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New York Times, Saturday, October 22, 2005

Author:
Patrick Berry
Editor:
Will Shortz
27-Down : Party platter preparer
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981.5480%
Patrick Berry

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 66, Blocks: 27 Missing: {HJQY} This is puzzle # 79 for Mr. Berry. Saturday freshness: 77%
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© 2005, The New York Times10/22/5 ( No. 20,437 )
Across
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Device used for film tracking shots : STEADICAM
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Cough up : EXPEL
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"Lost in America" vehicle : WINNEBAGO
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Tickle : AMUSE
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Key distributor : INNKEEPER
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City near Dinosaur World : TAMPA
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Work on a column : SCULPT
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Early member of Clinton's cabinet : LESASPIN
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Places to serve slop : STIES
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"The 39 Steps" star : DONAT
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Magritte's "The ___ of Man" : SON
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Putin foreign minister Igor ___ : IVANOV
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Banquet : DINE
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Inveiglement : COAXING
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Donizetti's oeuvre : OPERAS
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Wholehearted : SINCERE
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Prefatory parts : PROLOGS
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Axes to grind : AGENDA
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Straightaway : BEELINE
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Pottery Barn purchases : WARE
38
1930's actress Farrell : GLENDA
40
"... ___ I again behold my Romeo!" : ERE
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Sports Illustrated's first two-time Sportsman of the Year, 1996 and 2000 : WOODS
42
Plot anew : REMAP
47
The two dots in "naïve" : DIERESIS
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Two-fisted : VIRILE
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Little, bespectacled owl of the comics : OLLIE
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Crossing them can affect you : TIMEZONES
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Mote : FLECK
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Deleted : EDITEDOUT
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Grand ___ : FORKS
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Says not for the first time : REASSERTS
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It's full of holes : SWISS
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Add color to : TINCT
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"The scourge of the fashionable world": Schopenhauer : ENNUI
4
Where the malleolus is : ANKLE
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Tossed over the side : DEEPSIXED
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"Oh yeah, uh-huh!" : IBET
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Part of graduation attire : CAP
8
Everlasting : AGELONG
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___ Valley (Riverside neighbor) : MORENO
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Bother : EATAT
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Present time? : XMAS
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Does some heavy lifting : PUMPSIRON
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Plants engage in it : ESPIONAGE
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Meat quality : LEANNESS
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Didn't rush through : SAVORED
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Kierkegaard, for one : DANE
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Nags : VIRAGOS
27
Party platter preparer : DELI
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Thin smoke : CIGARILLO
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Short, of a sort : ONEREELER
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Juvenile outbreak : ACNE
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Sends to separate camps : POLARIZES
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Like some robbers' guns : SAWEDOFF
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They used to come from wells : PENS
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Nurse's spot : BEDSIDE
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Not leave : LOITER
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Best-seller list heading : WEEKS
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Show signs of weakening : ERODE
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Hardly worth mentioning : MINOR
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Speaker of Yupik : ALEUT
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Buttinskies : PESTS
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Pile of hay : RICK
49
Looks over : VETS
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Lost, but not forgotten, in brief : MIA

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

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