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New York Times, Friday, March 18, 2005

Author:
Ed Early
Editor:
Will Shortz
20-Across : When doubled, a literary lecher
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
557/7/19947/14/20081
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1917117442
ScrabDebutFresh
1.5419532%
Ed Early

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 72, Blocks: 33 Missing: {QVWXZ} Spans: 4 This is puzzle # 42 for Mr. Early. Friday freshness: 38%
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© 2005, The New York Times3/18/5 ( No. 20,219 )
Across
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Squeals : BLABS
6
One of the Ewings on "Dallas" : PAM
9
Father of well-known twins : ISAAC
14
Gold-related : AURIC
15
He racked up 645 assists : ORR
16
Liquor alternative, in verse : CANDY
17
Like an unlucky thief : CAUGHTREDHANDED
20
When doubled, a literary lecher : HUMBERT
21
Beethoven's one : EINS
22
Many correspondents, nowadays : EMAILERS
24
Lions play in it: Abbr. : NFC
27
Like the thief at 17-Across : SENTENCEDTOJAIL
31
Piece activists?: Abbr. : NRA
32
Revolts : RIOTS
33
"Picnic" playwright : INGE
34
Songlike : ARIOSO
36
Hall-of-Fame golfer Tommy ___, called the "Silver Scot" : ARMOUR
38
Hugh Downs was his announcer : PAAR
39
Some knit goods : LISLE
42
Dot follower : ORG
43
Like the thief at 17- and 27-Across : UNDERLOCKANDKEY
47
Tally: Abbr. : PTS
48
Not enter hurriedly : EASEINTO
49
Cause of some shaking : AGUE
50
Short land route between two lakes : PORTAGE
54
Classic moral : CRIMEDOESNOTPAY
58
"The Wild Duck" playwright : IBSEN
59
Inner city, e.g. : URB
60
Loyal subject : LIEGE
61
Megacorporation : GIANT
62
Longest river of Scotland : TAY
63
German shoe material : LEDER
Down
1
Mass producer : BACH
2
Occasion to cook in an imu : LUAU
3
Kind of lily : ARUM
4
High roller's venture : BIGBET
5
They have plots : SCHEMERS
6
Attachment in classical architecture : PORTICO
7
Form of "to be" : ARE
8
2002 title role for Adam Sandler : MRDEEDS
9
Rejoinder to a doubter : ICANSO
10
Without : SANS
11
Additionally : AND
12
"Fables in Slang" author : ADE
13
Children's book illustrator Moore : CYD
18
Romantic plotter in "The Taming of the Shrew" : TRANIO
19
"Honey in the Horn" jazzman : HIRT
23
Court call : LET
24
Title subject of a classic 1922 documentary : NANOOK
25
1, for one : FIGURE
26
Cloth : CLERGY
27
Purchase quickly : SNAPUP
28
Seeking adventure : ERRANT
29
Juvenile dragonflies : NAIADS
30
Name in the original "Star Trek" : JIM
35
Graphite, e.g. : ORE
36
Its motto is "To help them, you have to help yourself first" : ALANON
37
Landlord's record : RENTROLL
39
Get the short end of the stick : LOSEOUT
40
Driving danger : ICE
41
Passes jauntily : SKIPSBY
44
University officer : REGENT
45
Sing a paean to : LAUD
46
Golfer Pepper : DOTTIE
49
Service approval : AMEN
51
Did like : APED
52
Plum variety : GAGE
53
One giving the once-over : EYER
54
Smoke : CIG
55
An Indian might get one: Abbr. : RBI
56
"Love ___ Ball" (1963 comedy) : ISA
57
Chronology component : ERA

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 3 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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