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New York Times, Friday, March 15, 2002

Author:
Brendan Emmett Quigley
Editor:
Will Shortz
31-Across : Cooks, in a way
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
1938/7/199612/22/202321
SunMonTueWedThuFriSatVariety
385152119522716
RebusCircleScrabDebutFresh
531.631,16472%
Brendan Emmett Quigley

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 66, Blocks: 37 Missing: {QYZ} This is puzzle # 58 for Mr. Quigley. Friday freshness: 67%
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© 2002, The New York Times3/15/2 ( No. 19,120 )
Across
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Some beets : CHARDS
7
Handles : WIELDS
13
Spiro's predecessor : HUBERT
14
Where toys may be displayed : DOGSHOW
15
Baseball's 1998 All-Star Game M.V.P. : ALOMAR
16
Record company receipt : DEMOTAPE
17
Chuck Berry title girl : NADINE
18
Painted vessel, perhaps : EWER
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___ legs : SEA
20
Siren : SEXKITTEN
22
Take nothing in : FAST
23
Unlike wild horses : SHOD
24
Astronomer Tycho : BRAHE
25
Seine sights : BATEAUX
29
Clothier, in Cambridge : DRAPER
30
Supporters : PATRONS
31
Cooks, in a way : BRAISES
32
Where the worldly-wise have been : AROUND
33
Ranch area : FEEDLOT
34
Heredity, so to speak : GENES
35
Big zero : NADA
36
Not up : ABED
37
Oath : SOLEMNVOW
42
Word in a prohibition : NOT
43
Master's superiors? : PHDS
44
Begin participating : JOININ
46
Get going : INITIATE
48
For less : ONSALE
49
Not totally amateur : SEMIPRO
50
Happen to : BETIDE
51
___ fly : TSETSE
52
Defeated in a face-off, with "down" : STARED
Down
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Director and star of "Armour of God" : CHAN
2
Dances in grass? : HULAS
3
Quarters : ABODE
4
Edit for radio, maybe : REMIX
5
Had a shot : DRANK
6
Best Actress winner of 1968 : STREISAND
7
They can deliver : WOMEN
8
Violinist Oistrakh : IGOR
9
Old self-realization program : EST
10
14-Across entrant : LHASAAPSO
11
Track record? : DOPESHEET
12
Some display letters : SWEATERS
14
Wet, in a way : DEWED
16
Get clean, so to speak : DETOX
21
Start of a conclusion : THUS
22
Delicate : FRAIL
24
"Marmaduke" cartoonist Anderson : BRAD
25
Unembellished : BAREBONES
26
Previously : ATONETIME
27
Aligned : TRUED
28
Almost forever : EONS
29
Great things to work at : DREAMJOBS
30
Wiccan, e.g. : PAGANIST
31
Saint known as "The Venerable" : BEDE
33
Kind of alarm : FALSE
35
Give the O.K. : NODTO
37
What a certificate may represent : SHARE
38
Chamber composition : NONET
39
Prospect : VISTA
40
Broadcasting : ONAIR
41
"The Canterville Ghost" author : WILDE
43
1960's-70's backup group, with "the" : PIPS
45
Not just desire : NEED
47
Part of an even exchange : TIT

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