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New York Times, Friday, May 25, 2001

Author:
Bob Peoples
Editor:
Will Shortz
41-Across : Opera opener
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392/11/20012/26/20116
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21.5529785%
Bob Peoples

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 70, Blocks: 29 Missing: {FJQZ} This is puzzle # 2 for Mr. Peoples. Friday freshness: 56%
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© 2001, The New York Times5/25/1 ( No. 18,826 )
Across
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Comment after a compliment : AWSHUCKS
9
Dr. Seuss character : SAMIAM
15
Try to get off easier, perhaps : COPAPLEA
16
Exaggerate : OVERDO
17
Rosencrantz or Guildenstern : COURTIER
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Monthly : MENSAL
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Einstein's birthplace : ULM
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Theoretically : ONPAPER
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Org. with an influential journal : AMA
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Not hidden : SEEN
25
Old lampshade material : TOLE
26
Used-up checkbook, perhaps : STUBS
28
Result : ENDUP
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Originally : NEE
31
There are 12 in a year : IDES
32
Big name in diamonds : DEBEERS
35
Daily riser : TIDE
36
Mr. High-and-Mighty : HISNIBS
39
Corsair crew : PIRATES
41
Opera opener : ACTI
42
Get to the point of? : SHARPEN
44
Kite part : BEAK
45
Jargon suffix : ESE
46
Cholesterol, e.g. : LIPID
50
Deep cavity : ABYSM
52
Part of Nascar: Abbr. : ASSN
54
With 5-Down, approached : CAME
55
They may be real or imaginary: Abbr. : NOS
56
"Cato" playwright : ADDISON
59
Brother : MAC
60
Smoke out : EXPOSE
62
Conscience : SUPEREGO
64
Deli order : REUBEN
65
Took unwanted steps : TRAVELED
66
Relatives of sunflowers : ASTERS
67
A little night music : SERENADE
Down
1
Charge : ACCUSE
2
Like some caps : WOOLEN
3
Spewed forth : SPUMED
4
Bit of feigned laughter : HAR
5
See 54-Across : UPTO
6
Singer Black : CLINT
7
Not panic : KEEPONESHEAD
8
Cake maker : SARALEE
9
A smattering of : SOME
10
Swears : AVERS
11
Door sign : MEN
12
Dodger's comeuppance? : IRSAUDIT
13
Eliot novel : ADAMBEDE
14
Slow flower : MOLASSES
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A teen may succumb to it : PEERPRESSURE
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Bores : NUDNIKS
27
Mammoth : TITANIC
29
Dallas City Hall designer : PEI
33
Shot from an air rifle : BBS
34
Nurse : SIP
36
"Carmen" highlight : HABANERA
37
Slammer isolation cells : ICEBOXES
38
Sits tight : STAYSPUT
40
Sem. study : REL
43
Hockey stat : ASSISTS
47
"Dallas" role : PAMELA
48
Painted a mental picture of : IMAGED
49
Make sense of : DECODE
51
Electromagnetic wave amplifier : MASER
53
Without face value : NOPAR
57
Some holes in the ground : DENS
58
"Scream" star Campbell : NEVE
61
Eng. award : OBE
63
Cartoon dog : REN

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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