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New York Times, Saturday, April 16, 2005

Author:
Gary Steinmehl
Editor:
Will Shortz
59-Across : Lifeless, old-style
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Gary Steinmehl

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 70, Blocks: 35 Missing: {FJQWXZ} Puzzle has duplicate clues. This is puzzle # 2 for Mr. Steinmehl. Saturday freshness: 11%
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© 2005, The New York Times4/16/5 ( No. 20,248 )
Across
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Debunk? : ROUST
6
University of Cincinnati team : BEARCATS
14
The adopted son on "My Three Sons" : ERNIE
15
Figment of the imagination : UNREALITY
17
It's an eyeopener : LATTE
18
Tidy : SHIPSHAPE
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Head, in old slang : ONION
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Sch. aides : TAS
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x : TIMES
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NASA booster : AGENA
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Pro's opposite : ANTI
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Kind of race : RAT
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Scheme : DESIGN
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Pro's opposite : CON
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Pedigree shower : TREE
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Some services : TEASETS
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Journalist Kupcinet : IRV
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April abbr. : IRS
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Mil. hero's award : DSC
38
Dock : LOP
40
Palindromic guy : ASA
41
Mauna ___ : KEA
42
Alpha star in Auriga : CAPELLA
45
Pittsburgh suburb with an Old World name : ETNA
47
Goon : APE
48
Kennedy clan member : EUNICE
52
P.O. alternative : UPS
53
Let out : RENT
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Pros' opposite : TYROS
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Actress Scacchi : GRETA
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Needle-nosed fish : GAR
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Lifeless, old-style : AMORT
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Been through : UNDERGONE
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Last movement of a sonata : RONDO
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Thoreau's "A Week on the Concord and ___ Rivers" : MERRIMACK
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Real stinker : CREEP
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Cake decorations : ROSETTES
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Wrangles : HERDS
Down
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Add more film : RELOAD
2
Crêpes suzette flavoring : ORANGE
3
Loosens : UNTIES
4
Relative of "Get lost!" : SITONIT
5
Like many Nintendo players : TEENAGED
6
Hip-hopper ___ Rhymes : BUSTA
7
Better : ENHANCE
8
"Politics" writer in eight volumes : ARISTOTLE
9
Pitcher, of a sort : REP
10
Place to sign : CAST
11
Trumpeter from New Orleans : ALHIRT
12
Premium liqueur : TIAMARIA
13
Tourist site in Rome : STPETERS
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Concurrence : YES
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Small comfort to a hiker : INSOLE
27
Flag-waving org. : NASCAR
30
Wagner soprano : EVA
32
Butt : SCAPEGOAT
34
Former White House moniker : IKE
35
One successful in tennis : RETURNER
36
Port of Los Angeles : SANPEDRO
39
Writer whose work was Shakespeare's primary source for "Julius Caesar" : PLUTARCH
43
Amends : PENANCE
44
Nowadays : ANYMORE
46
Cousins of fleabanes : ASTERS
49
Decreaser? : IRONER
50
Like twill : CORDED
51
Precludes : ESTOPS
54
Expeditions : TREKS
56
Sweet stick : GUM
57
Indy winner Luyendyk : ARIE
61
Chronometric inits. : GMT

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1 unique to this puzzle, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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