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JOB DESCRIPTIONS

New York Times, Sunday, June 3, 2007

Author:
Kelsey Blakley
Editor:
Will Shortz
22-Across : Bewitched
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Kelsey Blakley

This puzzle:

Rows: 21, Columns: 21 Words: 136, Blocks: 69 Missing: {JQV} Puzzle has duplicate clues. This is the debut puzzle for Ms. Blakley. Sunday freshness: 81%
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© 2007, The New York Times6/3/7 ( No. 21,026 )
Across
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Key of Beethoven's "Für Elise" : AMINOR
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Some trigonometric ratios : SECANTS
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Sarcastic comment of sympathy : BOOHOO
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"Dr. Strangelove," e.g. : SATIRE
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Parsnip, e.g. : TAPROOT
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Bewitched : ENRAPT
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Charles Schwab? : STOCKCHARACTER
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Service group : TEASET
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Cows : THREATENS
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Vehicle on 30-Across : SLED
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"This means business" look : GLARE
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See 27-Across : SNOW
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Annie Oakley? : SHOOTINGSTAR
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Title girl in a 1962 Roy Orbison hit : LEAH
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___ voce (quietly) : SOTTO
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Others, to Pedro : OTRAS
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Assimilate : ABSORB
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Southwest chips-and-chili snacks : FRITOPIES
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Viking landing site : MARS
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Leonardo da Vinci? : MASTEROFARTS
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Like one end of a battery terminal : ANODAL
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"We the Living" author Rand : AYN
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Equine : HORSY
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It has five pillars : ISLAM
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Saffron's mom on "Ab Fab" : EDINA
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"My dear lady" : MAAM
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Place that's all abuzz : APIARY
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Sordid : SEEDY
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Sigmund Freud? : WIZARDOFID
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Tiger Woods? : ACEOFCLUBS
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Rectify : AMEND
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Dish eaten with chopsticks : LOMEIN
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"___ would seem" : SOIT
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George Bush or Dick Cheney, once : YALIE
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Continental boundary : URALS
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Easter Island is a province of it : CHILE
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It needs refining : ORE
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Author/journalist Fallaci : ORIANA
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Benjamin Franklin? : LIGHTNINGBUG
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Illustrations: Abbr. : FIGS
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Cutting humor : BARBEDWIT
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"Lord Jim" star, 1965 : OTOOLE
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Disney subsidiary : PIXAR
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Gleans : REAPS
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Contemptuous expression : LEER
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Bill Gates? : COMPUTERICON
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Seed cover : ARIL
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Cartoon mermaid : ARIEL
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Construction company : LEGO
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Just make out : BARELYSEE
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Bedtime for junior, maybe : NINEPM
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Babe Ruth? : BALLPARKFIGURE
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Country singer West : DOTTIE
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Nutty : IDIOTIC
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Stranded by winter weather, perhaps : ICEDIN
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Initial stages : ONSETS
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Sees about : TENDSTO
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Zeus' domain, in myth : THESKY
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Second: Abbr. : ASST
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SAT section : MATH
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"Like ___ not ..." : ITOR
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Court encouragement : NICESHOT
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Like Mork of "Mork & Mindy" : ORKAN
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Front of a manuscript leaf : RECTO
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Smith who won the 1972 Wimbledon : STAN
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Stirrup sites : EARS
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Cruncher of nos. : CPA
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Pendulum's path : ARC
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Wrong : NOTSO
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Skater's leap : TOELOOP
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Overlapping fugue motifs : STRETTI
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See or call : BET
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Where hens sit : ONEGGS
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Grad school grillings : ORALS
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Starts in on : HASAT
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"Idomeneo," e.g. : OPERA
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Ursine : bear :: lutrine : ___ : OTTER
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Chops : HEWS
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Awful : DIRE
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Mix up : STIR
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Tout's offering : HOTTIP
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Pioneer org. : NASA
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Eastern title : LAMA
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Silent auction site : EBAY
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Part of N.A.A.C.P.: Abbr. : ASSN
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Wastes : OFFS
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TV dinner holder : TRAY
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Set after melting : REHARDEN
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Panoramic : BROAD
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Legendary Gaelic poet : OSSIAN
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Classic flivver : MODELT
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Something to bid : ADIEU
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Billboard chart category : RANDB
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Leaves rolling in the aisles : SLAYS
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Faux gold : ORMOLU
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Agnostic : NESCIENT
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Ontario or Supérieur : LAC
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"Chances ___" : ARE
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Common muscle protein : MYOSIN
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Pokémon and the Beatles, once : MANIAS
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Nutritionist Davis : ADELLE
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___ the dinosaur (extinction) : WAYOF
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Japanese porcelain : IMARI
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1983 Woody Allen mockumentary : ZELIG
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Backing : FOR
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The Monkees' "___ Believer" : IMA
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Shakespearean compilation : FOLIO
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San ___, Argentina : ISIDRO
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Pet plant : CHIA
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Web address lead-in : HTTP
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Radio letter between Nan and Peter : OBOE
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Three strikes and you're out, e.g. : RULE
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Hungarian spa town : EGER
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"This won't hurt ___" : ABIT
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Tony-winning actress Verdon : GWEN
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"Leave it to Beaver" catchphrase : GOLLYGEE
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Skater's leap : AXEL
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Welsh cheese dish : RAREBIT
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Army outfit : BRIGADE
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Sermon site : PULPIT
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Cutty ___ (clipper ship) : SARK
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"No prob!" : CANDO
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Rigel's constellation : ORION
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Breath fresheners : MINTS
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Quarterback Rodney : PEETE
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___ Quinn, formerly of "S.N.L." : COLIN
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Make like new : REFIT
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Tchaikovsky's middle name : ILICH
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Tempt : BAIT
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Bowed, to a violist : ARCO
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Root beer feature : SUDS
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Estrada of "CHiPs" : ERIK
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Start of a counting-out rhyme : EENY
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Enero, e.g. : MES
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Former name for Ben-Gurion Airport : LOD
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N, E, S and W : PTS

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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