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Mel Taub
Mel Taub

NY Times, Sun, Sep 02, 2012 PUNS AND ANAGRAMS

47-Down : Like the midsection of a carillon

Author:
Mel Taub
Editor:
Will Shortz
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 35
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© 2012, The New York Times
Across
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Hand me a person to be in charge : HEADMAN
8
Shoots on Wig St. : TWIGS
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Actress at the tomb of Lenin : REDGRAVE
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They strive to hold things together : RIVETS
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Heathen worshiper with a vow of procrastination : IDOLATER
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Before we're on : ERENOW
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Fellow Citi Field players with heavenly bodies : COMETS
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Simple: the ayes have it : EASY
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Duce's predecessor : TRA
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___ wit (darning ability) : KNIT
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What assassins finally confess to : SINS
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It's inside calves : VEAL
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It's a dog command : SIT
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Dusty room : STUDY
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Feudal lord of a Belgian city : LIEGE
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Place for a wine seller, say : CELLAR
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Big hits that a slugger lets rip : TRIPLES
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Overdue coffee order without tea : LATE
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Nathan who's physically fit : HALE
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Performer at ABC or a circus : ACROBAT
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Looking at ruin, perhaps : INARUT
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What a spry supplicant does : PRAYS
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Like the design on 102 buildings : IONIC
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Start of some verbal punishment : PUN
46
P/D : POND
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Chunk taken from a December glacier : BERG
48
Race anxiety : CARE
49
What babies must have that babes will not : ANI
50
Same plateau : MESA
51
What stops lather : HALTER
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Endlessly telling about part of a door frame : LINTEL
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Fashioned 16-Across : TAILORED
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Deadly heat in the '50s : LETHAL
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Jazzes up elves' inn : ENLIVENS
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Dirty toys with nothing in them : SOOTY
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What golfers do at the starts of holes : SETTEES
Down
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Like pleasure that was hid once : HEDONIC
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I deem to be a descendant of Esau : EDOMITE
3
Bit of ornamentation at Gate 50 : AGLET
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"D--- rodent!" : DRAT
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On which 1,000 sat : MATS
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Greeting on a Roman street : AVE
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Nymph hiding in reed : NEREID
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It rests on the head : TRESS
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Like a telegram : WIRY
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End of rest : IVE
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Polite as 10 "Glee" performers : GENTEEL
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It's so great in an attic : STORAGE
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Little Richard's haystacks : RICKS
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Lowlands in the environs of Cardiff, U.K. : SWALES
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Whatever you want in a N.Y. night : ANYTHING
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Guarantees for an "E.T." issuer : SURETIES
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It viggles on a vindshield : VIPER
26
Thick slices, as lbs. of concrete : SLABS
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Can closer : TATA
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I call it purplish : LILAC
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The guy for Dolly : LLOYD
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Queen of Iran : RANI
35
Dismay over a c-cover : APPALL
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Friends I censor : CRONIES
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Met Tina & Ron : RANINTO
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Cornered, as a true ape : UPATREE
40
Dishes that may enter U.S. : TUREENS
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Zero charges for what a speaker does : ORATES
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Any drs. who are brainiacs : NERDS
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Like the midsection of a carillon : BELLY
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Spice that 100 adore : CLOVE
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Tame turkey, e.g. : MEAT
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Handle on two-thirds of a hotel chain : HILT
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Landed a tail : ALIT
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Beethoven's heart : THO
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Prop attachment : ANE
Answer summary: 0 unique to this puzzle, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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