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New York Times, Sunday, May 15, 2011

Author:
Cathy Allis
Editor:
Will Shortz
What Ernie may wish he had vis-à-vis his roommate?
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Cathy Allis

This puzzle:

Rows: 21, Columns: 21 Words: 140, Blocks: 76 Missing: {JQZ} This is puzzle # 88 for Ms. Allis. Sunday freshness: 13%
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© 2011, The New York Times5/15/11 ( No. 22,468 )
Across
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Jewish grandma : BUBBE
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Crooked : ALOP
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"Laugh-In" airer : NBC
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Barney Gumble of "The Simpsons," e.g. : SLOB
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Woody and Steve : ALLENS
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Attire for an Indian bride : SARI
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Suffix with buck : AROO
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Rain cats and dogs : POUR
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Close by : NEARTO
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Salt Lake City athlete's dear hawk mascot? : SWEETBIRDOFUTE
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Possible result of a costly Italian vacation? : DEBTINVENICE
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Leave the outdoors : GOINSIDE
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First Nations group : CREES
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Place for Wii play, say : DEN
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Frank writing in a diary : ANNE
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Turf : SOD
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Sierra Nevada lake : TAHOE
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Comparable to a March hare : ASMAD
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Slowly, on scores : ADAGIO
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Elvis ___ Presley : ARON
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Hit show with New Directions singers : GLEE
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Some whiskeys : RYES
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Gymnastics great Comaneci : NADIA
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Flurry of activity : BUSTLE
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Tribal healer : SHAMAN
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In pain : ACHING
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Shakespearean fairy king : OBERON
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Jokes in a campy 1960s TV locale? : BATROOMHUMOR
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Hazardous household gas : RADON
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Marisa who played 75-Down's girlfriend : TOMEI
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Kyrgyzstan range : ALAI
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___-Caps : SNO
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Akin to milking a cow? : LIKEPULLINGTEAT
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Car safety feature, for short : ABS
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Singer India.___ : ARIE
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Musical endings : CODAS
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Baseball : Oriole :: football : ___ : RAVEN
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Bless butter with a gesture? : CROSSONESPAT
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Apt to fluctuate : LABILE
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Bullying words : TAUNTS
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Former SoCal N.F.L. team : LARAMS
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Never-before-seen : ALLNEW
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Damascene's homeland : SYRIA
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Saharan : ARID
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Gross : ICKY
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Equivalent of -trix : ENNE
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Wordy : PROLIX
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Video game pioneer : ATARI
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What we may be? : ROYAL
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Like some baseball teams : AAA
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Leak sound : DRIP
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Slip up : ERR
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"A momentary madness," per Horace : ANGER
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Misers : SCROOGES
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Vessel for just the two of us? : YOUANDMEBOAT
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Role of a boxer's physician? : WELTMANAGEMENT
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Tennis's Goolagong : EVONNE
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Yank or Ray : ALER
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Politico Gingrich : NEWT
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Concerning : ASTO
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Many a Bush military adviser : NEOCON
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Org. in a big race of years past : NASA
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That, in a bodega : ESO
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Saxophonist Getz : STAN
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Surgical tube : STENT
Down
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Word after string or rubber : BAND
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Peter Fonda title role : ULEE
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Tattle : BLAB
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What Ernie may wish he had vis-à-vis his roommate? : BERTCONTROL
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Complete : ENTIRE
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Evaluates : ASSESSES
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It may be manicured : LAWN
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Frozen tater brand : OREIDA
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Like quilts : PIECED
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Catch : NAB
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Quartermaster's group : BRIGADE
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Alternatives to Dos Equis : CORONAS
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UV blockage nos. : SPFS
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Automaker Chevrolet : LOUIS
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Surpass : OUTDO
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Shetland, e.g. : BREED
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Loudness unit : SONE
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Taking way too many meds : ODING
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X : TEN
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Margin size, maybe : ONEINCH
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Calf product : VEAL
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Small drum : TABOR
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One of the Leeward Antilles : ARUBA
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Scammed : HOSED
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Interjection of disinterest : MEH
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"The Fountainhead" author : AYNRAND
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Home of Punchbowl Crater : OAHU
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See 51-Down: Abbr. : GEN
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Teller : RAT
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Darkens : DIMS
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Hip to : INON
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Soil: Prefix : AGRO
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Actress Anderson : LONI
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First name alphabetically in 42-Down : ABEL
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Train part where sorting was once done : MAILCAR
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Gallic gal pal : AMIE
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One of Chekhov's "three sisters" : OLGA
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Feel one's ___ (be confident) : OATS
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Cousin of a gull : TERN
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Mayberry boy : OPIE
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Kellogg's cereal : MUESLIX
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Villainous group in "Get Smart" : KAOS
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Minute bit : IOTA
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Asia's ___ Sea : ARAL
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Non-choice for restaurant seating? : TABLEORBOOT
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New Testament book : ACTS
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Donkey's cry : BRAY
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Go bad : SOUR
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Film cousin whose accent this puzzle spoofs : VINNY
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Justice Kagan : ELENA
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Stairway post : NEWEL
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Short cut : SNIP
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Fame : STARDOM
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Tablet : PAD
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Was supine : LAY
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War stat : MIA
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Setting for "The Office" : SCRANTON
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Property recipient, in law : ALIENEE
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They cut wood with the grain : RIPSAWS
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Humane : KIND
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Pipe holder : ORGAN
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Restaurant lures : AROMAS
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Most faithful : TRUEST
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Actor Keanu : REEVES
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City on the Nile : ASWAN
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Fleet Amtrak train : ACELA
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"Bedroom at ___" (classic painting) : ARLES
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Image on the back of a $1 bill : EYE
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Feds : GMEN
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Other: Sp. : OTRA
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Architectural pier : ANTA
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Formerly : ONCE
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Soon, poetically : ANON
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Big top, e.g. : TENT
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G.M. debut of 1964 : GTO

Answer summary: 11 unique to this puzzle, 1 unique to Shortz Era but used previously.

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