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New York Times, Friday, August 5, 2005

Author:
David Ainslie Macleod
Editor:
Will Shortz
"The Gene Krupa Story" title role portrayer, 1959
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David Ainslie Macleod

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 70, Blocks: 32 Missing: {JQVX} Spans: 3 This is puzzle # 7 for Mr. Macleod. Friday freshness: 24%
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© 2005, The New York Times8/5/5 ( No. 20,359 )
Across
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Airplane passenger's option : SEATANGLE
10
Volunteer's response : IWILL
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Some conic sections : PARABOLAS
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"The Gene Krupa Story" title role portrayer, 1959 : MINEO
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Certifies : ACCREDITS
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Colleague of Freud : ADLER
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It has many decision points : MAZE
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They make your business theirs : YENTAS
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Mark of prestige : CACHET
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Some shelter dwellers : PETS
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Part of a stage : APRON
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Prefix with professional : PARA
31
"Rugrats" dad : STU
34
Whupped : BEATTHETAROUTOF
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Course setting: Abbr. : SSW
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Drillers' group? : ARMY
40
Campbell Soup Co. brand : PREGO
41
Stop up : CORK
43
Some mouths : DELTAS
44
Downhill : SCHUSS
47
___ effort : AFOR
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"___ my way!" : OUTTA
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Bugbear : BETENOIRE
57
Common survey option : OTHER
58
Ditched : ABANDONED
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Appropinquates : NEARS
60
Bite : SALTINESS
Down
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Ems and others : SPAS
2
A shot : EACH
3
Not pizzicato : ARCO
4
Tropical tuber : TARO
5
Help in holding up : ABETMENT
6
Signals : NODSAT
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Flash : GLITZ
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Bat spinner : LATHE
9
De bene ___ (provisionally) : ESSE
10
Turkish hostel : IMARET
11
Increases in capacity : WIDENS
12
Sound : INLET
13
Gibbons of TV : LEEZA
14
Like some old monitors, for short : LORES
20
How some things are played : BYEAR
23
Semi-detachable parts? : CABS
24
Makes like : APES
25
Sticking point : CRAW
26
In, for now : HOT
27
Talk in the service, perhaps : PRAY
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Extra : PERK
30
Bread box? : ATM
31
Galley mark : STET
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Certain party attire : TOGA
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Fantastic craft : UFOS
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Iron-fisted : HARSH
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Latin word in police work : OPERANDI
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Modern link, for short : URL
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Coast Guard vessel : CUTTER
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Annual event with 7-Down : OSCARS
43
Museum person : DOCENT
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Response to Beatlemania : SWOON
45
Water park feature : CHUTE
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Kind of yoga : HATHA
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Real low life? : AMEBA
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Like some blows : FATAL
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French mutineer's phrase : ABAS
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Web-footed bird : LOON
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Impatient person's annoyance : LINE
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Tees off : IRES
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Sen. Stevens and others : TEDS

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

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