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New York Times, Saturday, November 25, 2000

Author:
Patrick D. Berry
Editor:
Will Shortz
22-Across : Stigmatize
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
2297/11/199911/4/20182
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741241679512
RebusCircleScrabDebutFresh
981.541,84281%
Patrick Berry

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 66, Blocks: 24 Missing: {JQXZ} This is puzzle # 17 for Mr. Berry. Saturday freshness: 88%
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© 2000, The New York Times11/25/0 ( No. 18,645 )
Across
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Folksy greeting : HOWDEDO
8
Things to consider : ASPECTS
15
Asthmatic's need : INHALER
16
Jazzman Jordan : STANLEY
17
Liturgical responses : GLORIAS
18
Warrior at Thermopylae : PERSIAN
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Snow White's Dwarfs, e.g. : HEPTAD
20
Precede : LEADUPTO
21
Supply in a nurse's kit : TAPE
22
Stigmatize : BRAND
24
Incursion : RAID
25
Foremen : OVERSEERS
27
Solid, in a phrase : FIRMA
28
By way of : PER
29
Handful : HANK
30
Trophy site : MANTEL
31
Not being able to stand : DETESTING
33
Marks thought to possess occult power : SIGILS
36
One of the Ivies : PENN
37
Chef's exclamation, perhaps : BAM
40
Noted book publisher beginning 1915 : KNOPF
41
Where the Magna Carta was signed : RUNNYMEDE
43
Dangerous time : IDES
44
Intrinsically : PERSE
45
Ceremonies : ADOS
46
Basis of a scandal, maybe : MISTRESS
48
Wimsey's creator : SAYERS
50
Crime lord : MAFIOSO
51
Lawless land : SOMALIA
52
Legislator : ENACTOR
53
Lent effort : ATONING
54
Worst, hour-wise : DARKEST
55
Musical score segment : PASSAGE
Down
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Big sneaker : HIGHTOP
2
Off-base : ONLEAVE
3
Ludicrous falsehood : WHOPPER
4
Fast freshwater fish : DARTER
5
"Mrs. Battle's Opinions on Whist" writer : ELIA
6
Sponges : DEADBEATS
7
Where hearts may be opened: Abbr. : ORS
8
Classic nature subjects for Ansel Adams : ASPENS
9
Place : STEAD
10
Friend on the trail : PARD
11
Clinching : ENSURING
12
Some newsletter pictures : CLIPART
13
Break point at Wimbledon? : TEATIME
14
Of church affairs : SYNODAL
20
Flowers of the buttercup family : LARKSPURS
23
Title hero of a Chateaubriand novel : RENE
26
Kind of life : SHELF
27
Bottom : FANNY
30
Home to General Mills and Hormel : MINNESOTA
31
It's cleaned at gas stations : DIPSTICK
32
Olympic coup : TENS
33
Did illegal casino work : SKIMMED
34
Noted Jones : INDIANA
35
Is a big success : GOESFAR
37
Actress Bonnie of "Die Hard" : BEDELIA
38
Like fans : ADORING
39
Mail body : MESSAGE
41
Building on the beach : RESORT
42
Writers of early hieroglyphics : MAYANS
44
Sucre lucre : PESOS
47
Mechanical course : ROTE
49
It follows Joel : AMOS
51
Patsy : SAP

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

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