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New York Times, Saturday, November 19, 2005

Author:
Byron Walden
Editor:
Will Shortz
27-Down : Having an edge
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
10811/23/20014/6/202415
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1412393697
RebusCircleScrabDebutFresh
321.591,28194%
Byron Walden

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 68, Blocks: 30 Missing: {CKQ} Spans: 1 This is puzzle # 29 for Mr. Walden. Saturday freshness: 85%
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© 2005, The New York Times11/19/5 ( No. 20,465 )
Across
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Pudding content? : THEPROOF
9
Unlikeliest to be bought : LAMEST
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Smoothly added throughout : WOVEINTO
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Emmy winner for "Tuesdays With Morrie" : AZARIA
17
Costume party comment : OHITSYOU
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Houses named for a house : TUDORS
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Medieval fighter : POLEAXER
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Prepares the board : ERASES
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Relig. title : MSGR
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Former Argentine president Carlos : MENEM
24
Ribbonlike marine plant : EELGRASS
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Place close to Sundance : ETTA
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Decorate, as a pumpkin : HANDPAINT
34
Employ : EXERT
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One vote in the European Union : OUI
36
Inflatable exercise aid : GYMBALL
38
Y beneficiary : SON
39
Where the Germans sank their own freighter, the Antilla, in W.W. II : ARUBA
41
Signals : MOTIONSTO
43
Latin for "scraped" : RASA
44
___ Springfield (town eponym on "The Simpsons") : JEBEDIAH
45
Heavy footsteps : THUDS
47
O and W, e.g. : MAGS
50
Mustang braking system? : LASSOS
53
Stymie the feds, in a way : LAWYERUP
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"How could you say such a thing?!" : IMHURT
58
Its capital was once Gondar : ETHIOPIA
59
System of continuous revolution : MAOISM
60
From the bottom of one's heart : DEEPFELT
61
Prince Siegfried's love, in ballet : ODETTE
62
Unchains : SETSFREE
Down
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Soap slot, maybe : TWOPM
2
Rolled snacks : HOHOS
3
Professor Moriarty, for one : EVILGENIUS
4
Diminished, with "out" : PETERED
5
Laughter, in La Mancha : RISA
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It might make a cameo appearance : ONYX
7
Oklahoma people : OTOE
8
Vehicles used by pushers : FOURMANBOBSLEDS
9
Gets dark : LATENS
10
"Main" color in "Rule, Britannia" : AZURE
11
1966 Lana Turner melodrama : MADAMEX
12
London statue originally called the Shaftesbury Monument : EROS
13
Beget : SIRE
14
Red ink source? : TASS
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It may be planned : ESTATE
25
Evian Masters org. : LPGA
26
John who wrote "She who has never lov'd, has never liv'd" : GAY
27
Having an edge : RIMMED
29
"Tender Mercies" actress : TESSHARPER
30
Bring (out) : TROT
31
Chem. datum : ATNO
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Cold cover : HOAR
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A celebrity might be bathed in one : AURA
34
Vegetarian people of fiction : ELOI
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Maximum : LID
40
Wayne duds : BATSUIT
42
Enumerate : NAMEOFF
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"No one else" : JUSTME
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German president Köhler : HORST
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Trait of Iago : GUILE
49
Rush : SPATE
50
Bar locale : LIMO
51
"Diary of ___ Black Woman" (2005 film) : AMAD
52
Dealing box, in blackjack : SHOE
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Have down to ___ : ATEE
55
Stimulate : WHET
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Sounds at pounds : YIPS

Answer summary:
10 unique to this puzzle, 6 debuted here and reused later, 2 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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