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New York Times, Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Author:
Julian Lim
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
12-Down : Easy life, personified
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Julian Lim

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 74, Blocks: 36 Missing: {JX} Puzzle has duplicate clues. This is puzzle # 5 for Mr. Lim. Wednesday freshness: 95%
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© 2011, The New York Times12/7/11 ( No. 22,674 )
Across
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Had down : KNEW
5
Chips go-with : SALSA
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Lineage-based women's org. : DAR
13
Person dressed in black : GOTH
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Wolfed down : ATEUP
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Isao of golf : AOKI
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*What an EEG reads : BRAINWAVES
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Peat or propane : FUEL
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Stahl of "60 Minutes" : LESLEY
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Dish alternative : CABLE
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"Time to get moving!" : LETSROLL
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Reinvest, as winnings : PARLAY
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Some, but not much : ABITOF
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___-nez : PINCE
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Many a turkey : TOM
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*Back to the beginning : FULLCIRCLE
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Justice Kagan : ELENA
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Enclosure with a ms. : SAE
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Newbies : TYROS
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*Up-and-comer : RISINGSTAR
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Polo Grounds great : OTT
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Way up or down : STAIR
43
Decides one will : OPTSTO
46
Pig roast spot, briefly : BBQPIT
48
Mimics convincingly : PASSESAS
50
Boxing's Brown Bomber : LOUIS
51
Drive like a drunk : CAREEN
52
Midget car-racing org. : USAC
53
Tools for ESP researchers (whose symbols are found at the ends of the answers to the five asterisked clues) : ZENERCARDS
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Ankara native : TURK
58
Half-witted : INANE
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"Gotta run!" : CIAO
60
Unified : ONE
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Lose one's marbles : GOMAD
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Small-screen award : EMMY
Down
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Putin's former org. : KGB
2
Scand. land : NOR
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Capt.'s guess : ETA
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As long as, old-style : WHILST
5
Removes, as a branch : SAWSOFF
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Whatsoever : ATALL
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Like a pool table, ideally : LEVEL
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Chop ___ : SUEY
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H.S. courses for coll. credit : APS
10
*Act of betrayal : DOUBLECROSS
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"The Jungle Book" wolf : AKELA
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Easy life, personified : RILEY
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Much removed (from) : AFARCRY
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Sleuth Wolfe : NERO
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"Zip your lips!" : CANIT
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"Gotta run!" : LATER
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Christ's literary stopping place : EBOLI
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*Scene of an annual ball-dropping : TIMESSQUARE
24
Shot : PIC
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___ bargain : PLEA
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1-Down's land : USSR
30
Long. partner : LAT
31
Bunch of, casually : LOTTA
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These, in Toledo : ESTOS
34
Sweat the small stuff, in a way : NITPICK
35
Diarist Nin : ANAIS
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"Skedaddle!" : GIT
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Sister of Snow White : ROSERED
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Tiny fraction of a min. : PSEC
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Bridge combo : TENACE
46
Wooer of Olive Oyl : BLUTO
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Merchant ship officer : BOSUN
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___ Games (quadrennial event) : PANAM
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Boxing venue : ARENA
51
Prefix with -zoic : CENO
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Part of a slalom's path : ZIG
54
What a swish shot doesn't touch : RIM
55
Hydroelectricity structure : DAM
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Faux meat base : SOY

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later.

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