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New York Times, Thursday, June 8, 2006

Author:
Joe DiPietro
Editor:
Will Shortz
3-Down : Bench wear
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Joe DiPietro

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 36 Missing: none – this is a pangram. This is puzzle # 89 for Mr. DiPietro. Thursday freshness: 77%
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© 2006, The New York Times6/8/6 ( No. 20,666 )
Across
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Engine sound : PURR
5
Big times : ERAS
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Able to walk the line : SOBER
14
Cousin of a Winnebago : OTOE
15
Lemon ___ : SOLE
16
Allotment : QUOTA
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Recording of a Jewish leader's talk? : RABBITAPE
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Take a piece from : UNARM
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Historic mission : THEALAMO
21
Shell liners : NACRES
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U.S.N. officers : LTS
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Yielded : CEDED
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Wild : UNTAME
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Cartoonist Chast : ROZ
29
Big galoot : OAF
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Way back into a boat for a scuba diver? : SEALADDER
34
Flat on the water, perhaps : CONDO
36
Called balls and strikes : UMPED
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It often follows you : ARE
38
Contrived : HOKEY
39
Continue to treat, as a swelling : REICE
40
Fishing device pictured on a name tag? : BADGEREEL
42
Kind of score : PAR
43
Plumber's transport : VAN
44
Enter again : RETYPE
45
Joe Namath, e.g. : EXJET
48
Subject in Article I Section 8 of the Constitution : WAR
49
Brings along one's lunch : BAGSIT
51
Symbol for a kiss : CAPITALX
56
Flynn of "Captain Blood" : ERROL
57
One fashioning an auto from clay? : CARPOTTER
58
Language from which "parka" comes : ALEUT
59
European auto : OPEL
60
Good to go, in the military : ONEA
61
Big name in fruit juices : MOTTS
62
One teaspoon, maybe : DOSE
63
Dawdling : POKY
Down
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Computer connection point : PORT
2
Jazz quintet's home : UTAH
3
Bench wear : ROBE
4
Sitcom with the theme song "I'm a Survivor" : REBA
5
Endowed with possessions : ESTATED
6
Drifts : ROAMS
7
Lab food? : ALPO
8
"Told ya" : SEE
9
Team : SQUAD
10
Troy ___ : OUNCE
11
Executive group with perfect pitch? : BOARDONKEY
12
To be in Paree : ETRE
13
Runs into : RAMS
18
Shoddy : ILLMADE
21
Pince-___ : NEZ
23
Removed the insides of : CORED
24
Appropriate : USURP
25
Mythical lion's home : NEMEA
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Faucet that disappoints me? : TAPIREGRET
27
Shakespearean actor McCowen : ALEC
28
Played again : RERAN
30
Take ___ breath : ADEEP
31
"Kitty ___" (Ginger Rogers movie) : FOYLE
33
Lightly touch : DABAT
34
"Toodle-oo" : CHEERIO
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___ cloud (astronomical sighting) : OORT
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Wrestle : GRAPPLE
43
Nov. honoree : VET
46
Cancels : XSOUT
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Leaves rudely : JILTS
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Merchandise : WARES
49
Radiant look : BEAM
50
Musical Guthrie : ARLO
51
Crime boss : CAPO
52
Moonroof alternative : TTOP
53
Fig. on a periodic table : ATNO
54
Soup ingredient : LEEK
55
Get an inside look at : XRAY
57
Trawler's catch : COD

Answer summary:
6 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later.

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