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New York Times, Saturday, May 12, 2007

Author:
Rich Norris
Editor:
Will Shortz
46-Down : "Leave business to ___, and wisdom to fools": Congreve
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Rich Norris

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 70, Blocks: 27 Missing: {FJQWXZ} This is puzzle # 183 for Mr. Norris. Saturday freshness: 54%
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© 2007, The New York Times5/12/7 ( No. 21,004 )
Across
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Modern arts-and-crafts tool : GLUESTICK
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See 56-Across : DESAC
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Present : LATTERDAY
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Ecuador's Santa ___ Peninsula : ELENA
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Lingered past : OUTSTAYED
18
Nonsense : BEANS
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It's extracted : ORE
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Shakespearean title start : ALLS
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Small bay : ARMLET
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Entangle : MIRE
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Graduate of Mount Holyoke : ALUMNA
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It may be rolled over : IRA
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Having no gray area : YESNO
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1941 musical comedy "That Night in ___" : RIO
30
Butcher's cut : LOIN
31
Evasive tactic : SONGANDDANCE
35
Purple shade : PETUNIA
38
Placed far in : DEEPSET
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Play things : OPERAGLASSES
41
Former European capital : LIRE
42
Bit of mockery : HAR
43
Where the Peacock Throne was built : DELHI
47
Mt. Tabor's country: Abbr. : ISR
48
Brief attachment to a report, maybe : POSTIT
51
Couple : DUAD
52
Unanimously : TOAMAN
54
Small amount : DRAM
56
With 10-Across, stalemate : CUL
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Fool : IDIOT
58
Like character actors : VERSATILE
60
Dot follower : CENTS
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One studying camels : ICESKATER
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___-face : KISSY
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Naive types, sometimes : DOGOODERS
Down
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Pessimistic : GLOOMY
2
"The Hustler" Oscar nominee : LAURIE
3
Comes out with : UTTERS
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Saucerful? : ETS
5
___ precedent : SETA
6
Air part : TRALA
7
Rustic opus : IDYLL
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Break : CAESURA
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"The Spanish Tragedy" dramatist : KYD
10
Comedian/actress Wilson, an original cast member on "MADtv" : DEBRA
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I, O or U, but not A or E: Abbr. : ELEM
12
Coastal California colony members : SEALIONS
13
Creator of the Mayfair Witches : ANNERICE
14
Low-tech clicker : CASTANET
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Current entry points : ANODES
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Guard : ENSURE
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Guards : MINDS
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Disney's Princess ___ : OONA
30
Ran out : LAPSED
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Almost : NIGHON
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Showy events : GALAS
34
Action : DEED
35
Make campaign stops : POLITICK
36
Series opener : EPISODEI
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Tracts : TERRAINS
40
Like Manhattan's Chrysler Building : ARTDECO
44
Classic DuPont brand : LUCITE
45
Semi : HAULER
46
"Leave business to ___, and wisdom to fools": Congreve : IDLERS
48
One easily pushed over : PATSY
49
Like seconds: Abbr. : IRREG
50
Lord Byron's "The Lament of ___" : TASSO
53
Cracks : MOTS
55
Speedy fish : MAKO
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Kid-___ : VID
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Smidgen : TAD

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 3 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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