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New York Times, Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Author:
Charles Gersch
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
52-Down : Orangish shade
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Charles E. Gersch

This puzzle:

Rows: 16, Columns: 15 Words: 77, Blocks: 38 Missing: {JQVXZ} Spans: 7, (3 double stacks) This is puzzle # 48 for Mr. Gersch. Wednesday freshness: 33%
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© 2010, The New York Times9/29/10 ( No. 22,240 )
Across
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Supply with more ammo, say : REARM
6
Term of endearment : BABE
10
Bits of land in la Seine : ILES
14
2003 Sandler/Nicholson comedy : ANGERMANAGEMENT
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1940 Crosby/Lamour/Hope film that was the first of a "travel" series : ROADTOSINGAPORE
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Yalies : ELIS
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Part of NATO: Abbr. : ORG
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"Mad Men" extras : STENOS
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Conducted : RAN
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Actor Bert : LAHR
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Mystery writer Deighton : LEN
25
It may make a ewe turn : BAA
27
Big name in baseball cards : TOPPS
30
Starters : ATEAM
33
Gelatinous ingredient in desserts : AGAR
34
First X or O, say : TIC
37
1971 film that was Cybill Shepherd's debut, with "The" : LASTPICTURESHOW
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1954 Elia Kazan Oscar winner : ONTHEWATERFRONT
42
Bout stopper : TKO
43
Author Philip : ROTH
44
Some razors : ATRAS
45
Ergo : HENCE
46
Pugilists' grp. : WBA
47
Blood-typing syst. : ABO
49
Mystery writer Edward D. ___ : HOCH
51
Ode title starter : TOA
54
World Cup chant : OLEOLE
57
Singer/actress Zadora : PIA
58
Lomond, e.g. : LOCH
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2008 film derived from Dr. Seuss : HORTONHEARSAWHO
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1986 film for which Paul Newman won his only Oscar : THECOLOROFMONEY
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Inauguration Day highlight : OATH
64
Proverbial heptad : SEAS
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Addicts : USERS
Down
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Less well done : RARER
2
___ Gay, historic plane displayed by the Smithsonian : ENOLA
3
"Encore!" : AGAIN
4
N.L. Central team : REDS
5
"I pity the fool" speaker : MRT
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Mideast city whose name, coincidentally, is an anagram of ARABS : BASRA
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1935 Marx Brothers romp : ANIGHTATTHEOPERA
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Proscribe : BAN
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Drives (on) : EGGS
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Drives : IMPELS
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Sierra ___ : LEONE
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Bankrupt company in 2001-02 news : ENRON
13
Fr. holy women : STES
15
Lettuce or kale : MOOLA
16
Corrode : EAT
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Ne'er-do-well : ROGUE
25
Setting for candlelit romance : BATH
26
Current unit : AMPERE
28
Henry VIII's sixth : PARR
29
Like some suburban homes : PREFAB
30
Scads : ALOT
31
Go south : TANK
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"___ perpetua" (Idaho's motto) : ESTO
34
Thursday's eponym : THOR
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College in New Rochelle, N.Y. : IONA
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100-lb. units : CWTS
38
Triumphant cry : IWON
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Fisherman's 10-pounder, e.g. : CATCH
40
Mex. miss : SRTA
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The sauce : HOOTCH
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Fisherman's spot : WHARF
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Lei-person's greeting? : ALOHA
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Covering for la tête : BERET
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Pietro's ta-tas : CIAOS
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Olde ___ (historic area, quaintly) : TOWNE
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Orangish shade : OCHER
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Shipboard cries : AHOYS
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"___ be in England ..." : OHTO
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Old card game with forfeits : LOO
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Photo blowups: Abbr. : ENLS
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Vientiane's country : LAOS
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Implement in a Millet painting : HOE
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Dallas sch. : SMU

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