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New York Times, Thursday, November 16, 2000

Author:
Nancy Salomon and Harvey Estes
Editor:
Will Shortz
56-Across : Exclamatory basketball star?
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
1868/13/199511/7/2012116
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3633533719611
RebusCircleScrabDebutFresh
1521.5890833%
Nancy Salomon
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
11612/29/199311/26/200845
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2015151219278
RebusScrabDebutFresh
71.5252247%
Harvey Estes

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 74, Blocks: 32 Missing: {FJQVXZ} Spans: 3 This is puzzle # 63 for Ms. Salomon. This is puzzle # 54 for Mr. Estes. Thursday freshness: 49%
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© 2000, The New York Times11/16/0 ( No. 18,636 )
Across
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Not a part of from the start : ADOPTED
8
Extra : SURPLUS
15
"South Pacific" song : BALIHAI
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Like some shares : PRORATA
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Exclamatory actor? : BYGEORGECLOONEY
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Surf sound : ROAR
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Naldi of the Ziegfeld Follies : NITA
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Makes a switch : SWAPS
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Big-chinned chinner : LENO
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Sot's woe : DTS
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Comparatively plenty : AMPLER
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L.A. Clippers are in it : NBA
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Physique, informally : BOD
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Mawkish : GOOEY
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Kind of diet : SCARSDALE
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Exclamatory best-selling author? : GREATSCOTTTUROW
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Owing money : INTHEHOLE
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Love lots : ADORE
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Suffix with count : ESS
42
Mousehawk : OWL
43
Hot : TRENDY
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Old New Yorker cartoonist Hoff : SYD
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Furry "Star Wars" creature : EWOK
48
Utter : STATE
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Old-time oath : EGAD
52
Become unhinged : SNAP
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Exclamatory basketball star? : HOLYMOSESMALONE
59
Hex halters : AMULETS
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Coach Joe of Penn State : PATERNO
61
Ticket stub, sometimes : MEMENTO
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Hardly a person for all seasons : SNOWMAN
Down
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Answer that's an example of itself : ABBR
2
Belafonte song opener : DAYO
3
One of Chekhov's Three Sisters : OLGA
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Sloop slip : PIER
5
Howe'er : THO
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Breadwinner : EARNER
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Cook's exhortation : DIGIN
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Watchdog org.? : SPCA
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WWW address : URL
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Sparrow's spot : ROOST
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Bows : PROWS
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Actress Turner : LANA
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Lone Star sch. : UTEP
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Opines : SAYS
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British prep school : ETONCOLLEGE
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1944 battle site : LEYTE
23
What shifty eyes do : DART
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Farming major : AGGIE
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Early times : MORNS
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Burns and Allen, e.g. : POETS
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Jacob's first wife : LEAH
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Diminish : BATE
30
Man with an estate : BARON
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"What now?!" : OLORD
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Library system pioneer : DEWEY
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Garbage barge : SCOW
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Like a moonscape : STARK
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Bro : DUDE
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Like plow horses : SHOD
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Goodson's game show partner : TODMAN
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Bob, for one : STYLE
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Red Sea nation : YEMEN
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Aristophanes comedy, with "The" : WASPS
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Pillow cover : SHAM
49
Voluminous volume : TOME
50
Homecoming guest : ALUM
51
Petrol brand : ESSO
52
Lot : SLEW
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Benchmark : NORM
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"___ and the King" (Foster film) : ANNA
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Lowly laborer : PEON
57
Giant of old : OTT
58
From ___ Z : ATO

Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later.

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