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New York Times, Friday, October 25, 2002

Author:
Brendan Emmett Quigley
Editor:
Will Shortz
39-Across : Banquets
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
1938/7/199612/22/202321
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RebusCircleScrabDebutFresh
531.631,16472%
Brendan Emmett Quigley

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 72, Blocks: 32 Missing: {FJQZ} This is puzzle # 62 for Mr. Quigley. Friday freshness: 14%
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© 2002, The New York Times10/25/2 ( No. 19,344 )
Across
1
Words after a digression : WHEREWASI
10
End piece? : OBIT
14
2001 Grammy-winning band for the album "Kid A" : RADIOHEAD
15
Court figure : STENO
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Its flag is a red stripe over a white stripe : INDONESIA
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Angle measurement symbol : THETA
18
"___ goes" : SOIT
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Collectors' locales : TOLLBOOTHS
21
Reason to prolong play : TIE
22
Dura Lube alternative : STP
23
1958-71 political inits. : UAR
24
Excited, with "up" : HET
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Expose, to poets : OPE
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Hardly heavy-footed : SPRY
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With 15-Down, low : ONE
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Bungling : MALADROIT
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Maintain : AVER
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Shiver-inducing : GELID
33
Mantel piece : URN
34
Simmers : STEWS
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Al-___ : ANON
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Works with a plane : SMOOTHENS
38
Bewhiskered trash collector : RAT
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Banquets : SUPS
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Publisher Ballantine : IAN
41
Near Eastern honorific : AGA
42
For one : PER
43
Coll. major : ENG
44
38-Across catcher : CAT
47
It's named after an opera star : MELBATOAST
50
Novelist Duun : OLAV
51
Artemis slew him : ORION
52
Semiramis's subjects : ASSYRIANS
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Some sneaks : NIKES
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"Let me show you how it's done" : STEPASIDE
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Big game : DEER
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Like some municipal bonds : TAXEXEMPT
Down
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Slap target, sometimes : WRIST
2
Where John McCain was shot down : HANOI
3
Plank on a pitcher's mound : EDDIE
4
Laughfest : RIOT
5
Long stretch : EON
6
Like some appetites : WHETTED
7
The Greek poet Babrius versified his stories : AESOP
8
Fly (through) : SAIL
9
Humphrey Bogart's "High Sierra" co-star : IDALUPINO
10
First Holy Roman emperor : OTHO
11
He wrote to his "Immortal Beloved" : BEETHOVEN
12
Talked about : INTHENEWS
13
Browning pieces? : TOASTERS
15
See 27-Across : STORY
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"Oliver!" composer : BART
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W.W. I plane : SPAD
25
"Thirtysomething" actor : OLIN
26
"The Alchemy of Finance" author George : SOROS
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Certain exhibition : MENAGERIE
29
Much the same : ALOTALIKE
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Butcher's offering : RUMPROAST
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Rate ___ (be perfect) : ATEN
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Popular typeface : GARAMOND
34
1970's hairdo : SHAG
36
Cooking fat : SUET
37
Photo in an old album : TINTYPE
39
Goes over : SPANS
43
Robert Devereux's earldom : ESSEX
44
Something staked : CLAIM
45
Food chain? : AANDP
46
Image maker : TVSET
48
___ War : BOER
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Film role played by Skippy : ASTA
50
It rises in the Ardennes : OISE
53
Stretch out, in Scotland : RAX

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

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