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New York Times, Thursday, October 4, 2001

Author:
David J. Kahn
Editor:
Will Shortz
22-Down : They're played with plectrums
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David J. Kahn

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 37 Missing: {JQX} This is puzzle # 80 for Mr. Kahn. Thursday freshness: 18%
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© 2001, The New York Times10/4/1 ( No. 18,958 )
Across
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Units of distance : PACES
6
Push : IMPEL
11
Frank McCourt memoir : TIS
14
Earth tone : OCHRE
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Longtime Chicago Symphony conductor : SOLTI
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Flying off the shelves : HOT
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They're piled on the floor : SHAGCARPETS
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Yeanling producer : EWE
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Undertake : SETOUT
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Noisy cutter : BUZZSAW
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Inc. staff : EDS
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Doctor's advice, perhaps : REST
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"___-Willow" ("The Mikado" song) : TIT
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Utah, with "the" : BEEHIVESTATE
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"Iliad," "Odyssey" and the like : EPOS
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"Great" beasts : APES
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"Cotton Candy" trumpeter : HIRT
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Led, as a jazz band : FRONTED
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Planetlike : SPHERIC
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Contribution before the deal : ANTE
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Nixon, once : VEEP
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Roughly : ORSO
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Some Winter Olympians : BOBSLEDTEAMS
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Choice on a French survey : OUI
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French weapon : ARME
50
With 47-Down, went wild : RAN
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One may be on the can : FLIPTOP
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Require : OBLIGE
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Small small? : LIL
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Schenectady is on it : MOHAWKRIVER
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Washington is on it : ONE
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Combine : UNITE
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Change : EMEND
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A pop : PER
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With 51-Down, commission collector : SALES
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Not all there : DOTTY
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Outlaw hunters : POSSE
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Hurt : ACHED
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AOL activities : CHATS
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Consequently : ERGO
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Most sheltered : SECUREST
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Sharon's land: Abbr. : ISR
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Barber's challenge : MOP
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Commoner : PLEB
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Brute leader? : ETTU
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Franz ___ "Hungarian Rhapsodies" : LISZTS
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You may take them down : THESTAIRS
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Waterloo locale : IOWA
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Curry, e.g. : STEW
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Fit to ___ : ATEE
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They're played with plectrums : ZITHERS
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Under an umbrella : SHADED
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Service acknowledgment : TIP
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Studies hard : BONESUP
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The evening star : VESPER
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More than a feeling : ESP
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Minuet follower : TRIO
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Series ender? : ETC
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Cubic Rubik : ERNO
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Fine literature it's not : POTBOILER
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George Harrison's "When We Was ___" : FAB
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Time before : EVE
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Native : HOMEBRED
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U.S. Airways info : ETA
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Kind of test : LITMUS
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See 50-Across : AMOK
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Fix firmly : RIVET
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See 67-Across : AGENT
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Square : NERDY
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No hit : FLOP
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An actor may trip over one : LINE
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A Mrs. Chaplin : OONA
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One of the Everly Brothers : PHIL
58
Star vehicle? : LIMO
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Got something down : ATE
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N.B.A.'s Unseld : WES

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 4 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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