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New York Times, Friday, November 23, 2007

Author:
Paula Gamache
Editor:
Will Shortz
26-Down : Hornet genus
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
1085/21/20021/14/20184
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81318151217619
RebusCircleScrabblePGramFresh
431.58161%
Paula Gamache

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 70, Blocks: 30 Missing: {JQZ} This is puzzle # 27 for Ms. Gamache. Friday freshness: 85%
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© 2007, The New York Times11/23/7 ( No. 21,199 )
Across
1
Bit of income for the Department of Motor Vehicles : LICENSEFEE
11
Waist products : OBIS
15
What someone might win after stumping a cultural group? : ETHNICVOTE
16
Russian car : LADA
17
Greek salad ingredient : GOATCHEESE
18
Seventh-century year : DCLI
19
Exhausted : GONE
20
Body repair sites, briefly : ORS
21
Indicated "Just teasing!" : WINKED
23
Two-timing types : RATS
25
Target : AIMAT
26
Where Yankees are found at Shea : VISITORSDUGOUT
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Dry out : DETOX
32
They're taken to the cleaners : SUITS
33
Dude : BRO
34
Y.M.C.A. member?: Abbr. : ASSN
35
Ark contents : TORAH
36
16 and Seventeen, for short : MAGS
37
___ tree : UPA
38
Hatch in politics : ORRIN
39
Doesn't quite mash : RICES
40
Fan fare? : BALLPARKFRANKS
43
Stinko : LOUSY
44
One-eighties : UEYS
45
"Jeez!" : OHGOSH
47
Amer. capital : USD
48
Flawlessly : TOAT
52
Corner piece : ROOK
53
Axiom : BASICTRUTH
56
Snatch, slangily : GLOM
57
Witness to Anakin Skywalker and Padmé Amidala's secret wedding : ARTOODETOO
58
When tripled, "et cetera" : YADA
59
Rod Laver won two : GRANDSLAMS
Down
1
___ Mason (asset management firm) : LEGG
2
"___, dislike it" (start of Marianne Moore's "Poetry") : ITOO
3
Fictional character who first appeared in "The House Without a Key" : CHAN
4
Begins : ENTERSON
5
Robertson of CNN : NIC
6
Controversial 1980s-'90s baseball team owner : SCHOTT
7
"A thousand pardons" : EVERSOSORRY
8
They're not for you : FOES
9
Big-headed sorts, for short : ETS
10
Big shoe spec : EEEWIDTH
11
Candidate for the proverbial glue factory : OLDNAG
12
Consecutive : BACKTOBACK
13
Frivolous : IDLE
14
Related : SAID
22
Don in the National Radio Hall of Fame : IMUS
24
City where Cézanne was born : AIX
25
Cuisine that may be served with a chork : ASIANFUSION
26
Hornet genus : VESPA
27
"Everything's cool" : ITSALLGOOD
28
Ninth-century founder of the Russian monarchy : RURIK
29
Id output : URGES
30
Put into a 35-Down : TOSS
31
Smear : DAUB
35
Waste product : TRASHBAG
36
Oldtime entertainer : MINSTREL
38
Work : OPUS
39
Skate : RAY
41
Start of a little daredevil's declaration : LOOKMA
42
Food fish of Australia and New Zealand : REDCOD
45
Binge : ORGY
46
Ciao, in Chile : HOLA
47
Court org. : USTA
49
Make ___ check : OUTA
50
Little bit : ATOM
51
Wilson's vice pres. ___ Marshall : THOS
54
Sheet music abbr. : ARR
55
Cowboys' concerns, briefly : TDS

Answer summary:
6 unique to this puzzle, 4 debuted here and reused later, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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