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New York Times, Tuesday, October 30, 2007

Author:
Gary Steinmehl
Editor:
Will Shortz
52-Down : Musically improvise
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Gary Steinmehl

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 80, Blocks: 40 Missing: {JQZ} Puzzle has duplicate clues. This is puzzle # 7 for Mr. Steinmehl. Tuesday freshness: 7%
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© 2007, The New York Times10/30/7 ( No. 21,175 )
Across
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Peak : ACME
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Chattered incessantly : RANON
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TV horse introduced in 1955 ... or a Plymouth model introduced in 1956 : FURY
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Partiality : BIAS
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Seeing red : IRATE
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Prime draft status : ONEA
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Drug-yielding plant : COCA
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Opposite of serenity : PANIC
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Cartoonist Al : CAPP
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Scary sound from the ocean? : HUMPBACKWAIL
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Park, e.g., in N.Y.C. : AVE
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"Sting like a bee" athlete : ALI
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Having seniority : OLDER
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Scary sound from a war zone? : BATTLECREAK
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Juillet's season : ETE
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Kodiak native : ALEUT
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Physics unit : ERG
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Theory's start : IDEA
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Scary sound from a cornfield? : FARMGROAN
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Splinter group : SECT
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Motel-discount grp. : AAA
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Sales slips: Abbr. : RCPTS
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Galley implement : OAR
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Scary sound from a steeple? : BELLANDHOWL
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Tedious : PROSY
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Boot part : TOE
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"Whew!" : BOY
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Misspells, say, as a ghost might at 20-, 28-, 37- and 50-Across? : MAKESABOOBOO
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Abominate : HATE
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African antelope : ELAND
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Hot rod's rod : AXLE
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___ Lackawanna Railroad : ERIE
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Countryish : RURAL
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Boot part : HEEL
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Card game for three : SKAT
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Walk leisurely : AMBLE
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Stealth bomber org. : USAF
Down
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Charles Gibson's network : ABC
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A.F.L.-___ : CIO
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Cane cutter : MACHETE
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Biblical son who sold his birthright : ESAU
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Wavelet : RIPPLE
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Language whose alphabet starts alif, ba, ta, tha ... : ARABIC
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Child's caretaker : NANA
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Suffix with hypn- : OTIC
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Part of a bottle or a guitar : NECK
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Kind of point : FOCAL
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Helpless? : UNAIDED
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Filled to the gills : REPLETE
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Big fat mouth : YAP
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Country just south of Sicily : MALTA
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Moo goo gai pan pan : WOK
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Lawyers' org. : ABA
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Kilmer of "The Doors" : VAL
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___ Irvin, classic artist for The New Yorker : REA
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Cowlick, e.g. : TUFT
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Fit for a king : REGAL
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Blunder : ERR
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"Long ___ and far away ..." : AGO
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Creep (along) : INCH
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Name that's an anagram of 27-Down : RAE
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___ de mer : MAL
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Egyptian dry measure equal to about five-and-a-half bushels : ARDEB
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Soak (up) : SOP
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Tag for a particular purpose : EARMARK
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Neighbor of Slovenia : CROATIA
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Co. addresses, often : POBOXES
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A duo : TWO
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Crafty : SLY
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Tournament pass : BYE
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Like some music : ATONAL
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Musically improvise : NOODLE
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Sport utilizing a clay disk : SKEET
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Hospital shipments : SERA
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Styptic agent : ALUM
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Part of a fishhook : BARB
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Island with Waimea Bay : OAHU
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Gentlemen : HES
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Meadow : LEA
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Shoemaker's helper, in a fairy tale : ELF

Answer summary:
5 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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