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New York Times, Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Author:
Oliver Hill
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
41-Down : Slow alternative to I-95
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Oliver Hill

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 38 Missing: {FGJX} Featured in Will Shortz's favorite puzzles. This is puzzle # 13 for Mr. Hill. Wednesday freshness: 21%
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© 2010, The New York Times7/21/10 ( No. 22,170 )
Across
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"Impression, Sunrise" painter : MONET
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Gives the thumbs-up : OKS
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Dreamworks's first animated film : ANTZ
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Site of some rock shows : ARENA
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End of a boast : VICI
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Pitcher Derek : LOWE
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A heap : SCADS
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Flair : ELAN
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Subject of many Georgia O'Keeffe paintings : IRIS
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Disaster : CATASTROPHE
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Skill : ART
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Woman's name meaning "weary" in Hebrew : LEAH
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Of this world : EARTHLY
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Swelter : BOIL
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Word before and after "for" : MEASURE
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Airport info: Abbr. : ARR
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Maryland athlete, for short : TERP
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They're often eaten with applesauce : LATKES
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Bard's "below" : NEATH
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Place to put a bud : EAR
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Like J in the alphabet : TENTH
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Flirtatious one : COQUET
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See 53-Down : ROSA
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Suffix with Brooklyn : ITE
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Made tidy, in a way : SWEPTUP
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Bibliographic abbr. : ETAL
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Experience a mondegreen, e.g. : MISHEAR
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Agenda unit : TASK
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___ carte : ALA
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Lover's woe ... or something found, literally, in the 4th, 5th, 8th and 11th rows of this puzzle : BROKENHEART
62
Brass component : ZINC
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When doubled, popular 1980s-'90s British sitcom : ALLO
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Alexander the Great conquered it ca. 335 B.C. : IONIA
66
Appendices with some studies : DATA
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SAT taker, e.g. : TEEN
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Don : PUTON
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Genesis man : ADAM
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Date : SEE
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Editors' marks : STETS
Down
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Like bueno but not buena: Abbr. : MASC
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Filmdom's Willy, for one : ORCA
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"Cool beans!" : NEAT
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It's ultimate : ENDALL
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French cup : TASSE
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"Psst!" : OVERHERE
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Metric prefix : KILO
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Pretty vistas, for short : SCAPES
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The Greatest : ALI
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Singer Jones : NORAH
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Pirouette : TWIRL
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Full of spice : ZESTY
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Rope for pulling a sail : INHAUL
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Lacking spice : TAME
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Mess-ups : ERRATA
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French bean? : TETE
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French bench : BANC
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Uh-Oh! ___ (Nabisco product) : OREO
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Where many a veteran has served : IRAQ
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Distinct : APART
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Information superhighway : THEWEB
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Make a sweater, say : KNIT
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"At Last" singer James : ETTA
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Poet/illustrator Silverstein : SHEL
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Rear : TUSH
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Slow alternative to I-95 : ROUTEONE
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Rip into : TEARAT
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Breadth : SPAN
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Lower class in "1984" : PROLES
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Manage : EKEOUT
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Protegé, for one : MAZDA
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Poem with approximately 16,000 lines : ILIAD
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With 45-Across, largest city in California's wine country : SANTA
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Sends by UPS, say : SHIPS
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Painter Paul : KLEE
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Chip or two, maybe : ANTE
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Real knee-slapper : RIOT
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Bronzes : TANS
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Video shooter, for short : CAM

Answer summary:
1 debuted here and reused later, 4 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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