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Mel Taub
Mel Taub

NY Times, Sun, Feb 12, 2006  PUNS AND ANAGRAMS

24-Down : Ursa ___ (one who digs bears)

Author:
Mel Taub
Editor:
Will Shortz
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 70, Blocks: 28
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© 2006, The New York Times
Across
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Bad mark on a Mr. Ed tie : DEMERIT
8
Problems with slashes : HASSLES
15
Colorful W.W. II queue : OPALINE
16
Food value in metal : ALIMENT
17
Mike, an expert muralist : WALLACE
18
With it an eel becomes striped : LINEATE
19
Crazy person involved in minutiae : NUT
20
Why Stu, 50, is lascivious : LUSTY
22
Grain for fakir : KAFIR
23
Kind of school Kay goes before: Abbr. : ELEM
25
Nonurban U.R.L. array : RURAL
27
What Indy 500 drivers care about : RACE
28
Part of varnishes #38654 : RESIN
30
Average is good enough for capital : PARIS
32
Bygone car in half of Washington : GEO
33
They sent so many letters out : STENOS
35
Imagines being sated, i.e. : IDEATES
37
For Paul, scene to summarize : ENCAPSULE
39
They're rarer as one becomes richer : ARREARS
41
Savors A-tests : TASTES
45
Direction amid scenery : ENE
46
Mud ... it is bulging : TUMID
48
Point of view where Ellen sat : SLANT
49
Pain in the palm : NIPA
51
P-111 : PONES
53
A 10-cent stake, perhaps : ANTE
54
A brief note on dress style : ALINE
56
Where might seal oil go? : IGLOO
58
Eng. military title : GEN
59
I'm barin' a hotel amenity : MINIBAR
61
Monthly payment for a rocky peak : TORRENT
63
Like the road Anne and Leo take : ONELANE
64
At one it eroded : ATEINTO
65
Is indignant about nesters : RESENTS
66
Gun is hers, too : SHOOTER
Down
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Pharmaceutical wonders : DOWNERS
2
What the pale Ute put on his shoulder : EPAULET
3
Cat on East Elm : MALTESE
4
Extension of E. 50's : ELL
5
It's worth more than a lira : RIAL
6
Acquire fashionable mutt : INCUR
7
Begins to use pet : TEESUP
8
Flag-raising aids in Lahr's day : HALYARDS
9
Algerian without anger : ALI
10
It's seen in counters in kitchens : SINK
11
Erma's slander : SMEAR
12
What a flea, e.g., finds in the forest : LEAFAGE
13
Uses scent, i.e., as a lure : ENTICES
14
Certain sound o' trees : STEREO
21
Isn't a prig walking around? : TRAIPSING
24
Ursa ___ (one who digs bears) : MINER
26
Officer heard at the end of a salute: Abbr. : LIEUT
29
Composition on why we can't play tennis : NONET
31
Spanish rooms seen from both sides : SALAS
34
Duck of pa's, you see : SCAUP
36
He lit things up at least : TESLA
38
Wardrobes for madame or a miser : ARMOIRES
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It's used by Neil in a dye : ANILINE
40
Complains about trees : REPINES
42
Touching chap who caught some rays : TANGENT
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Heart of an agreement entered into : ENTENTE
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He will not rest his voice : STENTOR
45
Charm Nora? Me? : ENAMOR
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They're slated to receive deposits : DELTAS
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Weak, as a river : ANILE
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Old truth was so hot : SOOTH
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He was the bane of Mideast radicals : EBAN
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Cookie that's round on both ends : OREO
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Vigil's end : ANT
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Patriotic core : RIO
Answer summary: 1 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 3 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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