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New York Times, Sunday, July 19, 2009

Author:
Lynn Lempel
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
52-Across : Dumber than dumb
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Lynn Lempel

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Rows: 21, Columns: 21 Words: 140, Blocks: 70 Missing: {JQX} Puzzle has duplicate clues. This is puzzle # 43 for Ms. Lempel. Sunday freshness: 62%
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© 2009, The New York Times7/19/9 ( No. 21,803 )
Across
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Where to spot a king or queen : DECK
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___-approved : USDA
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Ridicule : GIBE
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Part of a college application : ESSAY
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Socialite with a self-named perfume : IVANA
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Versatile body builders : STEMCELLS
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Two-door : COUPE
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Lord's home : MANOR
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Corrupt financier's command? : BURYALLACCOUNTS
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Grocery store lineup : CARTS
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Trading post buys : PELTS
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Frequent figure in Renaissance art : SAINT
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Mama Bear at the stove? : FURRYCOOK
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Part of 5-Across: Abbr. : DEPT
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U.R.L. start : HTTP
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Starfish feature : RAY
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"Catch-22" bomber pilot : ORR
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Crowning point : ACME
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View ruiner : EYESORE
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Disputed : ATISSUE
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Pets with dewlaps : IGUANAS
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Like Larry King, repeatedly : REWED
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Coaches : MENTORS
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Word with beauty or pizza : PARLOR
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Dumber than dumb : INANER
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Heat : ESTRUS
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Alpo or Purina One? : CURRATIONS
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Sanctioning assn. for pugilists : WBO
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Like many a 21-Down : HEP
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Percussion instrument in Off Broadway's "Stomp" : POT
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Topic in transcendentalism : IDEALS
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Members of la familia : TIOS
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Familiar flight pattern : VEE
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Painter Andrea ___ Sarto : DEL
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Critical : KEY
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Toxic spray : DDT
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Give ___ shot : ITA
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Droopy : LIMP
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In high esteem : VALUED
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U.S.S. Enterprise title: Abbr. : ENS
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Certain power : NTH
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Post-O.R. location : ICU
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Greeting from Smokey the Bear? : URSINEWAVE
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Happy shouts : WAHOOS
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Good points : MERITS
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Pair of opposite electric charges : DIPOLE
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Best Actress nominee for "Indochine" : DENEUVE
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Singer John with the album "Bruised Orange" : PRINE
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Bacchus, notably : REVELER
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Agitated : INASTEW
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"The Bald Soprano" dramatist : IONESCO
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Schnauzer sounds : ARFS
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Poet Hughes : TED
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Cursor attachment? : PRE
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Some food additives : DYES
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Integral subj. : CALC
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Pumpkin grower's cry of surprise? : OHMYGOURD
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"No problem!" : CANDO
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Something made in the still of the night? : BOOZE
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Above: Lat. : SUPRA
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Scheduled activity at a Vegas chapel? : HOURLYMATRIMONY
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Like "Have a nice day!" : TRITE
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Greek moralizer : AESOP
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What drives you to get better? : AMBULANCE
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Fills to the gills : SATES
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Waxes : GROWS
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Exam with 125 questions: Abbr. : PSAT
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Bygone depilatory : NEET
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Douglas ___, first president of Ireland : HYDE
Down
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Unfavorable : DIM
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Clears : EVACUATES
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Songbird at an eye drops factory? : CANARYINTHEMURINE
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Popular brand of bouillon : KNORR
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Kind of port for a PC : USB
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Daze : STUPOR
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___ Walcott, 1992 Literature Nobelist : DEREK
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___ nitrite : AMYL
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Gets set : GELS
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Unfavorable : ILL
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Indifferent : BLASE
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Hatches, say : ESCAPES
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Capital subj. : ECON
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From Polynesia and environs : SOUTHSEA
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Globe : Boston :: ___ : Baltimore : SUN
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Inclined : APT
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Happy shout : YES
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Bohemian : ARTY
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Cool sort : CAT
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Part of 85-Down : CITY
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Searches high and low : SCOURS
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Curator's selection : FRAME
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Some have a silver lining : ORES
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Mean : DENOTE
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Sodom or Gomorrah? : TOWNWITHOUTPURITY
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Snake with "lightning bolts" on its back : TREEBOA
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Baseball's Martinez and others : PEDROS
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Culture medium : AGAR
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Triumphant spicy meal for the Three Little Pigs? : CURRIEDWOLF
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Affliction : MALADY
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Relatives of kites : ERNS
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Movie star with the most Oscar nominations (15) : STREEP
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Starter, perhaps : SOUP
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"___ a Spell on You" (classic 1956 Screamin' Jay Hawkins song) : IPUT
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King Minos' daughter who aided Theseus : ARIADNE
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Sch. or hosp. : INST
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Disagree strongly : COLLIDE
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Pioneer automaker : OLDS
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Fried rice ingredients : PEAS
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Some church income : TITHES
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Christopher Columbus, in the Indies : VICEROY
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TiVo's, e.g. : DVRS
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Big-enough catch : KEEPER
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Clear : LIMPID
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First commercially successful computer : UNIVAC
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Sometime : EVER
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Darling family pet : NANA
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Early Coloradans : UTES
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Draft picks : ALES
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"Quality Is Our Recipe" franchise : WENDYS
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Not as good as claimed : OVERRATED
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Worked on a shift, maybe : SEWED
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Held for later disbursement, as funds : INESCROW
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Ngo Dinh ___, South Vietnam's first president : DIEM
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Plan of action : ROADMAP
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School inits. in Harlem since 1907 : CCNY
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From that point on : THENCE
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Earthy mixtures : LOAMS
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Radiation reducer : OZONE
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Kishkes : GUTS
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Big name in daytime TV : OPRAH
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Liechtenstein's locale : ALPS
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Very dry : BRUT
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Biggest export of 99-Down : OIL
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See 98-Down : OMAN
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Witch : HAG
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"Give ___ the play": "Hamlet" : OER
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Show presenter, for short : USO
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"More later," on a sched. : TBA
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Still : YET
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Legal conclusion? : ESE

Answer summary:
7 unique to this puzzle, 8 debuted here and reused later, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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