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New York Times, Monday, October 10, 2005

Author:
Holden Baker
Editor:
Will Shortz
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Holden Baker

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 80, Blocks: 40 Missing: {BJKQXZ} This is puzzle # 11 for Mr. Baker. Monday freshness: 1%
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© 2005, The New York Times10/10/5 ( No. 20,425 )
Across
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Swimming units : LAPS
5
Not tight : LOOSE
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Possess : HAVE
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Geometry calculation : AREA
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City on the Missouri : OMAHA
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Asia's ___ Sea : ARAL
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Laurel or Musial : STAN
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VCR button : RESET
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Pastrami purveyor : DELI
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Actor Quaid transgressed : DENNISSINNED
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Giant Hall-of-Famer : OTT
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Not as much : LESS
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Condoleezza Rice's department : STATE
28
Bongos : DRUMS
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Two-striper in the Army: Abbr. : CPL
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Draft org. : SSS
33
Frontiersman Boone did some carpentry : DANIELNAILED
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Bridge : SPAN
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St. Nick : SANTA
40
Capital on a fjord : OSLO
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Actor Hickman showed boredom : DWAYNEYAWNED
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Fuel economy stat. : MPG
50
Non-earthlings, for short : ETS
51
Asinine : INANE
52
Move on all fours : CRAWL
54
Hydrofluoric ___ : ACID
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Exxon product : GAS
58
President Ford stared fiercely : GERALDGLARED
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As a czar, he was terrible : IVAN
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Home of the University of Maine : ORONO
64
___ Romeo (sports car) : ALFA
68
Olympic sled : LUGE
69
Assign to, as blame : PINON
70
Potting material : SOIL
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Popular jeans : LEES
72
Fencing weapons : EPEES
73
Very large : HUGE
Down
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___ Cruces, N.M. : LAS
2
"But is it ___?" : ART
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Vegetable that rolls : PEA
4
Hourglass contents : SAND
5
Greene of "Bonanza" : LORNE
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Black cats, to the superstitious : OMENS
7
Caravan's stop : OASIS
8
"___ a Lady" (Tom Jones hit) : SHES
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Diner sign : EATS
10
Lacked, briefly : HADNT
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Sporting venues : ARENAS
12
Gentlemen's gentlemen : VALETS
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Omits, in pronunciation : ELIDES
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Ultimatum ender : ELSE
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Man or Wight : ISLE
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___ and ends : ODDS
24
Links hazard : TRAP
25
Albacore or yellowfin : TUNA
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Intellect : MIND
30
Hit with a ticket : CITE
31
Thespian production : PLAY
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Future D.A.'s exam : LSAT
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Ayes' opposite : NAYS
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Cape ___, Mass. : ANN
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Low in spirits : DOWN
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Hose problem : SNAG
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___ the Hyena : LENA
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Praiseful poems : ODES
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Place to make a wish : WELL
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Assistant : AIDE
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Montreal university : MCGILL
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Advance look, informally : PREVUE
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It may have a remote-activated door : GARAGE
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Declines : WANES
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"Home ___," Macaulay Culkin movie : ALONE
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Tippy craft : CANOE
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Numbered clubs : IRONS
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Latest news, slangily : DOPE
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Stagehand : GRIP
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Sprinter's event : DASH
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Singer Rawls : LOU
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Tiniest amount to care : FIG
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"Cakes and ___" (Maugham novel) : ALE

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