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New York Times, Wednesday, November 29, 2006

Author:
Barbara Olson
Editor:
Will Shortz
Petty creature of the Rockies, with 56-Across?
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Barbara Olson

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 37 Missing: {JQXYZ} This is puzzle # 4 for Ms. Olson. Wednesday freshness: 71%
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© 2006, The New York Times11/29/6 ( No. 20,840 )
Across
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Classified ___ : ADS
4
Part of a U.R.L. : WWW
7
What a famous woman may play in a movie : HERSELF
14
Depress, with "out" : BUM
15
"Gotcha!" : AHA
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Pigged out : ATEALOT
17
Bowlegged comic of classic films : CHAPLIN
19
See 27-Down : HOTLIPS
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Talk with an Irish brogue, e.g. : LILT
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Bamboo muncher : PANDA
22
Unwanted mail : BILL
24
Ostrich cousins : EMUS
26
Height: Prefix : ACRO
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Some cartridges : AMMO
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Not agin : FER
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Lament : BEMOAN
34
Classroom missile : SPITBALL
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Caron of "An American in Paris" : LESLIE
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Suffix with west : ERN
38
Canadian Thanksgiving mo. : OCT
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Wide's partner : FAR
40
Orthodontist's deg. : DDS
41
Matthew of "Full Metal Jacket" : MODINE
43
Carom : RICOCHET
45
Ran sandpaper over : EVENED
46
Mork's planet : ORK
47
Prefix with magnetic : AERO
48
Composer Rorem and others : NEDS
49
0-star movie : BOMB
50
Not speak clearly : RASP
51
Cooking pots : OLLAS
54
At any time : EVER
56
See 3-Down : BIGFOOT
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One who knows the score? : MAESTRO
62
Friendly : AMIABLE
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"We ___ the World" : ARE
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Wrap up : END
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Walks the beat : PATROLS
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They're burned on purpose : CDS
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Mom's mate : DAD
Down
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"Dynasty" airer : ABC
2
"Isn't that obvious?!" : DUH
3
Petty creature of the Rockies, with 56-Across? : SMALLMINDED
4
Bulwark : WALL
5
Pallid pirate, with 32-Down? : WHITEFACED
6
Pallid : WAN
7
Laughter : HAHAS
8
Prince's school : ETON
9
Abbr. after many a general's name : RETD
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Bows : SALAAMS
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Whitney who invented the cotton gin : ELI
12
Cut (off) : LOP
13
Mil. installations : FTS
18
Gas stove light : PILOT
21
Knitter's stitch : PURL
22
Diamond figures : BASEMEN
23
Be on the mend : IMPROVE
25
Sandwich from the oven : MELT
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Merciless "M*A*S*H" medic, with 19-Across? : COLDHEARTED
28
Indiana Jones's entourage : RAIDERS
29
Convenient kind of shopping : ONESTOP
32
See 5-Down : BLACKBEARD
33
Architect Saarinen : EERO
35
Study (up on) : BONE
39
Not budging : FIRM
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To the extent that, with "as" : INSOFAR
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Little kangas : ROOS
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Gives a hoot : CARES
49
Creepy motel of filmdom : BATES
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Gray wolf : LOBO
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Lie around : LOLL
55
Churchillian gestures : VEES
56
Protestant denom. : BAP
57
"___ little teapot ..." : IMA
58
"Scram!" : GIT
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Bucko : MAC
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Biology class abbr. : RNA
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Otherworldly : ODD

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