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New York Times, Saturday, November 17, 2001

Author:
Bob Peoples
Editor:
Will Shortz
38-Across : Try to avoid arrest, perhaps
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Bob Peoples

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 72, Blocks: 27 Missing: {JQZ} This is puzzle # 5 for Mr. Peoples. Saturday freshness: 60%
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© 2001, The New York Times11/17/1 ( No. 19,002 )
Across
1
Prisoner punishment place : SWEATBOX
9
Sound of a dud : PHFFFT
15
Michael Jordan gets a lot of it : HANGTIME
16
Parent, e.g. : REARER
17
1994 Grammy co-winner for "Talking Timbuktu" : RYCOODER
18
Not at all nice : ORNERY
19
Atlas abbr. : ISL
20
Jai alai balls : PELOTAS
22
Indian honorific : SRI
23
Bass ___ : VIOL
25
Tie : NEXUS
26
Rap : CHAT
27
Ford family forename : EDSEL
29
Business card abbr. : TEL
30
"No man is ___ to his valet" : AHERO
31
Cut some more, maybe : REEDIT
33
Attends as an outsider : SITSINON
35
Ships to a far-off place? : UFOS
37
Tuscany tourist city : PISA
38
Try to avoid arrest, perhaps : SKIPTOWN
42
They may be heightened : SENSES
46
Circus sights : TENTS
47
Circus sound : OOH
49
Like chestnuts : STALE
50
Dog tail? : APSO
51
Preindicates : BODES
53
"Splendor in the Grass" Oscar winner : INGE
54
Kind of power : NTH
55
Stopgap : BANDAID
57
Physical conductors: Abbr. : DRS
58
Redecorate : DOOVER
60
Security datum : IDNUMBER
62
Deep dish : TUREEN
63
Something that may be charmed? : NECKLACE
64
Frolicking fauna : OTTERS
65
Pan, e.g. : GREEKGOD
Down
1
First Peace Corps director : SHRIVER
2
Kind of inn : WAYSIDE
3
Cocoon : ENCLOSE
4
Back : AGO
5
'Vette feature, perhaps : TTOP
6
1987-95 Senate Judiciary Committee head : BIDEN
7
Western ___ : OMELET
8
Reproductions of a sort : XEROXES
9
Indonesian outriggers : PROAS
10
One of a matching pair : HERS
11
Strike out : FAN
12
Renew : FRESHEN
13
1996-98 "Crossfire" co-host : FERRARO
14
Haberdasher's suggestion : TRYITON
21
Mania source of the 1630's : TULIP
24
Preceded : LEDUPTO
26
Tuscany export : CHIANTI
28
Features of certain British stories : LIFTS
30
Jacks, e.g. : ASSES
32
Further : TOO
34
Poetic contraction : TIS
36
Pass out : SWOON
38
Persist in : STANDTO
39
Wouldn't admit : KEPTOUT
40
Briefly : INSHORT
41
Affirmative action : NODDING
43
Bank protector? : SANDBAG
44
"Espolio" artist : ELGRECO
45
Is hopping mad : SEESRED
48
Spill : HEADER
51
They're raised on farms : BARNS
52
Subsequently : SINCE
55
Head site : BEER
56
Single fist? : DUKE
59
Winning sign : VEE
61
Annual honoree's inits. : MLK

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 6 debuted here and reused later, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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