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New York Times, Monday, August 27, 2012

Author:
Michael Farabaugh
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
40-Down : Recycling containers
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Michael Farabaugh

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 38 Missing: {KQXZ} Spans: 1 This is puzzle # 3 for Mr. Farabaugh. Monday freshness: 80%
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© 2012, The New York Times8/27/12 ( No. 22,938 )
Across
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36" : YARD
5
Official language of Austria : GERMAN
11
Tiny ___, singer of 1968's "Tip-Toe Thru' the Tulips With Me" : TIM
14
Oxford or loafer : SHOE
15
Entertain, as children at a library : READTO
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Singer DiFranco : ANI
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Purchasing system with payments made over time : LAYAWAYPLAN
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Video shooter, for short : CAM
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Golfer's gouge : DIVOT
21
"Make ___" (Picard's command on "Star Trek: T.N.G.") : ITSO
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Store clerk : CASHIER
25
Frilly place mats : DOILIES
28
"Don't Tread ___" (early flag motto) : ONME
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Former Chrysler C.E.O. : LEEIACOCCA
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Elite group : ATEAM
33
Home, in Honduras : CASA
34
Goldbrick : LIEDOWNONTHEJOB
41
Fidel Castro's brother : RAUL
42
Ruth's mother-in-law : NAOMI
43
Healthful food regimen, traditionally : LOWFATDIET
49
Name that comes from Old Norse for "young man" : SVEN
50
Devoted follower : ACOLYTE
51
Buckles, as a seat belt : FASTENS
53
Actress Ward : SELA
54
Frizzy dos : AFROS
55
Assistant to Santa : ELF
56
He played the Hulk on 1970s-'80s TV : LOUFERRIGNO
62
___ v. Wade : ROE
63
Present at birth : INNATE
64
Bump off : DOIN
65
Norm: Abbr. : STD
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Flew to great heights : SOARED
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Suffix with cigar : ETTE
Down
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Designer monogram : YSL
2
"Eureka!" : AHA
3
Cowboy Rogers : ROY
4
Fan of Jerry Garcia's band : DEADHEAD
5
Rough road surface : GRAVEL
6
Donkey in "Winnie-the-Pooh" : EEYORE
7
Engrossed : RAPT
8
The year 1550 : MDL
9
One step ___ time : ATA
10
"Smoking or ___?" : NON
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Ploy : TACTIC
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Very soon : INASEC
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Brunch cocktail : MIMOSA
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Nintendo game console : WII
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U.N. workers' grp. : ILO
22
Fossil fuel : COAL
23
Opposing : ANTI
24
Captain Hook's mate : SMEE
25
Primatologist Fossey : DIAN
26
Hops kiln : OAST
27
Financier Carl : ICAHN
30
Food-poisoning bacteria : ECOLI
32
Kind of eel : MORAY
35
What "W" stands for on a light bulb : WATT
36
Like Michelangelo's "David" or Rodin's "The Thinker" : NUDE
37
Where the United Nations is in Manhattan : EASTSIDE
38
Jupiter : JOVE
39
Warning sign : OMEN
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Recycling containers : BINS
43
Surgical beams : LASERS
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Spotted wildcat : OCELOT
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Devoured, with "down" : WOLFED
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Miami's home: Abbr. : FLA
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Tired or decadent : EFFETE
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Smeared with pitch : TARRED
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Frat.'s counterpart : SOR
54
Miles away : AFAR
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Fleur-de-___ : LIS
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Singer Yoko : ONO
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Acapulco article : UNA
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Understood : GOT
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Annual coll. basketball competition : NIT
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Pepsi ___ : ONE

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2 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later.

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