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New York Times, Tuesday, April 2, 2002

Author:
Janice M. Putney
Editor:
Will Shortz
18-Across : Taco holders
TotalDebutLatest
810/1/20019/27/2010
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ScrabDebutFresh
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Janice M. Putney

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 38 Missing: {JKQVXZ} Spans: 3 This is puzzle # 3 for Ms. Putney. Tuesday freshness: 29%
Jim Horne notes:

This same theme was used in a 1994 puzzle by Sidney L. Robbins.

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© 2002, The New York Times4/2/2 ( No. 19,138 )
Across
1
High land : MESA
5
Brewers' needs : HOPS
9
Red Cross supplies : SERA
13
Spoken : ORAL
14
Got close to : BEFRIENDED
16
With 37- and 57-Across, a common warning : PASTPERFORMANCE
18
Taco holders : SHELLS
19
Sudden burst : SPATE
20
Friend of Pooh : ROO
21
Six-pointers, for short : TDS
24
Cold war foe : USSR
25
Corn bread : PONE
28
Spy's device : WIRETAP
31
Italian dramatist Pirandello : LUIGI
33
Prize that Pirandello won in 1934 : NOBEL
34
Pitcher's asset : ARM
37
See 16-Across : ISNOTAGUARANTEE
40
Pilot's announcement, briefly : ETA
41
Haughty ones : SNOBS
42
Kind of blade : ROTOR
43
Cuff site : PANTLEG
45
The Big Board: Abbr. : NYSE
46
Choir member : ALTO
49
WNW's opposite : ESE
50
Make stuff up : LIE
52
Bow parts : LOOPS
54
Present and future : TENSES
57
See 16-Across : OFFUTURERESULTS
62
More than great : STUPENDOUS
63
Covered : CLAD
64
Sound of a leak : SSSS
65
In ___ (existing) : ESSE
66
Bowlers and boaters : HATS
Down
1
Swab : MOP
2
Memorable times : ERAS
3
Obi : SASH
4
Mr. Hyde, to Dr. Jekyll : ALTEREGO
5
One of a pair of vanity plates : HERS
6
Not working : OFF
7
Favoring : PRO
8
"My dear man" : SIR
9
Take quickly : SNAPUP
10
Ferber and others : EDNAS
11
Four-sided figs. : RECTS
12
"Doe, ___ ..." : ADEER
14
Not on deck : BELOW
15
Dash lengths : EMS
17
Arafat's grp. : PLO
21
What ignoring this puzzle's warning may mean : TROUBLE
22
Knock down : DEBASE
23
Suffix with young : STER
25
Ballet bend : PLIE
26
Depose : OUST
27
Ship of 1492 : NINA
29
Gold bars : INGOTS
30
Winglike : ALAR
32
Guy Lombardo's "___ Lonely Trail" : ITSA
34
A.B.A. member: Abbr. : ATTY
35
Classic cars : REOS
36
A ___ child : MERE
38
Author Rice : ANNE
39
Paragon : NONESUCH
43
Easy outs : POPUPS
44
Unaccompanied part songs : GLEES
46
At ___ for words : ALOSS
47
Upper levels : LOFTS
48
Soy foods : TOFUS
51
Elected ones : INS
53
Sault ___ Marie : STE
54
Align : TRUE
55
Singer Fitzgerald : ELLA
56
Urgent in the E.R. : STAT
58
French one : UNE
59
Hwys. : RDS
60
Goddess of the morning : EOS
61
1960's radical grp. : SDS

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

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