Waste Recycling
    
    
      a cryptic puzzle by Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon
    
   
  
  
  
 
  Every clue answer disposes of one letter before entry into the diagram. These 36 cast-off letters are not wasted, however; takin in order, with Acrosses preceding Downs, they combine to form a complete cryptic clue for the (otherwise unclued) word in the center of the diagram. Answers include six proper nouns.
  
    Across
    
    
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          1.
          
            Waste put together in a new way? (6)
         
       
    
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          6.
          
            Ray's rounding up true rodeo cowboys (8)
         
       
    
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          11.
          
            Lecher gets in by swaggering (8)
         
       
    
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          12.
          
            Season's first TV show is a big hit (5)
         
       
    
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          13.
          
            Drink in court with soldier-to-be (5)
         
       
    
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          14.
          
            Red baseball team turns in roster (8)
         
       
    
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          16.
          
            Chopping a tree in road will make you tire (7)
         
       
    
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          17.
          
            Cool cats in street getting delivery (8)
         
       
    
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          19.
          
            Theban involved in massacre once (5)
         
       
    
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          21.
          
            Better judge, sometimes (5)
         
       
    
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          22.
          
            Big people will get heartless when in bunches (hyph.) (8)
         
       
    
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          24.
          
            City in a Mailer novel (7)
         
       
    
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          29.
          
            Dad throws dirt on artists (8)
         
       
    
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          30.
          
            Name traced initially in stone slab (5)
         
       
    
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          31.
          
            Drive train after kid (5)
         
       
    
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          32.
          
            Striking a jerk after drink of liquor (8)
         
       
    
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          33.
          
            Ugly sneer in male cow (8)
         
       
    
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          34.
          
            Spanish corn shoots (6)
         
       
    
    
   
  
    Down
    
    
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          2.
          
            Run with happiness to a member of the family (8)
         
       
    
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          3.
          
            G-men covering school disputes (5)
         
       
    
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          4.
          
            Most excited energy in dog buyer (8)
         
       
    
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          5.
          
            Pen article in French with elegance (5)
         
       
    
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          6.
          
            Auto seen losing its front in lurch (6)
         
       
    
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          7.
          
            Knife landed the wrong way during fight (8)
         
       
    
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          8.
          
            Tree rings—that is right (5)
         
       
    
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          9.
          
            Each small magazine employee is relieved (5)
         
       
    
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          10.
          
            Polish ship carries paper item for sneaky character (9)
         
       
    
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          15.
          
            Object found around brook causing great excitement (9)
         
       
    
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          18.
          
            Acts of marring pastry (2 words) (3,5)
         
       
    
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          19.
          
            Monument renovating—not cheap (8)
         
       
    
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          20.
          
            Pears lie fallen from tree (8)
         
       
    
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          23.
          
            Look in corner, you mean (6)
         
       
    
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          25.
          
            Mourning dress—clothing with red lining (5)
         
       
    
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          26.
          
            Children's author left in big hole (5)
         
       
    
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          27.
          
            Bring back fashionable public transportation (5)
         
       
    
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          28.
          
            Measure a famous boat (5)