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New York Times, Tuesday, April 6, 2004

Author:
Tony Orbach
Editor:
Will Shortz
50-Down : "Look ___ Talking"
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
274/6/200412/6/202015
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17044101
CircleScrabDebutFresh
21.6723158%
Tony Orbach

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 36 Missing: {BJQZ} Spans: 1 Puzzle has duplicate clues. This is the debut puzzle for Mr. Orbach. Tuesday freshness: 44%
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© 2004, The New York Times4/6/4 ( No. 19,873 )
Across
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Big stinger : WASP
5
Org. whose approval is much sought : FDA
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"Le ___ Prince" : PETIT
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Opera solo : ARIA
14
Costa ___ : RICA
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The O in FeO : OXIDE
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Call in a bakery : NEXT
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Tennis's Arthur : ASHE
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Slangy send-off : LATER
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1986 Prince movie, after 29-Down : THECHERRYMOON
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Calendar box : DAY
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Opponent's vote : NAY
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Cry from a butterfingers : OOPS
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Map miniatures : INSETS
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Letter carriers' org. : USPS
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"No seats left" sign : SRO
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Martin or McQueen : STEVE
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Initial stake : ANTE
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Not at home : AWAY
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By night, with 29-Down : COVEROFDARKNESS
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Rightmost column : ONES
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Suffix with young or old : STER
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Smallest : LEAST
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Thesaurus feature: Abbr. : SYN
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Minnesota Twin, e.g., briefly : ALER
44
Dance at 23-Down : HUSTLE
45
Set-to : STIR
46
Not dis, in Brooklyn : DAT
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Sun. talk : SER
48
Business sign, after 29-Down : NEWMANAGEMENT
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Orangeish shade : OCHER
54
Respite : LULL
55
Grub : EATS
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Popular vodka, informally : STOLI
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Wash : LAVE
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Oscar winner Sorvino : MIRA
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Has, as a party : HOSTS
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Place to hear a 13-Across, with "the" : MET
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Taking care of business : ONIT
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Pallid : WAN
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Exist : ARE
3
Year "The Graduate" came out, in short : SIXTYSEVEN
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Walkway : PATH
5
Set-to : FRACAS
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Like good gossip columns : DISHY
7
Overexerciser's woe : ACHE
8
Growths that may be removed by surgery : POLYPS
9
Tests : EXAMS
10
___ Puente, the Mambo King : TITO
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Prefix with logical : IDEO
12
Beach bird : TERN
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Former Ford minivan : AEROSTAR
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Type in : ENTER
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Rodeo performer : ROPER
23
Studio 54 and Xenon, famously : DISCOS
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Cleopatra's paramour : ANTONY
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Preceding nights : EVES
29
See 20-, 36- and 48-Across : UNDER
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Laundry challenge for a gymgoer : SWEATSTAIN
31
Fight down and dirty : RASSLE
32
Food in a shell : OYSTER
34
In the end : AFTERALL
35
Hydrocarbon suffixes : ANES
37
Singer K. T. ___ : OSLIN
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Movie for which Jane Fonda won an Oscar : KLUTE
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Some old computers : ATARIS
44
Classic Olivier role : HAMLET
45
Silvery food fish : SMELT
46
Dig (into) : DELVE
48
Snack : NOSH
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Prefix with plasm : ECTO
50
"Look ___ Talking" : WHOS
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U.S. Pacific island : GUAM
52
Captain of fiction : NEMO
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Prefix with color or cycle : TRI
57
Posed : SAT

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 4 debuted here and reused later.

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