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New York Times, Friday, August 7, 2009

Author:
Manny Nosowsky
Editor:
Will Shortz
5-Down : Hunky-dory
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Manny Nosowsky

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 66, Blocks: 21 Missing: {JQXZ} Spans: 6, (2 triple stacks) This is puzzle # 253 for Mr. Nosowsky. Friday freshness: 89%
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© 2009, The New York Times8/7/9 ( No. 21,822 )
Across
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"The loneliest guy in town" : MAYTAGREPAIRMAN
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"Hold on" : ONEMOMENTPLEASE
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Handles things evenhandedly : STRIKESABALANCE
18
Important part for a jig : TOE
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Cracker shapes : ANIMALS
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Substitute acquired by about half a million people a year: Abbr. : GED
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Representative : ENVOY
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Scale start : DORE
24
___ Fein : SINN
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"The Bridge on the River Kwai" setting : SIAM
26
City where Einstein developed his special theory of relativity : BERN
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Vinegar: Prefix : ACETO
28
More fashionable : TONIER
30
Sudden light seen through the clouds : SUNBURST
32
Catch-22 : TRAP
34
1970s-'80s sitcom setting : MELS
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Using high-flown language : POETICAL
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"Mother of the believers" : AYESHA
43
"Bonne ___!" (French cry on January 1) : ANNEE
44
Undershirt, in Britain : VEST
46
"You're putting ___!" : MEON
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Office stamp : RECD
48
"Say ___" (1940 Glenn Miller hit) : SISI
49
Ones in control of their faculties? : DEANS
50
"___ Girl Like You Loved a Boy Like Me" : IFA
51
Mount from which people can see far away : PALOMAR
53
Company that makes Styrofoam : DOW
54
Viking stories, e.g. : NORSELITERATURE
57
Took flak for something one said, say : GOTINTOHOTWATER
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Bedazzlement : STARSINONESEYES
Down
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Maximum, slangily : MOSTEST
2
For whose benefit "the quality of mercy is not strain'd" in Shakespeare : ANTONIO
3
Capital of Armenia : YEREVAN
4
1979 nuclear accident site: Abbr. : TMI
5
Hunky-dory : AOKAY
6
Some raiders, informally : GMEN
7
Lodge : RESIDE
8
Charms : ENAMORS
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Businessman/entertainer who was once mayor of Bridgeport, Conn. : PTBARNUM
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"Behold ___ Horse" (William Cooper book) : APALE
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Targets of remedies : ILLS
12
Stephen of "Stuck," 2007 : REA
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More itchy, maybe : MANGIER
14
Balloonists' doings : ASCENTS
15
Is unobliged to : NEEDNOT
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Missing : OMITTED
24
"Beg pardon," in casual talk : SCUSEME
26
Bric-a-___ : BRAC
27
Well : ABLY
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Iroquoian language : ERIE
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All lined up : NEAT
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Fair place : PAVILION
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Cut rinds, e.g. : PARINGS
36
30.48 centimeters : ONEFOOT
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Something once bundled with Microsoft products : ENCARTA
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Basutoland, today : LESOTHO
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Navy service : SEADUTY
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Center of a roast : HONOREE
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"Jeopardy!" fodder : ANSWERS
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Dinah's avenger in the Bible : SIMEON
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1972 U.S./U.S.S.R. pact : SALTI
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Ties : DRAWS
51
Bank chains hold them : PENS
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Museo contents : ARTE
55
Quaint letter start : SIR
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___ kwon do : TAE

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

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