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New York Times, Thursday, September 11, 2003

Author:
Patrick Merrell
Editor:
Will Shortz
21-Across : 40A/34D topping
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Patrick Merrell

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 80, Blocks: 40 Missing: {FJQVXZ} Puzzle has duplicate clues. This is puzzle # 20 for Mr. Merrell. Thursday freshness: 4%
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© 2003, The New York Times9/11/3 ( No. 19,665 )
Across
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With 40A, a breakfast order : CAKES
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With 40A, garden sites : BEDS
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With 40A, a V.I.P. : SHOT
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Top picks : ALIST
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Delta Center team : UTAH
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Mesa Indian : HOPI
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Is rated : GETSAGRADE
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Leader at OPEC, maybe : EMIR
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Computer add-on : ESE
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40A/34D topping : MUSTARD
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Macon-to-Augusta dir. : ENE
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Encouraging signs? : PATS
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Uplifted : BUOYED
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Clothes model : WEARER
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Nobody : PEON
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Like a bike chain, usually : OILED
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Miner's entry : ADIT
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Incarnation of the Egyptian god Thoth : IBIS
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Pope's cape : ORALE
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? : HOT
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Hop on : MOUNT
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First name in '50s TV : DESI
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Dreamcast maker : SEGA
44
Prefix with vascular : INTRA
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Negligible : SLIM
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Loose overcoat : ULSTER
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Tried hard : PUSHED
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Something that needs to be cleared up : ACNE
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Bolted down : ATE
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40A/34D topping : KETCHUP
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Rx prescribers : MDS
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Service rewards : TIPS
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For show only : CEREMONIAL
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History Muse : CLIO
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Over : ANEW
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English Channel feeder : SOMME
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With 40A, a firebrand : HEAD
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With 40A, racers : RODS
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With 40A, a fad : TREND
Down
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With 34D, part of a pound : CAGE
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Brews : ALES
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Wind-up toy? : KITE
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Curvy path : ESS
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Prairie event : STAMPEDE
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Salvo : BURST
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The Dakotas, to de Gaulle : ETATS
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Early baby word : DADA
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Cold dessert : SHERBET
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A miss : SHE
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Comfortable : HOMEY
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Posit aloud : OPINE
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With 34D, spent : TIRED
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Kind of gum in food preparation : GUAR
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Abbott and Costello, e.g. : DUO
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40A/34D topping : ONIONS
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With 34D, a pretty tree : WOOD
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Home to Yeats : EIRE
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"C'est la vie" : ALAS
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40A/34D topping : RELISH
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Outside of a gyro : PITA
33
Clearing, of sorts : AHEM
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? : DOG
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Set end to end : BUTT
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Citer's opening : INRE
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With 34D, a mariner's guide : STAR
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Road marker : MILEPOST
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One-person cab : SIDECAR
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Albanian money : LEK
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U.S. coin word : UNUM
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With 34D, a comic strip setting : PATCH
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Practical : UTILE
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Old print : SEPIA
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Like large landowners : ACRED
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Wads of gum : CHEWS
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"A ___'clock scholar" : TENO
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Silent type : MIME
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Censure : DAMN
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With 34D, a racing vehicle : SLED
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Settler's building material : SOD
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___'easter : NOR

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1 unique to this puzzle, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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