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New York Times, Monday, September 8, 2008

Author:
Oliver Hill
Editor:
Will Shortz
39-Across : Tattered
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Oliver Hill

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 38 Missing: {FQ} Puzzle has duplicate clues. This is puzzle # 5 for Mr. Hill. Monday freshness: 56%
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 Oliver Hill, 18, of Pleasantville, N.Y. He is a first-year student at Yale University. This is his fifth puzzle for The Times.
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© 2008, The New York Times9/8/8 ( No. 21,489 )
Across
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Party to remember : BASH
5
Guys' dates : GALS
9
Frankie of the Four Seasons : VALLI
14
Town east of Santa Barbara : OJAI
15
Fencing blade : EPEE
16
Ancient Mexican : AZTEC
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Madcap : ZANY
18
Informal greeting : WAVE
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Elbow : NUDGE
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Cranky street performer? : ORGANGRINDER
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Sup : EAT
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Name typed in to log on : USERID
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Act obsequiously : KOWTOW
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Escapes, slangily : LAMS
34
Opposite of WSW : ENE
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Spaceship inhabitant : ALIEN
36
U-boat : GERMANSUB
38
Baltimore oriole : Maryland :: ___ : Hawaii : NENE
39
Tattered : RATTY
40
Popular plant "pet" : CHIA
41
Heaviest iron in a golfer's bag : SANDWEDGE
43
Puts a worm on, as a fishhook : BAITS
44
From ___ Z : ATO
45
Facetious cry of understanding : AHSO
46
Pass, as time : ELAPSE
47
Waste at a treatment plant : SEWAGE
49
___-mo : SLO
50
Don Juan, e.g. : ROMANTICHERO
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Urge : EGGON
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April 1st event : HOAX
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Et follower : ALIA
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"Guys and Dolls" song with the lyric "Call a lawyer" : SUEME
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Against : ANTI
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Gusto : ZEST
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Dirty campaign tactic : SMEAR
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Tall one or cold one : BEER
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Actor Montand : YVES
Down
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Classic clown : BOZO
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Open just a little : AJAR
3
Crooned : SANG
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Informal greeting : HIYA
5
Trinket : GEWGAW
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Into pieces : APART
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Denim pioneer Strauss : LEVI
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Beheld : SEEN
9
Actress Hudgens of "High School Musical" : VANESSA
10
Sky hue : AZURE
11
English "Inc." : LTD
12
Chicken drumstick : LEG
13
Sno-cone base : ICE
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Like many Las Vegas signs : NEON
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"Person" in a crash test : DUMMY
25
Send a second time : RESHIP
26
Igloo inhabitants : INUITS
27
Lower the value of, as currency : DEBASE
28
Dorothy's home in "The Wizard of Oz" : KANSAS
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Olive oil component : OLEATE
30
Sift : WINNOW
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Miffed, with "off" : TEED
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"Unhand me!" : LETGO
33
Spanish paintings : ARTE
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Moves aimlessly, with "about" : GADS
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March Madness org. : NCAA
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Tailor again, as a skirt : REHEM
42
Oregon Trail traveler, e.g. : WAGONER
43
Soviet ___ : BLOC
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Panacea : ELIXIR
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Odor : AROMA
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Maryland or Hawaii : STATE
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"Moby-Dick" captain : AHAB
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Zero : NONE
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Unclear : HAZY
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Hgt. : ELEV
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Get higher : RISE
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Horse food : OATS
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Road curve : ESS
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Dubble Bubble, e.g. : GUM
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"Golly!" : GEE

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