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New York Times, Thursday, November 3, 2005

Author:
Byron Walden
Editor:
Will Shortz
7-Down : Highlands negative
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Byron Walden

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 72, Blocks: 38 Missing: {JKQWZ} Spans: 1 This is puzzle # 28 for Mr. Walden. Thursday freshness: 48%
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© 2005, The New York Times11/3/5 ( No. 20,449 )
Across
1
Kind of gun : CAP
4
Catalyzing subatomic particles : MUONS
9
Singe : CHAR
13
Father of octuplets on "The Simpsons" : APU
14
Picture to carry around? : MENTALIMAGE
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Knock over : ROB
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Clowns' wear : RUBBERNOSES
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Pipe fitting : ELL
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O.T. book : ISA
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It has many pages : SENATE
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Skull and Bones member, e.g. : ELI
22
Receivers of manumission : SERFS
25
Dobbin's "right" : GEE
26
Cape ___, Portugal (continental Europe's westernmost point) : ROCA
28
Pocket filler : AIR
30
Link : BOND
31
Flashlight backup : EXTRABATTERY
36
Title for this puzzle : DIVIDEDCAPITALS
40
Brunch option : DENVEROMELET
41
About : INRE
44
"___ I Can Make It on My Own" (Tammy Wynette #1 hit) : TIL
45
Grade schooler's reward : STAR
46
German pronoun : SIE
47
Animal that can be ridden : LLAMA
51
Soprano Marton : EVA
52
Not tied up, as funds : INCASH
56
Ring of plumerias : LEI
57
Like Duroc hogs : RED
58
Leader in sports : TEAMMANAGER
61
Put the kibosh on : END
62
Makeup carrier : MASCARACASE
63
Set : GEL
64
CPR deliverers : EMTS
65
Wedding reception party? : EMCEE
66
Emerson's "___ to Beauty" : ODE
Down
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Rushed headlong : CAREERED
2
Mission commemorated on the back of the Eisenhower dollar coin : APOLLOXI
3
Subject of annual Congressional budget debate : PUBLICTV
4
___-Argonne offensive of W.W. I : MEUSE
5
Open, in a way : UNBAR
6
Gambling inits. : OTB
7
Highlands negative : NAE
8
Camera types, for short : SLRS
9
"Shake a leg!" : CMON
10
Takes one's turn : HASAGO
11
Threshold for the Vienna Boys' Choir : AGETEN
12
Switch in the tournament schedule, maybe : RESEED
14
Scans ordered by M.D.'s : MRIS
15
Suffix with glass : INE
23
Adipocyte : FATCELL
24
Fretted instrument : SITAR
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Words with thumb or bum : ARIDE
29
Car making a return trip? : REPO
30
Storage units : BYTES
32
Sweet drink : ADE
33
Like staples : BENT
34
Tylenol alternative : ADVIL
35
Canyon area : RIM
37
Holmes to Conan Doyle, e.g. : ALTEREGO
38
Like soda crackers : LEAVENED
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Not choose one side or the other : STRADDLE
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Lead-in to a questionable opinion : ISITME
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Two bells in the forenoon watch : NINEAM
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Freshly worded : RECAST
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Pool problem : ALGAE
49
Reagan attorney general : MEESE
50
Leeds's river : AIRE
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Gremlins and others, for short : AMCS
54
Little, in Leith : SMA
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"A Wild ___" (cartoon in which Bugs Bunny first says "What's up, Doc?") : HARE
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60's war zone : NAM
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U. of Md. is in it : ACC

Answer summary:
7 unique to this puzzle, 5 debuted here and reused later, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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