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New York Times, Tuesday, March 28, 2006

Author:
Jim Hyres
Editor:
Will Shortz
3-Down : Actor Gregory of "To Kill a Mockingbird"
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Jim Hyres

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 34 Missing: {QVXZ} This is puzzle # 17 for Mr. Hyres. Tuesday freshness: 73%
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© 2006, The New York Times3/28/6 ( No. 20,594 )
Across
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Transfer, as a houseplant : REPOT
6
Believers: Suffix : ISTS
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Warm-up exam for H.S. students : PSAT
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Geometric calculations : AREAS
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Epitome of redness : BEET
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Follow-up to a curtain opening : ACTI
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It pounds the pavement : JACKHAMMER
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Request of a barber : TRIM
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Welcomes at the front door : ASKSIN
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Kick off : INITIATE
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Floor covering : RUG
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In limited supply : SCANT
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Make sour : EMBITTER
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Plots of land : TRACTS
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Meadow singers : LARKS
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Put off, as a motion : TABLE
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"Yeah, sure!" : HAH
38
Apple or pear, e.g. : TREE
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A slang term for this starts 17- and 60-Across and 11- and 28-Down : MONEY
40
San Antonio player : SPUR
41
Ending with pay : OLA
42
___ ray : MANTA
43
Physique : SHAPE
44
"I'm not signing" : NODEAL
46
Obsolete : OUTMODED
48
Underlying principle : BASIS
50
Bygone Eastern rival : TWA
51
Opening necessity? : DOORKNOB
54
1987 Beatty bomb : ISHTAR
59
Pizazz : ELAN
60
Part of many a garden center : GREENHOUSE
62
Flames : FIRE
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List-ending abbr. : ETAL
64
Flynn of Hollywood : ERROL
65
Broadway's "Sweeney ___" : TODD
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File's partner : RANK
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Cartoon duck : DAFFY
Down
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Indian prince : RAJA
2
Historic periods : ERAS
3
Actor Gregory of "To Kill a Mockingbird" : PECK
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Sherman ___, Calif. : OAKS
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Polo alternatives : TSHIRTS
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"Think" sloganeer : IBM
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Big rig : SEMI
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Babysitters, typically : TEENS
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By the book : STRICTLY
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Metal coating : PATINA
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Spot for doodles : SCRATCHPAD
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Going ___ (fighting) : ATIT
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Call to a basketball referee : TIME
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"Sometimes you feel like ___" : ANUT
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Weight of a container on a scale : TARE
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"Hop aboard" : GETON
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Singer John : ELTON
27
Thomas of "That Girl" : MARLO
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Prototype circuit device : BREADBOARD
29
Old White House nickname : IKE
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Totaled, as a tab : RANTO
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Hosiery shade : TAUPE
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Destroy, as classified documents : SHRED
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Doozie : BEAUT
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Goldbrick : MALINGER
40
"___ 'nuff!" : SHO
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Halloween purchase : MASK
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Totally wasted : SMASHED
45
Not just handed to : EARNED
47
Romulus or Remus : TWIN
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More or less, slangily : SORTA
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Nimble-fingered : DEFT
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Mishmash : OLIO
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Noggin : BEAN
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Bar mitzvah dance : HORA
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What a gang protects : TURF
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Up until : ASOF
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Count (on) : RELY
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Lodge brother : ELK

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