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SHIFTY BUSINESS

New York Times, Sunday, June 7, 2009

Author:
Jeremy Newton
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
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Jeremy Newton

This puzzle:

Rows: 21, Columns: 21 Words: 140, Blocks: 66 This is puzzle # 4 for Mr. Newton. Sunday freshness: 95%
Jim Horne notes:

The circles outline a shift pattern for a five-speed standard transmission.

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© 2009, The New York Times6/7/9 ( No. 21,761 )
Across
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As weird as they come : ODDEST
7
Where an M.I.A. might be : POWCAMP
14
Parts of Fiji : ISLETS
20
"Beats me" : NOIDEA
21
Biological rings : AREOLAE
22
1950 University of Havana grad : CASTRO
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Tightly stacked, as ice trays : NESTED
24
Con artist : SCAMMER
25
"Alrighty" : OKTHEN
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Like Tylenol PM: Abbr. : OTC
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It might be dropped : NAME
29
Foot, to a zoologist : PES
30
Crypt alternatives : URNS
32
Suffix with floor or roof : ING
33
Teacher's question at the start of show-and-tell : WHOSFIRST
35
Anticipate heading home : GOTOTHIRDBASE
38
Endings for Shakespeare : FIFTHACTS
40
___ Reuters, media giant : THOMSON
42
New York tribe : ONEIDAS
44
Some early paintings : CAVEART
47
Prefix with ribonucleic : DEOXY
49
They're learning the ropes : NOVICES
53
Bless : ANOINT
54
Color Me ___, 1990s R&B group : BADD
55
"Friday the 13th" prop : FACEMASK
56
Inning stretcher, maybe : RAINDELAY
58
Sequel to "Typee" : OMOO
61
Audibly upset, as a bull : SNORTY
62
Norms: Abbr. : STDS
63
Long-snouted swimmer : GAR
64
Oil bigwig? : CRISCO
66
Thing absorbed by the ozone layer, for short : UVRAY
67
Doesn't care either way : TAKESANEUTRALSTANCE
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Way to go on dates : DUTCH
74
Pet store category : EXOTIC
75
Not big, in a small way : LIL
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Diminish : BATE
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Leaning, in a way : ITALIC
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All-inclusive : ATOZ
83
Bruce Wayne and Batman, e.g. : ALTEREGOS
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Place for matches at home : GAMEROOM
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"Calm down" : EASY
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Drilling devices : AUGERS
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Massage technique : SHIATSU
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Pole in sailing : SPRIT
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Che Guevara's real first name : ERNESTO
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Big Apple daily, in brief : NYTIMES
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Verbally assaults : RAILSAT
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At once : THISSECOND
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Some summer feasts in the U.S. : JULYFOURTHBBQS
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Where to sign a credit card, e.g. : REVERSESIDE
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A bather may want one : TAN
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Blind part : SLAT
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Grand ___ (wine designation) : CRU
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Per diem worker : TEMP
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UPS option, briefly : COD
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Hopped up, in a way : ONDOPE
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Rashly : INHASTE
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"Men in Black" figures : ALIENS
121
Negative influence : POISON
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Gets fixed : NEUTERS
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Texas/Louisiana border river : SABINE
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You take it lying down : SIESTA
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Views wide-eyed : GAPESAT
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It's bound to be used in a service : HYMNAL
Down
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Available for viewing : ONNOW
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"A merry heart ___ good like a medicine": Proverbs : DOETH
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Boogie, Bee Gees-style : DISCO
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D.C. summer clock setting : EDT
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Witnessed : SEENFIRSTHAND
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"Brilliant, ain't I?!" : TADA
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Bygone Toyotas : PASEOS
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Frodo foe : ORC
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Gave missiles to : WEAPONED
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Finish last on "Jeopardy!" : COMETHIRD
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Donation receptacle : ALMSBOX
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Oda ___ Brown (Oscar-winning role) : MAE
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Look over : PERUSE
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Clicked pic : ICON
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It opened in Manhattan in 1924 : SAKSFIFTHAVENUE
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W.W. II craft for getting troops ashore : LST
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Set of moral rules : ETHIC
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Rock singer Reznor : TRENT
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Billboard listings : SONGS
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Corp. leadership : MGMT
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Isabella II, por ejemplo : REINA
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Oktoberfest souvenirs : STEINS
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Currently : TODAY
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___ minute : ANY
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"Foundation" trilogy writer : ASIMOV
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Old El Paso competitor : ORTEGA
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E.R. folk : DOCS
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They get tired : CARS
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Biol. subject : ANAT
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Empty : VOID
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It freshens the air : ODORNEUTRALIZER
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Baker v. ___, landmark 1962 Supreme Court case : CARR
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Spanish for "are" : ESTA
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Big name in vodka : SKYY
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Practice requirement? : BAREXAM
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As the center of attention : FOCALLY
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Summer camp locale : LAKE
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Other: Abbr. : MISC
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Direction from Hannover to Berlin : OST
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Roman who declared "Carthage must be destroyed" : CATO
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Taking care of business : ONIT
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TV advertising staple : THIRTYSECONDSPOT
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Lush : SOT
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Unclogs : CLEARS
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Quarters, informally : DIGS
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Home of Rainbow Bridge National Monument : UTAH
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Suspense novelist ___ Hoag : TAMI
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Empties, with "out" : CLEANS
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Fathers : BEGETS
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A long time : AGES
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Suit basis : TORT
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Canadian station name : ESSO
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Sell for : COST
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Take ___ at (attempt) : ASTAB
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Trick the defensive line, maybe : RUNAREVERSEPLAY
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Kind of board : OUIJA
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Double-deckers in the sky, maybe : AIRBUSES
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Overseas seasoning : SEL
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Energize : PSYCHUP
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"Anything ___?" : ELSE
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Silencing : MUTING
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Brightness detector : IQTEST
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Features of some 'Vettes : TTOPS
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Former enemy capital : HANOI
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Sundance entry, often : INDIE
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Hardly commendable : FOURTHRATE
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Trap during winter, maybe : ICEIN
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Title girl in a Ritchie Valens hit : DONNA
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Flop in a lot : EDSEL
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Actress Olin : LENA
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Reduce to a pulp : MASH
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Org. in the 1946 film "Cloak and Dagger" : OSS
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Class-based society?: Abbr. : NEA
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La-la lead-in : TRA
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Creator of the chess champion Deep Blue : IBM

Answer summary:
17 unique to this puzzle, 9 debuted here and reused later, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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