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New York Times, Monday, October 1, 2007

Author:
Allan E. Parrish
Editor:
Will Shortz
5-Down : Decorate with leaves
TotalDebutLatest
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Allan E. Parrish

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 34 Missing: {QV} This is puzzle # 18 for Mr. Parrish. Monday freshness: 95%
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© 2007, The New York Times10/1/7 ( No. 21,146 )
Across
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Wager : BET
4
Gush : EFFUSE
10
Willie of the 1950s-'60s Giants : MAYS
14
Israeli submachine gun : UZI
15
Last words of the Pledge of Allegiance : FORALL
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___ vera : ALOE
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Atomic energy org. : NRC
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*Popular Sunshine State vacation destination : FLORIDAKEYS
20
Prepare to shoot : TAKEAIM
22
Docs : MEDICOS
23
Stop for the night, as soldiers : ENCAMP
25
Daughter's counterpart : SON
26
Dartboard, for one : TARGET
28
The "I" of I.M.F.: Abbr. : INTL
30
Austrian affirmatives : JAS
33
"The Thin Man" pooch : ASTA
34
Rim : EDGE
36
Put (down), as money : PLUNK
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Theater focal point : STAGE
40
Select, with "for" : OPT
41
Language akin to Urdu : HINDI
42
Serious drinker : TOPER
43
Arnaz of "I Love Lucy" : DESI
45
Depression-era migrant : OKIE
46
"But I heard him exclaim, ___ he drove ..." : ERE
47
Take too much of, briefly : ODON
49
Objected to : MINDED
51
Brouhaha : ADO
52
Keep just below a boil : SIMMER
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Not deceitful : SINCERE
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Deck covering to keep out moisture : SEALANT
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*Like players below the B team : THIRDSTRING
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"This means ___!" : WAR
64
Sets of points, in math : LOCI
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"Relax, soldier!" : ATEASE
66
U.K. record label : EMI
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Newspaper essay : OPED
68
Mascara goes on them : LASHES
69
King, in old Rome : REX
Down
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Part of a suicide squeeze : BUNT
2
Poet Pound : EZRA
3
*Material for an old-fashioned parade : TICKERTAPE
4
Wipe off : EFFACE
5
Decorate with leaves : FOLIATE
6
Erich who wrote "The Art of Loving" : FROMM
7
Bygone Mideast inits. : UAR
8
Slender : SLIM
9
Firstborn : ELDEST
10
"___ Whoopee!" (1920s hit) : MAKIN
11
One of the Baldwin brothers : ALEC
12
Toy that might go "around the world" : YOYO
13
Period in Cong. : SESS
19
Coach Rupp of college basketball : ADOLPH
21
Take on : ENGAGE
24
*Sties : PIGPENS
26
One of the five senses : TASTE
27
Fur trader John Jacob ___ : ASTOR
29
Basketball rim attachments : NETS
30
Location for the ends of the answers to the four starred clues : JUNKDRAWER
31
Actress MacDowell : ANDIE
32
Schussed, e.g. : SKIED
35
Dumbbell : DODO
37
Hampton of jazz fame : LIONEL
39
Wore away : ERODED
44
Really, really big : IMMENSE
48
___ fin : DORSAL
50
Representations : IMAGES
51
Pungent : ACRID
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N.B.A. coach Thomas : ISIAH
54
Normandy town : STLO
55
Breakfast restaurant letters : IHOP
56
"Good shot!" : NICE
57
Kett of old comics : ETTA
59
Designate : NAME
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Cereal whose ads feature a "silly rabbit" : TRIX
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___ ipsa loquitur : RES

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 4 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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