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New York Times, Friday, June 21, 2002

Author:
Bob Peoples
Editor:
Will Shortz
51-Across : "King Rat" star
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Bob Peoples

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 70, Blocks: 28 Missing: {JQVX} Spans: 10, (3 triple stacks) This is puzzle # 8 for Mr. Peoples. Friday freshness: 11%
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© 2002, The New York Times6/21/2 ( No. 19,218 )
Across
1
Maiden voyage preceder : SHAKEDOWNCRUISE
16
Play hero : COMETOTHERESCUE
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Training times : APPRENTICESHIPS
18
Bit of slander : LIE
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Circle : SET
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Heartache : WOE
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Put an ___ : ENDTO
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Object in a courtroom : RES
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Soap, say : DRAMA
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T. S. Eliot's "___ Vos Prec" : ARA
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New York's Tappan ___ Bridge : ZEE
34
Pick up : NAB
35
Taft doctrine : DOLLARDIPLOMACY
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Computer store section : ELECTRONICGAMES
42
Judge's need : SENSEOFFAIRNESS
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Signal : NOD
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Organisms: Suffix : ZOA
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Composer Josquin ___ Prés : DES
46
Part of Nasdaq: Abbr. : ASSOC
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It's stranded : RNA
51
"King Rat" star : SEGAL
55
Fraternity letters : PIS
57
Crown creator, perhaps: Abbr. : DDS
59
W.W. II zone : ETO
60
Some old syrups : PATENTMEDICINES
66
1970 Richard Harris film : AMANCALLEDHORSE
67
Cole Porter classic : MISSOTISREGRETS
Down
1
Bathroom item : SCALE
2
Cabbie's cry : HOPIN
3
Intensified, in brief : AMPED
4
Prefix with plop : KER
5
Berlioz's "Les nuits d'___" : ETE
6
Gets into : DONS
7
Fur source : OTTER
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Some blushes : WHITEZINFANDELS
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Japanese computer inits. : NEC
10
Manners? : CREW
11
Cover anew, as a plot : RESOD
12
Poe family name : USHER
13
Clique ___ (French Web site instruction) : ICI
14
Enjoy an entrée : SUP
15
Some M.I.T. grads : EES
22
Rash treatments : TALCS
23
Spout off : ORATE
25
Dark brown : SEPIA
27
"I Got ___" (1973 song) : ANAME
28
Symbols of authority : MACES
29
Depths : ABYSS
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Paella ingrediente : ARROZ
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He besieged Valencia : ELCID
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Dnieper tributary : DESNA
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They may be found in tubs : OLEOS
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Imparts : LENDS
38
Serve : DOFOR
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Grimm group : OGRES
40
Hawthorne's "Mosses From an Old ___" : MANSE
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Court contests : OPENS
48
Ocho less tres : CINCO
50
Office machine : ADDER
52
26-Across, e.g. : GENRE
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Big bang source : ATEST
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Takes a drubbing : LOSES
56
Strikeouts, say : STAT
58
Fries, maybe : SIDE
60
One of the Ewings, on "Dallas" : PAM
61
"___ right?" : AMI
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Byes : TAS
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Year in Leo IX's papacy : MLI
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Abbr. on a receipt : CHG
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Suffix with super : IOR

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

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