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New York Times, Monday, December 12, 2011

Author:
Gary Cee
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
28-Down : Gloomy, in verse
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Gary Cee

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 38 Missing: {JQXY} This is puzzle # 9 for Mr. Cee. Monday freshness: 33%
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© 2011, The New York Times12/12/11 ( No. 22,679 )
Across
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High praise : KUDOS
6
Light bulb unit : WATT
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Ring up : CALL
14
Piano practice piece : ETUDE
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Geographical datum : AREA
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Woodwind able to provide an orchestra's tuning note : OBOE
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*One who's an empty threat : PAPERTIGER
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Journal on YouTube, maybe : VLOG
20
Not just any : THE
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"I concur!" : METOO
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Onionlike soup ingredients : LEEKS
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Luxurious : POSH
24
"Dona ___ and Her Two Husbands" : FLOR
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*Willie Mays, positionally : CENTERFIELDER
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High: Fr. : HAUT
33
Sp. lady : SRA
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Turn suddenly : SWERVE
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Amend : ALTER
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Hosp. parts ... or what the answers to the six starred clues each have twice : ERS
39
Dutch painter Jan : STEEN
40
Grew disenchanted : SOURED
42
Visitors from beyond : ETS
44
Lip-puckering : TART
45
*What a waiter might be holding when he says "Say when" : PEPPERGRINDER
48
Swear : AVER
49
Lecher's look : LEER
50
Sky-blue : AZURE
53
Former Houston footballer : OILER
55
Heavenly body : ORB
58
Music genre for Joan Baez : FOLK
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*Lawn-Boy or Toro product : POWERMOWER
61
Actress Hathaway of "The Princess Diaries" : ANNE
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Actor/songwriter Novello : IVOR
63
Basketball venue : ARENA
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Caboose : REAR
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Sharpies, e.g. : PENS
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Gives for a while : LENDS
Down
1
Retained : KEPT
2
Home of the Sundance Film Festival : UTAH
3
Bamboozle : DUPE
4
Poem for the praiseworthy : ODE
5
Sunday morning address : SERMON
6
"Don't go anywhere ... I'll be back" : WAITHERE
7
Jason's ship, in myth : ARGO
8
Start 18 holes : TEEOFF
9
Paving goo : TAR
10
*Enclosure with a manuscript or résumé : COVERLETTER
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Up to the task : ABLE
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"Behold!" : LOOK
13
Important parts of dancers : LEGS
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Exams : TESTS
22
Major theater chain : LOEWS
23
*Spider-Man's alter ego : PETERPARKER
25
Fleur-de-___ : LIS
26
Prankster : CUTUP
27
Not so well-done : RARER
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Gloomy, in verse : DREAR
29
Last word in the Lord's Prayer, before "Amen" : EVER
30
The ___ Is Too Damn High Party : RENT
31
Gate hardware : HASP
32
Skin soother : ALOE
36
Christopher of "Superman" : REEVE
38
Ben and Jerry : STILLERS
41
Rap's Dr. ___ : DRE
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Curling of the lip : SNEER
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Settled routine : GROOVE
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Akin to skin? : DERMAL
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Come from ___ : AFAR
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The "Z" of DMZ : ZONE
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Bone paralleling the radius : ULNA
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"Victory is mine!" : IWON
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Wilson of "Wedding Crashers" : OWEN
56
Tear up : REND
57
They give women a lift : BRAS
59
Backup singer for Gladys Knight : PIP
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Miner's pay dirt : ORE

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