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New York Times, Thursday, July 29, 2004

Author:
Patrick Merrell
Editor:
Will Shortz
58-Across : Respectful
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Patrick Merrell

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 74, Blocks: 37 Missing: {QXZ} This is puzzle # 34 for Mr. Merrell. Thursday freshness: 46%
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© 2004, The New York Times7/29/4 ( No. 19,987 )
Across
1
Testing centers : LABS
5
Connections : INS
8
Large marine herbivore : SEACOW
14
Yellow spread : OLEO
15
Short flight : HOP
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State admitted during the Civil War : NEVADA
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Eyesight impairer : GLAUCOMA
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Ready to be hung up, say : IRONED
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"Simon says pretend you're on a trampoline" : JUMPUPANDDOWN
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"Give it ___!" : AREST
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Calamitous : DIRE
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Mischief-maker : IMP
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Club ___ : MED
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Seine feeder : OISE
29
High-rise member : IBAR
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"Simon says imitate a soldier" : MARCHINPLACE
34
Slanting : ASLOPE
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Last name in sharpshooting : OAKLEY
38
"Simon says act like a bird" : FLAPBOTHARMS
42
Playwright who coined the term "lothario" : ROWE
43
Patch up : MEND
44
Orlando Predators' grp. : AFL
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Pay off the mortgage on : OWN
48
Milk source : TEAT
49
Kind of lily : CALLA
51
"Give me a round of applause" : SIMONDIDNTSAY
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Curmudgeon's greeting : GOAWAY
57
Ballet featuring the evil magician Von Rothbart : SWANLAKE
58
Respectful : POLITE
59
Get into a stew? : EAT
60
Strong server : ACER
61
Said "one club," e.g. : OPENED
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Sung syllable : TRA
63
Congressional mtg. : SESS
Down
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Lumbering problem : LOGJAM
2
Enticement : ALLURE
3
Appeared triumphant : BEAMED
4
Stock options? : SOUPS
5
Breakfast chain, for short : IHOP
6
Like Bedouins : NOMADIC
7
Florida colonizers, with "the" : SPANISH
8
Disparaging : SNIDE
9
Architect Saarinen : EERO
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Acknowledge : AVOW
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Friday, for one : CANNIBAL
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Work with feet : ODE
13
Mouthful : WAD
18
Studio shout : CUT
21
Eins + zwei : DREI
25
Stalker deterrent : MACE
26
Stalked one : PREY
28
Name on a wafer : OREO
29
Sorts : ILKS
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Have a long face : MOPE
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P.D. alert : APB
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Direction opposite sud : NORD
33
Kitchen spray : PAM
34
"The Mod Squad" do : AFRO
35
School zone warning : SLOW
36
Result of a house cleaning, maybe : LAWNSALE
39
1947 film noir starring Dennis O'Keefe : TMEN
40
Fast-food worker's equipment : HEADSET
41
Pacifistic : ANTIWAR
44
French border region : ALSACE
45
Some breakfast cereals : FLAKES
46
Hens, e.g. : LAYERS
48
Trifled (with) : TOYED
49
Aaron Brown's employer : CNN
50
World book? : ATLAS
52
High-handed remark? : IWIN
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Captain's aide : MATE
54
Figures : DATA
55
Mailing ctr. : GPO
56
Alley ___ : OOP

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5 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later.

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