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New York Times, Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Author:
Ian Livengood
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
11-Down : Pretentious
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
554/12/20109/15/20164
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617667112
RebusCircleScrabDebutFresh
371.6429448%
Ian Livengood

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 74, Blocks: 36 Missing: {JQXZ} This is puzzle # 14 for Mr. Livengood. Wednesday freshness: 80%
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© 2011, The New York Times11/23/11 ( No. 22,660 )
Across
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Some confessions : SINS
5
Quite : SUCH
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Yearned (for) : ACHED
14
Economist Smith : ADAM
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Arthur who often raised a racket : ASHE
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Home to Bates College : MAINE
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"Later" : CIAO
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Fan sound : WHIR
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Grain disease : ERGOT
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*1982 hit by the Clash : ROCKTHECASBAH
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64-Across, for one : EMPEROR
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"You are not!" retort : IAMTOO
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"___ durn tootin'!" : YER
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*1994 World Cup final site : ROSEBOWL
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Cul-de-___ : SAC
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Off-kilter : ASKEW
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Part of A.D. : ANNO
36
Spanish uncle : TIO
37
*Fortuneteller's bit : TEALEAF
40
M.D.'s reading : EEG
41
Stuff to be loaded : AMMO
43
1953 John Wayne film : HONDO
44
Teetotaling : DRY
45
*Popular drinking game : BEERPONG
48
Sounds of woe : OYS
50
Shut up : SEALED
51
Trapdoor concealer : AREARUG
55
Ordinary ... or what the beginning of the answer to each starred clue is? : GARDENVARIETY
58
Ritzy : SWANK
60
Cutting put-down : BARB
61
Salon employee : DYER
62
Taken for ___ : ARIDE
63
Blue shade : ANIL
64
Colossal statue outside ancient Rome's Colosseum : NERO
65
Church council : SYNOD
66
Big name in locks : YALE
67
Bogotá bears : OSOS
Down
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"___ bleu!" : SACRE
2
Cut to the chase, say : IDIOM
3
Org. co-founded by W. E. B. Du Bois : NAACP
4
Bear with a hat : SMOKEY
5
Carpenter's aid : SAWHORSE
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Program distributor : USHER
7
All the rage : CHIC
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Goddess whose name is an anagram of her mother's : HERA
9
Single-celled creatures : AMEBAE
10
South-of-the-border cry : CARAMBA
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Pretentious : HIGHTONED
12
Record producer Brian : ENO
13
Ford Field team, on scoreboards : DET
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Pick up the tab : TREAT
22
Family nickname : SIS
25
One of the capitalist class : OWNER
26
Science : OLOGY
28
Register anew : RELOG
29
___ Glendower, last Welshman to hold the title Prince of Wales : OWEN
30
Attempts : STABS
31
Singer Mann : AIMEE
32
"Huh?" : COMEAGAIN
34
France's Dominique Strauss-___ : KAHN
38
Eliciting an "aww," maybe : ADORABLE
39
Room with a closet, often : FOYER
42
Florida getaway locale : ORLANDO
46
Sat (up) : PERKED
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Roulette bet : ODD
49
Declined : SAIDNO
51
Singer Lavigne : AVRIL
52
Spanish kings : REYES
53
In ___ (unborn) : UTERO
54
Sidewalk vendors' offerings : GYROS
56
Parent company of Shopping.com : EBAY
57
Grandma : NANA
58
An original member of the Star Alliance : SAS
59
Twisted : WRY

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

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