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New York Times, Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Author:
Kenneth J. Berniker
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
53-Down : Sticking points
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Kenneth J. Berniker

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 39 Missing: {FJQZ} Puzzle has duplicate clues. This is puzzle # 3 for Mr. Berniker. Wednesday freshness: 54%
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© 2010, The New York Times2/24/10 ( No. 22,023 )
Across
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Fix firmly : RIVET
6
Bust ___ (laugh hard) : ARIB
10
Colombia's second-largest city : CALI
14
Walled city of Spain : AVILA
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"Forbidden" perfume brand : TABU
16
Service closer : AMEN
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Focus of some contemplation : NAVEL
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Control tower word : OVER
19
Cozy corner : NOOK
20
Hoopsters turn down singer Stevie? : KNICKSNIXNICKS
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Singing the blues : SAD
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Filled fare : TACO
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Taxonomic suffix : OTE
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Misplace comic Costello's privies? : LOSELOUSLOOS
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"The Square Egg" author : SAKI
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Keen on : INTO
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Maximilian I's realm: Abbr. : HRE
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20-, 26-, 46- and 56-Across, homophonically speaking : TRIPLES
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Yup'ik and others : ESKIMOS
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Like a petty officer: Abbr. : ENL
43
Martinique et Corsica : ILES
45
Org. with a closing bell : NYSE
46
Apportion hamburgers to track runners? : METEMEETMEAT
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Get-up-and-go : VIM
52
Candidates for witness protection programs : RATS
53
Secretary Geithner : TIM
56
Compose the appropriate ceremony? : WRITERIGHTRITE
60
Austria's capital, to Austrians : WIEN
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Kind of tide : NEAP
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Rushed : RANAT
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Grp. including Nigeria and Venezuela : OPEC
64
"Mon Oncle" star : TATI
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Speedy Washington-to-Boston link : ACELA
66
Chinese toy, for short : PEKE
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German admiral who went down with the Scharnhorst : SPEE
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Custodian's supply : LYSOL
Down
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Admiral and others : RANKS
2
The first Mrs. Trump : IVANA
3
Like some imaginations : VIVID
4
T.V.A. output : ELEC
5
Have a word with : TALKTO
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On the double : ATONCE
7
Filled fare : RAVIOLI
8
Alpine goat : IBEX
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Rat race casualties : BURNOUTS
10
Alternative to "Continue" in an online order : CANCEL
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In a frenzy : AMOK
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13 popes, so far : LEOS
13
Tattooist's supply : INK
21
Airline in the Star Alliance : SAS
22
"No harm, no foul" : ITSOK
26
Sass : LIP
27
Pee Wee Reese, for the Dodgers : ONE
28
"Heavens!" : OHMY
29
Top prizes at the Juegos Olímpicos : OROS
30
Zaire's Mobutu ___ Seko : SESE
31
Part of many musical notes : STEM
32
Former Minnesota governor Carlson : ARNE
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Piper's wear : KILT
37
The sky, it's said : LIMIT
38
Things on a table : ELEMENTS
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"Get it?" : SEE
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Cause of a turnover: Abbr. : INT
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Make furrows in : STRIATE
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Show clearly : EVINCE
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Heckle or Jeckle of cartoons : MAGPIE
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Haile Selassie's land: Abbr. : ETH
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Like some planetarium projections : ASTRAL
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Sticking points : TINES
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Author Calvino : ITALO
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Like most golf woods, nowadays : METAL
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Towelette, e.g. : WIPE
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Need a bath badly : REEK
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Take in : REAP
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Blue : RACY
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Doo-___ : WOP

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