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New York Times, Friday, December 6, 2002

Author:
Brendan Emmett Quigley
Editor:
Will Shortz
58-Across : Like the Godhead
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Brendan Emmett Quigley

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 72, Blocks: 33 Missing: {X} This is puzzle # 64 for Mr. Quigley. Friday freshness: 40%
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© 2002, The New York Times12/6/2 ( No. 19,386 )
Across
1
Played ducks and drakes with : SQUANDERED
11
Classic symbol of bad luck : OPAL
15
It may be pushed at a party : TUPPERWARE
16
Mata ___ : HARI
17
He hid under the alias Thomas Howard : JESSEJAMES
18
Vision: Prefix : OPTO
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Made known : OUTED
20
Cozy retreat : NEST
21
"Shampoo" co-star : HAWN
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"Hath ___ sister?": Shak. : HEA
23
Originate (from) : STEM
25
Name for the nameless : DOE
26
Daft : NUTS
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Stead : LIEU
30
Frankincense and myrrh, but not gold : ODORS
32
Some phones have them : SPEAKERS
34
Mental problems : BLOCKS
35
Icky stuff : GUNK
36
Weary : FLAG
37
Choice in trunks : SPEEDO
40
Close one : NEARMISS
44
Sitcom landlord : MERTZ
45
Slap on : DAUB
46
"Wait ___!" : ASEC
47
Grp. with the 1976 platinum album "A New World Record" : ELO
48
Colgate, e.g.: Abbr. : UNIV
50
1990 film star autobiography subtitled "My Story" : AVA
51
It rolls in : TIDE
53
Anthem opener : OSAY
55
"Incompleteness theorem" formulator : GODEL
57
Tennis whiz : ACER
58
Like the Godhead : THREEINONE
60
Zola heroine : NANA
61
"Hungry Like the Wolf" band : DURANDURAN
62
Some marching groups : ANTS
63
You may get in with it : OPENSESAME
Down
1
Canadian province capital : STJOHNS
2
Get one behind the other : QUEUEUP
3
Like Rome vis-à-vis New York City : UPSTATE
4
Side room : APSE
5
Scholarship basis : NEED
6
Player whose number 6 jersey is now retired : DRJ
7
Obi-Wan portrayer, 1999 : EWAN
8
He was told to "let my people go" : RAMESES
9
1974 Mocedades hit : ERESTU
10
Villa ___ : DESTE
11
Anticipatory cry : OHOH
12
Haitian dictator, commonly : PAPADOC
13
Text accompanier : ARTWORK
14
Den mother : LIONESS
24
One may be crowned : MOLAR
27
First host of "America's Funniest Home Videos" : SAGET
28
Successor to Allen : LENO
29
Get to : IRK
31
Can you believe it? : DOGMA
33
Spreading plant : KUDZU
34
Not keep to oneself : BLAB
36
Bordeaux blaze : FEU
37
"Dalibor" composer : SMETANA
38
A symbol of Louisiana : PELICAN
39
Likely to wear down : ERODENT
40
Where Basque is spoken : NAVARRE
41
First name in dance : ISADORA
42
Morning time : SEVENAM
43
Unequal on all three sides : SCALENE
45
Serve : DISHUP
49
Abstain from : NOTDO
52
The Roosevelt years and others : ERAS
54
Have a kid : YEAN
55
"Travels in the Congo" writer : GIDE
56
Weight : ONUS
59
Pair of nines? : ENS

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

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