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New York Times, Thursday, November 11, 2004

Author:
Michael Shteyman
Editor:
Will Shortz
41-Down : KFC option
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521.6225255%
Michael Shteyman

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 74, Blocks: 34 Missing: {JQ} Spans: 1 Puzzle has duplicate clues. This is puzzle # 26 for Mr. Shteyman. Thursday freshness: 40%
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© 2004, The New York Times11/11/4 ( No. 20,092 )
Across
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Is insistent : PRESSES
8
Place for a classic fight : SANDBOX
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Ones thrown for a loop? : LARIATS
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How, say, eating worms might be done : ONADARE
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Controversial talk : EBONICS
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Adores : DOTESON
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He wrote "The only way to a woman's heart is along the path of torment" : DESADE
20
Heel : CAD
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___-cone : SNO
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Meeting place : INTERSECTION
26
Much talked-about antiviral drug, briefly : AZT
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Wine: Prefix : OENO
30
It goes back and forth in the woods : SAW
31
Gunk : GOOP
33
Vacation wheels: Abbr. : RVS
34
Some modern "rewards" : MILES
38
22-Across sight : FOURWAYSTOPSIGN
42
"Are not" retort : AMTOO
43
More than a brawl : WAR
44
Orderer's option : TOGO
45
Time-worn : OLD
47
What a mirror image has : AXIS
49
San Francisco's ___ Hill : NOB
50
22-Across sight : TRAFFICLIGHT
55
Green : RAW
56
Clumsy craft : ARK
57
Slanted : ITALIC
61
Stuck : INAHOLE
64
Another : ONEMORE
65
Turkey is part of it : EURASIA
66
Became dark : LATENED
67
Explore caves : SPELUNK
68
Court order : ALLRISE
Down
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Appealed : PLED
2
Broccoli ___ (vegetable) : RABE
3
Lover boy? : EROS
4
Biblical mount : SINAI
5
Declined : SAIDNO
6
Yadda, yadda, yadda : ETCETERA
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Object of 60's protests: Abbr. : SSS
8
Dairy Queen concoctions : SODAS
9
Battery points : ANODES
10
___ King Cole : NAT
11
Presidential inits. : DDE
12
Several roles in "The Barber of Seville" : BASSI
13
Maine college town : ORONO
14
Flash lamp filler : XENON
20
22-Across sight : CROSSWALK
23
"___, like lightning, seeks the highest places": Livy : ENVY
24
Cot site : CAMP
25
O. Henry plot specialty : TWIST
26
Kodak competitor : AGFA
27
Modern camera feature : ZOOM
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Talk up : TOUT
32
90 is a high one : PROOF
35
Civic leader : LION
36
Breakfast brand : EGGO
37
Pretentious sort : SNOB
39
Grandma, in a fairy tale : WOLF
40
Kind of service : TAXI
41
KFC option : ORIGINAL
46
Call a radio show, e.g. : DIALIN
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Setting for many Sholem Aleichem stories : SHTETL
50
Essays : TRIES
51
Incurred : RANUP
52
Up on things : AWARE
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Haunted house sound : CREAK
54
Less savage : TAMER
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Actress Anderson : LONI
59
Angers : IRES
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Turn over : CEDE
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March who hosted TV's "The $64,000 Question" : HAL
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Big Ten sch. : OSU
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Suffix with pay : OLA

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

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