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New York Times, Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Author:
Pete Muller
Editor:
Will Shortz
33-Across : Flower of the buttercup family
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Pete Muller

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 16 Words: 81, Blocks: 38 Missing: {GQZ} This is puzzle # 11 for Mr. Muller. Wednesday freshness: 93%
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© 2010, The New York Times5/12/10 ( No. 22,100 )
Across
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Specialty : NICHE
6
1970s sitcom that included Carlton the Doorman : RHODA
11
"___ you one" : IOWE
15
"___ Majesty's Secret Service" : ONHER
16
Hatch in the Senate : ORRIN
17
Country music pioneer Ernest : TUBB
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Boarding place? : SLOPE
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Test group? : MENSA
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Attempt : STAB
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Short trip : HOP
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Civil War inits. : CSA
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Some footnotes, for short : OPCITS
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Person on your bad side? : EVILTWIN
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Cannoli ingredient : RICOTTA
32
Contradict : DENY
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Flower of the buttercup family : ANEMONE
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Gmail alternative : AOL
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Passeport info : NOM
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"Mazel ___!" : TOV
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Green gem source : BERYL
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Some surprises ... and what you'll find in the shaded areas of this puzzle : JACKINTHEBOXES
45
Israel's Dayan : MOSHE
46
___ Miss : OLE
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Superscript number in math: Abbr. : EXP
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More than -er : EST
49
Woman in Sartre's "No Exit" : ESTELLE
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Number two: Abbr. : ASST
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Doughnuts are fried in it : DEEPFAT
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Short piano piece : SONATINA
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Shoe brand named for an antelope : REEBOK
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Former N.B.A. star Unseld : WES
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Hip-hop's ___-A-Fella Records : ROC
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It's better than ace-high : PAIR
66
Tchaikovsky's black swan : ODILE
68
Madison Sq. Garden player : KNICK
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Woodworking tool : RASP
71
Branch gripper : TALON
72
Regular's request, with "the" : USUAL
73
Goes on and on : YAKS
74
Religious assembly : SYNOD
75
Word-processing command : PASTE
Down
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Took the cake, perhaps : NOSHED
2
Smitten : INLOVE
3
"Fantaisie" composer : CHOPIN
4
In the know, old-style : HEP
5
Standing : ERECT
6
1915 Literature Nobelist ___ Rolland : ROMAIN
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Realm ended by Napoleon: Abbr. : HRE
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"Yes ___?" : ORNO
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Confute : DISPROVE
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Tylenol competitor : ANACIN
11
"___ die for" : ITSTO
12
Defeat in a don't-blink contest : OUTSTARE
13
Tate and Bowe were once champions of it: Abbr. : WBA
14
Decline : EBB
23
Person often pictured with crossed legs : SWAMI
25
Where trays may be stacked : ICEBOX
27
"Dune" director David : LYNCH
28
Irritate : NETTLE
30
Santa's sleighful : TOYS
31
"Is that ___?" : ALL
34
Bris parties : MOHELS
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Michael of "Caddyshack" : OKEEFE
40
American in Paris, perhaps : EXPAT
41
Singer Feliciano : JOSE
42
What a record may have : ASTERISK
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"Another time, perhaps" : NOTTODAY
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Designer Geoffrey : BEENE
45
Kind of school : MED
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Cousins of clogs : SABOTS
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Subwoofer's zone : LOWEND
53
Bright spot in Canis Major : SIRIUS
54
Back-country winter transport : SNOCAT
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Take on : TACKLE
57
They did it : PERPS
59
Invite to one's penthouse, say : ASKUP
61
Oven : KILN
64
Meddle : PRY
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Org. with a sign at many motels : AAA
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Head of Buckingham Palace? : LOO
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Secretive org. : NSA

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

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