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New York Times, Monday, September 24, 2012

Author:
John Dunn
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
36-Down : Retailer's inventory: Abbr.
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John Dunn

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 38 Missing: {JQXZ} Spans: 1 This is puzzle # 8 for Mr. Dunn. Monday freshness: 26%
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© 2012, The New York Times9/24/12 ( No. 22,966 )
Across
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Vegas attraction : CASINO
7
Catch a glimpse of : ESPY
11
Prefix with dermal : EPI
14
Stadiums : ARENAS
15
Old home for Mr. Met : SHEA
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Actor Beatty : NED
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Gather momentum : PICKUPSTEAM
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"Spring ahead" hours: Abbr. : DST
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Parked on a bench : SAT
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Meager fare for Oliver Twist : GRUEL
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Greek "I" : IOTA
23
Mel Tormé's nickname : THEVELVETFOG
26
System of government : POLITY
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Ventnor and Baltic, in Monopoly: Abbr. : AVES
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Soon, to a poet : ANON
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Pageant headwear : TIARA
34
Scottish headwear : TAM
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Rolling Stones hit whose title follows the words "Hey you" : GETOFFOFMYCLOUD
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___ de cologne : EAU
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"___ my case!" : IREST
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They may need refining : ORES
44
Root beer or ginger ale : SODA
46
Diamond-shaped pattern : ARGYLE
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"Hurry up!" : STEPONTHEGAS
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Radiator output : HEAT
54
Perpendicular to the keel : ABEAM
55
"___ it something I said?" : WAS
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CPR specialist : EMT
59
What airplanes leave in the sky ... or what 17-, 23-, 37- and 48-Across have? : VAPORTRAILS
62
Gorilla : APE
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Schoolmarmish : PRIM
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Certain wasp : HORNET
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"___ Your Eyes Only" : FOR
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Tennis's Novak Djokovic, by birth : SERB
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Old saws : ADAGES
Down
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Baseball headwear : CAPS
2
Operatic selection : ARIA
3
Religious faction : SECT
4
Toner, e.g. : INK
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Nothing : NAUGHT
6
Fish hawk : OSPREY
7
Cosmetics maker Lauder : ESTEE
8
Taco exterior : SHELL
9
Pod item : PEA
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Thanksgiving vegetable : YAM
11
"Nothing more to say" : ENDOFSTORY
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Sauce with crushed garlic and basil : PESTO
13
Item on a dog collar or suitcase : IDTAG
18
Chevrolet Equinox, e.g. : SUV
22
Suffix with meteor : ITE
23
Ex-Yankee All-Star Martinez : TINO
24
Fluctuate : VARY
25
Emergency exodus operation, briefly : EVAC
26
One of 15,490 in the first edition of the O.E.D. : PAGE
27
Most eligible to be drafted : ONEA
28
Daydreamer encountered by Odysseus : LOTUSEATER
31
Stubbed digit : TOE
32
Conditions : IFS
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Quantity: Abbr. : AMT
35
"The Clan of the Cave Bear" author Jean : AUEL
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Retailer's inventory: Abbr. : MDSE
38
Pal of Rex or Rover : FIDO
39
Tarkenton of three Super Bowls : FRAN
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Lincoln ___ (building toy) : LOGS
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Choose to participate, with "in" : OPT
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Christie who wrote "Ten Little Indians" : AGATHA
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Muzzle-loading tool : RAMROD
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Bundle of wheat : SHEAF
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Speed kept by a metronome : TEMPO
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Rhinoceros relative : TAPIR
51
Test ban subject, briefly : HBOMB
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Suffix with ballad : EER
55
Flier's flapper : WING
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Sheltered, at sea : ALEE
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Retired fliers : SSTS
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No. 2s : VPS
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"___ you serious?" : ARE
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Coach Parseghian : ARA

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

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