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Mark Diehl
Mark Diehl

NY Times, Sun, Jun 07, 2015 PUNS AND ANAGRAMS

50-Down : Ishmael's hidden girlfriend

Author:
Mark Diehl
Editor:
Will Shortz
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 70, Blocks: 30
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© 2015, The New York Times
Across
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Close to a front : NOTFAR
7
Honda deal : ACCORD
13
Support you owe cager who's frightened : COURAGE
14
Seep out of hairpieces : TOUPEES
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Played a cadet's role : ACTEDAS
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Kind of dum : TWEEDLE
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Sadat flourishes : TADAS
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Toucan, tanager or teal : TBIRD
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Backed-up tub : BUT
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... H I J L M N ... : KNOT
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Lay up by the Shore : PAULY
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Leave quite unfinished : QUIT
25
Oath in Corregidor : IDO
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Italian city built on a ramp : PARMA
27
Lupe's sign of life : PULSE
28
Sheraton water supply : NORTHSEA
30
Dipper from Bel Air : BAILER
31
Holy Spirit : ALTARWINE
33
Poe's empty paces : TEMPOS
36
Looniest way to get an edge : OILSTONE
40
Producer of cold cuts : ICEAX
41
Dangling opener, you might say : HUNKY
42
Chippendale centerpiece : PEN
43
She sups on Friskies : PUSS
44
G P S : PINGS
45
Starring role that's a problem for Superman : LEAD
46
Mine entrance : JAS
47
What Liv and Bev have : VENDS
48
Top in an old Ford : PINTO
49
Unpersuadable 1980s-'90s pop star : ADAMANT
51
Part of an old Spanish pirate's booty : PIASTER
53
Iron Age cure for baldness : ROGAINE
54
Place for Ana Ortiz without a tee : ARIZONA
55
Brought (in), as a red eel : REELED
56
Sent an address in France : NANTES
Down
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Unequivo*al turnd*wn : NOCANDO
2
Egress : OUTDOOR
3
Something tasty, as teas are : TREAT
4
Commercials that fail : FADS
5
A Georgia title of honor : AGA
6
View from a car's rear seat : RESTAREA
7
Tilt A's in old king's name : ATTILA
8
Sea snail that makes you cry "ow!" : COWRY
9
Fed lines about having pool sticks : CUED
10
Unlock, to Poe : OPE
11
Energy drink that could hardly be duller : REDBULL
12
Sue idle actor in old movies : DELUISE
13
Lions and tigers : CATKIN
15
Dog on the street : SETTER
20
Hang out with Mr. Audubon : BUMAROUND
23
Histories of spats : PASTS
24
Making quite little noise : QUIET
26
Groups of birds in the sound : PHLOX
27
Spy an ostentatious bloom : PANSY
29
Bite-size snacks with pasta : TAPAS
30
Swindles out of 51 kbs. : BILKS
32
Spawning an airplane figure : WINGSPAN
33
Dough source for a junior pita : TIPJAR
34
Land with a décor you might admire : ECUADOR
35
How many years army meals have been offered : MESSAGE
37
Kind of shoe for one poet : OPENTOE
38
Spruces up Ste. Anne : NEATENS
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No, dear, she's a witch : ENDORA
41
End hit suggested : HINTED
44
___ ante (game of pasta poker) : PENNE
45
One in an enumeration of classical composers : LISZT
47
Resort that's alive for the most part : VAIL
48
Result of a nip : PAIN
50
Ishmael's hidden girlfriend : MAE
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Friend of Ari : IRA
Answer summary: 0 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 3 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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