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New York Times, Monday, August 11, 2008

Author:
Thomas Heilman
Editor:
Will Shortz
51-Down : Eats by candlelight, say
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Thomas Heilman

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 38 Missing: {QVZ} This is puzzle # 2 for Mr. Heilman. Monday freshness: 42%
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© 2008, The New York Times8/11/8 ( No. 21,461 )
Across
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Feeling bloated : GASSY
6
Eyeliner boo-boo : SMEAR
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"Don't tase me, ___!" : BRO
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Make amends (for) : ATONE
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Bizarre : OUTRE
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Experiment site : LAB
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Psychologically manipulated : BRAINWASHED
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I : ONE
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Lawman Wyatt : EARP
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"The Andy Griffith Show" boy : OPIE
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Cowboy's greeting : HOWDY
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End of a student's e-mail address : EDU
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Town shouters : CRIERS
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Place to play twenty-one : CASINO
31
Jewish mystical doctrine : CABALA
34
Formulaic : CUTANDDRIED
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"Long ago and ___ away ..." : FAR
38
Furnace output : HEAT
39
Western treaty grp. : OAS
40
Car with a logo of four rings : AUDI
41
Lubricate : OIL
42
Put-upon : HARDPRESSED
46
Out, as a library book : ONLOAN
48
Smooth and lustrous : SILKEN
49
At an angle : CANTED
52
Galas : DOS
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Norwegian coastal feature : FJORD
55
Car that comes with a driver : LIMO
57
Opera set along the Nile : AIDA
61
___ Vegas : LAS
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Like players in pin-the-tail-on-the-donkey : BLINDFOLDED
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Likely : APT
66
Helpers : AIDES
67
Rationed (out) : DOLED
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Crosses out : XES
69
Silly birds : GEESE
70
Escalator parts : STEPS
Down
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Comic Kaplan : GABE
2
Gillette razor : ATRA
3
Go out of sight, as gas prices : SOAR
4
Criticizes, perhaps unfairly : SNIPESAT
5
Craving : YEN
6
Ivory or Coast : SOAP
7
"If ___ be the food of love, play on": Shak. : MUSIC
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Onetime dental anesthetic : ETHER
9
"___ you sleeping?" : ARE
10
Fiery-tempered sort, they say : REDHEAD
11
Loses it : BLOWSAFUSE
12
Ayn who wrote "Atlas Shrugged" : RAND
13
Follow orders : OBEY
18
Cause for stitches : WOUND
23
Globe : ORB
25
Racket : DIN
27
"Rocks" : ICE
28
Make aware : CUEIN
29
No matter what : ATALLCOSTS
30
Stench : ODOR
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Weighed down : LADEN
33
Desertlike : ARID
34
When repeated, a toy train : CHOO
35
Way cool : RAD
36
AOL and others, in brief : ISPS
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Demands much (of) : ASKSALOT
42
Pocketbook : HANDBAG
43
Termite look-alike : ANT
44
Free from : RIDOF
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"Xanadu" grp. : ELO
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Rower's need : OAR
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Omit in pronunciation : ELIDE
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Eats by candlelight, say : DINES
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Source of linen : FLAX
54
Mock : JAPE
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Retailer's goods: Abbr. : MDSE
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Unemployed : IDLE
59
Bottomless : DEEP
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Tosses in : ADDS
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"This puzzle is really, really hard," e.g. : LIE
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Takes too much, for short : ODS

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later.

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