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New York Times, Friday, October 19, 2001

Author:
Joe DiPietro
Editor:
Will Shortz
9-Across : Fitting activity
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
1418/26/19955/9/20241
SunMonTueWedThuFriSatVariety
311092443303
RebusCircleScrabDebutFresh
331.591,23673%
Joe DiPietro

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 72, Blocks: 27 Missing: none – this is a pangram. This is puzzle # 51 for Mr. DiPietro. Friday freshness: 52%
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© 2001, The New York Times10/19/1 ( No. 18,973 )
Across
1
Animated speaker? : MELBLANC
9
Fitting activity : JIGSAW
15
Mass recitation : AVEMARIA
16
Symphony completed in 1804 : EROICA
17
Bordeaux and others : REDWINES
18
Didn't play : SATOUT
19
Period : ERA
20
Like some misguided remarks : RACIST
22
No purebred : MUTT
23
Way: Abbr. : SYST
25
He claimed motion was illusionary : ZENO
26
Levels off, with "out" : MAXES
27
Dynamite constituent : NITRO
29
Drunken : SOTTED
31
Put in a record : ENROLL
33
Dither : STEW
34
Verbal gem : MOT
37
A gate may be attached to one : SCANDAL
39
Off base? : ONLEAVE
41
Your, of yore : THY
42
Spirit : BRIO
44
Some spicy cuisine : TEXMEX
45
Plaza de la Raza location, for short : EASTLA
47
"Will & Grace" co-star Messing : DEBRA
48
Affair : FLING
51
15-Across, e.g. : HYMN
53
Plot cover-ups? : SODS
54
Real lady's man : LORD
55
Grieve over : BEMOAN
57
Purchase for a project : KIT
58
1992 Wimbledon winner : AGASSI
60
Store up : PUTASIDE
62
Like curiosity, at times : PIQUED
63
Hysterical : INAPANIC
64
Attacks anonymously : SNIPES
65
On and on : ATLENGTH
Down
1
Ball of confusion : MARESNEST
2
Completely : EVERYINCH
3
More than tempted : LEDASTRAY
4
Lamborghini alternative : BMW
5
Retreat : LAIR
6
See 34-Down : ARNAZ
7
They may appear on a tree : NIECES
8
Places where hits are taken : CASINOS
9
Sport : JEST
10
Kind of contribution : IRA
11
Started to steam : GOTMAD
12
Red Wing, for one : SIOUX
13
Like some accents : ACUTE
14
Bulb info : WATTS
21
Under, in Umbria : SOTTO
24
Suffix with cosmo- : TRON
26
Behaved like a baby : MEWLED
28
Grimalkin : OLDBAG
30
Canvas : TENT
32
Filmmaker von Trier : LARS
34
Nickname for Puente or 6-Down : MAMBOKING
35
Went too far : OVERDIDIT
36
One of the Big 12 : TEXASTECH
38
Like a ballerina : LITHE
40
They're broken up : EXES
43
Capitol Lake locale : OLYMPIA
45
Results : ENDSUP
46
Check information : AMOUNT
48
Jacket parts : FLAPS
49
Register : LOGIN
50
Dinar earner : IRAQI
52
Dealing with delivery : NATAL
55
Olympic efforts : BIDS
56
Spot for a necklace clasp : NAPE
59
Take in : SEE
61
___ Pedro : SAN

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 5 debuted here and reused later, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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