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New York Times, Saturday, February 5, 2005

Author:
Sherry O. Blackard
Editor:
Will Shortz
26-Across : Times when Mexico and Brazil celebrate their independence: Abbr.
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
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ScrabDebutFresh
1.5221680%
Sherry O. Blackard

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 68, Blocks: 24 Missing: {JQX} Spans: 2 This is puzzle # 38 for Ms. Blackard. Saturday freshness: 80%
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© 2005, The New York Times2/5/5 ( No. 20,178 )
Across
1
Automatic, e.g. : FIREARM
8
Band-aid : STOPGAP
15
Part of Italian East Africa : ERITREA
16
Millennium Falcon pilot : HANSOLO
17
Military policy : DONTASKDONTTELL
19
Winged being, in Germany : ENGEL
20
Sequence sung by kids : EIEIO
21
Find out : SEE
22
Some Bourbons, par exemple : ROIS
23
Grain sorghum variety : DURRA
24
W.W. II service acronym : WAAC
25
Foster son of the comics : ARN
26
Times when Mexico and Brazil celebrate their independence: Abbr. : SEPTS
27
"Meet John Doe" director : CAPRA
28
Concern of 55-Across : LEGALITY
30
Least colorful : PALEST
31
Press conference response : NOCOMMENT
33
Many a monk, once : SCRIBE
36
Like some radiation : IONIZING
40
Cries for attention : AHEMS
41
Some bolt holders : TNUTS
42
"Flower Drum Song" actor : SOO
43
Lock giant : YALE
44
Nucleus : CADRE
45
Mideast capital : SANA
46
It may be polit. : SCI
47
Turn red, maybe : RIPEN
48
Training ship trainee : CADET
49
Song from "A Chorus Line" : WHATIDIDFORLOVE
52
Former English royal house : HANOVER
53
Powerless to progress : UPATREE
54
Workers with horse sense? : OSTLERS
55
People getting into briefs? : LAWYERS
Down
1
Like post-Revolutionary architecture : FEDERAL
2
Refined find : IRONORE
3
Like certain endorsements : RINGING
4
Ending with Rock : ETTES
5
___ Sea, known in ancient times as Oxianus Lacus : ARAL
6
Monitor stat. : RES
7
Brown-nose : MAKEUPTO
8
Smiths : SHOERS
9
"Goldfinger" actress Mallet : TANIA
10
Able to see through : ONTO
11
Ore. is on it : PST
12
Comes unglued : GOESAPE
13
Very attentive : ALLEARS
14
Relative of a sable : POLECAT
18
Lecherous : DIRTYMINDED
23
Clear for takeoff : DEICE
24
Move breezily : WALTZ
26
Ones who may be wearing spotted ties? : SLOBS
27
___ Major : CANIS
29
Modern film genre : ANIME
30
Board game played with stones : PENTE
32
Wearing black, perhaps : MOURNFUL
33
Response to a dubious assertion : SAYSWHO
34
Dances with a shuffle-step : CHACHAS
35
Self-___ : RELIANT
37
___ Freleng, creator of Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck : ISADORE
38
Emphatic rejection : NONEVER
39
Facial features : GOATEES
41
Tropical animals : TAPIRS
44
Kind of press : CIDER
45
Off-color : SALTY
47
Bank of Paris : RIVE
48
Avian food holder : CRAW
50
"___'able David" (classic silent film) : TOL
51
W.W. II agcy. : OPA

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

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