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New York Times, Friday, May 14, 2010

Author:
Barry C. Silk
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
19-Across : Liberal types
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Barry C. Silk

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 64, Blocks: 28 Missing: {JQWXZ} This is puzzle # 46 for Mr. Silk. Friday freshness: 98%
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© 2010, The New York Times5/14/10 ( No. 22,102 )
Across
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Its workers aren't behind closed doors : CUBEFARM
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Thunderstruck : AGHAST
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Length of many stands? : ONENIGHT
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Title boy in an old sitcom : BEAVER
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Places for some flicks : ASHTRAYS
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Wear for some contests : BIKINI
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Liberal types : SHARERS
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Overly optimistic : ROSEATE
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Feldshuh of "Yentl" : TOVAH
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Brought forth : FATHERED
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Gone : DEPARTED
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Acid head? : AMINO
27
Singing group : STOOLIES
29
It was worth three livres : ECU
30
Machine part : COG
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Means of catching up with the rest of the class : TUTOR
34
It occupies 25 pages in the Oxford English Dictionary : SET
35
"Knock on ___ Door" (Bogart film) : ANY
36
Caesar : DICTATOR
39
Mountainside debris : SCREE
41
Lies low : HIDESOUT
44
Common hotel bathroom feature : HEATLAMP
46
Fuel-efficient transportation : MOPED
48
Cry when rubbing it in : SOTHERE
49
Hippodrome competitor : TROTTER
51
Play an ace? : AVIATE
52
It's not the road less traveled : MAINLINE
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Currency that replaced pounds in 1964 : LEONES
54
Learning environments : ACADEMES
55
___ Evans, a k a Chubby Checker : ERNEST
56
Places to store barrels? : HOLSTERS
Down
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Washing-up place : COAST
2
Like wild horses : UNSHOD
3
Nanny's cry : BEHAVE
4
Catches : ENTRAPS
5
Often red item of apparel : FIREHAT
6
Clarifying agent in brewing : AGAR
7
"Wide Sargasso Sea" novelist, 1966 : RHYS
8
Range parts: Abbr. : MTS
9
One giving prior consent? : ABBOT
10
Mama-san's charges : GEISHAS
11
Olajuwon of the N.B.A. : HAKEEM
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Zoo sections : AVIARIES
13
Follower of one's convictions : SENTENCE
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Experimented with : TRIEDOUT
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Good spot for a jingle : RADIOAD
22
Kind of marker : FELTTIP
24
Indian bread : ROTI
25
1969 hit for the Doors : TOUCHME
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"Feather Gown" sculptor : ERTE
30
Something you don't get credit for : CASHSALE
31
Cursory cleaning, say : ONCEOVER
32
Belly dancer's move : GYRATION
36
Kills : DELETES
37
Family often seen on "The Andy Williams Show" : OSMONDS
38
Underground branch : ROOTLET
40
Crude component : ETHANE
42
Hours of operation? : UPTIME
43
Bubblegummer : TEENER
45
Take ___ (break) : AREST
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Word with shoe or shop : DRESS
49
Its shell may be soft : TACO
50
Yemeni capital : RIAL
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Start of a Chinese game : MAH

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1 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 2 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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