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New York Times, Tuesday, August 23, 2005

Author:
Holden Baker and Nancy Salomon
Editor:
Will Shortz
20-Across : Prefix with duct
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
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0842110
RebusCircleScrabbleFresh
111.5327%
Holden Baker
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RebusCircleScrabblePGramFresh
1521.58132%
Nancy Salomon

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 36 Missing: {JQWZ} Featured in Will Shortz's favorite puzzles. This is puzzle # 10 for Mr. Baker. This is puzzle # 147 for Ms. Salomon. Tuesday freshness: 35%
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© 2005, The New York Times8/23/5 ( No. 20,377 )
Across
1
Bit of dandruff : FLECK
6
Drivers' aids : TEES
10
Captain of the Pequod : AHAB
14
Debussy contemporary Erik : SATIE
15
Cart part : AXLE
16
"Damn Yankees" vamp : LOLA
17
Document shown at border patrol : TRAVELVISA
19
Writer Harte : BRET
20
Prefix with duct : OVI
21
Yeats or Keats : POET
22
Cape Canaveral event : LAUNCH
24
California observatory : PALOMAR
26
Salon jobs : PERMS
27
Fixation indication : TUNNELVISION
31
Meager : SLIM
33
Served up a whopper : LIED
34
Magic org. : NBA
35
Feathery scarves : BOAS
36
Very humble home : HOVEL
38
Score for a 34-Across player : HOOP
39
Satisfied sighs : AHS
40
1952 Hope/Crosby "Road" destination : BALI
41
Pool part? : GENE
42
Rubbernecker at the Ritz, perhaps : HOTELVISITOR
46
Fuss with feathers : PREEN
47
Zilch : NOTABIT
51
Celestial Seasonings alternative : SALADA
53
Gin flavorer : SLOE
54
"So there you ___!" : ARE
55
Long stretches : ERAS
56
Part of a suit of armor : STEELVISOR
59
Derby : RACE
60
"I smell ___!" : ARAT
61
Perfect places : EDENS
62
Took it on the lam : FLED
63
Candied tubers : YAMS
64
Like Vikings : NORSE
Down
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Shutterbug's setting : FSTOP
2
Caterpillar, for one : LARVA
3
Internet commerce : ETAIL
4
Opposite of military: Abbr. : CIV
5
Button one's lips : KEEPMUM
6
Pub : TAVERN
7
Off-ramp : EXIT
8
Raised railroads : ELS
9
Denver is way above it : SEALEVEL
10
Philatelists' books : ALBUMS
11
Interrupts : HORNSINON
12
Knighted Guinness : ALEC
13
The Wife of ___ (Chaucer story teller) : BATH
18
Credit union offering : LOAN
23
Like the Kalahari : ARID
25
Elevator pioneer Elisha : OTIS
26
Ballerina's bend : PLIE
28
The King (subject of four "sightings" elsewhere in this puzzle) : ELVIS
29
Cousin of an English horn : OBOE
30
Catch a few Z's : NAP
31
Arty Manhattan district : SOHO
32
The cellar : LASTPLACE
35
"Balderdash!" : BAH
36
Participate in decision-making : HAVEASAY
37
Lena of "Chocolat" : OLIN
38
Sister and wife of Zeus : HERA
40
Ran in the wash : BLED
41
Settled a score : GOTEVEN
43
Rubbed out or off : ERASED
44
Estuaries : INLETS
45
Labor saver : TOOL
48
More despicable : BASER
49
Steam items : IRONS
50
Abrupt : TERSE
51
Lowly laborer : SERF
52
Asia's fast-shrinking ___ Sea : ARAL
53
Ore deposit : SEAM
57
___-la-la : TRA
58
Words of commitment : IDO

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

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