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New York Times, Saturday, April 30, 2005

Author:
Nancy Salomon
Editor:
Will Shortz
1-Across : Harried query
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
1868/13/199511/7/2012116
SunMonTueWedThuFriSatVariety
3633533719611
RebusCircleScrabDebutFresh
1521.5890833%
Nancy Salomon

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 70, Blocks: 28 Missing: {FJXZ} This is puzzle # 139 for Ms. Salomon. Saturday freshness: 40%
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© 2005, The New York Times4/30/5 ( No. 20,262 )
Across
1
Harried query : WHATNOW
8
Covertly : ONTHEQT
15
Make over : RESHAPE
16
Gate : REVENUE
17
Risk : IMPERIL
18
Current measures : AMPERES
19
Celebrated inventor's monogram : TAE
20
Holiday staple : YULELOG
22
Flight stat. : ALT
23
Make a good impression? : ETCH
25
Owner of Alice's restaurant : MEL
26
Eyeball : OGLE
27
Italian tenor Schipa and others : TITOS
29
Pitcher, of a sort : SLOGANEER
33
Openings : ONSETS
35
Toss-up quote : EVENODDS
36
Ka-boom! maker : DETONATOR
38
Giving people : ALMONERS
41
Rash : SUDDEN
45
Fit, in the main : SEAWORTHY
47
New Hampshire college town : KEENE
48
Small mountain lake : TARN
49
Grp. founded in Bogotá : OAS
51
"Norma Rae" director : RITT
52
Prefix with fauna : AVI
53
Stir-fry tidbit : SNOWPEA
57
Jazz pianist Evans : GIL
58
Time extension, say : RENEWAL
60
Vivid red : PIMENTO
62
Draw : TIEGAME
63
Certain coats : ENAMELS
64
Covers up : ENROBES
65
Strips : DENUDES
Down
1
E-mail : WRITETO
2
Blood pigment : HEMATIN
3
Sides : ASPECTS
4
With 21-Down, sitcom of 2001-02 : THE
5
Quaint negative : NARY
6
Soporific substance : OPIUM
7
Director of a pioneering 1936 "Macbeth" with an all-black cast : WELLES
8
Thesis defense, often : ORAL
9
Captain in "The Mysterious Island" : NEMO
10
Mark of family fare : TVPG
11
Half a laugh : HEE
12
Boiling : ENRAGED
13
Put down : QUELLED
14
Final administrators : TESTERS
21
See 4-Down : ELLENSHOW
24
Fiddler's gig : HOEDOWN
26
Coming : ONORDER
28
Gregg grad : STENO
30
Spawn : OVA
31
Realizes : GETS
32
Aimée of "La Dolce Vita" : ANOUK
34
Poll conclusion? : STER
37
Scrap : ORT
38
Ancient fertility goddess : ASTARTE
39
Keep : LEAVEIN
40
Coleridge character : MARINER
42
Lowered oneself : DEIGNED
43
Authorize : ENTITLE
44
Schedule C figure : NETLOSS
46
Sounded like a toy : YAPPED
50
Locale of two famous banks : SEINE
53
Tar : SWAB
54
Something to go by : NAME
55
Hispanic huzzahs : OLES
56
Make ___ of : AMAN
59
Self center : EGO
61
It'll never fly : EMU

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

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