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Joel Fagliano
Joel Fagliano

NY Times, Sun, Jul 31, 2016 PUNS AND ANAGRAMS

52-Across : Kind of system I climb

Author:
Joel Fagliano
Editor:
Will Shortz
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 29
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© 2016, The New York Times
Across
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C / ALLS : COVERALLS
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S'left on a ship : SPORT
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Music heard in a Korean car : ARENAROCK
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Wery wenomous snake : WIPER
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Eve's title : FIRSTLADY
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Flavor dominant in absinthe : ANISE
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Kind of ally : TOT
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Actors use this somewhat : SET
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___ spray (devout farmer's crop application) : LETTUCE
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They're for sale at a bar : ALES
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Leader who sounds stylish : SHEIKH
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Quiet mother : MUM
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Link between ex-Sun teammates : NEXUS
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Birds in higher nests : ERNES
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Italian god with Rama : DIO
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Eagles and not eagles : BIRDIES
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1,000 + 4-Down : MENS
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"I smile as bright as the sun," e.g. : SIMILE
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B OOOO : BRINGS
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Abbr. on an unattributed quote : ANON
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Why patron will continue to celebrate : PARTYON
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Channel showing Mt. Vesuvius, for short : MTV
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Rare pea cutting tool : PARER
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Trunk with roots : TORSO
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Page header : SEE
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Kind of system I climb : LIMBIC
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Parts of workouts on Capitol Hill : REPS
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Produce, protect or prolong : PROVERB
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Fire starter : BON
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Energy used by a gravimeter : VIM
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Sleeping disorder for an ape : APNEA
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Coffee with a nice aroma : AMERICANO
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Is nice to Ed's grandkids : DOTES
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Nolte, Jonas, etc. : NICKNAMES
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Run away with an easy gait, online : ELOPE
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Made plans for evidence in a paternity suit : DNASAMPLE
Down
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What a cat fan might wear : CAFTAN
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End of a threat from a Spanish soccer fan : ORIOLE
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Peak looking over Texas' interior : VERTEX
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Rank for a sen. : ENS
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Star turn : RATS
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Earl's home : ARLES
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Hated, as a hotel ad : LOATHED
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Screen choice for Elsie D. : LCD
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There's nothing like N.Y.'s : SKYLINE
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What esses produced by mowers are : SWATHS
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Offering from a tap in taverns : PINT
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Where I dump one drug addict : OPIUMDEN
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Saving some nice rugs : RESCUING
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Lichen found in Somerset : TREEMOSS
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Barely manages, whether it be keys or otherwise : EKESBY
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Replace buns I lost : SUBIN
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Middle America : ERI
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Kind of icon : SIL
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RE RE : REPAIR
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Not an adult coal worker, so to speak : MINOR
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Fictional detective who made saps confess : SAMSPADE
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Topliner in world law enforcement : INTERPOL
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Tackle next, as the moon vote : MOVEONTO
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Car trailer : ROT
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Sleeve accouterment for a drab man : ARMBAND
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#173 for Robt. E. Lee : REB
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Manhattan neighborhood where a cab tire is fixed : TRIBECA
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Make happy while asleep : PLEASE
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Fill time onstage again : REVAMP
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Gem found among 50 pines : SPINEL
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Absorb slowly, as some O's : OSMOSE
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They're more buoyant than rocks : CORKS
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One seen in fifty-five episodes on HBO : VEEP
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First in an old nautical trio : NINA
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What thinks endlessly : MIN
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It films every other claim : CAM
Answer summary: 1 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later.

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