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New York Times, Saturday, February 12, 2005

Author:
Joe DiPietro
Editor:
Will Shortz
45-Across : Long-distance service with fixed rates for fixed zones
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Joe DiPietro

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 68, Blocks: 26 Missing: {FJQVXZ} This is puzzle # 71 for Mr. DiPietro. Saturday freshness: 83%
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© 2005, The New York Times2/12/5 ( No. 20,185 )
Across
1
Finish, with "up" : MOP
4
Benefiting from benzoyl peroxide : ACNED
9
Run : SCOOT
14
Common course penalty : ONESTROKE
16
No family fare : PORNO
17
1871 sequel to a classic 1868 novel : LITTLEMEN
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Conclude by : ENDAT
19
Got going : ACTUATED
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Unpleasantly involve : ENMESH
21
Checks : REINSIN
22
Phoenician love goddess : ASTARTE
23
Campaign mgr.? : GEN
24
Monks, at times : INTONERS
25
It may be congested : SINUS
28
Saxony seaport : EMDEN
29
Year the Liang dynasty began in China : DII
30
Major oil refinery port : ADEN
31
Jerusalem artichoke, e.g. : TUBER
32
Attention : MIND
33
Appliance setting : LOW
34
Eppie's guardian, in an Eliot classic : SILAS
35
Simile's end? : LONGE
36
Caught : ENSNARED
38
Wagner's "___ fliegende Holländer" : DER
39
One proceeding confidently : STRIDER
40
Captures again, in a way : RETAPES
44
Trailer units : SCENES
45
Long-distance service with fixed rates for fixed zones : WATSLINE
46
One of a crime-fighting TV pair : LACEY
47
Wasn't silly : MADESENSE
48
Steaming : IRATE
49
Gathers quotes on : PRICESOUT
50
1666 London fire chronicler : PEPYS
51
Struck down : SMOTE
52
Romantic lead-in : NEO
Down
1
One may be crowned : MOLAR
2
Standing by : ONICE
3
___ di pollo (chicken breasts) : PETTI
4
World records? : ATLASES
5
No Einstein : CRETIN
6
The "Julius" of Gaius Julius Caesar, e.g. : NOMEN
7
Squeezed : EKED
8
Place to kick back : DEN
9
Used to buy : SPENTON
10
Cheat : CONMAN
11
Called for delivery : ORDEREDIN
12
Under one's control : ONASTRING
13
Not in front or back : TOTHESIDE
15
Zapper : STUNGUN
20
Dimethyl sulfate, e.g. : ESTER
22
Home of the Cordillera Real : ANDES
24
Comment from a tough guy : IMBAD
25
Return requirement : SALESSLIP
26
"Whatever" : IDONTCARE
27
Just the headlines : NEWSRECAP
28
Formulator of the quadratic reciprocity law : EULER
31
Targets of inflation : TIRES
32
Portrayer of Lt. Rodriguez on "N.Y.P.D. Blue" : MORALES
34
Part of a forlorn face : SADEYES
35
Deliberator's words : LETSSEE
37
You can get cited for doing it : NINETY
38
Notice : DETECT
40
Call : RADIO
41
Attach, in a way : PINON
42
Result : ENSUE
43
Handle : SEETO
45
Friendly : WARM
47
"M*A*S*H" extras, for short : MPS

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

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