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New York Times, Monday, December 10, 2007

Author:
Lynn Lempel
Editor:
Will Shortz
54-Down : 11- or 12-year-old
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
10212/9/19793/19/20242
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673172130
CircleScrabDebutPre‑WSFresh
91.61331220%
Lynn Lempel

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 38 Missing: {FJQZ} This is puzzle # 29 for Ms. Lempel. Monday freshness: 34%
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© 2007, The New York Times12/10/7 ( No. 21,216 )
Across
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John ___, host of "America's Most Wanted" : WALSH
6
"Jeopardy!" whiz Jennings : KEN
9
"Hey, you!" : PSST
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___ 2600 (classic video game console) : ATARI
14
St. Louis landmark : ARCH
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Voice above a tenor : ALTO
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Appetizer with sweet and sour sauce : SPRINGROLL
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Gorilla watcher Fossey : DIAN
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Frightful female : HAG
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Puccini heroine : TOSCA
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Cheerful : SUNNY
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Take turns : ROTATE
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Dangler on a suitcase : IDTAG
26
Deadly long-tailed fish : STINGRAY
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Where you might get into hot water? : SPA
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Schiaparelli of fashion : ELSA
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Cigarette substance : TAR
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Interlocks : MESHES
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Bride's bounty : DOWRY
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Meadow : LEA
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Bird on birth announcement cards : STORK
42
Comes about : ARISES
44
Wrigley's product : GUM
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S. & L. conveniences : ATMS
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All U.S. senators until 1922 : MEN
48
Monotonous voice : SINGSONG
51
Birds flying in V's : GEESE
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Has confidence in : TRUSTS
56
Beverly Sills and others : DIVAS
58
Young cod for dinner : SCROD
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F.D.R. job-creating measure: Abbr. : WPA
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"Famous" cookie maker : AMOS
63
Gangly guy : STRINGBEAN
65
Fruit from a palm : DATE
66
"Don't hurt me!," e.g. : PLEA
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Straight up : ERECT
68
Laid off, as workers : AXED
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Wood in archery bows : YEW
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Copenhageners, e.g. : DANES
Down
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Do the laundry : WASH
2
Even, on the leaderboard : ATPAR
3
Slow, in symphonies : LARGO
4
___ Lanka : SRI
5
Merely suggest : HINTAT
6
Ray who created the McDonald's empire : KROC
7
Custardy dessert : ECLAIR
8
Rink org. : NHL
9
City where Galileo taught : PADUA
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Goliath's undoing : SLINGSHOT
11
Baseball's Musial : STAN
12
Broadway award : TONY
14
Weapons stash : ARSENAL
17
"Oh, I see" : GOTIT
21
Eyelid nuisances : STYES
23
Romanov rulers : TSARS
25
River blocker : DAM
27
One of the Allman Brothers : GREGG
29
Straight-to-curly transformation, informally : PERM
30
Poses questions : ASKS
31
Dutch city with a cheese market : EDAM
32
Oral tradition : LORE
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Make-or-break election bloc : SWINGVOTE
36
Does' mates : STAGS
38
Sí and oui : YESES
40
Home of the von Trapp family : AUSTRIA
43
Bro's sibling : SIS
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Lamebrain : MORON
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Get cozy : NESTLE
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Prodded gently : NUDGED
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Lessened, as pain : EASED
54
11- or 12-year-old : TWEEN
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Rocket's realm : SPACE
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1920s art movement : DADA
57
Giant-screen theater : IMAX
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Backstage bunch : CREW
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Tiny tunnelers : ANTS
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Mata Hari, for one : SPY
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Top half of a bikini : BRA

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

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