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MAKING ENDS MEET

New York Times, Sunday, July 4, 2010

Author:
Patrick Blindauer and Tony Orbach
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
38-Across : Not e'en once
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This puzzle:

Rows: 21, Columns: 21 Words: 140, Blocks: 74 Missing: {QZ} This is puzzle # 38 for Mr. Blindauer. This is puzzle # 14 for Mr. Orbach. Sunday freshness: 47%
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© 2010, The New York Times7/4/10 ( No. 22,153 )
Across
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Routine responses? : HAHAS
6
1961 Charlton Heston/Sophia Loren film : ELCID
11
"Who ___?" : ELSE
15
Goes back : EBBS
19
Words of certainty : IMUST
20
Unit of energy : JOULE
21
Sculpture garden setting in N.Y.C. : MOMA
22
Response to freshness? : SLAP
23
Technical trouble : COMPUTERROR
25
Uncle of Levi : ESAU
26
Author John Dickson ___ : CARR
27
Puts together : DEDUCES
28
Items at one's disposal? : ORTS
29
Prefix with thesis : ANTI
30
Actor/comic Brad : GARRETT
32
Helper in herding : ENGLISHEEPDOG
37
Bird with meat high in protein : EMU
38
Not e'en once : NEER
40
Not straight up : ATILT
41
Sideshow features : FREAKS
42
Collectible book : LIMITEDITION
45
Block legally : ESTOP
47
Carrier in the Star Alliance : SAS
48
Cassette knob abbr. : VOL
49
Yokel's laugh : HAW
50
Big name in trading cards : TOPPS
54
Indonesian vacation spot : BALI
56
Bao ___ (former Vietnamese emperor) : DAI
57
Line in London : PRIMERIDIAN
60
Symbol of a boring routine : TREADMILL
62
Special ___ : OPS
63
Cassette button abbr. : REC
64
Key: Fr. : CLE
65
Split : RAN
66
Like many an online password : CASENSITIVE
69
World Cup cry : OLE
70
Service : USE
71
Rose who rose to fame in the 1980s : AXL
72
50-50, e.g. : TIE
73
Small carriage : ONESEATER
76
It might have a theater and planetarium : SCIENCENTER
79
Campers, for short : RVS
80
"Love surfeits not, ___ like a glutton dies": Shak. : LUST
81
Show expanded to four hours in 2007 : TODAY
82
Chess opening? : CEE
83
Itinerary word : VIA
84
Marxist, e.g. : RED
85
Bars : SHUTS
87
Singer who played Cyrano in "Cyrano de Bergerac" : PLACIDOMINGO
93
Caesar, e.g. : ORATOR
96
When daylight saving begins: Abbr. : TWOAM
98
Commercial time of day : NITE
99
"___ House," 1970 Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young hit : OUR
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Introvert or extrovert : PERSONALITYPE
103
Grenache, for one : VINROSE
105
___ fruit : UGLI
106
They may be flipped : LIDS
107
Off : TAINTED
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Start : SEED
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"Come here often?", e.g. : LINE
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Protector : GUARDIANGEL
115
Kin of -ess or -trix : ENNE
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Future platypi : EGGS
117
Offer one's thoughts : OPINE
118
"Somewhere in Time" actor : REEVE
119
Suffix with prank : STER
120
Part of 58-Down: Abbr. : INST
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In a stack : PILED
122
Approvals : YESES
Down
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Boozehound's sound : HIC
2
"Just ___!" ("Hold on!") : AMO
3
Prosaic : HUMDRUM
4
On the say-so of : ASPER
5
Gift from the well-endowed : STUDENTAID
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Bounced : EJECTED
7
Old tales : LORE
8
What a mummy might have : CURSE
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Agcy. of the U.N. : ILO
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"___ Kommissar" (1983 hit) : DER
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"Bam!" man in the kitchen : EMERIL
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Petered out : LOSTSTEAM
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Very successful : SMASH
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Seine filler : EAU
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Way out in space : ESCAPEPOD
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Football Hall-of-Famer George : BLANDA
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Composer of "The Miraculous Mandarin" : BARTOK
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Parsley parts : SPRIGS
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Some pupils : TUTEES
28
Swedish-born "Chocolat" actress : OLIN
30
Cowlick tamer : GEL
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Confidant, peut-être : AMI
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Get exactly right : NAIL
34
'Vette alternative : GTO
35
Little newt : EFT
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Hot : EROTIC
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Play featuring Mrs. Malaprop, with "The" : RIVALS
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Española, e.g. : ISLA
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Demoiselle's dressing : TOILETTE
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Sudden turns : SWERVES
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Not just noteworthy : HISTORIC
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Embroidery loops : PICOTS
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What a forklift may lift : PALLET
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Disapproving look : SNEER
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Depp title role : BRASCO
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Famous 12-book story : AENEID
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Brooklynese, e.g. : DIALECT
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Wannabe : POSER
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Alma mater of some engrs. : RPI
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"Cheers" actor Roger : REES
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Word in many bank names : TRUST
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Year that Emperor Frederick I died : MCXC
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Not even once, in Nürnberg : NIE
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For nothing : INVAIN
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"Moving on then ..." : ANYHOO
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Simple : ELEMENTARY
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German import : AUDI
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Resident of New York's Murray Hill, e.g. : EASTSIDER
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Batch that's hatched : NESTLINGS
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Seductress : VAMP
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Relative of fusilli : ROTINI
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Vessel in an alcove : URN
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Kitchenware : POTS
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Not in the profession : LAY
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Made fractions ... or factions : DIVIDED
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Pests : NOODGES
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T. S. Eliot's "Theatre Cat" : GUS
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What's mined to keep? : ORE
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Sonatas and such : OPUSES
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University V.I.P. : REGENT
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Dahl of "A Southern Yankee," 1948 : ARLENE
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Most outspread : WIDEST
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True : ALIGN
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Brick-and-mortar alternative : ETAIL
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Dancer Jeanmaire : RENEE
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"Rule, Britannia" composer : ARNE
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Bit of neckwear : LEI
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Herd of elephants? : GOP
112
Initials in news : UPI
113
1950 Anne Baxter title role : EVE
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Évian-___-Bains, France : LES

Answer summary:
11 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 3 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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