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New York Times, Thursday, August 3, 2006

Author:
Nancy Salomon
Editor:
Will Shortz
28-Across : Cooler
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
1868/13/199511/7/2012116
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RebusCircleScrabDebutFresh
1521.5890833%
Nancy Salomon

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 37 Puzzle has duplicate clues. This is puzzle # 164 for Ms. Salomon. Thursday freshness: 42%
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© 2006, The New York Times8/3/6 ( No. 20,722 )
Across
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Going off : ERUPTING
8
Hostess offerings : CUPCAKES
15
Little extra action : SIDEBET
16
Was abased : ATEDIRT
17
Scheme : CONNIVE
18
Beat : PULSATE
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Hee-hawer : ASS
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Arlene of "Here Come the Girls," 1953 : DAHL
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Attend to a tear : SEW
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Brownish-gray : TAUPE
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Cooler : FAN
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Marooned person's message : SOS
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Cooler : ADE
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Fete : AFFAIR
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Butterfly, once : PUPA
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Exclamation with an apostrophe : DOH
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Nut case : BUR
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Represented symbolically : NOTATED
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Rococo painter Watteau : ANTOINE
41
Conscience : SUPEREGO
42
Pure : SINLESS
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All-purpose vehicle, briefly : UTE
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Get set? : GEL
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Lay a lawn on : SOD
46
"Rats!" : OHCRUD
48
Mare's morsel : OAT
49
Elbow-bender : SOT
51
Sales staffer : REP
52
RR stops : STNS
53
Giant successes, briefly : TDS
56
Lab that's not very big, e.g. : PUPPY
58
Sucker : DUPE
59
E-mailed, e.g. : WROTETO
61
Take the place of : PREEMPT
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Log holder : ANDIRON
66
Relatively small : TEENIER
67
Warhol subjects : SOUPCANS
68
Jake ___, De Niro's role in "Raging Bull" : LAMOTTA
Down
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Key in a corner : ESC
2
Popular cruise port : RIO
3
Legit : ONTHEUPANDUP
4
Wound up : TENSE
5
Big-billed bird : IBIS
6
Ariz. neighbor : NEV
7
Co. in the merger that formed Verizon : GTE
8
Bullfighter's red cloak : CAPA
9
"Action, not words!" : PUTUPORSHUTUP
10
Part of a chamber orchestra : CELLO
11
Zappers' targets : ADS
12
Korean autos : KIAS
13
Art Deco designer : ERTE
14
Brood : STEW
20
Some forensic evidence : DNA
22
Shouts of triumph : TADAS
23
Dreamboat : ADONIS
24
Inferior : NOTUPTOSNUFF
25
From square one : AFRESH
27
Bandy words : SPAR
29
Rose's love, on Broadway : ABIE
30
Safeguard : INSURE
32
Reveille message ... or a possible title for this puzzle : TIMETOGETUP
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Cyclades' sea : AEGEAN
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Put on a peg : TEED
38
Dimbulbs : DOLTS
40
Automotive innovator : OLDS
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Squawk, e.g. : CRY
50
Puccini production : OPERA
52
Outdoes : ONEUPS
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Holiday poem opener : TWAS
54
Early Bond baddie : DRNO
55
High hairstyles : UPDOS
57
Diva Lily : PONS
58
Think : DEEM
60
Jerk : TIC
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"The ___ Club" of 1970's-80's TV : PTL
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Stephen of "Still Crazy" : REA
63
Dear : PET
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La lead-in : TRA

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

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