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New York Times, Thursday, June 25, 2009

Author:
Bill Zais
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
47-Across : Where "wikiwiki" means "to hurry"
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Bill Zais

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 74, Blocks: 40 Missing: {FJQXZ} Spans: 2 Featured in Will Shortz's favorite puzzles. This is puzzle # 14 for Mr. Zais. Thursday freshness: 58%
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© 2009, The New York Times6/25/9 ( No. 21,779 )
Across
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Formal club: Abbr. : ASSOC
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Places to press the flesh? : SPAS
10
Spirited cries : RAHRAHS
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Some arts and crafts : POTTERY
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Red remover, maybe : EYEDROP
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Bonuses : REWARDS
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It's just a formality : TIE
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"Follow me" : DOASIDO
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Motel extra : COT
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Diminutive endings : ETTES
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Apple pie companion? : MOM
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States : AVERS
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Sp. title : SRTA
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Psychos : MADMEN
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Leave in the dust, say : OUTRUN
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Long introduction? : ERE
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English town near Windsor Bridge : ETON
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General on a Chinese menu : TSO
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Hinged pair of pictures : DIPTYCH
41
___-Foy, Que. : STE
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Kind of blocker : BETA
44
Start of a Chinese game : MAH
45
Either of two emcees : COHOST
47
Where "wikiwiki" means "to hurry" : HAWAII
49
"The Shelters of Stone" author : AUEL
50
Clip : SHEAR
52
Anchorage-to-Fairbanks dir. : NNE
54
Signs on for another tour : REUPS
57
Result of an emergency call, maybe : TOW
58
Get too big for : OUTGROW
61
Prefix with -logy : TRI
62
Philemon, e.g. : EPISTLE
64
Like the Trojan horse : GRECIAN
66
Oil source : LINSEED
67
Starting instruction : STEPONE
68
What circles lack : ENDS
69
Garden hose problems : KINKS
Down
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Craggy crest : ARETE
2
"Tell me!" : SAYIT
3
<--- Plastered : SHEETSTOTHEWIND
4
JFK : New York :: ___ : Chicago : ORD
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<--- Gambling game : CARDSTUD
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RR building : STA
7
<--- Sherlock Holmes novel, with "The" : PERCENTSOLUTION
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Heat : ARDOR
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Methods: Abbr. : SYSTS
11
Part of a sob : HOO
12
Rarely read letters : SPAM
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Race before a race : PRIMARY
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20-vol. work : OED
15
Wee hour : TWOAM
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<--- One starting a career, perhaps : SOMETHING
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Drop the ball : ERR
26
Migration formation? : VEE
28
Inner self : ANIMA
30
Record label of Bill Haley and His Comets : DECCA
31
Gambling site: Abbr. : OTB
32
Milk : USE
35
What buzzer beaters may lead to, briefly : OTS
36
What you keep : NET
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___ Desert : PAINTED
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<--- Work period : HOURWEEK
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Like some baseball teams : AAA
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Tee follower : HEE
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Penned : WROTE
50
Archaeological find : STELE
51
Cabbie's line : HOPIN
53
Parts of a joule : ERGS
55
Call that may result in an abrupt hang-up : PRANK
56
Math figures : SINES
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Diminutive ending : ULE
60
Crumb : ORT
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Snake's warning : SSS
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Cost-of-living meas. : CPI

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

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