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New York Times, Saturday, June 28, 2008

Author:
Byron Walden
Editor:
Will Shortz
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Byron Walden

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 66, Blocks: 27 Missing: {JQX} Puzzle has duplicate clues. This is puzzle # 50 for Mr. Walden. Saturday freshness: 95%
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© 2008, The New York Times6/28/8 ( No. 21,417 )
Across
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Holder of many a sandwich : ZIPLOCBAG
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They come with strings attached : HARPS
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Piquant base for a sandwich : ONIONROLL
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Heart of ancient Athens : AGORA
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2005 reality show hosted by Fabio : MRROMANCE
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They come with strings attached : YOYOS
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Steam-driven devices that pump water from mines : BEAMENGINES
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Letter getter: Abbr. : ATH
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"Lost" actor Somerhalder : IAN
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Track numbers : ODDS
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Video from a kidnappee's family, e.g. : PLEA
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Coming right back at you? : ECHOIC
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Save : SOCKAWAY
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Playwright Peter of "Equus" : SHAFFER
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Cramped quarters : WARRENS
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"Where's my serpent of old ___?": "Antony and Cleopatra" : NILE
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"Gilgamesh," e.g. : EPOS
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Dinette settings : ALCOVES
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Heart failures? : RENEGES
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Doesn't need more seasoning : TASTESOK
45
Pelvic bone : SACRUM
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Eponymous oilman Halliburton : ERLE
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Not kosher : TREF
49
Janissary commander : AGA
50
Chemical suffix : IDE
51
Item called a geyser in Britain : WATERHEATER
55
Change at the top? : NEWDO
57
Ingredient in a mojito highball : SPEARMINT
58
Gull : TRICK
59
Goes yellow, say : TURNSTAIL
60
Malcolm X eulogist Davis : OSSIE
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Will work? : OPEDESSAY
Down
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Corps of corpses : ZOMBIES
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Gettable : INREACH
3
Ruthless type : PIRANHA
4
1785 invention of England's Edmund Cartwright : LOOM
5
"All Eyez ___" (1996 Tupac Shakur album) : ONME
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Start of some blended juice names : CRAN
7
What a beatnik beats : BONGO
8
Auks, puffins and related birds : ALCIDS
9
Owen ___, rebel in Shakespeare's "King Henry IV" : GLENDOWER
10
Makes bales, say : HAYS
11
Long ___ : AGO
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The "I" of Elizabeth I? : ROYALWE
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Changeable : PROTEAN
14
Steps lively : SASHAYS
20
Houdini's stock in trade : ESCAPES
24
Unit that's larger than 19 trillion miles : PARSEC
26
Prominent : OFNOTE
27
San Diego-to-Seattle rte. : IFIVE
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"Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy" instrument : CELESTA
30
100 aurar : KRONA
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Uses in desperation : RESORTSTO
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Corroded : ATEINTO
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Storage rooms : LARDERS
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Anthony Hopkins role in "Shadowlands" : CSLEWIS
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"Deo ___" : GRATIAS
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Southern historical novelist Price : EUGENIA
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With fashion sense : SMARTLY
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Not lag : KEEPUP
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Beau-___ (French in-law) : FRERE
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More than stirred : WOKE
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Flush, for one : HAND
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Manx relative : ERSE
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A bushel and a peck?: Abbr. : AMTS
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Century starter in the papacy of Gregory I : DCI

Answer summary:
8 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 2 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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