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MAKING A LEFT

New York Times, Sunday, September 11, 2005

Author:
Patrick Berry
Editor:
Will Shortz
72-Down : Gunpowder ingredient
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Patrick Berry

This puzzle:

Rows: 21, Columns: 21 Words: 138, Blocks: 76 Missing: {XZ} Spans: 2 This is puzzle # 78 for Mr. Berry. Sunday freshness: 59%
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© 2005, The New York Times9/11/5 ( No. 20,396 )
Across
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Much-used engine : GOOGLE
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Spring from a bed : ROUST
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"Twin Peaks" victim ___ Palmer : LAURA
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Nose-puckering, in a way : PUTRID
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See 37A : EQUATION
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Lay concern? : ENRON
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Pulmotor's purpose : ARTIFICIALRESPIRATION
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Diplomatic successes : DETENTES
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Comerica Park team : TIGERS
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Ab ___ (from the beginning) : OVO
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Some Ouija answers : NOES
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Unhuman : MECHANICAL
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Dog in Francis Barraud's painting "His Master's Voice" : NIPPER
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With 59A, 18D and 18A, what these answers show : THEFIRST
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"___ Enchanted" (Newbery-winning book made into a 2004 film) : ELLA
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Troubled : ATEAT
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No longer reliant on mother : WEANED
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Where many barrels are seen : GUNROOM
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Greases : LARDS
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Pained reaction : WINCE
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Within walking distance : CLOSE
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Fix a track : DUB
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Practicing grp. : AMA
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Somewhat, slangily : KINDA
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"Goodness Had Nothing to Do With It" autobiographer : MAEWEST
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Many a computer icon : BITMAP
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See 37A : SYMBOLIN
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See 62D : SHIRT
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"Stop that!" : ENOUGH
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Overly glib : PAT
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Borrower : LIENEE
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With 27D, what these answers show : LARGE
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See 92A : TOGETONA
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Crave : YENFOR
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Drank some coffee, say, with "up" : SOBERED
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Long arm : RIFLE
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Yossarian's tentmate, in "Catch-22" : ORR
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Mgr.'s holding : MBA
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"Two Women" star : LOREN
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"À ___ santé!" : VOTRE
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Educator Montessori : MARIA
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Sandwich's title? : EARLDOM
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Enter all at once : PILEIN
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Ancient Mexican : OLMEC
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___ function : SINE
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With 69A and 69D, what these answers show : POORMARK
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Certifiable : INSANE
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Musical wingding : HOOTENANNY
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Marvin Gaye's "___ That Peculiar" : AINT
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Old Ford : LTD
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Window flankers : DRAPES
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No longer with us : DEPARTED
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Disaster coverage? : MAJORMEDICALINSURANCE
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"Almost Famous" director, 2000 : CROWE
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Confirms : RATIFIES
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Knit up again : REHEAL
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While away : SPEND
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"In dreams begin responsibility" writer : YEATS
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Hose : NYLONS
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Student's stat. : GPA
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Lord's Prayer starter : OUR
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Giant at Cooperstown : OTT
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Photomap overlay : GRID
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Firefighters hold them outside windows : LIFENETS
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Correctional worker? : EDITOR
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Preside over : RULE
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Galley's many : OARS
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Sport ___ : UTE
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Artemis, to Apollo : SISTER
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Debate club fodder : TOPICS
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Pick up : LEARN
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More nervous : ANTSIER
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German-speaking Swiss canton : URI
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Young 'un in the Hundred Acre Wood : ROO
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"Roman Holiday" princess : ANN
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See 37A : EINSTEINS
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Plant chewed in Arabia : QAT
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Sleepwear : NIGHTGOWN
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Semicircular shape : CEE
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Stephen of "FeardotCom" : REA
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See 68A : ONALABEL
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Another name for retinol : VITAMINA
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One whose working days are numbered : OPERATOR
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Air or field starter : MID
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Ignoramus : CLOD
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Baseball's Felipe : ALOU
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Souvlaki meat : LAMB
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Calculator part : PAD
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Good to have around : HANDY
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Bivouacked : ENCAMPED
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Percentage of a legal settlement : FEE
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La Belle Époque ender: Abbr. : WWI
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Serviceability : USE
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Unlikely Scottish sight : NESSIE
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Berkeley university nickname : CAL
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Tropical wreath : LEI
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Speedometer reading: Abbr. : KPH
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Cell phone brand : MOTOROLA
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Consequently : THEN
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Coffeehouse crockery : MUGS
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Antediluvian : AGEOLD
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Be up : BAT
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With 61A, what these answers show : INFORMAL
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Turn to a new setting : REORIENT
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Like Mayan pyramids : TERRACED
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Clog remover : LYE
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See 92A : TERMPAPER
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Smelter input : ORE
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___-X : GEN
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Gunpowder ingredient : NITER
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Language once known as Cape Dutch : AFRIKAANS
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[Bad call!] : BOO
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Football's Dawson : LEN
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Go well together : MESH
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Scott of "Happy Days" : BAIO
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Ligurian Sea feeder : ARNO
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High spirits : VIM
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1967 music festival site : MONTEREY
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Unser and son : ALS
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Anticlimax : LETDOWN
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Show unseemly curiosity : PRY
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At some point : ONEDAY
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Where it's at : ONSITE
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By agreed order : INTURN
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Guessed wrong : ERRED
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"Apocalypse Now" locale : NAM
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Org. headquartered on Constitution Ave. : IRS
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Not all there : DAFT
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Some Ivy Leaguers : ELIS
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Goodie to be divided : PIE
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Arlene of "Here Come the Girls" : DAHL
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Intro deliverers : MCS
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Dada pioneer : ARP
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Everyman : JOE
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The World Factbook publisher: Abbr. : CIA
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Art movement prefix : NEO
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Deep-six : CAN
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Commuter carriers : ELS

Answer summary:
7 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 2 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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