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ODD ONE OUT

New York Times, Sunday, May 31, 2009

Author:
Kelsey Blakley
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
81-Across : Narrow furrows
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Kelsey Blakley

This puzzle:

Rows: 21, Columns: 21 Words: 138, Blocks: 71 Missing: {JQZ} Puzzle has duplicate clues. This is puzzle # 4 for Ms. Blakley. Sunday freshness: 20%
Notepad: Every letter in the answer to each asterisked clue appears an even number of times in that answer ... except one. Altogether, these eight unpaired letters can be arranged to spell the answer to 68- and 70-Across.
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© 2009, The New York Times5/31/9 ( No. 21,754 )
Across
1
End of a footrace : TAPE
5
Creator of Princess Ozma : BAUM
9
Satellite org. : NASA
13
State below Lower Saxony : HESSE
18
"The Pearl of ___ Island" (Stowe novel) : ORRS
19
Opposing : ANTI
20
Technological debuts of 1998 : IMACS
22
Mountain, in Hawaiian : MAUNA
23
*Religious affiliation of John Adams and William Howard Taft : UNITARIANCHURCH
26
Cry from the bench : ORDER
27
Foe : RIVAL
28
Ascension Day, e.g.: Abbr. : THUR
29
Sword material : STEEL
31
Serve notice : WARN
32
Manila pact grp., 1954 : SEATO
33
*You raise your arms for these : ANTIPERSPIRANTS
36
Cultivate : TEND
38
Men of La Mancha : SENORES
39
Big Apple subway line, with "the" : LEX
40
Do, re, mi : CDE
42
Sailor's realm : SEA
44
Business partner, sometimes : SON
45
French word before and after "à" : VIS
46
Busch Stadium locale: Abbr. : STL
49
*Physician's promise : HIPPOCRATICOATH
55
"Gloria ___" (hymn) : PATRI
57
Prefix with -naut : AERO
58
Primeval : OLD
59
Oregon city, with "The" : DALLES
60
King of England, 946-55 : EDRED
61
Challenge for H.S. juniors : PSAT
62
Film that lost the Best Picture Oscar to "Chariots of Fire" : REDS
64
Hogwarts professor Trelawney, e.g. : SEER
65
Montana Indians : CREES
66
Pilot's E : ECHO
68
With 70-Across, some people are ___ crosswords : NUTS
70
See 68-Across : OVER
72
Paint choice : TINT
73
Illinois city : ALTON
74
Ring : PEAL
76
Form of acetylacetone : ENOL
78
Corona : AURA
80
Scenic fabric : TOILE
81
Narrow furrows : STRIAE
83
Maine coon, e.g. : CAT
84
You name it : NOUN
85
Reduces to bits : RICES
86
*Hides out : GOESUNDERGROUND
89
Schooner's contents : ALE
90
Pack away : EAT
92
Travel plan: Abbr. : RTE
93
Trifling amount : SOU
94
Ocean's reflection : SKY
95
Boston's Liberty Tree, e.g. : ELM
96
Lack of faith : ATHEISM
100
Jaw site : VISE
102
*Deficits : INSUFFICIENCIES
107
Jack Sprat's dietary restriction : NOFAT
110
Not too spicy : MILD
111
Comes out of one's skin : MOLTS
112
Quod ___ faciendum : ERAT
113
___ White, one of the girls in "Dreamgirls" : EFFIE
114
Given : AXIOM
116
*Ragged : TATTEREDANDTORN
119
Class : GENRE
120
Bunches : ASLEW
121
Something to play : ROLE
122
Raises the hackles of : IRES
123
Impressionist Degas : EDGAR
124
Scorched : SERE
125
___' Pea : SWEE
126
Peut-___ (maybe, in Marseille) : ETRE
Down
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Hitches : TOURS
2
Golf's Palmer, to friends : ARNIE
3
*Not firm work? : PRIVATEPRACTICE
4
Dead giveaway? : ESTATE
5
Honky-tonk : BAR
6
Hill of Hill hearings : ANITA
7
The Osmonds, e.g. : UTAHNS
8
Least : MINUTEST
9
Fed. med. research agency : NIH
10
Jester, e.g. : AMUSER
11
Refuser of a 1964 Nobel Prize : SARTRE
12
Tap into : ACCESS
13
Managed care grp. : HMO
14
Swab's target : EARWAX
15
Nubian Desert locale : SUDAN
16
Comics canine : SNERT
17
Pulls in : EARNS
21
Common name for a working dog : SHEP
24
Explorer ___ Álvarez de Pineda, first European to see the Mississippi : ALONSO
25
Sea lily, e.g. : CRINOID
30
"___ Marlene" (W.W. II love song) : LILI
34
Plains Indians : PONCAS
35
1967 #1 hit whose lyrics begin "What you want / Baby, I got it" : RESPECT
37
Style of furnishing : DECOR
40
Fellow : CHAP
41
Semi fill-up : DIESELOIL
43
Democrat Specter : ARLEN
45
Beta blocker? : VHS
46
*Real work : STRENUOUSEFFORT
47
It may be tapped : TREETRUNK
48
Toppers : LIDS
50
Driving hazard : POTHOLE
51
Total : ADDUPTO
52
Nondairy product in the dairy section : OLEO
53
Popular pain reliever : ALEVE
54
Ancient playwright who originated the phrase "While there's life, there's hope" : TERENCE
56
Italian Renaissance composer Banchieri : ADRIANO
63
Firewood unit : STERE
67
Personal identity : ONESELF
69
Je ne ___ quoi : SAIS
71
Laughs one's head off : ROARS
73
Razor brand : ATRA
75
Supermodel Hutton : LAUREN
77
State V.I.P.: Abbr. : LTGOV
79
Tennis's Roddick : ANDY
81
Towser, e.g., in "Catch-22": Abbr. : SGT
82
Siren : ENTICER
87
Those with yens : DESIRERS
88
Shot : RUINED
91
___ radio : AMFM
95
Author Welty : EUDORA
96
Mercedes-Benz model : ACLASS
97
Whit : TITTLE
98
Prynne of "The Scarlet Letter" : HESTER
99
Lark's home : MEADOW
101
Pushover : SOFTIE
102
Persona : IMAGE
103
Canceled : NIXED
104
Primitive weapon : SLING
105
Whit : IOTA
106
Banal : STALE
108
Telecaster : AIRER
109
Cliff-hanging : TENSE
115
French 42-Across : MER
117
She can be polled : EWE
118
Born overseas : NEE

Answer summary:
6 unique to this puzzle, 5 debuted here and reused later, 3 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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