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New York Times, Friday, December 10, 2010

Author:
Elizabeth C. Gorski
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
1-Down : Inventor of logarithms
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Elizabeth C. Gorski

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 63, Blocks: 38 Missing: {FQXZ} Grid is asymmetric. Puzzle has duplicate clues. This is puzzle # 182 for Ms. Gorski. Friday freshness: 90%
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© 2010, The New York Times12/10/10 ( No. 22,312 )
Across
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Dealers' dreads : NARCS
6
Clothes hangers? : SALESTAGS
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Plant whose roots are used as detergent : AMOLE
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Something you can bank on : POOLTABLE
17
Tart flavor : PECAN
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Totally assured, as victory : ALLSEWNUP
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Two-time U.S. Women's Open winner : INKSTER
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___ date : SETA
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Like swift streams : EROSIVE
23
People who have been 45-Downed : INS
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Air-gulping swimmer : GAR
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Went wild : RANAMOK
28
What flounder flounder in : NET
29
Grp. knocked in "Sicko" : AMA
30
Needle point?: Abbr. : ENE
31
Alternative title of "Mack the Knife" : MORITAT
33
With 36-Across, "Babes in Arms" tune that's apt for this puzzle : JOHNNY
36
See 33-Across : ONENOTE
37
Sodium ___ (cleansers) : BORATES
38
Like some people resisting arrest : TASERED
39
It might accompany a bar line : LEER
40
N.Y.C.'s Washington ___ : HTS
41
"___ date" : ITSA
42
Stuck, in a way : BEMIRED
47
Kitties : POTS
48
99 times out of 100 : ASARULE
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Spot for a tot : PRESCHOOL
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Stethoscope inventor Laënnec and others : RENES
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Early 19th-century engineering marvel : ERIECANAL
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Bill Bradley, once : KNICK
57
Where cells are of little use : DEADSPOTS
58
Friends and such : SECTS
Down
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Inventor of logarithms : NAPIER
2
Dualistic Egyptian deity : AMENRA
3
"All right, dude!" : ROCKON
4
Superb : CLASSA
5
What a motto encapsulates : SENTIMENT
6
Dupes in some mailboxes : SPAREKEYS
7
Part of AIM : AOL
8
Part of many an AIM chat : LOL
9
P.G.A. Tour Rookie of the Year two years before Woods : ELS
10
Femme canonisée: Abbr. : STE
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Fancy shooters : TAWS
12
One who surrenders : ABNEGATOR
13
MSG component : GLUTAMATE
14
Apart : SEPARATED
20
Tennis's Goolagong : EVONNE
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Being reserved : INMOTHBALLS
24
They may be incubating : NEONATES
25
Accents : STRESSMARKS
32
Like Bach's second violin concerto : INE
33
Author of "Chasing the Dream: My Lifelong Journey to the World Series" : JOETORRE
34
Aeschylus trilogy : ORESTEIA
35
Dogged : HARASSED
37
Appeared on screen, in a way : BLIPPED
43
Rich of old films : IRENE
44
Like some tattooed characters : RUNIC
45
Give a seat to : ELECT
46
Anchors' places : DESKS
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Dupes in some mailboxes : CCS
51
Chance : HAP
52
Dweller near Central Park's Strawberry Fields : ONO
53
Kind of flour : OAT

Answer summary:
6 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 5 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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