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New York Times, Saturday, June 20, 2009

Author:
Brad Wilber
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
17-Across : Going bonkers for the British?
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
602/19/20055/31/202233
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CircleScrabDebutFresh
21.6035482%
Brad Wilber

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 68, Blocks: 27 Missing: {JQX} This is puzzle # 14 for Mr. Wilber. Saturday freshness: 69%
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© 2009, The New York Times6/20/9 ( No. 21,774 )
Across
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Reduced fare? : DIETPLATE
10
Not much : ABIT
14
Writer on pictures : ROGEREBERT
16
Bagels, essentially : TORI
17
Going bonkers for the British? : ANGLOMANIA
18
Eczema treater : ALOE
19
"___ Blues" (track on the Beatles' "White Album") : YER
20
Response to being elbowed, maybe : WASISNORING
22
"Dilbert" character who was reincarnated as his own clone : ASOK
24
Driver's helper : TEE
25
Kind of question : TRIVIA
26
Indicator of high-level staff? : GCLEF
28
Companion for Pan : DRYAD
30
Suffix with 49-Across : ISM
31
Prehistoric stone tool : EOLITH
33
Show great anticipation : SALIVATE
35
Home for a 28-Across : TREE
37
Kachina doll makers : ZUNI
38
Bruiser's display : MACHISMO
42
Maximally balanced : SANEST
46
Professional grp. with its own insurance agency : AMA
47
Visibly elated : LITUP
49
Part of a number : LYRIC
50
Tyke : MOPPET
52
Set-___ : TOS
54
1924 co-defendant : LOEB
55
Clown : MERRYANDREW
58
General in the Taiping Rebellion : TSO
59
Dramatic honor : OBIE
60
Beige attribute : NEUTRALITY
62
It's folded before dinner : TACO
63
Staged : THEATRICAL
64
Blackmailer in an 1850 novel : HEEP
65
Restive : ILLATEASE
Down
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Certain hauling fee : DRAYAGE
2
"The Bald Soprano" playwright, 1950 : IONESCO
3
It's stuffed in a restaurant : EGGROLL
4
Letterhead abbr. : TEL
5
Ship part : PROW
6
Paul who won a Golden Globe for "American Graffiti" : LEMAT
7
Brought down : ABASED
8
Surname of three generations of Flemish old masters : TENIERS
9
Solar system discovery of 2003 : ERIS
10
Maker of the Lynx and Jaguar systems : ATARI
11
Where Quechua is spoken : BOLIVIA
12
Writer whose words are twisted? : IRONIST
13
Outcome disallowed by the N.H.L. in 2005 : TIEGAME
15
Victim of terrible teasing : TANTALUS
21
Second, e.g. : ORDINAL
23
Country star Urban : KEITH
27
Kansas mil. reservation with the U.S. Cavalry Museum : FTRILEY
29
Old Fenway nickname : YAZ
32
Waffling : HESITANT
34
Part of some audiophiles' collections : VINYL
36
One making a journey with a gurney : EMT
38
Bigger than big : MAMMOTH
39
Shape shifters? : AMOEBAE
40
Fancy : CAPRICE
41
Best in a one-on-one : OUTDUEL
43
Body art? : EROTICA
44
Followers of some meals : SIESTAS
45
"Drop City" novelist, 2003 : TCBOYLE
48
Way in : PORTAL
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Before making the cut? : PREOP
53
Option at Sleepy's : SERTA
56
Orange, peach or strawberry product : NEHI
57
Imperfection : WART
61
Interrogator's red-flag raiser : LIE

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

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