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New York Times, Friday, July 19, 2013

Author:
Patrick Berry
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
33-Down : Begin planning the nuptials
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Patrick Berry

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 66, Blocks: 25 Missing: {FJXZ} This is puzzle # 177 for Mr. Berry. Friday freshness: 83%
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© 2013, The New York Times7/19/13 ( No. 23,264 )
Across
1
Winning smile, e.g. : ASSET
6
International cricket event : TESTMATCH
15
Too-familiar : STALE
16
Road built during the Samnite Wars : APPIANWAY
17
Press conference segment : QANDA
18
Game ender, possibly : RAINSTORM
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Working for : UNDER
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Republican who won Bentsen's vacated Senate seat : HUTCHISON
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Band with a person's name : IDBRACELET
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1970 Kinks album title starter : LOLA
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Afternoon reception : TEA
25
Orange growers : TREES
26
Joe who was retired in 1997 : CAMEL
27
Folk medicine plant : HERB
29
Music genre prefix : ALT
30
Clears the mind, with "up" : SOBERS
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Chow : EATS
33
Chase off : SHOO
34
"Things Fall Apart" novelist : ACHEBE
37
Escort, as to the door : SEE
38
What the name "Rhoda" means : ROSE
42
Trying minors : BRATS
43
What repellent might prevent : BITES
45
New Deal program, for short : WPA
46
Heady feeling : RUSH
47
She and Clark Gable were known as "the team that generates steam" : LANATURNER
49
Surrounded with foliage : EMBOWERED
51
Impressive, as accommodations : REGAL
52
Player of Sal in "The Godfather" : ABEVIGODA
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Call to mind : EVOKE
54
"Don't decide right away" : SLEEPONIT
55
Parties with mai tais, maybe : LUAUS
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Titan's home : TENNESSEE
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Shrill cries : YELPS
Down
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British P.M. when W.W. I began : ASQUITH
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One who's unseated? : STANDEE
3
Land line? : SANDBAR
4
Tribal bigwig : ELDER
5
Claw : TEARAT
6
Five-time N.C.A.A. basketball champs from the A.C.C. : TARHEELS
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Uniform ornament : EPAULET
8
Thwarts for petty reasons : SPITES
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Add color to : TINCT
10
1968 novel set in Korea : MASH
11
Opposed to the union, say : ANTILABOR
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Couple : TWOSOME
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Performer on the road? : CAROLER
14
Note books used in church? : HYMNALS
22
Stevedore's burden : CRATE
26
Gentle murmur : COO
28
"Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman" speaker : BEETHOVEN
30
Undercover item? : SHEET
32
Exercise target : ABS
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Begin planning the nuptials : SETADATE
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Way to walk while conversing : ABREAST
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Fall apart : CRUMBLE
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Fallen star : HASBEEN
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How Congress might adjourn : SINEDIE
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Major error in soccer : OWNGOAL
40
"Louder!" : SPEAKUP
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Seal classification : EARLESS
43
Magna Carta's drafters : BARONS
44
Without doubt : SURELY
47
Largely hollow bricks : LEGOS
48
Flo Ziegfeld offering : REVUE
50
Erase : WIPE

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

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