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NY Times, Sat, Jul 28, 2007

Author: Manny Nosowsky / Will Shortz
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Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 62, Blocks: 32, Avg Word Len: 6.23, Missing: { F J Q V X Z }, Scrabble score: 260 (avg 1.35)
Open squares: 125, Cheater squares: 0, Freshness Factor™: 88.4, New York Times Across Lite file
This is puzzle 238 of 245 for Mr. Nosowsky — solos: 243, collaborations: 2, Sundays: 29

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© 2007, The New York Times
Across Down
1. Claimed as one's own : HADDIBS
8. Paper binder : STAPLER
15. Sandlot game : ONEOCAT
16. Draft pick : PALEALE
17. Looking ragged : TATTERY
18. Lined with trees : ARBORED
19. Rock guitarist born David Evans : THEEDGE
20. Mike Brady of "The Brady Bunch," e.g. : STEPDAD
21. Half a nursery-rhyme spider's description: Var. : EENSIE
22. Longtime "What's My Line?" panelist : ARLENE
23. "Go jump in the lake!" : SITONIT
25. Begin, as an enterprise : ENTERON
26. 1947 semi-documentary-style crime drama : TMEN
27. Aces : NAILS
29. Communist federation: Abbr. : SSRS
30. Common site of archaeological remains : BOG
31. They mean nothing : NILS
35. Red stain in a lab : EOSIN
37. Dance in a pit : MOSH
41. Running wild : ONATEAR
43. "It's true!" : NOTALIE
45. Carrying on : WAGING
46. First name in electrical engineering : NIKOLA
47. Run-in : WRANGLE
49. Made happy : CHEERED
50. Bigger and stronger : HUSKIER
51. Class struggles? : LESSONS
52. Sanctions : ASSENTS
53. Pro performer : ARTISTE
54. Others : THEREST
55. Expose and destroy : ROOTOUT
 1. Guinness Book weather record category : HOTTEST
2. Former home of the N.F.L.'s Rams : ANAHEIM
3. Cooling-off period : DETENTE
4. Spoils : DOTESON
5. Immobile in winter : ICEDIN
6. Not wait for an invitation : BARGEIN
7. Eye sore : STYE
8. Bath and others : SPAS
9. Carnegie Mellon athletes : TARTANS
10. King of Belgium : ALBERT
11. Races : PEOPLES
12. Pantries : LARDERS
13. "___ and Franklin," 1976 biopic : ELEANOR
14. Makes flush : REDDENS
24. Drum accompanying a pipe : TABOR
25. The ___ Marbles : ELGIN
28. Island said to be the home of Homer's tomb : IOS
31. "Again?!" : NOWWHAT
32. With no time to lose : INARUSH
33. Celebrity chef : LAGASSE
34. Scoundrel : STINKER
35. Young members of a convocation : EAGLETS
36. Melville's Ishmael, e.g. : NONHERO
37. Comes through successfully : MAKESIT
38. Bristol Cream ingredient : OLOROSO
39. Guide feature? : SILENTU
40. Control tower equipment : HEADSET
42. Purrer : ENGINE
44. Links with : TIESTO
48. Once, long ago : ERST
49. Woodwind instrument: Abbr. : CLAR
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