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New York Times, Tuesday, July 12, 2005

Author:
Nancy Salomon
Editor:
Will Shortz
60-Across : They leave marks on the road
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Nancy Salomon

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 36 Missing: {JQVXZ} Puzzle has duplicate clues. This is puzzle # 144 for Ms. Salomon. Tuesday freshness: 73%
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© 2005, The New York Times7/12/5 ( No. 20,335 )
Across
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Nurses' workmates : DOCS
5
Leave clueless : STUMP
10
Headliner : STAR
14
Russia's ___ Mountains : URAL
15
Lack of laxness : RIGOR
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Kent State's state : OHIO
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"I'm game" : FINEWITHME
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On guard : WARY
20
Jane of "Klute" : FONDA
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Had in mind : MEANT
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"Telephone Line" rock grp. : ELO
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Pretend to sing : LIPSYNC
28
Star Wars mil. project : SDI
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"I'm game" : LETSDOIT
33
One of the Twin Cities : STPAUL
35
Cold-relief brand : CONTAC
37
"Love Story" author Erich : SEGAL
38
Drop anchor : MOOR
41
Hedge former : SHRUB
43
D.C. bigwigs : POLS
44
Out of kilter : ASKEW
46
Letter lines : SERIFS
48
"Tommy" rockers : THEWHO
50
"I'm game" : ALLRIGHT
54
Stable diet? : HAY
55
Fashionable : INSTYLE
57
Soccer standout Hamm : MIA
58
Plug : DAMUP
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They leave marks on the road : SKIDS
62
New Mexico resort town : TAOS
64
"I'm game" : SUREWHYNOT
68
Like a G.I. peeling spuds : ONKP
69
Susan Lucci's Emmy role : ERICA
70
Don Juan, for one : ROUE
71
Sight seers : EYES
72
Got up : STOOD
73
Cultural doings : ARTS
Down
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___ bag (camper's tote) : DUFFEL
2
Baltimore ballplayer : ORIOLE
3
Defeatist's word : CANNOT
4
Musher's transport : SLED
5
Hindu honorific : SRI
6
Small songbird : TIT
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"Gross!" : UGH
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Daddy's counterpart : MOMMY
9
Fixes feathers : PREENS
10
Scattered, as seed : SOWN
11
"I'm game" : THATSAGO
12
Go public with : AIR
13
"Crying" singer Orbison : ROY
18
Hider in kids' books : WALDO
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Does something : ACTS
25
Electrified particles : IONS
26
Cores : PITHS
27
Ogle : STAREAT
29
Twofold : DUAL
30
Sorry situations : ILLS
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You may make its head turn : SCREW
34
Coke competitor : PEPSI
36
One of the Three Stooges : CURLY
38
Trig, e.g. : MATH
39
Govt. workplace watchdog : OSHA
40
"I'm game" : OKEYDOKE
42
One, for one : BILL
45
Passing fancy : WHIM
47
Mouthing off : FRESH
49
Unwelcome obligations : ONUSES
51
Key with two flats : GMINOR
52
Lay low : HIDOUT
53
Has a bite : TASTES
56
Brief burst : SPURT
59
Cairo cobras : ASPS
61
Actress Sedgwick : KYRA
62
Bunion's place : TOE
63
Whatever : ANY
65
Brazilian hot spot, briefly : RIO
66
System starter? : ECO
67
Roll of dough : WAD

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 4 debuted here and reused later.

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