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Mel Taub
Mel Taub

NY Times, Sun, May 12, 2013 PUNS AND ANAGRAMS

39-Down : I, cretin, who get people riled up

Author:
Mel Taub
Editor:
Will Shortz
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 33
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© 2013, The New York Times
Across
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Cartilage that helps a leg stir : GRISTLE
8
Pie ___ (San Antonio dessert) : ALAMO
13
Estrange receivers of funds : GRANTEES
14
So not solacing : LACING
16
Fled Iran fort : RANFORIT
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Deceives St. Leo I : LIESTO
18
An official of a high Peruvian college : ANDEAN
19
Attire for a thug : HOOD
21
Mon. preceder : SAL
22
80% savings : HOAR
23
Half of West Point : WEPT
24
Go all around grid : GIRD
25
A 50-50 amount? No! : ALL
26
A Rome romance : AMORE
28
Near one fellow : ARNIE
29
Marshmallow candy from the Indian coast? : MALABAR
31
Nag on and on about one's shape : NONAGON
33
Titled woman made by a queen : DAME
34
She ires gods in Greek myth : ERIS
35
Tagged out on a diamond : DEBASED
38
It's deep, nevertheless : DESPITE
42
Hoarse, like a dog's bark : ROUGH
43
You love to fertilize it : OVULE
45
-n, for example : NEG
46
Different eels : ELSE
47
Left paws : SWAP
48
Mark west of city : SCAR
49
Faith, at heart : AIT
50
Swan bristles : AWNS
51
Wit and irony are its ingredients : SATIRE
53
Large mass, to ancient Greeks : MTOSSA
55
Places AT&T issue : SITUATES
57
This U.N. person who can't get out : SHUTIN
58
Do they get even using nerve gas? : AVENGERS
59
Kate's dinner : STEAK
60
Mail from ABC, etc. : LETTERS
Down
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Argon and aluminum mixture : GRANOLA
2
Given name of Dr. Allan : RANDALL
3
Reach a finer conclusion : INFER
4
S -> A : STOA
5
Bird in the Internet : TERN
6
Ring for Eli : LEI
7
There's an Old Testament book : ESTHER
8
A g-great m-many : ALLOT
9
Dial up : LAID
10
Grim ending : ACE
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It's a long way from Iran, too : ONTARIO
13
Kind of cracker weighing .035 ounce : GRAHAM
15
Like a much longed-for age : GOLDEN
20
Exposed, as a nude pope : OPENEDUP
23
One word W. ate : WOREDOWN
24
Gr. snake : GRASP
26
Embarrass at a shindig : ABASH
27
Emma's friend : MAME
28
Flavoring used in Siena : ANISE
30
Saying about the period since the time of Christ : ADAGE
32
Russian city lore : OREL
35
The same Dr. Freud dealt with them : DREAMS
36
Old tools used on the soil : EOLITHS
37
Greyhound tipster? : BUSTOUT
39
I, cretin, who get people riled up : INCITER
40
They may produce serrate edges : TEARERS
41
Seger's way out : EGRESS
44
A Slav's old-time worker : VASSAL
47
Tony or Hilary : SWANK
48
Gets a coach out West : STAGE
50
Assyria's surroundings : ASIA
51
Put test back in : STET
52
Relative of a tuna : AUNT
54
Kind of wart : STE
56
Stinging insects' 'ome : IVE
Answer summary: 0 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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