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LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION

New York Times, Sunday, September 26, 2010

Author:
Pamela Amick Klawitter
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
123-Across : Falls (over)
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Pamela Amick Klawitter

This puzzle:

Rows: 21, Columns: 21 Words: 140, Blocks: 74 Missing: {JX} This is puzzle # 4 for Ms. Klawitter. Sunday freshness: 90%
Notepad: Each set of circled letters is described by an answer elsewhere in the grid.
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© 2010, The New York Times9/26/10 ( No. 22,237 )
Across
1
When repeated, a resort near the Black Forest : BADEN
6
How things may be remembered : DIMLY
11
Beginning : DAWN
15
Caboose, for one : CAR
18
In ___ (unborn) : UTERO
19
Homeric hero : AENEAS
20
Part of Q.E.D. : ERAT
21
___ Miss : OLE
22
Specification in a salad order : DRESSINGONTHESIDE
25
A lens fits in it : RIM
26
Swell : DISTEND
27
Certifies, in a way : NOTARIZES
28
U.S.M.C. barracks boss : NCO
29
XXX : CHIS
31
Homeric genre : EPIC
32
Address part : STREET
34
Unit in measuring population density : SQUAREMILE
40
As a friend, to the French : ENAMI
42
Relative of Manx : ERSE
43
Michael who once headed Disney : EISNER
44
Grab bag: Abbr. : MISC
46
Some stakes : ANTES
48
Dreadful feeling : ANGST
49
Worker who may create a stir? : TEATASTER
53
Following : AFTER
56
Opening : GAP
57
Opening for an aspiring leader : ROOMATTHETOP
59
Fine and dandy, in old slang : OKE
60
"I don't give ___!" : ADARN
62
Zing : ELAN
63
Writer/critic Trilling : LIONEL
65
Hit computer game with the original working title Micropolis : SIMCITY
68
First name alphabetically in the Baseball Hall of Fame : AARON
70
President who said "I'm an idealist without illusions" : KENNEDY
71
Giggle : HEEHEE
72
Suffix with lumin- : ESCE
73
Hard, boring efforts : SLOGS
74
Directional suffix : ERN
75
Diagonals : SLANTEDLINES
79
"Mazel ___!" : TOV
82
Fix, as a shoelace : RETIE
84
Complete : HEADTOTOE
85
Country singer Griffith : NANCI
87
Name on 1952 campaign buttons : ADLAI
89
Romance of 1847 : OMOO
90
Errand runners : GOFERS
91
Mid 12th-century year : MCLI
93
Cool, very red celestial body : NSTAR
97
Carp or flounder, typically : BOTTOMFISH
99
Highly rated security : AABOND
101
Hungarian city : EGER
103
Actress Ward : SELA
104
Fashion inits. : YSL
105
You might wait for it to drop : OTHERSHOE
109
Three-wheeled vehicle : PEDICAB
114
Spanish bruin : OSO
115
Go-between : THEMANINTHEMIDDLE
117
Rapper ___-A-Che : RIC
118
Same: Fr. : MEME
119
Convict : INMATE
120
Relative of a canary : SERIN
121
Cinch ___ (Hefty garbage bag brand) : SAK
122
"Idylls of the King" lady : ENID
123
Falls (over) : KEELS
124
Breast: Prefix : MASTO
Down
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Melville's "Billy ___" : BUDD
2
Italian bell town : ATRI
3
Dead ends? : DEES
4
Formerly, once : ERST
5
Public knowledge : NOSECRET
6
Ph.D., e.g. : DEG
7
Barge ___ : INON
8
"Don't give ___ lip!" : MENO
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Beverage that may be foamy : LATTE
10
A wishbone has one : YSHAPE
11
Director Vittorio : DESICA
12
48th state: Abbr. : ARIZ
13
Begins energetically : WADESIN
14
Explosive trial, for short : NTEST
15
Place for a date, frequently : CORNERSTONE
16
"___ Restaurant" : ALICES
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Not likely : REMOTE
19
"... ___ the queen of England!" : ANDIM
23
"And to those thorns that ___ bosom lodge": Shak. : INHER
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St. Patrick's land : ERIN
30
One of the 12 tribes of Israel : SIMEON
33
Shipwreck locale : REEF
34
Ship locale : SEA
35
Last dynasty of China : QING
36
Links org. : USGA
37
Susan who co-starred in "Five Easy Pieces" : ANSPACH
38
Actor Neeson : LIAM
39
"Cómo ___?" : ESTA
41
Shopping locale : MART
45
Indulged : CATEREDTO
47
Pre-broadcast activity : TAPING
49
David Cameron, e.g. : TORY
50
Normandy battle town : STLO
51
More ___ enough : THAN
52
Dark time, in verse : EEN
54
Just got (by) : EKED
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Trust, with "on" : RELY
57
Honey badger : RATEL
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Dinner spreads : OLEOS
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Engine type : DIESEL
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Employed : ONSTAFF
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"Fer ___!" : SHER
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French noun suffix : IERE
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Cause of thoughtlessness? : MENTALBLOCK
68
Dog of old films : ASTA
69
Didn't just pass : ACED
70
Noted Bauhaus artist : KLEE
72
Dallas-to-Memphis dir. : ENE
73
High-hats : SNOOTS
76
Large food tunas : AHIS
77
Bausch & ___ (lens maker) : LOMB
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Langston Hughes poem : ITOO
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"The ___ Gave My Heart To" (1997 Aaliyah hit) : ONEI
81
Tapers, briefly : VCRS
83
Peculiar: Prefix : IDIO
85
Bedouins' trait : NOMADISM
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It's like "-like" : ISH
88
"Next ..." : ANDTHEN
90
Dimwit : GOLEM
91
City chiefs : MAYORS
92
Cinnamon tree : CASSIA
94
Swarmed : TEEMED
95
Indian tourist city : AGRA
96
Challenger astronaut Judith : RESNIK
98
Chief dwelling? : TEPEE
100
"I'm innocent!" : NOTME
102
Liechtenstein's western border : RHINE
106
Certain engine : HEMI
107
"This round's ___" : ONME
108
List-ending abbr. : ETAL
110
Notion : IDEA
111
Mil. leaders : CDRS
112
Came to earth : ALIT
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"There Shall ___ Night" (Pulitzer-winning Robert E. Sherwood play) : BENO
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Elevs. : HTS

Answer summary:
8 unique to this puzzle, 5 debuted here and reused later, 5 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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