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New York Times, Thursday, July 17, 2008

Author:
Elizabeth A. Long
Editor:
Will Shortz
42-Down : Quits misbehaving ... or a literal hint to 4-, 9-, 13-, 49- and 57-Down
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Elizabeth A. Long

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 39 Missing: {FJXZ} Puzzle has duplicate clues. This is puzzle # 3 for Ms. Long. Thursday freshness: 3%
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© 2008, The New York Times7/17/8 ( No. 21,436 )
Across
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Salt or smoke : CURE
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Starr of the Old West : BELLE
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Boom : SPAR
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Type type: Abbr. : ITAL
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Bay window : ORIEL
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___ colada : PINA
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Like a bell : RUNG
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Pale purple : LILAC
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Pancake Day is the day before this begins : LENT
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Make rustle, as foil : CRINKLE
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Writes odes to, e.g. : PRAISES
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U.N. secretary general from Ghana : ANNAN
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Not straight up : ATILT
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Bits : IOTAS
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Winter melon : CASABA
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Colorful lawn or garden fixture : WHIRLIGIG
37
Soundtrack annoyance : LAG
38
Slithering danger : RATTLER
39
Hebrews, for example : EPISTLE
43
A pitcher should keep it low : ERA
44
Something you might want to get to the heart of? : ARTICHOKE
46
Annoy : NETTLE
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Sale day feeling : MANIA
51
They cross here : WORDS
53
___ salts : EPSOM
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One of TV's Gilmore Girls : LORELAI
60
Unfolds : SPREADS
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Pen pal in Paris, perhaps : AMIE
63
Agreement : UNITY
65
Exercised a legal option : SUED
66
Police protection : VEST
67
Doha's domain : QATAR
68
"___ This Last" (series of John Ruskin essays) : UNTO
69
___ place : ONES
70
Stood out, in a good way : SHONE
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Say no : PASS
Down
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Around : CIRCA
2
Often-illegal maneuver : UTURN
3
Entered quickly : RANIN
4
Percussion instrument in an orchestra : TRIANGLE
5
Cotton pod : BOLL
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Pennsylvania's northwesternmost county : ERIE
7
One of TV's Rugrats : LIL
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Bounded : LEAPT
9
Coterie : CIRCLE
10
Forks : SPLITS
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"The Worst ___ in London" ("Sweeney Todd" song) : PIES
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Monarch immediately after William and Mary : ANNE
13
Headliner : STAR
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Small hill : KNOLL
23
Mobile home?: Abbr. : ALA
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"___ see it ..." : ASI
27
Railroad crossbeam : TIE
28
Tourist city between Jaipur and Lucknow : AGRA
30
Middle range : ALTO
31
Hesitate : BALK
32
Author James : AGEE
33
Bird with speckled eggs : WREN
34
Fabled racer : HARE
35
"Take ___ face value" : ITAT
36
"___ life!" : GETA
40
Fraternity jewelry : PIN
41
More likely to cause slipping : ICIER
42
Quits misbehaving ... or a literal hint to 4-, 9-, 13-, 49- and 57-Down : SHAPESUP
45
Abbr. in real estate ads : RMS
47
Chirps : TWEETS
48
Ha-ha, nowadays : LOL
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Unhip person : SQUARE
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Alice's pet cat in "Alice in Wonderland" : DINAH
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Hot spot : SAUNA
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"The Country Girl" playwright, 1950 : ODETS
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Many PCs once ran on it : MSDOS
57
Racetrack : OVAL
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Impending clouds, e.g. : OMEN
59
Small hill : RISE
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Avant-garde filmmaker Brakhage : STAN
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Funeral sight : PYRE
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"What am ___ do?" : ITO

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later.

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