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New York Times, Friday, October 5, 2007

Author:
Lynn Lempel
Editor:
Will Shortz
48-Across : Main, maybe
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
10212/9/19793/19/20242
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
673172130
CircleScrabDebutPre‑WSFresh
91.61331220%
Lynn Lempel

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 68, Blocks: 28 Missing: {JQV} Spans: 1 Puzzle has duplicate clues. This is puzzle # 26 for Ms. Lempel. Friday freshness: 61%
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© 2007, The New York Times10/5/7 ( No. 21,150 )
Across
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Navigation hazard : DENSEFOG
9
Coolness : APLOMB
15
Way off : EXITLANE
16
Special delivery? : PREMIE
17
Married man who had long been a bachelor : BENEDICT
18
Many a monthly check writer : TENANT
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Missing the point? : SCORELESS
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Car bar : STRUT
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W.W. II agcy. : OSS
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Drawer units? : CELS
25
___ Genevieve County, Mo. : STE
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Take off : SPLIT
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When repeated, a "Funny Girl" song : SADIE
30
Utterance when pointing to a woman : HER
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Chief : LEAD
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Famously fussy pair of diners : SPRATS
33
Any of les Trois Mousquetaires : AMI
34
Acts on a gut feeling? : EATS
35
Gold rush storyteller : HARTE
36
Hardware store offering : BRAD
37
In the style of: Suffix : ESE
38
Fishing boats : DORIES
39
Island republic : EIRE
40
___ phenomenon (optical illusion) : PHI
41
Like most mammals : EARED
42
He wrote "A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die" : KAFKA
43
Top of some scales : TEN
44
Chump : CLOD
45
Univ. offerings : MAS
46
Not having as favorable a prognosis : ILLER
48
Main, maybe : WATERPIPE
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Quiet craft : GLIDER
55
Dangerous places for correspondents : WARZONES
56
Bunny backer? : HEFNER
57
Where workers gather : APIARIES
58
Risers meet them : TREADS
59
QB who was the 1963 N.F.L. M.V.P. : YATITTLE
Down
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Five-time U.S. presidential candidate in the early 1900s : DEBS
2
One making firm decisions : EXEC
3
Hombre, once : NINO
4
Some athletes shoot them : STEROIDS
5
Like many an heir apparent : ELDEST
6
Goes under : FAILS
7
If ever : ONCE
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Overdoes it : GETSCARRIEDAWAY
9
Not out of place : APT
10
Importunes : PRESSES
11
Carnival follower : LENT
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"Che!" title role player, 1969 : OMARSHARIF
13
Watch notch : MINUTEMARK
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Alternative that should be followed : BETTERIDEA
20
Put under? : SEDATED
24
The Chi-___ (1970s R & B group) : LITES
26
"Pleasant dreams" : SLEEPTIGHT
27
Seed-separating gizmo : PEASHELLER
28
Past prime time? : LATEINLIFE
29
U.S. air-to-air missile : SPARROW
32
Navigation hazard : SHOAL
36
"C'mon, do me this favor" : BEASPORT
38
Ordained : DECREED
42
Post-Taliban Afghan president : KARZAI
45
Kind of scholarship : MERIT
47
Mrs. Turnblad in "Hairspray" : EDNA
49
Spanish hors d'oeuvre : TAPA
50
Competing : INIT
51
Strip : PEEL
52
Forum infinitive : ESSE
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Commuters' choices: Abbr. : RRS

Answer summary:
7 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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