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New York Times, Thursday, June 7, 2012

Author:
Joe Krozel
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
20-Across : Adobes and abodes
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Joe Krozel

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 72, Blocks: 37 Missing: {JQV} Spans: 2 This is puzzle # 58 for Mr. Krozel. Thursday freshness: 95%
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© 2012, The New York Times6/7/12 ( No. 22,857 )
Across
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Brewer Coors : ADOLPH
7
Add liberally to : HEAPON
13
With 14- and 64-Across, familiar rule not always followed : IBEFORE
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See 13-Across : EEXCEPT
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5-Down and others : GOLFTOURNAMENTS
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Da's opposite : NYET
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Bygone record label : ARISTA
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Melodramatic sound : SOB
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Adobes and abodes : HOMES
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Touchdown stat : ETA
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Twins sharing a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame : OLSENS
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Push to the right, say : INDENT
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Part of an extended family : NIECE
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Chem. assay : ANAL
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China problem : CHIP
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Cap : CEILING
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It's good for your health : HYGIENE
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Automaker Ferrari : ENZO
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QB calls : HUTS
42
___ Tales, magazine where many H. P. Lovecraft stories first appeared : WEIRD
43
Ban on strip mining, e.g. : ECOLAW
45
Western and foreign, to moviegoers : GENRES
46
Chess piece: Abbr. : KNT
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"___ want to talk about it" : IDONT
49
Be behind : OWE
52
Relaxes : LETSUP
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Fordham athletes : RAMS
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Studier of distant emissions : RADIOASTRONOMER
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Major : BIGNAME
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Ones giving cash for quarters : ROOMERS
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Some Rijksmuseum holdings : STEENS
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See 13-Across : AFTERC
Down
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"It's ___!" : ABOY
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Take out : DELE
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Not paid for, as factory work : OFFTHECLOCK
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One to build on : LOT
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Some charitable sporting events : PROAMS
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Part of un jour : HEURE
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How some argue : HEATEDLY
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One who's split : EXMATE
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Pal : ACE
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Authors : PENS
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Vision: Prefix : OPTO
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Investigator of many accidents, for short : NTSB
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Engine part: Abbr. : IGN
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Northern extremes? : ENS
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Mr. Mojo ___ (anagrammatic nickname for Jim Morrison) : RISIN
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"That's ___ hadn't heard" : ONEI
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Subject of a six-volume history by Edward Gibbon : ANCIENTROME
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"Going ___ ..." : ONCE
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Property claim : LIEN
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Lay claim to : SEIZE
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Informal turndowns : NAHS
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Its for more than one : THEIR
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It flows in un río : AGUA
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Brief start : INRE
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Ones hoofing it : PEDS
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Stars and others : NHLTEAMS
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Rocker Stefani : GWEN
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Plot feature : TWIST
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Temporarily out, say : ONLOAN
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Disappear : GOPOOF
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Sorghum variety : DURRA
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Stars, e.g. : ORBS
50
Checkout line complaint : WAIT
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Kind of piece in a jigsaw puzzle : EDGE
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Literary monogram : TSE
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Ascap part: Abbr. : AMER
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Bobcat or Cougar, for short : MERC
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Class that's soon to leave: Abbr. : SRS
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Suffix with opal : INE
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Sarcasm clarifier : NOT

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