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New York Times, Thursday, September 29, 2011

Author:
Ben Fish
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
49-Across : Learned ones
TotalDebut
19/29/2011
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CircleScrabDebutFresh
11.52434%
Ben Fish

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 74, Blocks: 41 Missing: {JXZ} Puzzle has duplicate clues. This is the debut puzzle for Mr. Fish. Thursday freshness: 25%
Notepad: Two hints for 17- and 57-Across and 11- and 26-Down appear somewhere in this puzzle.
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© 2011, The New York Times9/29/11 ( No. 22,605 )
Across
1
Easy catch : POPUP
6
Site of some Galileo experiments : PISA
10
"The ___ lama, he's a priest" : ONEL
14
Dutch princess who's the daughter of Queen Juliana : IRENE
15
Air show sound : ROAR
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Grievous : DIRE
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[See blurb] : GRADEBONUS
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Year St. Augustine of Canterbury died : DCIV
20
Org. with a targetlike mark on its flag : RAF
21
School yr. section : SEM
23
Time for a pique-nique, maybe : ETE
24
Honeybun : CUPCAKE
28
Ming jar, e.g. : ANTIQUE
30
Second bananas : STOOGES
31
Kind of knife : GINSU
32
Bugs : PESTERS
33
Seventh heaven : ECSTASY
36
N.L. West team, on scoreboards : ARI
37
Fairy tale : LIE
38
Reporter's aid : NOTEPAD
43
Best-selling PC game released in 2000 : THESIMS
47
Hot : IRATE
48
Simple ski lift : ROPETOW
49
Learned ones : SAVANTS
51
Analgesic : ANODYNE
52
Scot's negative : NAE
53
Service award? : TIP
54
Upper body: Abbr. : SEN
55
Sphere : AREA
57
[See blurb] : MATHSYMBOL
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Enamored (of) : FOND
64
Home for Samuel Beckett : EIRE
65
Language known to native speakers as "te reo" : MAORI
66
Reverse : UNDO
67
Esposas: Abbr. : SRAS
68
Tries : STABS
Down
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Glutton : PIG
2
Bomber pilot in "Catch-22" : ORR
3
Green globule : PEA
4
German connection : UND
5
British aristocracy : PEERAGE
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Claim : PROFESS
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___ exchange : ION
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Link in the food chain? : SAUSAGE
9
#33 on a table : ARSENIC
10
___ duck : ODD
11
[See blurb] : NICEQUALITY
12
Baritone piece sung by Renato : ERITU
13
New Orleans sight : LEVEE
18
Sondheim's Mrs. Lovett, e.g. : BAKER
22
Range parts: Abbr. : MTNS
24
Airer of hearings : CSPAN
25
"In ___," Nirvana album : UTERO
26
[See blurb] : POSITIVEEND
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Prison staple : COT
29
Suffix with real or surreal : IST
34
One who says a lot in a game : SIMON
35
"___ can" (campaign slogan) : YESWE
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The Depression, e.g. : ERA
40
Runners do it : PANT
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Occasionally : ATTIMES
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Hopelessness : DESPAIR
43
Wrecks : TRASHES
44
Puts an edge on : HONES
45
Curie, Kelvin and Fermi : EPONYMS
46
But: Lat. : SED
49
Major mess : SNAFU
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Sorkin who wrote "The Social Network" : AARON
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Shakespearean stir : ADO
58
La-la lead-in : TRA
59
Bath ___ : MAT
60
Flapper wrapper : BOA
61
Sphere : ORB
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French flower : LIS

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