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New York Times, Wednesday, April 27, 2005

Author:
Lyell Rodieck
Editor:
Will Shortz
17-Across : Betting odds, for example
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Lyell Rodieck

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 38 Missing: {JQVX} Spans: 1 This is puzzle # 4 for Ms. Rodieck. Wednesday freshness: 2%
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© 2005, The New York Times4/27/5 ( No. 20,259 )
Across
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Mold-y food? : ASPIC
6
Gathering clouds, say : OMEN
10
Picnic racer's gear : SACK
14
Fuzzy 66-Across : PEACH
15
Whatever she wants, she gets, in song : LOLA
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Shrek, e.g. : OGRE
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Betting odds, for example : RATIO
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Speaker's place : DAIS
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Overwhelm with humor : SLAY
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Start of a quip : THERESNOSNOOZE
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Like a churl : RUDE
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Way of the East : TAO
25
Hitched, so to speak : WED
26
Notable time : ERA
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Do a salt's job : SWAB
31
Caterer's vessel : URN
33
Something to pick? : BONE
35
Matinee ___ : IDOL
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Full of substance : MEATY
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Part 2 of the quip : BUTTONONACATWHO
44
Con game : STING
45
Be oversentimental : GUSH
46
Dig for : SEEK
47
Part of a dish's name : ALA
49
Be anxious : STEW
51
Salon supply : DYE
52
Noshed : ATE
55
One with pointy-toed shoes : ELF
57
Nationals, again : TEAM
59
End of the quip : WANTSBREAKFAST
64
Prefix with -crat : AUTO
65
Have coming : EARN
66
Some produce : FRUIT
68
Floored it : SPED
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Little dent : DING
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Journalist Ellerbee : LINDA
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White knight : HERO
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Substitute spread : OLEO
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Beaverlike? : EAGER
Down
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Kind of financing : APR
2
Political prize : SEAT
3
It's trodden : PATH
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Not so congenial : ICIER
5
Repeated part : CHORUS
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Ancient Mariner, e.g. : OLDSEADOG
7
Complain : MOAN
8
"The Sacred Wood" essayist, 1920 : ELIOT
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Bahamian capital : NASSAU
10
Just O.K. : SOSO
11
Lit up : AGLOW
12
The Hula Hoop, once : CRAZE
13
Excited, with "up" : KEYED
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Buzz Aldrin's birth name : EDWIN
22
Bellini opera : NORMA
26
Falls back : EBBS
27
Lopsided win : ROUT
28
Prefix with lock or knock : ANTI
30
Extra $$$ : BONUS
32
Lepidopterists' gear : NETS
34
Europe's highest volcano : ETNA
36
Title happening in a much-discussed 1973 film : LASTTANGO
38
Dumbfounded : AWED
39
Unnamed ones : THEY
40
Farm link : YOKE
42
Makes eyes at : OGLES
43
Brashness : CHEEK
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Reflecting power of a planet : ALBEDO
50
Iron product : WAFFLE
52
Up to one's ears : AWASH
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Hosiery shade : TAUPE
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Script direction : ENTER
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Hardly robust : FRAIL
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A Shriver : MARIA
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Fuss : TODO
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Fish-eating raptor : ERNE
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Like some telegrams : SUNG
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Cause of shore erosion : TIDE
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Blacken : TAR

Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later.

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