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New York Times, Thursday, August 19, 2010

Author:
Kristian House
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
33-Across : Impetuously ... or what can go on each part of the answer to each starred clue?
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Kristian House

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 72, Blocks: 38 Missing: none – this is a pangram. This is puzzle # 4 for Mr. House. Thursday freshness: 87%
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© 2010, The New York Times8/19/10 ( No. 22,199 )
Across
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Dish that might come with mole sauce : TACO
5
Item sometimes having an elbow : STRAW
10
"L'Amour avec ___" (French love song) : TOI
13
___ open road : ONAN
14
Lover of Orsino in "Twelfth Night" : VIOLA
15
Actor La Salle : ERIQ
16
*One on safari : GAMEHUNTER
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Alternative to a B.L.T. : MELT
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Rat in "Ratatouille" : REMY
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*Part of stage scenery : SETPIECE
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Just got (by) : SCRAPED
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Staples of holiday displays : SANTAS
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*What a cell doesn't need : PHONELINE
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Inclined : LEANT
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Objectivist Rand : AYN
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Kind of lighting : MOOD
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Some R.P.I. grads : ENGS
33
Impetuously ... or what can go on each part of the answer to each starred clue? : HEADFIRST
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Popular cleanser : AJAX
38
"Calm down, big fella" : EASY
39
Want to take back, say : RUE
42
Surgical tube : STENT
43
*Absolutely : STONECOLD
46
2003 Christopher Paolini fantasy best seller : ERAGON
48
Figure in red : NETLOSS
49
*Cut off from water : LANDLOCK
52
Chief justice before Hughes : TAFT
53
Rat Pack nickname : DINO
54
*Person with a baton : BANDMASTER
58
Force felt on earth, for short : ONEG
59
The Joker, to Batman : ENEMY
60
Common computer instruction : SORT
61
Things read by 41-Down : MSS
62
Host Gibbons of "Hollywood Confidential" : LEEZA
63
Recess : APSE
Down
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Dress (up) : TOG
2
"___ is the only slight glimmer of hope": Mick Jagger : ANARCHY
3
Best Director of 1997, and Best Director nominee of 2009 : CAMERON
4
Kind of army or show : ONEMAN
5
"Law & Order: ___" : SVU
6
Part of bronze : TIN
7
Spoils : ROTS
8
How the helm might be put : ALEE
9
Targets of salicylic acid : WARTS
10
Arboreal marker : TREETAG
11
Garage refuse : OILCANS
12
Measure of brainpower : IQTEST
15
Renowned : EMINENT
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Ballyhoo : HYPE
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Hardly measures up : PALES
22
Hydrotherapy spot : SPA
23
Town outside of Buffalo : ELMA
24
Circuit components : DIODES
27
Words on some diet food labels : NOFAT
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"___, the Man," 1940 biopic starring Spencer Tracy : EDISON
33
Abject : HANGDOG
34
Laud : EXTOL
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Hall-of-Famer Sandberg : RYNE
36
Carriers from northern Manhattan to Far Rockaway : ATRAINS
37
Actresses Crain and Tripplehorn : JEANNES
39
Like the last Beatles concert, 1969 : ROOFTOP
40
Heavy overcoats : ULSTERS
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Those who read 61-Across : EDS
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Scarcely : SELDOM
44
"At Last" singer James : ETTA
45
Topnotch : CLASSA
47
Prize won by Einstein and Yeats : NOBEL
50
Prop for Winston Churchill : CANE
51
Banjo site? : KNEE
55
No man's land, briefly : DMZ
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One-named singer of the 1998 hit "It's All About Me" : MYA
57
Hwy. : RTE

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

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