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New York Times, Friday, March 25, 2011

Author:
Mike Nothnagel
Editor:
Will Shortz
4-Down : "___ ready?"
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Mike Nothnagel

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 68, Blocks: 29 Missing: {Q} This is puzzle # 46 for Mr. Nothnagel. Friday freshness: 98%
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© 2011, The New York Times3/25/11 ( No. 22,417 )
Across
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Hurriedly : INHASTE
8
Renaissance fair sights : JOUSTS
14
Remove forcibly : TEARAWAY
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Best in calculating? : OUTWIT
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Start of a breaking news story : WERELIVE
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R-rated, maybe : STEAMY
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Make thin, say : ADDWATER
20
Digs for peanuts? : HOSTEL
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Animal used in 8-Across : STEED
22
Not allowed on certain diets : TREF
24
What starts off light? : TWI
25
___ drive (engine in "Star Wars") : ION
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Wrapped up : FURLED
29
Green Giant bagful : PEAS
30
She "espied their tails side by side, / All hung on a tree to dry" : BOPEEP
31
Rush drummer/lyricist Neil : PEART
32
No-name : GENERIC
35
Merging locations : ONRAMPS
37
Hoover rival : ORECK
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It gets a new position upon graduation : TASSEL
40
Scratch : NICK
41
Haw : GOLEFT
42
Pier grp. : ILA
45
Opponent of Luther during the Protestant Reformation : ECK
46
"Sommersby" star, 1993 : GERE
47
Group with the 1963 #1 hit "So Much in Love," with "the" : TYMES
49
Coal miner : PITMAN
51
Didn't take seriously : PLAYEDAT
54
François's farewells : ADIEUX
55
Onetime General Motors spokesman : PATBOONE
56
Schlock : SLEAZE
57
Used-car ad phrase : ONEOWNER
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Perfumery employee : TESTER
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Where some jets originate : GEYSERS
Down
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Dramatic confession : ITWASI
2
Must : NEEDTO
3
Set : HARDEN
4
"___ ready?" : AREWE
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It's used during an introductory course : SALADFORK
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Nincompoop : TWIT
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Builder's projected expense? : EAVE
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Teased : JOSHED
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Lacking : OUTOF
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Uintah and Ouray Reservation tribe : UTES
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Help in a dangerous situation : SWATTEAM
12
Dance in which "you bring your knees in tight" : TIMEWARP
13
Those involved in cutting class at school? : STYLISTS
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Blue-backed Dr. Seuss character : YERTLE
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Sleep : REPOSE
27
News inits. : UPI
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One paid for services rendered? : RECTOR
29
Ring tone? : PEAL
30
One-named rock star of the 1990s-2000s : BECK
31
Handsome Dan : PRETTYBOY
32
Overtaken : GONEPAST
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"And Now for Something Completely Different" co-star : ERICIDLE
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Haberdashery section : NECKTIES
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Univ. research grantor : NSF
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Largest city in Syria : ALEPPO
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Millennial's parent : GENXER
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"All finished!" : IMDONE
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"Almost" in horseshoes : LEANER
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"Wild" flowers in a Sara Teasdale poem : ASTERS
46
Wrapping material : GAUZE
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Cries of pain : YEOWS
50
Crux : MEAT
52
Filmmaker Fritz : LANG
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Exactly, after "to" : ATEE

Answer summary:
5 debuted here and reused later, 3 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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