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New York Times, Monday, September 12, 2011

Author:
Keith Talon
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
49-Across : La ___ Tar Pits
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Keith Talon

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 38 Missing: {JQZ} Spans: 2 Puzzle has duplicate clues. This is puzzle # 3 for Mr. Talon. Monday freshness: 59%
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© 2011, The New York Times9/12/11 ( No. 22,588 )
Across
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One of the "hands" in the command "shake hands" : PAW
4
Result of a burst dike : FLOOD
9
"O.K., O.K. ... tell me!" : IGIVE
14
"So that's it!" : AHA
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Caffè ___ : LATTE
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Healing plants : ALOES
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Unused parts of a cell phone plan : ROLLOVERMINUTES
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Youngster : TYKE
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Encircle : LOOP
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Stun, as with a police gun : TASE
23
British lockup : GAOL
26
Wander : ROVE
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Formal meal at a table : SITDOWNDINNER
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"One more time!" : ENCORE
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Hops kiln : OAST
36
Lab eggs : OVA
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X-rated flick : PORNO
38
Arid : DRY
39
What a soldier wears that has a serial no. : IDTAG
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Any port ___ storm : INA
42
Letters before omegas : PSIS
44
Hammerin' Hank and others : AARONS
45
Question that's a classic pickup line : COMEHEREOFTEN
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Instrument for a Muse : LYRE
49
La ___ Tar Pits : BREA
50
Mountain lion : PUMA
53
Chemical suffixes : INES
55
Three Wise Men : MAGI
59
Death row inmate's hope : STAYOFEXECUTION
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Finnish bath : SAUNA
64
Big name in printers : EPSON
65
See 57-Down : DOG
66
Person who uses the "five-finger discount" : THIEF
67
Medicinal amounts : DOSES
68
Juice suffix : ADE
Down
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Segment : PART
2
"___, matey!" : AHOY
3
Send to base on balls : WALK
4
Pop music's ___ & Eddie : FLO
5
Restroom, informally : LAV
6
Verdi opera : OTELLO
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Other: Sp. : OTRO
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Actress Rebecca : DEMORNAY
9
Novelist Fleming : IAN
10
Substance in wheat flour : GLUTEN
11
Minuscule amount : IOTA
12
Flying geese formations : VEES
13
To be, in old Rome : ESSE
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American ___ (veterans' group) : LEGION
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Apple devices with earbuds : IPODS
24
Wither : ATROPHY
25
"___ to a Nightingale" : ODE
27
Impair the quality of : VITIATE
28
"Git!" : SCRAM
29
Less favorable : WORSE
30
Off : NOTON
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2007 film "___ Almighty" : EVAN
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___-to-riches : RAGS
33
Heroic tale : EPIC
34
It's prohibited : NONO
38
Exigency : DIRENEED
40
Had visions during sleep : DREAMT
43
Letter flourish : SERIF
44
Where Nigeria is: Abbr. : AFR
46
Comic Boosler : ELAYNE
47
Keep thinking about, with "on" : OBSESS
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Whispered attention-getter : PSST
51
Salt Lake City's state : UTAH
52
Hawaiian island : MAUI
54
Int'l fair : EXPO
56
Verdi opera : AIDA
57
With 65-Across, comment that might be heard after the start of 17-, 28-, 45- or 59-Across : GOOD
58
Playwright William : INGE
60
Clumsy sort : OAF
61
Iowa college : COE
62
Young ___ (kids) : UNS

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later.

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