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New York Times, Saturday, November 30, 2002

Author:
Jim Page
Editor:
Will Shortz
30-Across : Catch baskets
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This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 70, Blocks: 32 Missing: {HJKQXYZ} This is puzzle # 130 for Mr. Page. Saturday freshness: 48%
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© 2002, The New York Times11/30/2 ( No. 19,380 )
Across
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Drawing game : OLDMAID
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Classic Aerosmith song "Stop ___ Around" : MESSIN
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Early Italian violinist Arcangelo ___ : CORELLI
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Bad thing to have pulled on you : FASTONE
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Lure with music : TWEEDLE
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Perimeter guard : OUTPOST
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Mine entrance : ADIT
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Free from doubt : ASSURE
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Quirk : TIC
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Abnormal enlargement : NODE
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Aquarium store offerings : TETRAS
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Court oath : IDO
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Some jugs : EWERS
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Untilled stretch : LEA
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Bad marks : DEES
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News satire source, briefly : SNL
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Catch baskets : CREELS
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While lead-in : ERST
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Derringers, e.g. : SMALLARMS
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Large yard, perhaps : ACRE
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Baseball's Martinez and others : PEDROS
40
Year Helsinki was founded : MDL
43
Friday addressee? : MAAM
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It may follow a dot : COM
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Goggle : STARE
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Prefix with sac : OVI
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Counterbalance : SETOFF
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Pub round : ALES
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Seafood selection : EEL
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Title character in a Theodore Dreiser novel : CARRIE
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"Serpico" novelist : MAAS
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Rival of Captain Morgan : BACARDI
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Syncopated pieces : RAGTIME
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Jesus' tongue : ARAMAIC
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1995 N.F.L. Man of the Year : ESIASON
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Army band : STRIPE
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Pollen producers : STAMENS
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Some ratings : OCTANES
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Poop : LOWDOWN
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Place to see a nun : DREIDEL
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Airport sign holder, e.g. : MEETER
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City off. : ALD
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___ ease : ILLAT
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Like some locomotives : DIESELELECTRIC
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Actress Tierney : MAURA
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Best-selling author who wrote "Women Who Run With the Wolves" : ESTES
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Racing initials : STP
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Like Santa after returning to the North Pole? : SOOTIER
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Guts : INSIDES
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Bottom line for buying : NETCOST
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They're hard to put out : FOURALARMFIRES
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Safe entry? : STEELDOOR
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Inits. on old typewriters : SCM
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Louisiana's Lake ___ Allemands : DES
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Record store section : RAP
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Capacity descriptor, briefly : SRO
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Place for a father-to-be: Abbr. : SEM
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Works for an ed. : MSS
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They may be seen on slides : AMOEBAS
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Handwriting on the wall, maybe : CAVEART
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Train part : RAILCAR
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Early sickness symptom : MALAISE
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"As if!" : DREAMON
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Goes down : LESSENS
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Gong variety : TAMTAM
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Lock horns : SCRAP
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"Embraced by the Light" author Betty J. ___ : EADIE
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Spread : FEAST
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Who or where follower : AMI
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1998 biographical film about a supermodel : GIA

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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