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New York Times, Saturday, September 13, 2008

Author:
Will Nediger
Editor:
Will Shortz
38-Across : Person of great interest?
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Will Nediger

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 72, Blocks: 28 Missing: {VX} Spans: 2 This is puzzle # 6 for Mr. Nediger. Saturday freshness: 20%
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 Will Nediger, 18, of London, Ontario. He is a second-year student at the University of Western Ontario. This is his sixth puzzle for The Times.
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© 2008, The New York Times9/13/8 ( No. 21,494 )
Across
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Place to buy a smoothie : JUICEBAR
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Electrum and others : ALLOYS
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Author born Howard Allen O'Brien : ANNERICE
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Little show-off's cry : LOOKMA
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You shouldn't go through with it : REDLIGHT
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"The Great Escape" setting : STALAG
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Went belly up : FAILED
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Subject of some amateur videos : UFO
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World Wind developer : NASA
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Plays for a fool : USES
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Crams, maybe : PREPS
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Symptom for a car mechanic : HUM
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___ Arcs, French ski resort : LES
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Chicago-based magazine with one-million-plus circulation : EBONY
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Trailer : PROMO
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An inset might depict one : ISLET
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10-time Gold Glove winner of the 1990s and 2000s : ALOMAR
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Film in which Olga Kurylenko plays the Bond girl : QUANTUMOFSOLACE
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Person of great interest? : USURER
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Suggest : RAISE
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Girl's name that sounds like two letters of the French alphabet : ESTEE
41
Resting place : BERTH
42
Cooler : CAN
45
Genre of rock's Fall Out Boy : EMO
46
Jazz great seen in the 1967 film "Hotel" : MCRAE
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Staff lines? : MEMO
49
Cuffs : NABS
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@ follower, sometimes : AOL
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Balzac's "___ Bette" : COUSIN
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Cat calls : MIAOWS
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Little music maker : IPODNANO
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Loosen, as a bra : UNHOOK
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Trunk item : TIREIRON
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Candy brand : MENTOS
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Beginning of time? : YEARZERO
Down
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Peanut butter quantity : JARFUL
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Fidgetiness : UNEASE
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East or West area : INDIES
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Biologists' study : CELLS
5
Lake ___, home of the Bass Islands : ERIE
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Cowboys' home, informally : BIGD
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"___ was!" (German exclamation) : ACH
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Stop daydreaming : RETURNTOREALITY
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Journalist Joseph : ALSOP
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Studio part : LOT
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Advance : LOAN
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Musical that won a 1944 Pulitzer : OKLAHOMA
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Singer famous for her wide vocal range : YMASUMAC
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Long Island's ___ Hill National Historic Site : SAGAMORE
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Elflike : FEY
24
Rhapsody, e.g. : POEM
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Bathtub sound : SPLOSH
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Treasure : ESTEEM
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Result of a long exposure, often : BLUR
31
Iago, for one : ROLE
32
48-Across starter : INRE
33
"___ happens ..." : ASIT
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The late Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, familiarly : QUEENMUM
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Ship with a memorial in New York City's Central Park : USSMAINE
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Main route? : AUTOBAHN
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Ride, maybe : FARE
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Pal : BRO
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Italian writer Pavese : CESARE
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Key of Beethoven's "Für Elise" : AMINOR
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"You're doing it all wrong!" : NONONO
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Port containers : CASKS
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Frankie of "Malcolm in the Middle" : MUNIZ
50
Symbol of blackness : SOOT
52
"The Last of the Mohicans" girl : CORA
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Wroclaw's river : ODER
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Try hard to win : WOO
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Trivial Pursuit goal : PIE

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