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New York Times, Friday, January 21, 2005

Author:
Frank Longo
Editor:
Will Shortz
21-Across : Some card players
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
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Frank Longo

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 52, Blocks: 38 Missing: {BJKQWXYZ} Grid has both left-right and up-down symmetry. Average word length: 7.19 This is puzzle # 81 for Mr. Longo. Friday freshness: 100%
Jim Horne notes:

This puzzle held the record for lowest word count in my database, 52, until Joe Krozel tied that record in 2012 and then broke it in 2013.

It still holds the record for longest average word length.

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© 2005, The New York Times1/21/5 ( No. 20,163 )
Across
1
Heavy overcoat : ULSTER
7
Pet that's likely to purr : LAPCAT
13
Wandering rogues, as in Cervantes stories : PICAROS
15
Tax max : TOPRATE
16
It hangs over the ocean : SEAMIST
17
Prince ___ Land (historical Canadian region that drains into Hudson Bay) : RUPERTS
18
Movie preview, e.g. : ENTICER
19
Having a knack for : ADEPTAT
20
One way of seasoning : TOTASTE
21
Some card players : DEALERS
22
Earth-scanning satellites, e.g. : REMOTESENSORS
24
Certain furniture ensembles : DINETTESETS
25
Indian author ___ Mehta, a staff writer for The New Yorker for more than 30 years : VED
26
Occult sciences, collectively : HERMETICISM
34
Little-seen examples : RAREINSTANCES
36
Cubist Léger : FERNAND
37
Ate quickly, slangily : INHALED
39
Big name in auto parts : ACDELCO
40
Not suitable for passing : ONELANE
41
Revel without restraint : ROISTER
42
Rouyn-___, city and county of Quebec : NORANDA
43
___ Last Stand : CUSTERS
44
Small laugh : SNIGGER
45
Ancient Spartan magistrates : EPHORS
46
Has the wheel : STEERS
Down
1
Surprise at the polls : UPSET
2
Certain claimant : LIENOR
3
Beat it : SCATTED
4
___ Trail (Everglades highway) : TAMIAMI
5
Explorer from ca. A.D. 1000 : ERICSON
6
Floral ornament : ROSETTE
7
Crescendos : LOUDENS
8
Play the peacemaker : APPEASE
9
Plan in advance : PREPLOT
10
Former first family : CARTERS
11
Perfume ingredients : ATTARS
12
Lab work : TESTS
14
They're often found near busy intersections : STREETVENDORS
15
Bookstore books : TRADEEDITIONS
23
Keeps in print, in a way : STETS
26
Not very cushiony : HARDISH
27
Automaker Maserati : ERNESTO
28
Make further modifications to : REALTER
29
Kitchen gizmos : MINCERS
30
Producers of major reports : CANNONS
31
Be willed : INHERIT
32
Amount deducted from the price of goods to compensate for loss : SCALAGE
33
Gallimaufry : MELANGE
34
Get back : RECOUP
35
One going to the post office : SENDER
36
Ridiculous sham : FARCE
38
Kind souls : DEARS

Answer summary:
9 unique to this puzzle, 7 debuted here and reused later, 8 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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