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New York Times, Tuesday, June 12, 2007

Author:
Jonathan Gersch
Editor:
Will Shortz
18-Down : Gangsters' foes
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Jonathan Gersch

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 36 Missing: none – this is a pangram. Spans: 2 Puzzle has duplicate clues. This is puzzle # 2 for Mr. Gersch. Tuesday freshness: 33%
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© 2007, The New York Times6/12/7 ( No. 21,035 )
Across
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Former U.N. chief Javier ___ de Cuéllar : PEREZ
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Colorist : DYER
10
Black Power symbol : FIST
14
Site of Crockett's demise : ALAMO
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Gutter site : EAVE
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Creep (along) : INCH
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Spoonerism, usually : SLIPOFTHETONGUE
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Something that may be brought back from the beach : TAN
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Abbr. in a help wanted ad : EEO
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Instruments played with bows : VIOLS
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Sight along the Thames : WINDSORCASTLE
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Most acute : KEENEST
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Bran material : OAT
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Draft org. : SSS
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Get on one's nerves : GRATE
33
Indiana ___ : JONES
35
Actress Roseanne : BARR
36
Word that can follow the starts of 17-, 23-, 51- and 59-Across : KNOTS
38
Clickable image : ICON
42
Baby screecher : OWLET
44
Observe Yom Kippur : ATONE
45
Deadly viper : ASP
48
"The Star-Spangled Banner" contraction : OER
49
Like some dental floss : UNWAXED
51
Hoedown folks : SQUAREDANCERS
54
Author Vonnegut and others : KURTS
55
General on a Chinese menu : TSO
56
Lilliputian : WEE
59
San Francisco tourist attraction : FISHERMANSWHARF
64
Modern ice cream flavor : OREO
65
Little explorer on Nickelodeon : DORA
66
Raise : HOIST
67
Pete Rose's team : REDS
68
Small bit : SNIP
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Actress Moorehead : AGNES
Down
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Previous : PAST
2
Singer Fitzgerald : ELLA
3
Slickers and the like : RAINWEAR
4
Akihito's title: Abbr. : EMP
5
Madhouse : ZOO
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Abhor : DETEST
7
Popular e-mail provider : YAHOO
8
Grandmother of Enoch : EVE
9
Abbr. after some generals' names : RET
10
That's all : FINIS
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Metal bars : INGOTS
12
Crews' craft : SCULLS
13
Postdocs often publish them : THESES
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Gangsters' foes : FEDS
19
Elliptical : OVATE
24
Emcee's delivery : INTRO
25
Word between two last names : NEE
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Etymological basis : ROOT
27
Axes : CANS
28
Putin's former org. : KGB
29
Pitcher's stat : ERA
33
Small bit : JOT
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Instrument often accompanied by a pair of small drums : SITAR
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Swiss painter Paul : KLEE
37
"Happy Days" put-down : NERD
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Crew's leader : COXSWAIN
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Atomic number of hydrogen : ONE
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Flanders of "The Simpsons" : NED
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"It's ___ than that!" : WORSE
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Great reverence : AWE
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Request : ASKFOR
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Future knight : SQUIRE
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Puckered : PURSED
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Open, in a way : UNSNAP
50
Cpls. and others : NCOS
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One of the Three Musketeers : ATHOS
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Centipede maker : ATARI
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Gaelic language : ERSE
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Newts : EFTS
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Tpkes. : RDS
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Back-to-school time: Abbr. : MON
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"Huh?" : WHA
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Big bike : HOG

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

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