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New York Times, Friday, February 25, 2000

Author:
William S. Cotter
Editor:
Will Shortz
48-Across : Persist
TotalDebutLatest
79/19/19965/13/2000
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
0020113
ScrabDebutFresh
1.634268%
William S. Cotter

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 70, Blocks: 36 Missing: {QX} This is puzzle # 6 for Mr. Cotter. Friday freshness: 57%
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© 2000, The New York Times2/25/0 ( No. 18,371 )
Across
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Backyard item : BUGZAPPER
10
Woman of La Mancha : MUJER
15
The earth's is largely iron : INNERCORE
16
Foucault's "This Is Not ___" : APIPE
17
Ceres, for one : PLANETOID
18
The sky, maybe : LIMIT
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Spanish article : LAS
20
Exuviates : SHEDS
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Bygone money : ECU
23
Long : ACHE
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Wage ___ : EARNER
28
"Rob Roy" star, 1995 : NEESON
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He played himself in "Being John Malkovich" : SEANPENN
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Ancient ascetic : ESSENE
34
The gamut, in retailing : ALLSIZES
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Accept, but maybe unhappily : SWALLOW
37
Get clobbered : TAKEAHIT
41
Optimal number of golf strokes : FEWEST
46
Noted bell ringer : AVONLADY
47
PepsiCo product : FRITOS
48
Persist : LINGER
49
Literally, "injured" : LESE
50
Kit ___ : KAT
51
Super Bowl XXV site : TAMPA
56
Street wear? : RUT
57
Circus prop : STILT
60
Important crossing points : GOALLINES
63
It might get you a ride : TOKEN
64
Teflon, for one : TRADENAME
65
Wooer of Merope, in myth : ORION
66
Lags : STRAGGLES
Down
1
Many a crop-duster : BIPLANE
2
Prepares to remove : UNLACES
3
Grinds : GNASHES
4
Pursuit of satori : ZEN
5
Metric measure : ARE
6
Batting avgs., e.g. : PCTS
7
"Fiddle-faddle!" : POOH
8
Gannon University city : ERIE
9
Demond's 70's TV co-star : REDD
10
Start to adjust? : MAL
11
Co. formed in a 1958 merger : UPI
12
1956 Literature Nobelist Juan Ramón ___ : JIMENEZ
13
Having the characteristics of both sexes : EPICENE
14
Figures watched at night? : RETURNS
21
Barricade : SEALOFF
24
Suffix with Brooklyn : ESE
26
Match, as a description : ANSWER
27
Coll. in Troy, N.Y. : RPI
29
Discounted : ONSALE
30
Sitcom with Dick and Joanna : NEWHART
31
Slightly blue : SALTY
32
Addition of sorts : ELL
36
Succor : AID
37
Addresses : TALKSTO
38
Snoopy, as he sometimes fancied himself : AVIATOR
39
1950 nonfiction best seller : KONTIKI
40
School subj. : ENG
42
1977 "Gnomes" best-selling author Huygen : WIL
43
Like some flames : ETERNAL
44
Snide retort : SOSUEME
45
Cousins of houseflies : TSETSES
52
Ticket sellers: Abbr. : AGTS
53
"Beetle Bailey" creator Walker : MORT
54
Bygone TV host : PAAR
55
Actor whose last name has three letters of his first : ALDA
58
Fierce type, astrologically : LEO
59
Statler Bros. broadcaster : TNN
61
Mutton serving : LEG
62
Like a popular Beethoven minuet : ING

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 6 debuted here and reused later, 4 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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