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New York Times, Friday, January 8, 1999

Author:
Martin Ashwood-Smith and Brendan Quigley
Editor:
Will Shortz
17-Across : 1892 Leoncavallo opera
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
876/5/19919/24/202210
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000246417
ScrabDebutPre‑WSFresh
1.52456766%
Martin Ashwood-Smith
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
1938/7/199612/22/202321
SunMonTueWedThuFriSatVariety
385152119522716
RebusCircleScrabDebutFresh
531.631,16472%
Brendan Emmett Quigley

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 70, Blocks: 33 Missing: {FKQVXZ} This is puzzle # 31 for Mr. Ashwood-Smith. This is puzzle # 25 for Mr. Quigley. Friday freshness: 29%
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© 1999, The New York Times1/8/99 ( No. 17,958 )
Across
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Big name in basketball : AIRJORDAN
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Fills up : SATES
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Steps up : STAIRCASE
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Pastry filler : CREME
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1892 Leoncavallo opera : PAGLIACCI
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"Dead ___" (1991 thriller) : AGAIN
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Blue bloods : ELITE
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Some landing sites : HELIPORTS
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"Under a Glass Bell" writer : NIN
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It's a sin : LUST
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"Julius Caesar" setting : SENATE
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Thousand-plus-pager : SAGA
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___ kebab : SHISH
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Fuse : WED
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Take off : DEDUCT
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1940 Fonda role : JOAD
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Mr. Muscles : HEMAN
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Words repeated in "If ___ meet ___..." : ABODY
38
Musical Mitchell : JONI
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PC key : DELETE
41
Kind of reaction : GUT
42
Public address system? : CSPAN
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Sales force : REPS
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City northwest of Syracuse : OSWEGO
50
Court records : ACTA
52
Drops on the ground : DEW
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Didn't budge : STAYEDPUT
55
Coo or cuckoo : NOISE
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Internet destinations : SITES
58
Shut off (from) : ALIENATED
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Like 11-Down : INERT
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Chat : TETEATETE
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Inherently : PERSE
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"Reeling in the Years" rock group : STEELYDAN
Down
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Trees with sawtooth-edged leaves : ASPENS
2
Umberto II was its last king : ITALIA
3
Afire : RAGING
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Leave alone : JILT
5
Oxford University college since 1326 : ORIEL
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New York's former ___ Building : RCA
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They have their ears close to the ground : DACHSHUNDS
8
Monk, perhaps : ASCETIC
9
Singer Young : NEIL
10
Suffix with sea or moon : SCAPE
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Number 18 : ARGON
12
Easily detached : TEARAWAY
13
Uttered : EMITTED
14
Had a hunch : SENSED
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Suffix with clown or brown : ISH
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Stamp of approval : USDA
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Gulf port : ADEN
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Drip source : STALACTITE
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Brit. recording giant : EMI
33
Minim : JOT
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Baltic Sea tributary : ODER
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Trouble, so to speak : HOTWATER
37
Proclivity : BENT
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Marquis de Sade novel : JUSTINE
40
Military decoration : EPAULET
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Tabloid topic : GOSSIP
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Like some pymts. : COD
44
Exchanged words? : EDITED
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Cuenca coin : PESETA
46
Its flag has a yellow cross on a blue background : SWEDEN
48
Onlookers : EYERS
49
Romance : GESTE
51
Record of one year : ANNAL
54
Some congratulations : PATS
56
Like some cereal : OATY
59
A foot wide? : EEE

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

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