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New York Times, Thursday, September 15, 2011

Author:
Samuel A. Donaldson
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
27-Down : Kind of candidate who's rarely successful
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Samuel A. Donaldson

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 72, Blocks: 28 This is puzzle # 7 for Mr. Donaldson. Thursday freshness: 100%
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HOUSE
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A
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R
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R
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E
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S
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T
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A
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N
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I
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M
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A
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L
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HOUSE
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B
R
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A
D
T
H
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R
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B
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Y
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S
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R
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C
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A
N
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O
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M
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O
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H
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D
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R
S
T
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K
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S
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S
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A
N
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S
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L
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W
A
L
T
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E
B
O
A
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T
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I
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A
R
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N
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N
U
N
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I
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N
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A
B
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D
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R
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C
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R
L
O
T
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C
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O
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S
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S
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C
U
L
D
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S
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A
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C
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L
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C
R
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C
A
N
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E
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O
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E
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S
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B
A
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A
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L
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N
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F
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A
L
P
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C
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W
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S
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M
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N
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T
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A
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A
L
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M
N
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S
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R
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Y
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HOUSE
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P
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S
C
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L
HOUSE
© 2011, The New York Times9/15/11 ( No. 22,591 )
Across
1
It's better than prison : HOUSEARREST
8
#1 on Bravo's all-time "100 Funniest Movies" list : ANIMALHOUSE
15
Latitude : BREADTH
16
They may be grilled : RIBEYES
17
Give back : RESTORE
18
Italian red : CHIANTI
19
Country Music Mo. : OCT
20
Mine, in Milan : MIO
21
Squirreled away : HID
22
Alphabet trio : RST
23
X : KISS
25
Adams behind a lens : ANSEL
27
Good call letters for Radio Disney? : WALT
28
W.W. II attacker : EBOAT
30
Suffix with hotel : IER
31
Emmy-nominated sitcom of the early 1970s : ARNIE
32
Lacking bargaining power, maybe : NONUNION
34
Waiter : ABIDER
35
Prominent location to build on (as suggested by this puzzle?) : CORNERLOT
37
Mathematical subgroups : COSETS
40
You can't go through with it : CULDESAC
44
Dough : LUCRE
45
Rear : CAN
46
Farm letters? : EIEIO
47
When the French toast? : ETES
48
Kind of cell in biology : BASAL
50
Big name in balls : NERF
51
One on either side of the St. Gotthard Pass : ALP
52
1900s, e.g.: Abbr. : CEN
53
Where the Ringling Brothers circus began: Abbr. : WIS
55
Org. employing Ethan Hunt in film : IMF
56
"Anything but!" : NOTTHAT
58
Mount Holyoke graduates, e.g. : ALUMNAE
60
Seven-time major-league All-Star Alfonso : SORIANO
61
Sailing enthusiast, informally : YACHTIE
62
63
Place of learning : SCHOOLHOUSE
Down
1
Always going outside? : HOUSEBROKEN
2
___ Observatory, home of the world's largest single-aperture radio telescope : ARECIBO
3
Has as a base : RESTSON
4
Subject of many lab tests : RAT
5
Biblical kingdom : EDOM
6
Tiny groove : STRIA
7
Publication with a 1997 headline "Drug Use Down Among Uncool Kids" : THEONION
8
Zodiac symbol : ARCHER
9
Nothing : NIHIL
10
Scholar's reference abbr. : IBID
11
Start of a confession : MEA
12
Who wrote "Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think" : AYNRAND
13
Leaves alone : LETSLIE
14
Vacationer's help : HOUSESITTER
24
Big eyes, metaphorically : SAUCERS
26
Six Nations tribe : SENECAS
27
Kind of candidate who's rarely successful : WRITEIN
29
It matures in 1 to 10 yrs. : TNOTE
31
Place to live : ABODE
33
Org. supported by the 16th Amendment : IRS
34
End of some scores : ALL
36
Missing persons : RUNAWAYS
37
Gets rid of everybody, say : CLEANSHOUSE
38
Forecast : OUTLOOK
39
Royal rod, in Britain : SCEPTRE
41
Investigate : SEEINTO
42
Speedy delivery : AIRMAIL
43
Place where people work for beans? : COFFEEHOUSE
45
Hymn leader : CANTOR
48
Baseball general manager Billy : BEANE
49
Lavender : LILAC
52
Fellow : CHAP
54
To so high a degree : SUCH
57
Wed : TIE
59
Conductance unit : MHO

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

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