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New York Times, Friday, September 12, 2008

Author:
Natan Last
Editor:
Will Shortz
42-Across : They know the drill
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Natan Last

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 70, Blocks: 34 Missing: {FJX} This is puzzle # 6 for Mr. Last. Friday freshness: 38%
Notepad: TEEN PUZZLEMAKER WEEK
All the daily crosswords this week, Monday through Saturday, have been contributed by puzzlemakers under the age of 20. Today's crossword is by Natan Last, 17, of Brooklyn. He is a first-year student at Brown University. This is his sixth puzzle for The Times.
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© 2008, The New York Times9/12/8 ( No. 21,493 )
Across
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Dance that simulates the drama of a bullfight : PASODOBLE
10
Chuck wagon fare : GRUB
14
1978 Bob Marley hit whose title words are sung four times before "... that I'm feelin'" : ISTHISLOVE
16
Faux Japanese reply : AHSO
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One needing kisses, say : CHOCOHOLIC
18
Jazz duo? : ZEES
19
Nooks for books, maybe : TYPO
20
Furry folivores : KOALABEARS
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It may be set with music : MOOD
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Cudgel : DRUB
25
Believers' comments : AMENS
27
Escaped : GOTLOOSE
31
Sound at an auto race : SWOOSH
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It holds the line : REEL
33
Foot of the Appian Way? : PES
34
Trouble, in a way : HAUNT
35
Locale of some mirrors : CAR
36
Letter-shaped girder : HBEAM
38
Lord John Boyd ___, winner of the 1949 Nobel Peace Prize : ORR
39
Study, say : ROOM
41
Winston Churchill's Rufus, for one : POODLE
42
They know the drill : DENTISTS
44
Turned up : AROSE
45
Child's play, perhaps : SKIT
46
Snitch : SING
47
Company that makes Aunt Jemima syrup : QUAKEROATS
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Area next to an ambulatory : APSE
55
Letter-shaped fastener : TNUT
56
Daydreaming : INLALALAND
58
Days of old : IDES
59
Worked the docks : STEVEDORED
60
Waste of Congress? : PORK
61
"You got it!" : OKEYDOKEY
Down
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Early Inverness resident : PICT
2
Cadaverous : ASHY
3
Ticklee's cry : STOP
4
"You have got to be kidding!" : OHCOMEON
5
The Divine, to da Vinci : DIO
6
City at the mouth of the Fox River : OSHKOSH
7
Shade of red : BLOOD
8
"She was ___ in slacks" (part of an opening soliloquy by Humbert Humbert) : LOLA
9
Baddie : EVILDOER
10
Shady spot in a 52-Down : GAZEBO
11
Cousin of a cassowary : RHEA
12
___ fee : USER
13
One with fire power? : BOSS
15
Trick-taking game : ECARTE
21
March instrument? : BULLHORN
23
Out : ONSTRIKE
25
Au courant : AWARE
26
Keen : MOURN
27
Nutrition units : GRAMS
28
Some essays : OPEDS
29
"A Lonely Rage" autobiographer Bobby : SEALE
30
The farmer's wife in "Babe" : ESME
31
Did a farrier's work : SHOD
35
Start to like : COTTONTO
37
Energetic 1960s dance with swiveling and shuffling : BOOGALOO
40
God of life, death and fertility who underwent resurrection : OSIRIS
41
Pattern sometimes called "Persian pickles" : PAISLEY
43
"I'm very disappointed in you" : TSKTSK
46
Song verse : STAVE
47
Canal cleaner : QTIP
48
Menu option : UNDO
49
Teacher of Heifetz : AUER
50
Fashion model Wek : ALEK
52
See 10-Down : PARK
53
Ko-Ko's dagger in "The Mikado" : SNEE
54
Current happening? : EDDY
57
Kick in : ADD

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

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