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New York Times, Friday, November 29, 2002

Author:
Patrick Berry
Editor:
Will Shortz
42-Across : Toward the southern border
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981.541,84281%
Patrick Berry

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 68, Blocks: 27 Missing: {JKQVXZ} This is puzzle # 37 for Mr. Berry. Friday freshness: 94%
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© 2002, The New York Times11/29/2 ( No. 19,379 )
Across
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Not so fine : SHABBIER
9
Soothe : PACIFY
15
Singer with the #1 hit "Don't Forbid Me" : PATBOONE
16
Cher's portrayer in "Clueless" : ALICIA
17
Team captains' accouterments : ARMBANDS
18
Lab test taker : RODENT
19
Org. that handles outbreaks : CDC
20
Lengthy reproval : RIOTACT
22
Run down : DIS
23
High spirit : ELAN
25
Rush-hour subway phenomenon : CRUSH
26
Puppylike : CUTE
27
Stuck : MIRED
29
Surveils : SPIESUPON
31
How movers might move a sofa : ENDWISE
33
Pedal pushers : FEET
34
Get close : NESTLE
35
Tour de ___ (bicycle race) : SUISSE
39
N.H.L. goalie Kolzig : OLAF
41
Sony product : DISCMAN
42
Toward the southern border : DOWNSTATE
46
Does in : SLAYS
47
Ringside shouts : OLES
48
Not just well-done : BURNT
50
Sum preceder? : ERGO
51
Chloral derivative, for short : DDT
52
Kind of code : GENETIC
54
1990 Broadway biographical play : TRU
55
Cut capers : GAMBOL
57
In song she was "a wild sort of devil, but dead on the level" : MYGALSAL
59
Number one advocate? : EGOIST
60
Leotard, e.g. : ONEPIECE
61
Core : DEPTHS
62
Shunted elsewhere : REROUTED
Down
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They may be encapsulated : SPACEMEN
2
Unswayable : HARDLINE
3
People swipe them : ATMCARDS
4
Co. watchdog : BBB
5
Animal that killed Adonis : BOAR
6
Like some chemical bonds : IONIC
7
Sign at a bank : ENDORSE
8
Prepare for big things : RESTUP
9
Game with a cross-shaped board : PARCHEESI
10
All the time : ALOT
11
Div. of Scotland Yard : CID
12
Jammed, in a way : ICEDUP
13
Over, slangily : FINITO
14
Sun ___ : YATSEN
21
Phrase spoken by 16-Across : ASIF
24
Units of force : NEWTONS
26
Manicurist's concern : CUTICLE
28
Deli jarful : DILLS
30
Children's doctor? : SEUSS
32
They may contain riders : SEATBELTS
36
Sophisticates : SMARTSET
37
Get ready for dinner, in a way : SAYGRACE
38
Full of spirit? : ENSOULED
40
Man/goat : FAUN
41
Breath freshener since 1899 : DENTYNE
42
Got out of : DODGED
43
Gerontologist's study : OLDAGE
44
Janitorial tool : WETMOP
45
Pre-eruption warning : TREMOR
49
Woods in front of a field? : TIGER
52
Beaver damn? : GOSH
53
Underworld higher-up : CAPO
56
It's boring : BIT
58
Bklyn. campus : LIU

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

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