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New York Times, Friday, August 16, 2013

Author:
Dana Motley
Editor:
Will Shortz
37-Across : Big game plans?
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Dana Motley

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 72, Blocks: 31 Missing: {JXZ} This is puzzle # 31 for Ms. Motley. Friday freshness: 13%
Dana Motley notes:
Two days before Christmas 1983, I lost my best friend to an automobile accident. I remember having two thoughts upon hearing the news. ... read more
Jeff Chen notes:
I had an amusing e-mail exchange with Dana after I read her "Constructor Note". After going through the entire puzzle twice, I had ... read more
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© 2013, The New York Times8/16/13 ( No. 23,292 )
Across
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Fighting : ATWAR
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Amscray : FLEE
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They get taken easily : SAPS
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___ Road (W.W. II supply route) : BURMA
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Hospital bed feature : RAIL
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Nail : CLAW
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Circular side? : ONIONRINGS
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Unisex name meaning "born again" : RENE
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Many a security point : DESK
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Straight : ONTHELEVEL
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Form of "sum" : EST
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Sound name : PUGET
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Tom who won a Tony for "The Seven Year Itch" : EWELL
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Ones keeping on their toes? : BALLERINAS
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The City of a Hundred Spires : PRAGUE
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Triage determination : NEED
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Home of "NerdTV" : PBS
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Line of rulers : DYNASTS
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Big game plans? : SAFARIS
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Argument-ending letters : QED
40
Short distance : STEP
42
Occasions for bulldogging : RODEOS
43
Hot-and-cold menu item : PIEALAMODE
45
Mathematician Cantor who founded set theory : GEORG
48
Going without saying? : TACIT
49
Aid in getting back on track : MAP
52
Means of reducing worker fatigue : ERGONOMICS
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Kraft Nabisco Championship org. : LPGA
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Color also known as endive blue : IRIS
56
Classic Hitchcock set : BATESMOTEL
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Quiet place to fish : COVE
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Suffixes of 61-Across : ITES
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Rich of old films : IRENE
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Contents of some ledges : ORES
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"___ Wedding" ("The Mary Tyler Moore Show" episode) : TEDS
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Occasioned : LEDTO
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Flat, e.g. : ABODE
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Fixes flats? : TUNES
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Hospital patient's wear : WRISTBAND
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See 5-Down : AMOK
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With 4-Down, lost control : RAN
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Feature of some western wear : FRINGE
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Pathfinder? : LANTERN
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Reagan was seen a lot in them : EIGHTIES
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Word after who, what or where, but rarely when : ELSE
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Things driven on construction sites : SCREWS
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Anti-inflammatory product : ALEVE
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Authorities might sit on one : PANEL
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Wonderful : SWELL
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Kind of wheel : ROULETTE
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One putting the pedal to the metal : LEADFOOT
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Summer symbol? : PLUSSIGN
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One of the Eastern elite : AGA
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Aviation safety statistic : NEARMISS
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Straightaway : PDQ
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Manhattan choice : RYE
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Broken into on TV? : PREEMPTED
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Kind of lab : BIO
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Nemesis of some dodgers: Abbr. : SSS
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Fellow chairperson? : SEATMATE
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Use a 24-Down : ADD
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Like pigtails : PLAITED
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Talks tediously : PROSES
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Hacker's achievement : ACCESS
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American company whose mascot has a Cockney accent : GEICO
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Diamond flaw : ERROR
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Diagonal rib of a vault : OGIVE
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One getting cuts : AGENT
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Early: Prefix : PALEO
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Exit lines? : OBIT
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Ethnologist's interest : LORE
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254,000 angstroms : MIL

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

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