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New York Times, Saturday, June 26, 2004

Author:
Byron Walden
Editor:
Will Shortz
42-Down : Too
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Byron Walden

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 68, Blocks: 28 Missing: {FJKQXZ} This is puzzle # 9 for Mr. Walden. Saturday freshness: 48%
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© 2004, The New York Times6/26/4 ( No. 19,954 )
Across
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Gets out of the way : MOVESASIDE
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Bass output : ALES
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They don't react well : INERTGASES
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N.F.L. Hall-of-Famer Ronnie : LOTT
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Perilous thing to cross over : DANGERLINE
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Prune : PARE
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Tend to brood? : SIT
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Mathematical extreme : LEAST
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Incurred : RANUP
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Grooming gizmo : TRIMMER
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Three-time 55-Down champs : PACERS
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What an optimist envisions : ROSYSCENARIO
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Quoits pegs : HOBS
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It can't be played on a trumpet, e.g. : CHORD
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Fire : CAN
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Revelation response : AHA
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18th-century French inventor of a temperature scale : REAUMUR
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Boric acid target : ANT
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Common rugby score : NIL
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Baseball, slangily : APPLE
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Estimate follower : ORSO
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Take a city bus, perhaps : GOACROSSTOWN
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Podiatric concern : ARCHES
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Enthusiastic show of approval : OVATION
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Worked (up) : RILED
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Persona non grata : LEPER
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Cry of horror, in poetry : ONO
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Director Reitman : IVAN
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Statistical calculation : COVARIANCE
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Campbell of "Wild Things" : NEVE
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Movie mini-marathon : TRIPLEBILL
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Looking like rain : GRAY
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Passing events : RELAYRACES
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Thick : MIDST
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Pleasant way to walk : ONAIR
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Twenty, in Trieste : VENTI
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Bit of work : ERG
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One associated with fire : STELMO
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Goes along : AGREES
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Figures in major-league baseball : SALARYCAPS
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Protector of the dead, in myth : ISIS
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Something hammered out : DENT
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Liverpool-to-Nottingham dir. : ESE
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Some wool : ALPACA
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Auto garage courtesy : LOANERCAR
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Tuscan ancients : ETRURIANS
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Boards : STEPSONTO
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Weary worker's wish : RANDR
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"___ Brown" (Judi Dench film) : MRS
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Its highest point is Huascarán : PERU
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Holy Arks' homes : SHULS
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"Get your pretty self over here!" : COMETOPAPA
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Cooling one's jets? : HANGARING
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Belle of Louisville's beat : OHIORIVER
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Mountain-climber's hood : BALACLAVA
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Rose on the hind legs, with "up" : RARED
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"Odyssey," e.g. : EPOS
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Home to Queens U. : ONT
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President Ford's chief of staff : CHENEY
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Too : OVERLY
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Less trusting : WARIER
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Column choice : IONIC
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Frère de la mère : ONCLE
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Present times : NOELS
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It may be tribal : LORE
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Set, Egyptian god of ___ : EVIL
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Hdqrs. : CTR
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See 24-Across : ABA

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

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