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New York Times, Sunday, August 14, 2011

Author:
Paula Gamache
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
121-Across : Looped handles
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Paula Gamache

This puzzle:

Rows: 21, Columns: 21 Words: 140, Blocks: 70 Missing: {JQ} Puzzle has duplicate clues. This is puzzle # 72 for Ms. Gamache. Sunday freshness: 14%
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© 2011, The New York Times8/14/11 ( No. 22,559 )
Across
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Animal with a huge yawn : HIPPO
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Garden support : STEM
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___ of roses : ATTAR
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"Swans Reflecting Elephants" artist : DALI
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Formula One driver Prost : ALAIN
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Bandleader Puente : TITO
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Religion founded in Iran : BAHAI
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Dash : ELAN
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Reduces significantly : SLICESINTO
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"Your Movie Sucks" writer : EBERT
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Billion: Prefix : GIGA
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"A penny saved is ..." : NOTENOUGHTORETIREON
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"___ me anything" : ASK
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Winery wood : OAK
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Needle case : ETUI
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Like a black hole : DENSE
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"Where there's a will, there's ..." : GOINGTOBEARELATIVE
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Mama Cass : ELLIOT
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Partner of 74-Across : AFL
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Spread out : DILATE
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E-mail alternative : FAX
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Effrontery : GALL
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Entertainment providers at a sports bar : LCDTVS
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Pop's ___ Tuesday : TIL
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Fill : SATE
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Perfect service : ACE
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Certain commando : SEAL
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"Where there's smoke, there's ..." : AIRPOLLUTION
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Founder of United We Stand America : PEROT
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Despicable : LOW
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John who searched for the Northwest Passage : RAE
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Buddhist teaching : DHARMA
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"People who live in glass houses ..." : LETITALLHANGOUT
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Rhododendron cousin : AZALEA
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Partner of 43-Across : CIO
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Chinese "path" : TAO
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Stinks to high heaven : REEKS
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"He who laughs last ..." : FINALLYGOTIT
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Russian council : DUMA
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Land in a river : AIT
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Some are queens : ANTS
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Part of a cul-de-sac address, maybe: Abbr. : CIR
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Neighborhood east of SoHo : NOLITA
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"This ___ You're Talking To" (Trisha Yearwood song) : ISME
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"Riddle me, riddle me ___" : REE
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Public respect : REPUTE
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Managed : RAN
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2, 3, 4 or 6, for 12 : FACTOR
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"If at first you don't succeed ..." : REDEFINETHEMISSION
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Revenue line : SALES
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It can make a 10 a 9 : FLAW
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Alley ___ : OOP
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Sante Fe-to-Denver dir. : NNE
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"Don't bite the hand ..." : THATHASNTBEENWASHED
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Legend of the Himalayas : YETI
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Oldest von Trapp child in "The Sound of Music" : LIESL
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Protein building blocks : AMINOACIDS
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Reposed : LAIN
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Looped handles : ANSAE
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Bone-dry : SERE
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Sacred city of Lamaism : LHASA
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Mrs. Garrett on "The Facts of Life" : EDNA
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Places to live in the sticks? : NESTS
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Struck out : EXED
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Stupid, in Sonora : TONTO
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Is sick with : HAS
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Sick : ILL
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Analgesic : PAINKILLER
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Boulevard where Fox Studios and the Los Angeles Convention Center are located : PICO
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"Almost finished!" : ONETOGO
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Wasted : STINKO
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Former Yankee Martinez : TINO
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Departing words? : ETTU
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Synthesizer designer Robert : MOOG
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Helped in a job : ABETTED
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Middle Eastern salad : TABOULI
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Area of Venice with a famous bridge : THERIALTO
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It has banks in Switzerland : AARE
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Director Martin : RITT
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Step : DEGREE
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It's out of this world : ALIEN
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Port on the Gulf of Guinea : LAGOS
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Silly : INANE
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Western terminus of I-90 : SEATTLE
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___ Majesty : HER
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Contraction with two apostrophes : IDVE
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Relationship disparity, perhaps : AGEGAP
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Console : SOLACE
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Naught : NIL
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Rapscallion : BADLOT
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New newt : EFT
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Part of T.A.E. : ALVA
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Comet part : TAIL
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"That's good enough" : ITLLDO
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C-worthy : FAIR
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Scintilla : ATOM
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TV warrior for good : XENA
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It's north of Baja, informally : CALI
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Prime cut : SIRLOIN
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A star may represent it : STATE
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___ blue : STEEL
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College cheer : RAH
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Bog buildup : PEAT
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"Star Trek" role : UHURA
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Cooking pots : OLLAS
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Baylor's city : WACO
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Applied some powder to : TALCED
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Wasted : LIT
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Title girl in a 1964 Chuck Berry hit : NADINE
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Toe woe : GOUT
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Come from ___ : AFAR
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Fanboy's reading : ZINE
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Stud money : ANTE
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Javanese or Malay : EASTINDIAN
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Ban ___ (Kofi Annan's successor) : KIMOON
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Laurence who wrote "Tristram Shandy" : STERNE
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"Good grief!" : YIPE
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Surly manner : GRUFFNESS
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Material for a suit? : TORT
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Party of the underworld : MAFIOSO
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___-di-dah : LAH
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Suffix with robot : ICS
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Hebrew letter after koph : RESH
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Fights with : TILTSAT
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Permits : ENABLES
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It might be on the road : ASPHALT
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One behind the lens : RETINA
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Farm mate : EWE
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Didn't suffer in silence : MOANED
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Flair : STYLE
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Forward : AHEAD
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Exempli gratia, e.g. : LATIN
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Economist Greenspan : ALAN
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It has a period of 2π : SINE
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No pressure : EASE
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Its highest point is Wheeler Peak: Abbr. : NMEX
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Current carrier : WIRE
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Nymph spurned by Narcissus : ECHO
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August hrs. : DST
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___ Tomé : SAO

Answer summary:
10 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later.

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