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New York Times, Saturday, November 11, 2006

Author:
Brendan Emmett Quigley
Editor:
Will Shortz
55-Across : Varnish material
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Brendan Emmett Quigley

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 66, Blocks: 26 Missing: {FJKVXZ} Puzzle has duplicate clues. This is puzzle # 111 for Mr. Quigley. Saturday freshness: 96%
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© 2006, The New York Times11/11/6 ( No. 20,822 )
Across
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They might be protected by an 8-Across : RABBITS
8
See 1-Across : GAMELAW
15
Sites for small schools : AQUARIA
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Like rubble, often : INAPILE
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Kind of grape : SULTANA
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Where Marat was murdered : BATHTUB
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Associate : PARTNER
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Haunted house worker's job : SCARING
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One may get pins and needles : ETUI
22
Flowering plant with two seed leaves : DICOT
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"As I Lay Dying" father : ANSE
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Up : RISEN
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Editor Talese : NAN
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"___ where it hurts!" : HITEM
29
German chancellor after Kohl : SCHRODER
31
Tabloid fodder : RUMORS
32
Villain : MENACER
34
Villain : BADMAN
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Ones in hip joints? : COOLCATS
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Curtain shades : ECRUS
44
Indicator of canonización : SAN
45
Trunk coverer : SHIRT
46
"Take heed ___ any man deceive you": Mark 13:5 : LEST
47
Good : TASTY
49
Mars: Prefix : AREO
50
It may be a bear to throw down : AREARUG
52
1984 movie with the tag line "It's 4 a.m., do you know where your car is?" : REPOMAN
54
Google company : YOUTUBE
55
Varnish material : ACETATE
56
People described by Josephus : ESSENES
57
Classic R & B tune that inspired the "stroll" dance craze : CCRIDER
58
Ice, e.g. : DESSERT
59
Appropriately named band with the 1984 hit "Drive" : THECARS
Down
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Some laryngitis sufferers : RASPERS
2
Marine, maybe : AQUATIC
3
Member of the sedge family : BULRUSH
4
Less together : BATTIER
5
Home of the Zagros Mountains : IRAN
6
Like antlers : TINED
7
St. Louis Arch designer : SAARINEN
8
Big name in guitars : GIBSON
9
"It's all ___" : ANACT
10
First name in espionage : MATA
11
Biblical kingdom of the Hebrews : EPHRAIM
12
Slammed : LITINTO
13
1970-71 winner in Johnny Lightning : ALUNSER
14
"Baseball Tonight" segment featuring the day's best defensive plays : WEBGEMS
23
Simón Bolívar's birthplace : CARACAS
26
Spanish uncle? : NOMAS
28
Projects : HURLS
30
Hangout : DEN
31
Flying Cloud of autodom : REO
33
Term paper? : CONTRACT
34
Secured while rock climbing : BELAYED
35
Needlelike : ACEROSE
36
"The King's Stilts" author, 1939 : DRSEUSS
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Changes : MUTATES
39
All over the place : CHAOTIC
40
Fleet of warplanes : AIRMADA
41
Sugar daddy, e.g. : TREATER
42
Jam band fans, stereotypically : STONERS
44
Like the best advice : SAGEST
47
Arrowroot, e.g. : TUBER
48
"Ugh!" : YECCH
51
Something written in stone : RUNE
53
___ Noël : PERE

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 5 debuted here and reused later.

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