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New York Times, Friday, June 20, 2008

Author:
Mike Nothnagel
Editor:
Will Shortz
35-Down : Helplessly?
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
569/4/20064/20/20125
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442272566
RebusCircleScrabDebutFresh
431.6633377%
Mike Nothnagel

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 70, Blocks: 30 Missing: {Q} This is puzzle # 23 for Mr. Nothnagel. Friday freshness: 76%
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© 2008, The New York Times6/20/8 ( No. 21,409 )
Across
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Flurries : BURSTS
7
How you might meet someone : HALFWAY
14
Head of an alley? : ONEPIN
15
1.0 : DAVERAGE
16
Not forsaking : TRUETO
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Without warning : UNAWARES
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Sticking point : TINE
19
Old-time comic Ed : WYNN
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Gravlax ingredient : DILL
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Kind of column : OPED
23
A National Cartoonists Society award is named for him : SEGAR
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Short cut? : LOIN
27
City on the Trans-Canada Highway : MEDICINEHAT
30
Nashville-based awards org. : CMA
31
So much, on a score : TANTO
32
Carter's second secretary of state : MUSKIE
34
Like dirty rice : CAJUN
37
Farm unit? : ANT
39
Championship cricket matches : TESTS
40
Left unceremoniously? : ELOPED
42
Two-time gold medal skier of the 1998 Olympics : MAIER
44
Using devices : SLY
45
1990 Grammy winner for her album "Days of Open Hand" : SUZANNEVEGA
50
Crew team? : TARS
52
State bordering Lower Saxony : HESSE
53
Film role for Russell in 1993 and Costner in 1994 : EARP
54
One might be in a cast : LIMB
56
Course for the dead? : STYX
57
Exciting experience, in slang : TRIP
58
Chair : MODERATE
60
Like : AKINTO
62
Comic's creation : ONELINER
63
Their tails do not wag : COMETS
64
Where Covent Garden is : WESTEND
65
Craft often utilizing rubber bands : TIEDYE
Down
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Bench warmer : BOTTOM
2
Still in development : UNRIPE
3
Came back together : REUNED
4
"I haven't got all day!" : SPEEDITUP
5
Part of an even exchange : TIT
6
Traps, perhaps : SNOWSIN
7
Title role in a 1986 Woody Allen film : HANNAH
8
Loser to Audrey for the 1953 Best Actress Oscar : AVA
9
Far from family-friendly : LEWD
10
Hardly hardy : FRAIL
11
A 15-Down might have control over them : WARLOCKS
12
Provision for holding certain jobs : AGELIMIT
13
Word next to a check box : YES
15
Underground movement leader? : DUNGEONMASTER
20
Dirt spreader : YENTA
24
Butt : RAM
26
Gretna Green rebuffs : NAES
28
Miami team, informally : CANES
29
Classless one? : TUTEE
33
Be in the can : SERVETIME
34
"___ fini!" : CEST
35
Helplessly? : ALLALONE
36
Teens' escapades : JOYRIDES
38
Member of the aster family : TANSY
41
"Ya think?!" : DUH
43
Ballpark : INEXACT
46
Made more exciting : ZESTED
47
Like some runs : EARNED
48
Strongly realistic : GRITTY
49
Put side by side : APPOSE
51
Get the lead out? : SMELT
55
It might be baked for an appetizer : BRIE
58
Overwhelm, with "down" : MOW
59
"King Kong" role : ANN
61
Carp variety : KOI

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

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