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New York Times, Thursday, April 21, 2005

Author:
Patrick Merrell
Editor:
Will Shortz
50-Down : Tickle, as strings
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551.6149348%
Patrick Merrell

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 70, Blocks: 36 Missing: {JQZ} Spans: 1 This is puzzle # 45 for Mr. Merrell. Thursday freshness: 90%
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© 2005, The New York Times4/21/5 ( No. 20,253 )
Across
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___-Deutschland : OST
4
Quaff with caramel coloring : PEPSI
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Locks holder : SCALP
14
Just scratch the surface? : MAR
15
Skip ___ : ABEAT
16
Shaded house parts : EAVES
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Comers : EMERGENTS
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Iroquoian Indians : ERIES
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Modern highway sights, for short : GMVWANDBMWSUVS
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___ flu : ASIAN
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"The Tower" poet : YEATS
24
Guitarist Lofgren : NILS
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"77 Sunset Strip" character : KOOKIE
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Writes : SENDSANOTE
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It makes men mean : ANA
37
Golden State postgrads, for short : UCLAMBASANDPHDS
40
Rd. way : RTE
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Giddiness : EXUBERANCE
42
Like a prom : FORMAL
45
Russian river : URAL
46
Kind of acid in olive oil : OLEIC
49
Calculator brand : CASIO
53
Popular family room appliances, for short : GEVCRSANDHDTVS
57
Opposite of neo- : PALEO
58
Like Parliament : BICAMERAL
59
Circle : ORBIT
60
Sensory input : AROMA
61
Prefix with color : UNI
62
Brooklyn's ___ Institute, college of art and architecture : PRATT
63
Teaspoonsful, often : DOSES
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"Holy smokes!" : MAN
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Horseshoe-shaped symbol : OMEGA
2
Actress Emma of "Dynasty" : SAMMS
3
Rome's Fontana di ___ : TREVI
4
Primitive practice : PAGANISM
5
"___ Holden," Irving Bacheller novel : EBEN
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Hang : PEND
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Did nothing : SATBY
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"Who's there?" response : ITSME
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Looks after : SEESTO
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Famed tenor : CARUSO
11
Part of a city name that means "spring" in Hebrew : AVIV
12
Pinky and Spike : LEES
13
Some afterthoughts, in brief : PSS
18
Country with a Hutu majority : RWANDA
21
Rooster, for some : WAKENER
25
Office gizmo : LABELER
26
Treats, in adspeak : SNAX
28
Longtime sportswriter Roger : KAHN
29
Where to find Pennsylvania Ave. : INDC
30
Leisure : EASE
31
Hang ten, e.g. : SURF
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Prefix with plasm : ECTO
33
Card or Met : NLER
34
Big Midwest sch. : OSU
35
Popular fragrance : TABU
38
Euros replaced them : DRACHMAS
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George E. ___, 1974 Medicine Nobelist : PALADE
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"Go, go, go!" : MOVEIT
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"Little Men" author : ALCOTT
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Misbehaves : ISBAD
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Yasir Arafat's birthplace : CAIRO
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Tickle, as strings : STRUM
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Mrs. Trump, once : IVANA
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Singer K. T. ___ : OSLIN
53
She had a "Tootsie" role : GARR
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Isle of exile : ELBA
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Three-stripers, e.g.: Abbr. : NCOS
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British title : DAME
57
Dad : POP

Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 2 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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