makes oneself appear smart : PREENS
54
Actor Wass : TED
55
Cape ___ : ANN
Down
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Caterpillar engager : ALICE
2
Boater alternative : PANAMA
3
Need for a third degree? : THESIS
4
Take illegally : PIRATE
5
Big fans : ADORERS
6
Beat poets? : RAPARTISTS
7
Couple in a date : SLASHES
8
Signs : PORTENTS
9
Privately : INCAMERA
10
Does, as a Tennessee Williams play : RESTAGES
11
Heirs, legally : ALIENEES
12
Port on Massachusetts Bay : LYNN
14
They bring tears to one's eyes : DUCTS
15
Big name in oil : HESS
24
Treaty violation, maybe : REARMAMENT
25
Place of debauchery : STY
27
Media center? : DEE
28
William Gladstone, politically: Abbr. : LIB
29
Winning full house, for short : ACESOVER
30
Shelled-out amount : NETPRICE
31
Judge : ESTIMATE
32
Halloween costume : SKELETON
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Natural : ARTLESS
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Potassium ___ (food mold inhibitor) : SORBATE
40
Cut back : PRUNED
41
Beauty spot : SALON
42
Pre-1962 British protectorate : UGANDA
43
Scribes : PENMEN
45
Mt. Agung locale : BALI
46
Demanding : STERN
47
Dwell : HARP

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1 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 4 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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