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Mel Taub
Mel Taub

NY Times, Sun, Aug 02, 2015 PUNS AND ANAGRAMS

53-Across : Rock studied at labs

Author:
Mel Taub
Editor:
Will Shortz
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 33
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Across
1
Apposed vegetable containers : PEAPODS
8
Wandering Damon : NOMAD
13
Apple dish that Paddy won : PANDOWDY
14
Straightened Daniel out : ALINED
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Islands of the salt Nile : ANTILLES
17
Get from four deer : DERIVE
18
Songs for women : CAROLS
19
Group making a small riot : TRIO
21
School Tim left : MIT
22
Knocks off desserts : ICES
23
"Look, milord!" : PEER
24
Save roses in this : VASE
25
Paw's end : NEE
26
Machinery that comes into view at a textile mill : LOOMS
28
Provides enough of an asset : SATES
29
Scams at the pump by Frenchmen : GASCONS
31
What's the most you can sell a tease for? : TALLEST
33
Places for Clio : LOCI
34
Cookie that's round on both ends : OREO
35
E taxi T : CABINET
38
Put down and iron again : REPRESS
42
No gay anguish : AGONY
43
Namely, diets : IDEST
45
Tiny bit ill : LIL
46
It makes 51-Down exciting : RING
47
Birds formerly in most of Samoa : MOAS
48
Green lake : KALE
49
End of term : ITE
50
Quaker writer, say : PENN
51
Like Delta's flights : SLATED
53
Rock studied at labs : BASALT
55
What a party planner may cringe at : CATERING
57
Drunken state of Proust : STUPOR
58
What even dice may be in court : EVIDENCE
59
Lyric poetry (nothing deep) : EPODE
60
Make enraged : DERANGE
Down
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A canapé that will solve everything : PANACEA
2
Cafeteria offerings ... or how they're carried, it's said : ENTREES
3
Said nothing but goodbye : ADIOS
4
May ___ (spring Gallup activity) : POLL
5
Slow birds : OWLS
6
His caddie had C.I.A. clearance : DDE
7
It sets my methodology : SYSTEM
8
Lowest part of a drain : NADIR
9
What a parole officer has to spread : OLEO
10
Eastern Kashmir : MIR
11
Put pizazz in a team : ANIMATE
12
Plans for six seeds : DEVISES
13
Gin cap going back and forth : PACING
15
What de students hate : DETEST
20
To put between two Latin things : RESTORES
23
Place for 10 points : POSITION
24
Trait useful in a survival ordeal : VALOR
26
Having only zero common sense : LOONY
27
Cone, formerly : ONCE
28
Rested under pelts all night : SLEPT
30
"Sealing" : CLING
32
God mentioned in the zodiac : ARES
35
I see bars with West Indians : CARIBS
36
It is in some small type : AGITATE
37
Gets ready for a test in osteology : BONESUP
39
Inducing a tingle : ELATING
40
A librarian has a license for it : SILENCE
41
Alternative to de legs in transporting something : SLEDGE
44
Hearing a CD, Dean did it : DANCED
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Remet over a yard in England : METRE
48
Girl near Kay : KAREN
50
Prod from right to left : PLOD
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Wake up in prison : STIR
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In myth, she had to deal with a swan : LEDA
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Mail drop at a seaport center : APO
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Part of an address for Eva : AVE
Answer summary: 0 unique to this puzzle, 3 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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