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New York Times, Thursday, July 12, 2007

Author:
Michael Shteyman
Editor:
Will Shortz
57-Down : Salt Lake City daily, briefly, with "the"
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Michael Shteyman

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 72, Blocks: 40 Missing: {KQZ} Featured in Will Shortz's favorite puzzlemakers. This is puzzle # 43 for Mr. Shteyman. Thursday freshness: 91%
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© 2007, The New York Times7/12/7 ( No. 21,065 )
Across
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Part of Poor Richard's Almanack : ADAGE
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They clear the way : BROOMS
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Think over, in a way : REPLAN
14
Wearing white after Labor Day, e.g. : FAUXPAS
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Rest : REPOSE
16
Border in the court? : SIDELINE
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It might help you take a turn for the better : POWERSTEERING
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"See ___ care" : IFI
20
Bill and Hillary Clinton, e.g. : DUO
21
Fast pitch : SPIEL
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Place to get a C.D. : SANDL
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Gaelic tongue : ERSE
29
Cinnabar, e.g. : ORE
30
Emperor under Pope Innocent III : OTTOIV
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Early Surrealist : MAXERNST
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Ten minutes in a laundry, maybe : WASHCYCLE
37
Hangar site : AIRDROME
40
Upper armbones : HUMERI
44
Byron's "___ Walks in Beauty" : SHE
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Pay (up) : PONY
47
Nutcases : LOCOS
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Pilgrim to Mecca : HADJI
51
Fundamental of philosophy : TAO
53
First U.S. pres. to travel in a submarine : HST
54
"You'll have to take my word for it" : TRUSTMEONTHIS
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Informal words of concurrence : MEEITHER
60
Attribution : CREDIT
62
Strife : DISCORD
63
A Lennon sister : DIANNE
64
Song from "The Music Man" with the lyric "What words could be saner or truer or plainer" : ITSYOU
65
Word that can precede the starts of 17-, 35- and 54-Across and 16-Down : BRAIN
Down
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Band score abbr. : ARR
2
Frying medium : DEEPFAT
3
Designate : APPOINT
4
U.F.O. feature, maybe : GLOW
5
Minimal effort : EASE
6
Commanded : BADE
7
They are sorry : RUERS
8
Yellow spring flower : OXLIP
9
Perspective : OPINION
10
Stable places : MANGERS
11
Abilene-to-San Antonio dir. : SSE
13
Unlikely party animal : NERD
14
Cry of disgust : FIE
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Low pressure area : STORMCENTER
18
Good name for a trial lawyer? : SUE
19
Abbr. on a film box : ISO
22
Tennis call : LET
24
Columnist Maureen : DOWD
25
Word repeated in a child's taunt : LIAR
27
For example : SAY
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Kind of rate in a bank: Abbr. : EXCH
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Letters on a Rémy Martin bottle : VSOP
33
Jewish month : ELUL
34
San ___, Italy : REMO
36
Grp. handling insurance forms : HMO
37
Wood for oars : ASH
38
"Ugh!" : IHATEIT
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Remedy : REDRESS
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Egg-laying mammal : ECHIDNA
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Composer of the opera "Tancredi" : ROSSINI
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Form of the German "to be" : IST
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7'6" N.B.A. star : YAO
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Titillating : JUICY
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Kindergarten comeback : ISTOO
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How most computer software is sold : ONCD
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No ___ Street : THRU
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Kind of school : MED
57
Salt Lake City daily, briefly, with "the" : TRIB
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Learn (of) : HEAR
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Year of an Amerigo Vespucci voyage : MDI
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Highest tile value in Scrabble : TEN

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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