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New York Times, Saturday, July 9, 2005

Author:
Patrick Berry
Editor:
Will Shortz
13-Down : Slapstick group, briefly
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Patrick Berry

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 66, Blocks: 28 Missing: {JWXZ} Grid has both 90- and 180-degree symmetry. This is puzzle # 76 for Mr. Berry. Saturday freshness: 83%
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© 2005, The New York Times7/9/5 ( No. 20,332 )
Across
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Talk big : BRAG
5
Five-digit extension : HAND
9
Hooverville home : SHACK
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Show disrupter, possibly : LATECOMER
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Pick-up line? : HELLO
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Quality of Bartók's music : ATONALITY
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Bar : ESTOP
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Your first-grade teacher, now : MEMORY
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Spheres : MILIEUS
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1950's marketing disaster : EDSEL
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Tiger Woods's alma mater : STANFORD
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The Pleiades, e.g. : SISTERS
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Cardholder's problem : DEBT
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Match, e.g. : FIRESTARTER
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Long-jawed fish : GAR
34
Lubber : APE
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Gazebo wall : LATTICE
36
Together : ONE
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Naval inits. : USS
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Spy satellite : EYEINTHESKY
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Nautical day's beginning : NOON
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French strawberries : FRAISES
43
Coal substitutes : FUELOILS
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Vaulted areas : APSES
49
See 53-Down : HARBURG
50
Bit of fine print : CLAUSE
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Suggest itself : OCCUR
52
Break one's word? : HYPHENATE
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Tomb marker : STELE
56
Temporarily satisfied : TIDEDOVER
57
1960 Everly Brothers hit : SOSAD
58
Caesar's empire, for short : SPQR
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To a smaller degree : LESS
Down
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"I don't ___ you!" : BLAME
2
Placed on a scale : RATED
3
Links in certain chains : ATOMS
4
Like composer Niccolò Paganini : GENOESE
5
Heaven-born : HOLY
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French ally : AMI
7
Take home : NET
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Clear orders : DRYMARTINIS
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Stand against a wall : SHELF
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"Works and Days" poet : HESIOD
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Very close friends : ALTEREGOS
12
Bad weather portent : CLOUDBANK
13
Slapstick group, briefly : KOPS
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Bishop who supported Richard II, in Shakespeare : CARLISLE
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Food for moles : INSECTS
23
Civil War issue : STATERIGHTS
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Certain wing feather : TERTIAL
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Stick around to see : STAYFOR
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It rarely takes anything : TREY
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Woodland spirit : FAUN
30
Automatically : IPSOFACTO
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Means of production : RESOURCES
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Like chronic injuries : REHEALED
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Mexicans do business in it : ESPANOL
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Sci-fi author's award : NEBULA
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Drawn : LURED
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Not at all bumpkinish : SUAVE
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Adlai's 1956 running mate : ESTES
48
Future experts : SEERS
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Ranch animal, informally : HOSS
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"Suspect" star, 1987 : CHER
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With 49-Across, "The Wizard of Oz" lyricist : YIP
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Right away : PDQ

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

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