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New York Times, Friday, September 16, 2011

Author:
Joe DiPietro
Editor:
Will Shortz
18-Across : Figure on a bridge score sheet
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Joe DiPietro

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 68, Blocks: 31 Missing: {JQXZ} This is puzzle # 107 for Mr. DiPietro. Friday freshness: 97%
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© 2011, The New York Times9/16/11 ( No. 22,592 )
Across
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Reduce to bare bones : STRIPDOWN
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"Hey you!" : PSSST
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1990 Clint Eastwood cop film : THEROOKIE
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Studio sign : ONAIR
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Likely to take chances : RISKPRONE
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Figure on a bridge score sheet : TALLY
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Money competitor : INC
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Was up to date, with "out"? : ASKED
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They may work for both sides : SPIES
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Pitlik who directed "Barney Miller" and "Mr. Belvedere" : NOAM
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Toledo-to-Columbus dir. : SSE
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Shut (up) : PENT
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Reaction of thirsty people : GULPING
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Firm : ALDENTE
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Wallace who wrote "Angle of Repose" : STEGNER
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Stolen : PIRATED
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Old "One mission. Yours." sloganeer : TWA
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Miss ___ : USA
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Worse than awful : HEINOUS
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Blowout : SHINDIG
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Small night creatures : ELFOWLS
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Reckless smuggler of sci-fi : HANSOLO
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Area close to a hockey net : SLOT
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Abbr. before "Co." in some company names : MFG
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Suffer from the heat : WILT
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Having less coverage : BARER
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Go down again, so to speak : RECUR
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Frost relative : DEW
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"Get ___ on!" : AMOVE
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"Generally speaking ..." : ONAVERAGE
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Hit the bottom of? : CANED
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Spread quickly over the Internet : GONEVIRAL
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Laments : KEENS
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Put one's feet up in neighborly fashion : SATASPELL
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Series : STRINGS
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Become sparse : THINOUT
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Change one's image, in a way? : RESCALE
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Needle : IRK
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___ wheelie : POPA
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Actress Diana : DORS
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"Enough already ... relax!" : OKOK
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Blushes, say : WINES
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Has trouble getting started : NEEDSAPUSH
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Piles of chips, say : POTS
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Stir-fry vegetable : SNAPPEA
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Pronounced : SALIENT
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Matte finish? : SILENTE
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Met on the down-low : TRYSTED
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Certain meas. of economy : MPG
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Kings prophet : ELISHA
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Getting dragged along : INTOW
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Minnesota home of Martin Luther College : NEWULM
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Semiterrestrial bug-catchers : GRASSFROGS
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Sap : DRAIN
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Alice Cooper's appropriately titled theme song for "Friday the 13th Part VI" : HESBACK
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Morse who sang "Cow-Cow Boogie" : ELLAMAE
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"From my perspective ..." : IFORONE
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Much less than that : NOTEVEN
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Australian state: Abbr. : NSW
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"Is it worth the chance?" : DOIDARE
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Criminal : ILLEGAL
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Recovered : GOTWELL
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Explorer John Cabot's birthplace : GENOA
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Some M&M's : REDS
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"I'm busy then" : CANT
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Eye part : UVEA
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Powers (up) : REVS
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Big swing : RIP

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