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New York Times, Saturday, October 15, 2005

Author:
Paula Gamache
Editor:
Will Shortz
43-Down : Not on the level
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431.5850462%
Paula Gamache

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 66, Blocks: 26 Missing: {JQVXZ} Spans: 1 This is puzzle # 11 for Ms. Gamache. Saturday freshness: 91%
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© 2005, The New York Times10/15/5 ( No. 20,430 )
Across
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Like some Old Masters : FLEMISH
8
Epithets : LABELS
14
Flop : LAYANEGG
16
Complete circuit : ONELAP
17
Runner's place : ICESKATE
18
"Casablanca" words repeated before "as if it were the last time" : KISSME
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Not hard : MOLTEN
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Flexible fastener : TWISTTIE
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Pickled : FRIED
23
11-member grp. : CSA
24
Public debt instrument : EBOND
25
18-Across speaker : LUND
26
Top : SHIRT
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Amalfi articles : UNAS
29
Chemical ending : ANE
30
Better than O.K. : DARNGOOD
32
Cantina request : MARGARITANOSALT
37
Wilde and Yeats : IRISHMEN
38
___-jongg : MAH
39
Trudge : SLOG
42
Range rover : STEER
43
Shelter dug into a hillside : ABRI
44
Itty bits : IOTAS
46
Geezers' grunts : EHS
47
"___ of the Times" (1966 Petula Clark hit) : ASIGN
48
Automated answering machine base : MAINMENU
50
Petulance : SPLEEN
51
"Likewise" : IDOTOO
52
"Out of the question" : NOCHANCE
54
Cut : LESION
55
Sleeper, for one : TRAINCAR
56
Builds : ERECTS
57
Arch sites : INSTEPS
Down
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Hustle : FLIMFLAM
2
Port from which the Spanish Armada departed in 1588 : LACORUNA
3
Goth's look enhancer : EYELINER
4
Like a brig : MASTED
5
Final, as a deal : INKED
6
Penn name : SEAN
7
Info request from a computer dating service: Abbr. : HGT
8
Evildoer of Asgard : LOKI
9
Dill relative : ANISE
10
Cronies : BESTBUDS
11
Catcher for Whitey in the 1960's Yankees : ELSTON
12
Veneer : LAMINA
13
Floors it : SPEEDS
15
Becomes competitive : GETSINTHEHUNT
21
Military practice : WARGAMES
23
Name : CHRISTEN
26
Pinned attire : SARIS
27
Skin refresher : TONER
30
Org. whose first president general was first lady Caroline Harrison : DAR
31
Suffix with ball : OON
33
Walloping : GIGANTIC
34
Atmosphere : AMBIENCE
35
Fund designation : LARGECAP
36
Dilutants : THINNERS
39
Float like a butterfly, say : SIMILE
40
Construction machine : LOADER
41
Indolent : OTIOSE
43
Not on the level : ASLANT
45
Utah senator who lent his name to a 1930 tariff act : SMOOT
47
Prey for a ladybug : APHIS
49
Time immemorial : EONS
50
View by computer tomography : SCAN
53
"... ___ quit!" : ORI

Answer summary:
5 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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