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New York Times, Monday, April 2, 2001

Author:
Peter Gordon
Editor:
Will Shortz
20-Across : Running backs, often
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Peter Gordon

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 38 Missing: {JQXZ} This is puzzle # 55 for Mr. Gordon. Monday freshness: 41%
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© 2001, The New York Times4/2/1 ( No. 18,773 )
Across
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Submarine detector : SONAR
6
Bartender's "rocks" : ICE
9
Unexpected defeat : UPSET
14
The Gem State : IDAHO
15
"The A-Team" star : MRT
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Debonair : SUAVE
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Settle a debt : REPAY
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Long, long time : EON
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Hungry : UNFED
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Running backs, often : BALLCARRIERS
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In the past : AGO
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Paved the way : LED
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Relative of "Darn!" : HECK
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Cold, wind and sleet, e.g. : FOULWEATHER
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Tiny fraction of a joule : ERG
35
Student getting one-on-one help : TUTEE
36
Decay : ROT
37
Paraphernalia : GEAR
38
Self-images : EGOS
39
Astronaut's wear : GSUIT
41
As far as : UPTO
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Whistle blowers : REFS
43
Miner's quest : ORE
44
Attempts : TRIES
45
Sp. woman : SRA
46
Carnival's setting : FAIRGROUNDS
49
What flags do in the wind : FLAP
51
Like avaunt and prithee: Abbr. : OBS
52
Test for coll. seniors : GRE
53
Hit the jackpot : STRIKEITRICH
58
"Common Sense" writer : PAINE
59
Turf : SOD
60
Blood carrier : AORTA
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Painful stomach problem : ULCER
65
Major-leaguer : PRO
66
Jurist Brandeis : LOUIS
67
College bigwigs : DEANS
68
Desire : YEN
69
Borders : EDGES
Down
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Knight's title : SIR
2
Keats's "Bards of Passion and of Mirth," e.g. : ODE
3
Siesta : NAP
4
Captain with a whalebone leg : AHAB
5
Formal pronoun : ROYALWE
6
Marcos of the Philippines : IMELDA
7
Gator's cousin : CROC
8
Volcano in Sicily : ETNA
9
Shylock : USURER
10
Language of ancient Carthage : PUNIC
11
Protection : SAFEKEEPING
12
Next-to-last fairy tale word : EVER
13
Slugger Williams and others : TEDS
21
Peggy who sang "Fever" : LEE
22
Butler at Tara : RHETT
23
Dessert, to a Brit : AFTERS
24
Extortionist : GOUGER
25
Oscar-winning Meryl Streep film : OUTOFAFRICA
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Not so much : LESS
30
More factual : TRUER
31
___ polloi : HOI
33
Like "American Beauty" : RATEDR
34
___ Pointe, Mich. : GROSSE
37
Know-it-all : GURU
39
Lose it : GOAPE
40
___ Lanka : SRI
44
Like most maps : TOSCALE
46
Charlatans : FAKERS
47
Racer Jeff : GORDON
48
Baseball stat : RBI
50
Fourth anniversary gift : LINEN
53
Tater : SPUD
54
Tall story : TALE
55
Cosby show : ISPY
56
Drove like mad : TORE
57
Engine cover : HOOD
61
Toupee : RUG
62
Backgammon impossibility : TIE
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Donkey's cousin : ASS

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 3 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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