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New York Times, Saturday, July 28, 2007

Author:
Manny Nosowsky
Editor:
Will Shortz
31-Across : They mean nothing
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
2548/27/19928/13/20102
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2947154312630
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611.5710876%
Manny Nosowsky

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 62, Blocks: 32 Missing: {FJQVXZ} Grid has supersymmetry. This is puzzle # 246 for Mr. Nosowsky. Saturday freshness: 96%
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© 2007, The New York Times7/28/7 ( No. 21,081 )
Across
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Claimed as one's own : HADDIBS
8
Paper binder : STAPLER
15
Sandlot game : ONEOCAT
16
Draft pick : PALEALE
17
Looking ragged : TATTERY
18
Lined with trees : ARBORED
19
Rock guitarist born David Evans : THEEDGE
20
Mike Brady of "The Brady Bunch," e.g. : STEPDAD
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Half a nursery-rhyme spider's description: Var. : EENSIE
22
Longtime "What's My Line?" panelist : ARLENE
23
"Go jump in the lake!" : SITONIT
25
Begin, as an enterprise : ENTERON
26
1947 semi-documentary-style crime drama : TMEN
27
Aces : NAILS
29
Communist federation: Abbr. : SSRS
30
Common site of archaeological remains : BOG
31
They mean nothing : NILS
35
Red stain in a lab : EOSIN
37
Dance in a pit : MOSH
41
Running wild : ONATEAR
43
"It's true!" : NOTALIE
45
Carrying on : WAGING
46
First name in electrical engineering : NIKOLA
47
Run-in : WRANGLE
49
Made happy : CHEERED
50
Bigger and stronger : HUSKIER
51
Class struggles? : LESSONS
52
Sanctions : ASSENTS
53
Pro performer : ARTISTE
54
Others : THEREST
55
Expose and destroy : ROOTOUT
Down
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Guinness Book weather record category : HOTTEST
2
Former home of the N.F.L.'s Rams : ANAHEIM
3
Cooling-off period : DETENTE
4
Spoils : DOTESON
5
Immobile in winter : ICEDIN
6
Not wait for an invitation : BARGEIN
7
Eye sore : STYE
8
Bath and others : SPAS
9
Carnegie Mellon athletes : TARTANS
10
King of Belgium : ALBERT
11
Races : PEOPLES
12
Pantries : LARDERS
13
"___ and Franklin," 1976 biopic : ELEANOR
14
Makes flush : REDDENS
24
Drum accompanying a pipe : TABOR
25
The ___ Marbles : ELGIN
28
Island said to be the home of Homer's tomb : IOS
31
"Again?!" : NOWWHAT
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With no time to lose : INARUSH
33
Celebrity chef : LAGASSE
34
Scoundrel : STINKER
35
Young members of a convocation : EAGLETS
36
Melville's Ishmael, e.g. : NONHERO
37
Comes through successfully : MAKESIT
38
Bristol Cream ingredient : OLOROSO
39
Guide feature? : SILENTU
40
Control tower equipment : HEADSET
42
Purrer : ENGINE
44
Links with : TIESTO
48
Once, long ago : ERST
49
Woodwind instrument: Abbr. : CLAR

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

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