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New York Times, Thursday, November 11, 2004

Author:
Michael Shteyman
Editor:
Will Shortz
23-Down : "___, like lightning, seeks the highest places": Livy
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Michael Shteyman

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 74, Blocks: 34 Missing: {JQ} Spans: 1 Puzzle has duplicate clues. This is puzzle # 26 for Mr. Shteyman. Thursday freshness: 40%
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© 2004, The New York Times11/11/4 ( No. 20,092 )
Across
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Is insistent : PRESSES
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Place for a classic fight : SANDBOX
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Ones thrown for a loop? : LARIATS
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How, say, eating worms might be done : ONADARE
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Controversial talk : EBONICS
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Adores : DOTESON
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He wrote "The only way to a woman's heart is along the path of torment" : DESADE
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Heel : CAD
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___-cone : SNO
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Meeting place : INTERSECTION
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Much talked-about antiviral drug, briefly : AZT
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Wine: Prefix : OENO
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It goes back and forth in the woods : SAW
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Gunk : GOOP
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Vacation wheels: Abbr. : RVS
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Some modern "rewards" : MILES
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22-Across sight : FOURWAYSTOPSIGN
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"Are not" retort : AMTOO
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More than a brawl : WAR
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Orderer's option : TOGO
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Time-worn : OLD
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What a mirror image has : AXIS
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San Francisco's ___ Hill : NOB
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22-Across sight : TRAFFICLIGHT
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Green : RAW
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Clumsy craft : ARK
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Slanted : ITALIC
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Stuck : INAHOLE
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Another : ONEMORE
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Turkey is part of it : EURASIA
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Became dark : LATENED
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Explore caves : SPELUNK
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Court order : ALLRISE
Down
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Appealed : PLED
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Broccoli ___ (vegetable) : RABE
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Lover boy? : EROS
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Biblical mount : SINAI
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Declined : SAIDNO
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Yadda, yadda, yadda : ETCETERA
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Object of 60's protests: Abbr. : SSS
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Dairy Queen concoctions : SODAS
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Battery points : ANODES
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___ King Cole : NAT
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Presidential inits. : DDE
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Several roles in "The Barber of Seville" : BASSI
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Maine college town : ORONO
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Flash lamp filler : XENON
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22-Across sight : CROSSWALK
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"___, like lightning, seeks the highest places": Livy : ENVY
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Cot site : CAMP
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O. Henry plot specialty : TWIST
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Kodak competitor : AGFA
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Modern camera feature : ZOOM
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Talk up : TOUT
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90 is a high one : PROOF
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Civic leader : LION
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Breakfast brand : EGGO
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Pretentious sort : SNOB
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Grandma, in a fairy tale : WOLF
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Kind of service : TAXI
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KFC option : ORIGINAL
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Call a radio show, e.g. : DIALIN
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Setting for many Sholem Aleichem stories : SHTETL
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Essays : TRIES
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Incurred : RANUP
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Up on things : AWARE
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Haunted house sound : CREAK
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Less savage : TAMER
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Actress Anderson : LONI
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Angers : IRES
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Turn over : CEDE
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March who hosted TV's "The $64,000 Question" : HAL
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Big Ten sch. : OSU
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Suffix with pay : OLA

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

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