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New York Times, Saturday, June 25, 2005

Author:
John Underwood
Editor:
Will Shortz
46-Down : Investment option, briefly
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John Underwood

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 66, Blocks: 35 Missing: {JQVWZ} Spans: 4 Grid has both left-right and up-down symmetry. This is puzzle # 9 for Mr. Underwood. Saturday freshness: 52%
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© 2005, The New York Times6/25/5 ( No. 20,318 )
Across
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How police may act, after "on" : ATIP
5
Triode parts : GRIDS
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Party directive, briefly : BYOB
14
Like some hepatitis : NONA
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Gymnast-like : LITHE
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54-year-old Charlie's 18-year-old bride : OONA
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Classic verse from the collection "Mountain Interval" : THEROADNOTTAKEN
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Nap, e.g. : TEXTURE
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Alcatraz : THEROCK
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European head of state for nearly 56 years : RAINIER
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Architect Louis ___ Kahn : ISADORE
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Creator of the secretary Della : ERLE
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"Who has seen the wind? Neither ___ you": Rossetti : INOR
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Unbegotten : ETERNAL
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Some washers : COINOPS
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Garden-variety : SOSO
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The bright side? : YANG
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Dynamic range unit : DECIBEL
38
Gets into something : DRESSES
42
Its flag features a khanjar dagger : OMAN
43
Singer Peniston with the 1991 hit "Finally" : CECE
44
Providers of energy to fans : MASCOTS
48
Driveway type : ASPHALT
51
Runner : ENTRANT
52
Tear : FLOORIT
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Western state flower : CALIFORNIAPOPPY
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"Lemme ___!" : ATEM
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Demonstrably sad : TEARY
57
Daffy characteristic : LISP
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Counsel, old-style : REDE
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Their points are guarded : EPEES
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Dirk's old relative : SNEE
Down
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Venomous insects live in its hollow stems : ANTTREE
2
Seriously : TOHEART
3
Cast out of a country : INEXILE
4
Cohorts : PARTNERSINCRIME
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Driving problem : GLARE
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One in a habit : RIDER
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BBC rival : ITN
8
Garb for Gandhi : DHOTI
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Linebacker Joyner and others : SETHS
10
Phillips and others : BOARDINGSCHOOLS
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Tokyo-born performance artist : YOKOONO
12
Like a cotton farm, e.g. : ONECROP
13
C.D. recorders? : BANKERS
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Apt rhyme for sí : OUI
19
What some balls are filled with : TEA
27
Cribbage jack : NOB
28
Ibsen's peasant widow : ASE
29
Modern indicator of amusement : LOL
30
Fred's "Silk Stockings" co-star, 1957 : CYD
31
One that gets locked in a boat : OAR
32
Brilliant finish? : INE
35
Train unit with a raised, glass-enclosed roof : DOMECAR
36
Spring : EMANATE
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Made a two-in-one move, in a way : CASTLED
39
Hammer-cocking gun piece : SEARPIN
40
Tower above : ECLIPSE
41
Do an old newspaper job : SETTYPE
45
Lubber : OAF
46
Investment option, briefly : TNOTE
47
Scarlet fever cause : STREP
48
All excited : AFIRE
49
Wastes, so to speak : SLAYS
50
Kind of psychology : POP
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"___ man can tether time or tide": Burns : NAE

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

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