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New York Times, Friday, August 11, 2006

Author:
Patrick Merrell
Editor:
Will Shortz
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Patrick Merrell

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 72, Blocks: 31 Missing: {VXZ} Featured in Will Shortz's favorite puzzlemakers. This is puzzle # 59 for Mr. Merrell. Friday freshness: 19%
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© 2006, The New York Times8/11/6 ( No. 20,730 )
Across
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Brewer's need : HOPS
5
Borderline : IFFY
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Salvaging aid : SONAR
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Strike : OMIT
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Art Spiegelman's Pulitzer-winning graphic novel : MAUS
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Show fear : QUAKE
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Upper : HAPPYPILL
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Set free : UNTIE
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Nice one : UNE
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Sat. rehearsals, perhaps : SERS
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Back up : SECOND
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Brand whose logo is a cone-headed character : MISTERSOFTEE
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Voltaire's "La ___ de César" : MORT
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Electronic music pioneer : MOOG
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Culmination : CAP
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Bring (out) : TROT
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1990 #1 rap hit : ICEICEBABY
36
Her name can be touch-typed with just the right hand : YOKOONO
38
BBQ annoyance : SKEETER
39
Like kilts : KNEELENGTH
41
Faux Japanese reply : AHSO
42
Conductor's need : EAR
43
Prefix with -crine : ENDO
44
Snarly sort : OGRE
46
Biblical path to heaven : JACOBSLADDER
50
Pacific : SERENE
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RR sta. info : ETDS
54
It's stranded : RNA
55
Hymn start : OLORD
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Bedtime cover : SLEEPMASK
58
Fellow : BLOKE
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React angrily : ROAR
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Pivot : SLUE
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Mythical reveler : SATYR
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Mice catchers : OWLS
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Spent : USED
Down
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Pedestrian : HOHUM
2
One whose flag features a dagger and two swords : OMANI
3
Santa Claus, for one : PIPESMOKER
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Big race sponsor : STP
5
Freshness : IMPERTINENCE
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Events with tents : FAIRS
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Offensive : FULSOME
8
Handbag monogram : YSL
9
Film attacker? : SQUEEGEE
10
Postal unit : OUNCE
11
Like some troops : NATO
12
Homologous : AKIN
13
English horn, e.g. : REED
18
River whose mouth is near Nieuwpoort : YSER
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Annual meeting attendees : STOCKHOLDERS
24
Head-___ : TOTOE
25
Dump (on) : FOIST
28
They keep large flocks : CATHEDRALS
29
Justice Fortas and others : ABES
30
Lighter, briefly? : PYRO
31
Big Wheel rider : TYKE
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Jaffe who wrote "The Best of Everything" : RONA
34
Complex unit : CONDO
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Santa Claus feature : BEARD
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Poisonous ornamental : OLEANDER
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Not stay on deck : GOBELOW
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"Oh my!," for one : GASP
46
Erratic : JERKY
47
Take second, e.g. : STEAL
48
Result : ENSUE
49
Like baseball infields, before games : RAKED
50
Is visibly miserable : SOBS
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Actress Raines : ELLA
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Etymology info : ROOT
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Sign of overfilling : SRO
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Big Ten sch. : MSU

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6 unique to this puzzle, 3 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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