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New York Times, Friday, January 6, 2012

Author:
David Steinberg
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
3-Down : Chickens for dinner
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David Steinberg

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 72, Blocks: 33 Missing: {QZ} This is puzzle # 5 for Mr. Steinberg. Friday freshness: 92%
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J
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I
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F
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F
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Y
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L
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U
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B
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E
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S
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T
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A
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F
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F
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U
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R
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C
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M
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B
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X
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P
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N
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A
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P
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S
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V
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N
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A
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D
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L
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P
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T
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A
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B
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L
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L
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W
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D
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H
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G
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G
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W
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M
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M
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© 2012, The New York Times1/6/12 ( No. 22,704 )
Across
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Company whose jobs are often changing? : JIFFYLUBE
10
Working group : STAFF
15
Got to the bottom of : UNRAVELED
16
It takes a bow at a musical performance : CELLO
17
1958 Buddy Holly hit : MAYBEBABY
18
"Guaranteed relief every time" sloganeer : EXLAX
19
Historic leader? : PRE
20
"Dove ___" (Mozart aria) : SONO
21
Thing : ENTITY
22
Poetic contraction : EER
23
Kind of strip : NOPEST
25
Workers' org. founded by Samuel Gompers : AFL
26
Farriers' tools : RASPS
29
Letters signifying quality brandy : VSOP
30
Grant-giving org. : NEA
31
Musical with the song "Written in the Stars" : AIDA
33
Said "There, there" to, say : SOLACED
36
It makes the Statue of Liberty green : PATINA
39
Guarantee : SURETY
40
Very excited : ATINGLE
42
The so-called Island of the Gods : BALI
43
Head for the hills : LAM
44
One can be tall : TALE
46
Jerry or Jerry Lee : LEWIS
50
Seine sight : ILE
51
Rappers' covers : DORAGS
53
Sign : INK
54
Lane on Broadway : NATHAN
56
Attack : GOAT
58
Telephone trio : GHI
59
Against a thing, at law : INREM
60
2010 Ke$ha chart-topper with a creatively spelled five-word title : WERWHOWER
62
Clichéd : STALE
63
Series of Nintendo games : MARIOKART
64
Certain 49-Down : MAXIS
65
Watersheds : DRAINAGES
Down
1
18-footer, maybe : JUMPER
2
Measured two-dimensionally : INAREA
3
Chickens for dinner : FRYERS
4
"Marvy!" : FAB
5
Surrealist Tanguy : YVES
6
Simon of Duran Duran : LEBON
7
Russian ballerina Galina : ULANOVA
8
Gets into Monk music : BEBOPS
9
Eponym of a frozen food : EDY
10
It may be picked up in the woods : SCENT
11
Do a driver's no-no : TEXT
12
Axis, e.g. : ALLIANCE
13
Condition known medically as pes planus : FLATFEET
14
1967 hit with the lyric "You know you're a cute little heartbreaker" : FOXYLADY
21
Wife, in Juárez : ESPOSA
24
Sister of Helios : EOS
27
Sibling, at times? : PAIN
28
Sound really good : SING
32
007 player : DALTON
34
Put to sleep : LULL
35
Auto racer Luyendyk : ARIE
36
"Refudiate," e.g. : PALINISM
37
Mythical runner : ATALANTA
38
1990s series initially set in the year 2193 : TIMETRAX
41
Place for a plug : EAR
42
Mild Irish oath : BEGORRA
45
Nike competitor : LAGEAR
47
Move to and fro : WIGWAG
48
Belong : INHERE
49
Women's wear : SKIRTS
51
Women : DAMES
52
2005 horror sequel : SAWII
55
Prefix with port : HELI
57
Fund-raising suffix : THON
60
Iraq war subject, briefly : WMD
61
Volga tributary : OKA

Answer summary:
6 unique to this puzzle, 4 debuted here and reused later, 4 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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