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New York Times, Saturday, June 1, 2013

Author:
Barry C. Silk
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
55-Across : What's often blowing in the wind
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Barry C. Silk

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 72, Blocks: 31 Missing: {FJQZ} This is puzzle # 77 for Mr. Silk. Saturday freshness: 10%
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© 2013, The New York Times6/1/13 ( No. 23,216 )
Across
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Stephen King horror anthology : CREEPSHOW
10
Yoke attachment : OXBOW
15
Great depression? : HURRICANE
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Egg choice : LARGE
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They're available in alleys : OPENLANES
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Wholly : INALL
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Short play? : REC
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The King's followers? : ANDI
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Like some taxes and questions : EVADED
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Considered revolting : DETESTED
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Struck : XED
25
Pick : OPT
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Home of the Aggies of the 37-Down : LASCRUCES
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Below the surface : BURIED
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Québec map abbr. : STE
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Arena support? : OLE
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Remove, as a 45-Across : UNSCREW
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Grand alternative : UPRIGHT
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Trip option: Abbr. : RTE
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She plagues ladies' lips with blisters, per Mercutio : MAB
44
Game of falling popularity? : TETRIS
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It fits around a mouth : BOTTLECAP
49
Bangladesh export : TEA
50
Using : VIA
51
Aviation safety statistic : NEARMISS
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What's often blowing in the wind : POLLEN
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Show piece : DEMO
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Floral arrangement : LEI
60
Floor plan data : AREAS
61
Painful spa treatment : BIKINIWAX
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Had an inclination : LEANT
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Nevertheless : ATANYRATE
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Roman world : MONDO
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Justice from the Bronx : SOTOMAYOR
Down
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What a speaker may strike : CHORD
2
Nepalese bread : RUPEE
3
Classic Meccano toy : ERECTORSET
4
Midwest trailer? : ERN
5
Embedded column : PILASTER
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Hardly any : SCANT
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Haydn's "master of us all" : HANDEL
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Upstate New York natives : ONEIDAS
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Unseld of the Bullets : WES
10
Twist in fiction : OLIVER
11
Hit soundtrack album of 1980 : XANADU
12
Stationery securer : BRAD
13
Look while delivering a line : OGLE
14
Metalworker's union? : WELD
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Leaving out : EXCEPT
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Grand : EPIC
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Good name for a brooder? : STU
28
How many reach the top of Pikes Peak : COGRAILWAY
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Not grade-specific : ELHI
30
Loses liquidity : SETS
31
Bellflower or Bell Gardens, vis-à-vis L.A. : BURB
32
Quaint preposition : UNTO
33
Put down : DEMEAN
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New Mexico State sports grp. : WAC
39
"Cloth diaper" or "film camera" : RETRONYM
40
Bullet follower : ITEM
43
Frito ___ (old ad symbol) : BANDITO
46
Cable channel with the slogan "Laugh More" : TVLAND
47
Doesn't level with : LIESTO
48
Check out for a second : PEEKAT
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Certain building block, informally : AMINO
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Former defense grp. : SEATO
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Knick foe : SIXER
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One with hot dates, maybe : PALM
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___ Biscuit (1912 debut) : OREO
57
Spare : LEAN
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Low, in Lyon : BAS
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Portfolio part, for short : IRA

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later.

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