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New York Times, Friday, August 5, 2005

Author:
David Ainslie Macleod
Editor:
Will Shortz
5-Down : Help in holding up
TotalDebutLatest
79/7/19998/5/2005
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David Ainslie Macleod

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 70, Blocks: 32 Missing: {JQVX} Spans: 3 This is puzzle # 7 for Mr. Macleod. Friday freshness: 24%
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© 2005, The New York Times8/5/5 ( No. 20,359 )
Across
1
Airplane passenger's option : SEATANGLE
10
Volunteer's response : IWILL
15
Some conic sections : PARABOLAS
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"The Gene Krupa Story" title role portrayer, 1959 : MINEO
17
Certifies : ACCREDITS
18
Colleague of Freud : ADLER
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It has many decision points : MAZE
22
They make your business theirs : YENTAS
23
Mark of prestige : CACHET
27
Some shelter dwellers : PETS
28
Part of a stage : APRON
29
Prefix with professional : PARA
31
"Rugrats" dad : STU
34
Whupped : BEATTHETAROUTOF
38
Course setting: Abbr. : SSW
39
Drillers' group? : ARMY
40
Campbell Soup Co. brand : PREGO
41
Stop up : CORK
43
Some mouths : DELTAS
44
Downhill : SCHUSS
47
___ effort : AFOR
49
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"___ my way!" : OUTTA
56
Bugbear : BETENOIRE
57
Common survey option : OTHER
58
Ditched : ABANDONED
59
Appropinquates : NEARS
60
Bite : SALTINESS
Down
1
Ems and others : SPAS
2
A shot : EACH
3
Not pizzicato : ARCO
4
Tropical tuber : TARO
5
Help in holding up : ABETMENT
6
Signals : NODSAT
7
Flash : GLITZ
8
Bat spinner : LATHE
9
De bene ___ (provisionally) : ESSE
10
Turkish hostel : IMARET
11
Increases in capacity : WIDENS
12
Sound : INLET
13
Gibbons of TV : LEEZA
14
Like some old monitors, for short : LORES
20
How some things are played : BYEAR
23
Semi-detachable parts? : CABS
24
Makes like : APES
25
Sticking point : CRAW
26
In, for now : HOT
27
Talk in the service, perhaps : PRAY
29
Extra : PERK
30
Bread box? : ATM
31
Galley mark : STET
32
Certain party attire : TOGA
33
Fantastic craft : UFOS
35
Iron-fisted : HARSH
36
Latin word in police work : OPERANDI
37
Modern link, for short : URL
41
Coast Guard vessel : CUTTER
42
Annual event with 7-Down : OSCARS
43
Museum person : DOCENT
44
Response to Beatlemania : SWOON
45
Water park feature : CHUTE
46
Kind of yoga : HATHA
47
Real low life? : AMEBA
48
Like some blows : FATAL
50
French mutineer's phrase : ABAS
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Web-footed bird : LOON
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Impatient person's annoyance : LINE
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Tees off : IRES
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Sen. Stevens and others : TEDS

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

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