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New York Times, Thursday, January 3, 2008

Author:
Henry Hook
Editor:
Will Shortz
43-Across : Backsplash component
TotalDebutLatest
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Henry Hook

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 42 Missing: {KQVZ} Puzzle has duplicate clues. This is puzzle # 51 for Mr. Hook. Thursday freshness: 1%
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© 2008, The New York Times1/3/8 ( No. 21,240 )
Across
1
Having surmounted : ATOP
5
Semicircular room : APSE
9
Poor box contents : ALMS
13
Pleasure seeker : ROUE
14
Respectable : NICE
15
Obtain : REAP
16
Ad icon since 1914 : MORTONSALTGIRL
19
Acupressure technique : SHIATSU
20
Tree sacred to Druids : YEW
22
Regular at Kelsey's Bar, on TV : ARCHIE
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Crow's nest? : TEEPEE
28
Rebel yell : WAHOO
29
One may hold the mayo : JAR
32
Mend : ATONE
33
"Hurry!" : ASAP
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It could easily go up : FIRETRAP
36
Candied side dish : YAM
37
Oswald Cobblepot's nom de crime : PENGUIN
38
Boxer's hand : PAW
41
Prig : BLUENOSE
43
Backsplash component : TILE
44
"The Female Eunuch" author : GREER
46
Bach's "Partita No. 6 ___ Minor" : INE
47
Cézanne colleague : MONET
48
Recipient of a 1937 wooden Oscar : BERGEN
50
Contains : HOUSES
51
___ Paradise, protagonist of "On the Road" : SAL
52
Impatient : ANXIOUS
56
What 16- and 37-Across and 11- and 24-Down were all known to do : CARRYUMBRELLAS
62
Antler feature : TINE
63
Roast setting : DAIS
64
Big ___ Conference : EAST
65
Reason to say "Now what do we do?" : SNAG
66
Being, to Brutus : ESSE
67
First batter to hit a home run against every Major League Baseball team : SOSA
Down
1
Half a huge cost? : ARM
2
Unduly : TOO
3
Lord's Prayer start : OUR
4
Place to pick up a puppy : PETSHOP
5
Musical with the song "Easy Street" : ANNIE
6
Arno city : PISA
7
Ignore the lyrics? : SCAT
8
Sniggler's take : EELS
9
Bol. neighbor : ARG
10
Ring around the collar? : LEI
11
Caretaker for the Banks household : MARYPOPPINS
12
Ill will : SPLEEN
17
Allegheny + Monongahela : OHIO
18
Famous nine-year-old king : TUT
21
Itty-bitty : WEE
22
Vacationing : AWAY
23
Tabula description : RASA
24
Churchill predecessor : CHAMBERLAIN
26
Have coming : EARN
27
Fraternity chapter : ETA
29
Bottled spirit : JINNI
30
Element whose name roughly means "lazy" : ARGON
31
Do something else with : REUSE
34
Charge : FEE
35
Undo a lead : TIE
37
Untarnished : PURE
39
Out of harm's way : ALEE
40
Moistens : WETS
42
Half a huge cost? : LEG
43
Dishevels : TOUSLES
44
Literary monogram : GBS
45
Isn't stoic : REACTS
47
Grimace : MOUE
49
Passing obstruction? : NAY
50
Silver, for one : HORSE
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Art class figure : NUDE
54
Opening day? : XMAS
55
Everglades denizen : IBIS
57
Genetics abbr. : RNA
58
___ U.S. Pat. Off. : REG
59
Seven-faced doctor of film : LAO
60
Ninny : ASS
61
RR bldg. : STA

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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