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New York Times, Wednesday, July 18, 2007

Author:
Tibor Derencsenyi
Editor:
Will Shortz
55-Down : Buffalo hockey player
TotalDebut
17/18/2007
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ScrabDebutFresh
1.55222%
Tibor Derencsenyi

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 36 Missing: {JQXZ} Spans: 1 Puzzle has duplicate clues. This is the debut puzzle for Mr. Derencsenyi. Wednesday freshness: 32%
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© 2007, The New York Times7/18/7 ( No. 21,071 )
Across
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Example of 41-Across : SOLONG
7
Example of 41-Across : GOTTARUN
15
Like "Survivor" groups : TRIBAL
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"That's fine" : OKAYBYME
17
___ Quimby of children's books : RAMONA
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Most finicky : PICKIEST
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Not fighting : ATPEACE
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Squeezed (out) : EKED
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Ballerina's digit : TOE
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Suffix with racket or rocket : EER
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Weakens, as support : EBBS
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Line up : ARRAY
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Push (for) : LOBBY
36
Needle part : EYE
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Mauna ___ : LOA
39
Example of 41-Across : SAYONARA
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Theme of this puzzle : FAMOUSLASTWORDS
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Example of 41-Across : AUREVOIR
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90 degree pipe joint : ELL
47
Result of getting worked up : IRE
48
Call the whole thing off : ENDIT
50
On the wagon : SOBER
54
Eton students, e.g. : LADS
56
Symbol of sturdiness : OAK
58
City map abbr. : AVE
59
Tacks on : ADDS
63
Works of Swift and Wilde : SATIRES
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They're over the hill : HASBEENS
70
Dancing locale : BISTRO
71
"Be delighted" : ISURECAN
72
Low tie : ONEALL
73
Example of 41-Across : TIMETOGO
74
Example of 41-Across : BYEBYE
Down
1
Rock bands? : STRATA
2
Keynote speaker, e.g. : ORATOR
3
Less firm : LIMPER
4
Instrument with a conical bore : OBOE
5
Sha follower : NANA
6
French ice cream : GLACE
7
Bush league?: Abbr. : GOP
8
Merle Haggard, self-descriptively : OKIE
9
Sail a zigzag course : TACK
10
Little one : TYKE
11
Put up with : ABIDE
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Bread for a Reuben : RYE
13
Speakers' no-nos : UMS
14
Amount left after all is said and done : NET
20
Unagi, at a sushi restaurant : EEL
24
Actress Dawson of "Rent" : ROSARIO
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Polar denizen : BEAR
27
Polar explorer : BYRD
28
Salty septet : SEAS
30
Therapeutic plant : ALOE
31
"___ got mail" : YOUVE
33
Humanities degs. : BAS
34
Memory unit : BYTE
35
Cries from the woods : YOWLS
38
"I love him like ___" : ASON
40
Defendant's plea, informally : NOLO
41
Not work out : FAIL
42
Kirlian photography image : AURA
43
Four-footed TV star : MRED
44
Jar part : LID
49
Thank-yous along the Thames : TAS
51
Black Russians may go on it : BARTAB
52
___ Brothers : EVERLY
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Fix, as a shoe : RESOLE
55
Buffalo hockey player : SABRE
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Barbecue offering : KABOB
60
Bug juice? : DEET
61
Like Radio City Music Hall, informally : DECO
62
Hitch : SNAG
64
Pint-size : TINY
65
"Mm-hmm" : ISEE
66
Chart topper : HIT
67
"Do ___ do" : ASI
68
It may be tidy : SUM
69
___-Cat : SNO

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

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