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New York Times, Saturday, August 5, 2006

Author:
Trip Payne
Editor:
Will Shortz
49-Across : Great-grandfather of David
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
464/10/19948/3/20211
SunMonTueWedThuFriSatVariety
1034463133
RebusCircleScrabblePGramFresh
421.53160%
Trip Payne

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 66, Blocks: 27 Missing: {JKQXY} This is puzzle # 33 for Mr. Payne. Saturday freshness: 78%
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© 2006, The New York Times8/5/6 ( No. 20,724 )
Across
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Hardly poker-faced : AGAPE
6
Hamper contents : WASHABLES
15
Nancy's friend, in the comics : ROLLO
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It may be moderated : EMAILLIST
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Hard to change : INPEN
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O.M.B. director under Carter : BERTLANCE
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Word with heat or meat : DEAD
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Pays attention : LENDSANEAR
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16-team grp. : NFC
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___-wip : REDDI
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Back cover : CAPE
24
Hirer of the stunt man in "The Stunt Man" : ELI
25
Dollar alternative : AVIS
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Skiing brothers of the 1984 Olympics : MAHRES
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Excavation site : SANDPIT
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Course in African history : NILE
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Go as far down as : STOOPTO
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Dialog box fill-ins : USERIDS
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One may be hereditary : PEER
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Give the benefit of the doubt : TRUSTIN
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Upwardly mobile people : RISERS
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Tom Lehrer's anti-censorship song : SMUT
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Yacht heading: Abbr. : SSE
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Early 80's TV police comedy : ENOS
44
Is touching : FEELS
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Separator of family names : NEE
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Great-grandfather of David : BOAZ
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Don't stop : MOVEALONG
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Stop : PAUSE
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From then on : EVERSINCE
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In the main? : ATSEA
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Many a conservative : REDSTATER
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Treasury : CHEST
Down
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Drought : ARIDNESS
2
Fizzled out : GONEFLAT
3
Tony winner for "Does a Tiger Wear a Necktie?" : ALPACINO
4
Argued : PLED
5
It goes on and on : EON
6
Help in constructing sites : WEBEDITOR
7
They're made after a fight : AMENDS
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A Manhattan restaurant is named for him : SARDI
9
Angels' wishes : HITS
10
___ parmigiana : ALLA
11
They're obviously shocked : BLANCHERS
12
Progressing sequentially : LINEAR
13
Divertissement : ESCAPE
14
Metric volume units : STERES
20
Hebrew tribe : LEVITES
22
Q-Tip, for example : RAPPER
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Reason for a coup d'état : MISRULE
27
Many Pribilof Islanders : ALEUTS
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Ones making sports predictions : DOPESTERS
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Connecticut resident : NUTMEGGER
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Frustrated cry : ITSNOUSE
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Screeners' targets : DISEASES
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Make light of : SNEEZEAT
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Tool with a spiral : REAMER
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Swept off one's feet : INLOVE
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Completely filled, say : SOLVED
41
Contact point? : SEANCE
44
Vanguard : FRONT
47
Biblical verb : HAST
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"Distant Correspondents" writer : ELIA
49
Big loss : BATH
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Campaign statement listing : PAC

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