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New York Times, Friday, July 21, 2006

Author:
Kyle Mahowald
Editor:
Will Shortz
21-Across : Computer character set
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Kyle Mahowald

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 72, Blocks: 29 Missing: {JQWZ} Puzzle has duplicate clues. This is puzzle # 12 for Mr. Mahowald. Friday freshness: 49%
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© 2006, The New York Times7/21/6 ( No. 20,709 )
Across
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Gut feeling : STOMACHACHE
12
Landmark Paris church La ___-Chapelle : STE
15
Popular game on TV : TEXASHOLDEM
16
#4 for Boston : ORR
17
Burned up : INCINERATED
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Was fast ... or wasn't fast : RAN
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Cipher org. : NSA
20
Bowmen's implements : OARS
21
Computer character set : ASCII
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It's sickening : GERM
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Polynesian carving : TIKI
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Diorama : SCENE
28
Misses in Spain: Abbr. : SRTAS
30
Long shot : DARKHORSE
32
Talk over? : DUB
34
Family tree word : NEE
35
Casting need : REEL
36
Opposite of down : GLEEFUL
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Leaves alone : DESERTS
42
A Chaplin : OONA
43
Tease : RAG
45
Nipper : PUP
46
Movie producer? : DVDBURNER
49
___ Secretary : MADAM
53
Bob in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame : SEGER
54
Hardly Mr. Personality : DRIP
56
Movie character whose first name is Julius : DRNO
57
Welcome, in a phrase : GRATA
58
G.M. and G.E. : MFRS
60
Rubber-stamps : OKS
61
Computing-Tabulating-Recording Co., today : IBM
62
"Pink Cadillac" singer, 1988 : NATALIECOLE
66
"This is a Montague, our ___": "Romeo and Juliet" : FOE
67
Like what a person likes : UPONESALLEY
68
Country singer England and others : TYS
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Parts of medical checkups : STRESSTESTS
Down
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Smarts : STINGS
2
Wound tighter : TENSER
3
Rural vehicle : OXCART
4
___ tai : MAI
5
Come ___ surprise : ASNO
6
Swindler : CHEAT
7
Dreadful : HORRID
8
Like a lot of the U.S. oil reserves : ALASKAN
9
Chicago setting: Abbr. : CDT
10
Laugh sound : HEE
11
Frequent feature of Emily Dickinson poetry : EMDASH
12
One who might win a spelling competition : SORCERER
13
Christmas tree circler, perhaps : TRAINSET
14
Two-time U.S. Open champion : ERNIEELS
22
Boxed game equipment : SCOREPAD
24
Entered the pool? : MADEABET
26
Burned up : IRED
29
-ed, e.g.: Abbr. : SUF
31
Stay fresh : KEEP
33
Vice president who graduated from Princeton at 16 : BURR
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Part of an egotist's self-description : GODSGIFT
37
Romantic : LOVERBOY
38
They may produce checks : ENDGAMES
39
Set down : LAND
41
Bottom line : SUM
44
Material : GERMANE
47
William Herschel discovery of 1781 : URANUS
48
Magazine holders : RIFLES
50
Shows excitement (over) : DROOLS
51
Band on foot? : ANKLET
52
Wanders : MOSEYS
55
Bluenose : PRISS
59
Broadway "score" : SEAT
63
Quick : APT
64
Rocky peak : TOR
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A.L. Central team, on a scoreboard : CLE

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 4 debuted here and reused later, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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