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New York Times, Saturday, December 19, 1998

Author:
Frank Longo and Dave Tuller
Editor:
Will Shortz
40-Across : Crescent
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
9110/29/199411/24/20192
SunMonTueWedThuFriSatVariety
150137142922
RebusScrabDebutFresh
41.4868687%
Frank Longo
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
168/4/19965/23/20093
SunMonTueWedThuFriSatVariety
31102342
RebusScrabDebutFresh
11.6011065%
Dave Tuller

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 70, Blocks: 36 Missing: {Q} Spans: 8, (2 triple stacks) Grid has both left-right and up-down symmetry. This is puzzle # 47 for Mr. Longo. This is puzzle # 6 for Mr. Tuller. Saturday freshness: 2%
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J
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A
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M
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E
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S
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I
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T
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V
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E
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G
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A
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N
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A
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N
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M
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P
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G
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A
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D
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S
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A
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G
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N
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S
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H
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E
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P
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T
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R
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E
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P
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N
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Y
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O
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A
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L
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L
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P
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T
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B
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H
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D
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G
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T
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C
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F
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P
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T
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F
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F
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© 1998, The New York Times12/19/98 ( No. 17,938 )
Across
1
"Home, ___!" : JAMES
6
Finish for Jacob or Joseph : ITE
9
Meat avoider : VEGAN
14
St. Teresa's birthplace : AVILA
15
Kill : NIX
16
Phantasm, e.g. : IMAGE
17
Sole food? : PICKLEDPIGSFEET
20
Dir. the Ebro flows : ESE
21
"Orlando Furioso" poet : ARIOSTO
22
The junk of junk mail : ADS
23
Constitution writer : DRAFTER
24
Hind's partner : STAG
28
French caricaturist Comte de ___ : NOE
29
Faithful dog, affectionately : SHEP
33
Whence the song "Mack the Knife," with "The" : THREEPENNYOPERA
38
Dog used as a wartime dispatch bearer : AIREDALETERRIER
39
What some paths offer : LEASTRESISTANCE
40
Crescent : LUNE
41
Mom-and-pop org.? : PTA
42
Guillotined part : TETE
43
Witnesses : BEHOLDS
47
Bit of pollution : ASH
50
Like some Kurds : IRANIAN
51
Hollywood employee: Abbr. : AGT
54
Small toy, at times : STOCKINGSTUFFER
57
Souchong alternative : PEKOE
58
Sound of reproach : TUT
59
Strength : FORTE
60
Issues (forth) : SPEWS
61
"Le coeur a ___ raisons..." : SES
62
Stood still : FROZE
Down
1
Make fun of : JAPE
2
Dollar competitor : AVIS
3
Nursery rhyme threesome : MICE
4
Soft leather : ELK
5
Kind of plate : SALAD
6
Howdah holders : INDIANELEPHANTS
7
Where the right word is, often : TIPOFONESTONGUE
8
Karl Jaspers and others : EXISTENTIALISTS
9
Helmet part : VISOR
10
It's expressed in volts: Abbr. : EMF
11
Mother of the Titans : GAEA
12
Let sit : AGED
13
Trawlers' trailers : NETS
18
Be off base : ERR
19
WorldCom competitor : GTE
24
Hold off : STALL
25
Vietnam War name : THIEU
26
Firth of Clyde island : ARRAN
27
Ones in a flight pattern? : GEESE
29
Lover of lean cuisine : SPRAT
30
"Buch der Lieder" poet : HEINE
31
Set up : ERECT
32
1929 Cole Porter song : PAREE
34
It starts in April in Fla. : EDT
35
Bond principal : PAR
36
Final word of "Ulysses" : YES
37
Crumb : ORT
43
Common campus transportation : BIKES
44
Verdi's "___ tu" : ERI
45
"Can't Help Lovin' ___ Man" : DAT
46
Put (out) : SNUFF
47
"Raiders of the Lost Ark" menaces : ASPS
48
Part of an aerobics exercise : STEP
49
Nonsense : HOKE
51
Old-fashioned do : AFRO
52
Noted Woody Herman band member : GETZ
53
Kind of diagram : TREE
55
Bully : COW
56
Because : FOR

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

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