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New York Times, Friday, September 5, 2003

Author:
Manny Nosowsky
Editor:
Will Shortz
52-Across : Start of a conformist's phrase
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Manny Nosowsky

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 70, Blocks: 30 Missing: {VXZ} Spans: 1 This is puzzle # 182 for Mr. Nosowsky. Friday freshness: 36%
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© 2003, The New York Times9/5/3 ( No. 19,659 )
Across
1
"Alas" : OHME
5
Berated : SCREAMEDAT
15
Catch but good : NAIL
16
Bouncer's place : TRAMPOLINE
17
Frumpy : DRAB
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Bad bit of planning : ROTTENIDEA
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Title heroine of 1816 : EMMA
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Bullets : ACES
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"Concentrate!" : THINK
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Baked dish : POI
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Media attention : INK
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Turns aside : SHUNTS
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Here : ONHAND
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Cooler : JAIL
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Piccolomini Library's home : SIENA
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Unreason : FOLLY
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As shown, for short : QED
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"Beats me" : ICANTSAYFORSURE
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Part of a swap? : TAT
38
Whom Scarpia double-crosses : TOSCA
39
Midwest city abutting Eden Prairie : EDINA
40
"Cherish those hearts that ___ thee": Shak. : HATE
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Behind bars : INSTIR
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Chihuahua, e.g. : YAPPER
46
Boomer or buster : TNT
47
Some Texas A & M degs. : EES
48
Thoreau's "___ on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers" : AWEEK
49
Sheepish look : GRIN
51
Kodak or Fuji competitor : AGFA
52
Start of a conformist's phrase : WHENINROME
54
Marshal Kane's time : NOON
55
Tots : LITTLEONES
56
Wrong : TORT
57
Flout the pecking order? : STEALAKISS
58
Mythology anthology : EDDA
Down
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Banked : ONDEPOSIT
2
Blues player, maybe : HARMONICA
3
American Airlines Arena team : MIAMIHEAT
4
Portoferraio's island : ELBA
5
Hair piece? : STRAND
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Lie, slangily : CROCK
7
Pace : RATE
8
911 responders: Abbr. : EMTS
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Knuckle dragger : APE
10
Landlord's entitlement : MONTHLYRENT
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Yale name : ELIHU
12
Slew : DIDIN
13
Concerning : ANENT
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Ship woods : TEAKS
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Like hawks : INATTHEKILL
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Titan's place : SILO
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Common girl's middle name : ANN
27
Brothers on the air : JOYCE
28
Radio code word : ALFA
30
Certain protest : FAST
31
Deserving at least a B : QUITEGOOD
32
Another name for Tennessee : ERNIEFORD
33
Start of a request : DEARSANTA
35
Rocket : SOAR
36
Old leftist grp. : SDS
41
Quality of being fashionable : INNESS
42
Two-masters : YAWLS
43
In the least : AWHIT
44
Quarterback Rodney : PEETE
45
Numerical prefix : PENTA
46
Something New York and Los Angeles each have : TIMES
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Understand : GROK
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Rice-A-___ : RONI
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Chip in : ANTE
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Cultural org. : NEA

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