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New York Times, Sunday, June 26, 2011

Author:
David Levinson Wilk
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
38-Across : With a wink, say
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David Levinson Wilk

This puzzle:

Rows: 21, Columns: 21 Words: 138, Blocks: 64 Missing: {Q} This is puzzle # 18 for Mr. Wilk. Sunday freshness: 99%
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© 2011, The New York Times6/26/11 ( No. 22,510 )
Across
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1988 Grammy winner for "Crying" : KDLANG
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Tweak : ADJUST
13
Bosses : TOPDOGS
20
Cry from a balcony : OROMEO
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___ pork : MOOSHU
22
Many a Nevada resident : SIERRAN
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Dance seen in a Lincoln Center performance of "Don Giovanni"? : NEWYORKMINUET
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Penn State campus site : ALTOONA
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Also-___ (losers) : RANS
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Prefix with caching : GEO
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Baja's opposite : ALTA
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Author : PENNER
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"Hang on ___!" : AMO
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Locale for a cattail : FEN
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"None of the leading sales people came in today"? : ALLBESTAREOFF
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Grandparents, typically : DOTERS
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With a wink, say : SLILY
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Berkeley campus nickname : CAL
40
Celebration after a 1964 heavyweight championship? : FETEOFCLAY
42
"You don't need to remind me" : IREMEMBER
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Not so big : RUNTIER
49
Tampa paper, briefly, with "the" : TRIB
50
Blackmore heroine : LORNA
51
Washed (down) : HOSED
54
Female co-star in "Love Crazy," 1941 : LOY
55
Stirrup? : COWBOYBOOST
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Tolkien creatures : ENTS
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41-Down was named after one: Abbr. : GEN
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Scarlett O'Hara's real first name : KATIE
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Voiced : SONANT
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Summer sign : LEO
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Little dipper? : TOE
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Claimed : TAKEN
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Chop : HEW
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The Mavericks, on scoreboards : DAL
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Up for grabs, as convention delegates : INPLAY
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Shriners' headwear: Var. : FEZES
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Gob : TAR
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Ending with soft or spy : WARE
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Decide to sleep in the nude? : CASTPAJAMAS
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Drink with one's pinkie up, say : SIP
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Some cats blow on them : SAXES
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Sodium ___ : AMIDE
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"Around the Horn" cable channel : ESPN
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Summer treats : ICEPOPS
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1983 #1 hit with the lyric "Put on your red shoes" : LETSDANCE
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What whitewashers apply? : IVORYCOATS
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___ Friday's : TGI
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Interlocks : KNITS
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___ acid : CITRIC
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Response to the query "Does Ms. Garbo fist-bump?"? : NOGRETASHAKES
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Summer mo. : JUL
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"Rock 'n' Roll Is King" band, 1983 : ELO
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Make it : ARRIVE
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Actress Polo : TERI
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See 33-Down : OOP
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Polynesian potable : KAVA
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They're often said to be fair : MAIDENS
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Love before war? : PREMARTIALSEX
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Looms : IMPENDS
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Shocking, in a way : TASING
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Leonard of literature : ELMORE
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Sting, e.g. : BASSIST
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Team that once played at Enron Field : ASTROS
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Bob Evans rival : DENNYS
Down
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Former German chancellor Adenauer : KONRAD
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Imagine : DREAMOF
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One hit by a tuba : LOWNOTE
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Singer Grant and others : AMYS
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Prefix with -lithic : NEO
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Stuffs oneself with : GORGESON
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Shot, e.g. : AMMO
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Question that may be answered "And how!" : DOI
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Garfield's owner : JON
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For the most part : USUALLY
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Country star ___ Lynne : SHELBY
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"Così fan ___" : TUTTE
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Agcy. with a list of prohibited items : TSA
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Tree whose two-word name, when switched around, identifies its product : OILPALM
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A Fonda : PETER
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Plane over Yemen, maybe : DRONE
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College town just off Interstate 95 : ORONO
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Thief, in Yiddish : GANEF
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Wolf (down) : SNARF
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When doubled, a number puzzle : KEN
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Credit : ASCRIBE
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"Totem and Taboo" writer : FREUD
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With 98-Across, showy play : ALLEY
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Story teller : LIAR
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Judo-like exercises : TAEBO
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French beings : ETRES
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Offspring : SCION
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Town on the Hudson R. : FTLEE
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Filmmaker Allen : IRWIN
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Pipe shape : ELBOW
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Apollo target : MOON
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Bygone hand weapon : BROADAX
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Catch : ENSNARE
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Crib items : RATTLES
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Lugs : TOTES
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Like a corkscrew : HELICAL
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What Cher Bono, e.g., goes by : ONENAME
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Ceases : STOPSIT
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Soap units : CAKES
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River to the North Sea : YSER
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Artist Francisco : GOYA
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Director of the major film debuts of James Dean and Warren Beatty : KAZAN
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Not live : TAPED
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Home to Sun Devil Stadium : TEMPE
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Tickled : HAPPY
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Old Fords : LTDS
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Like Mussolini : FASCIST
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Ranks : TIERS
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Didn't miss : WASAT
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Game whose name is derived from Swahili : JENGA
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Sean Connery and others : SCOTS
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Turn brown, maybe : SPOIL
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Jazz singer Anderson : IVIE
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Busy : OCCUPIED
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Doesn't miss : ATTENDS
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Most murky : INKIEST
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It's worst when it's high : TREASON
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High and softly resonant : SILVERY
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Alex of "Webster" : KARRAS
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Sweet-talks : COAXES
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Southwest Africa's ___ Desert : NAMIB
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Commercial name suffix : ORAMA
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Handles : GRIPS
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Lifts : RIDES
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"___ could have told you that!" : EVENI
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Seven: Prefix : HEPTA
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Speck : JOT
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Assns. : ORGS
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Alphabet string : KLMN
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Retired flier : SST
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It landed in the Pacific Ocean on 3/23/01 : MIR
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Yucatán year : ANO
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Drink with a head : ALE

Answer summary:
10 unique to this puzzle, 4 debuted here and reused later, 3 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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